It reminds me of the 1863 world checkers tournament, in which two players played 40 games in a row. All of them resulted in ties, and 21 of them were the same game move-for-move.

I guess this is due to high school teachers who are very familiar with the test, and the fact that the test doesn’t change too much from year to year

I haven‘t had first-hand experience with it either. But my impression from teaching students who have taken it is that the score/understanding ratio has reached its maximum. IOW lots of students get high scores and don’t feel like they understand it

AP Calculus tests are a solved game.

Indiana pi bill - Wikipedia

Happy Indiana Pi Day to all who celebrate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana...

Coffee cup with three swole doges. One is labeled “induction”, one is labeled “strong induction”, and one is labeled “well ordering principle”. All three doges are the same size

On the last day of teaching before Spring Break, the lecture topic is strong induction. A good day to use this mug, a gift from a student

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional) - Wikipedia

Don’t panic
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Happy 25th birthday to Wikipedia! The closest thing we’ve got to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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News from work: The Courant Institute is now the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science

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Next time: are the events of losing all three games where the Giants held late leads independent? (5/5)

Bayesian: A rational gambler would expect a Giants win by the leading team to be 96.7/3.3 = 29.03 times more likely than not, and would risk $2903 to win $100. Limited by the wisdom of the gambling crowd. (4/5) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesia...

Frequentist probability - Wikipedia

Frequentist: In all simulations of this game from this point onwards, the leading team wins 96.7% of the time. Limited by the faithfulness of the simulation to reality. (3/5) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequen...

Classical definition of probability - Wikipedia

Classical: In the universe of all games where one team holds a 10-point lead with 4 minutes to play, the leading team wins 96.7% of them. Limited by the fact that the number of football games is not fixed. (2/5) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic...

Tweet from Kalshi Sports overlaying three scoreboxes over an image of football being played. The tweet text indicates the win probability of the leading team (the New York Giants) in each: * 20-10 lead with 3:56 to go: 96.7% win probability * 37-34 lead with 0:13 to go, 94.6% win probability * 26-8 with 5:13 to go, 99.8% probability The Giants lost all three.

In class today, I used the statement “with 4 minutes to go and a 10-point lead, the probability the Giants will win is 96.9%” to illustrate the three interpretations of probability. (1/5)

Fall returns to the midlantic region

47th first day of school. About to preach the good news of the fundamental theorem of calculus to 200 students. Wish me luck!

September is the cruelest month.

Me today (but I fixed it using some of the same tips suggested upthread): bsky.app/profile/matt...

Yes, that's exactly what happened. I had tried it with "&..." as it literally appeared in the quoted post.

"Old Google" search for "seven letter word for flightless bird". The top link is to a page which suggests (correctly) PENGUIN and OSTRICH. Below that is the same (incorrect) AI overview.

Thanks. I tried what you suggested and it sort of worked. It still provided an AI overview, but below a much better pre-AI result:

Google results page for the query "seven letter word for flightless bird". The AI overview suggests RHEAS or EMU, neither of which have seven letters. It also mentions ostriches and penguins, but claims they don't match the letter count. Meanwhile, on the right, two articles found with pre-AI Google are listed. One mentions OSTRICH in its summary and another has a picture of a PENGUIN. Both of those are seven letter words for a kind of flightless bird.

AI is making us dumb

Aestivation - Wikipedia

Yesterday I wondered “What is hibernation called if it happens during the summer instead of the winter?” The answer is “estivation.” I hope all my academic friends have had a good one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestiva...

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

He’s saying now his military occupation of DC is so successful that crime has disappeared. In two weeks he will say it’s still an emergency so he has to maintain it

Trump is good at finding the weak points where laws require virtuous behavior and unraveling them. As long as SCOTUS maintains that only the president can say what’s an “emergency” or “cause” for firing, he’ll claim the right to do whatever he wants.

I know this is a fool’s errand, but I’m wondering what he means by this. People say “10 times less than” when they mean “1/10 of”. Is that what he thinks he is saying?

It gives you some shortcuts to nice formatting too. I gave in and am happy about the decision

But he told us where we stand!

Texas v. Johnson enters the chat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v...

If you use spreadsheets like databases, where every tab is a table, the first row has all the column names, and every row after the first is a record, then you’re mostly there. Google Tables allows you to put as many of those on a tab as you want. You get another way to reference data ranges too