I converted our Precalc and Calc books a few months ago. It wasn't so bad. Not sure if it was quite 700 but it was a bunch (I could probably look up how many it was)

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name

OAI: say no more

I have been talking a lot about accessibility in Math course materials, and the answer is NO you SHOULDN'T use ChatGPT to write image descriptions, I don't care if you think it's hard to write them.

Reading AI slop is like wrapping every stereotype I have of business school-executive-administrator type all into one overly verbose package. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet.

Not sure this is the best, but it's a pretty darn good one.

Between that and the fact that it is clearly AI slop... 🤮

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**Implementing Alternative Grading**

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NYT headline "Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology"

one of the best NYT headlines ever. We have newly baptized JD Vance telling the "infallible" Pope how to do the religion part of his job

I'm as lapsed as a Catholic can be (don't tell my mother) but even i know that is not how it works

Screenshot from the link in original post showing undersized frames making it hard to view

FYI not rendering super well on mobile

(I'd open an issue on Github but that is definitely a big computer tasks, not a phone task)

So many academics are on Substack and maybe, ya know, you should get off it... Stop letting your voice be curated by this:

It is quite a choice to say "This moment is not without precedent" and skip over mentioning the last ICM that was moved online in distressingly similar circumstances

Again, if you have a Substack, the best time to switch away was months ago -- but today's the second best time.

I started using the substack labeler (bsky.app/profile/labe...) and it's been nice to get a flag so I don't have to read stuff on substack. I promise there's someone else writing about grading or math or sports on a different platform, and you're not missing anything by ignoring stuff on substack.

Importantly, PDF supports basically none of this.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

The RIOS Institute @rioscommunity.bsky.social is sponsoring a learning community on Alternative Grading, beginning May 5 (and ending right before @thegradingconference.com). Join me and @melanielenahan.bsky.social for a weekly community where you design an alt grading scheme for your upcoming class.

I didn't see the WNBA part of this at first, so I was about to send you rough draft versions of all of my stupid takes before I post them.

Or perhaps they are anti-antipasti

All the research shows that “debating” people with fringe ideas does little except legitimize those fringe ideas.

So no, this isn’t actually how we improve.

This is not a story about Gen Z refusal; this is a story about how middle managers and executives have been so pilled by an industry that they are willing to fire workers who refuse to use its products.

1 kg can of Luxardo Maraschino cherries

I have sunk to a new low

Check out how easy it is to convert old, inaccessible LaTeX into accessible PreTeXt using pretext.plus

LOL, what kind of mathematician asks questions like that 👀

scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol13/is...

#HoagieHomies : it's more than a hashtag, people

"Humanizing Defining in Mathematics with Sandwiches" by Katz, Lewis, Bagley, Bockting-Conrad, Ho, Libertini, Owens, Pilgrim, Salomone & Shillito about modeling disciplinary and pedagogical practices.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Clearly, the use of LLMs to summarise and analyse scientific (or otherwise) documents is well justified. Their understanding is, at least, at a human level. The following example (image attached) strongly supports their intellectual capabilities.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

• No thank you, I'm not clicking on your Twitter link.
• No thank you, I'm not clicking on your Substack link.
• No thank you, I'm not clicking on your Washington Post link.
• No thank you, I'm not clicking on your New York Times link.

No thank you, I'm not helping you to spread Fascist Propaganda.

This is shameful pablum.

“We recognize the concerns and challenges of some members of our community.”

Do you now? Do you really? Because nowhere in this statement, or in the equally vapid statement of February 19, do you mention or respond to any of them.

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..

We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.

And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!

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The AMS needs to do better. www.ams.org/news?news_id...