Her response: "10 is afraid of 11 'cause 11 8 3"

She has another one!

Q: Why was 7 afraid of 8?

A: Because 8 8 16!

And fun fact: that plaza at Boston City Hall is where I got to see Neutral Milk Hotel on their reunion tour a while back!

www.setlist.fm/setlist/neut...

Reminds me a lot of Wean Hall at CMU (which people also say resembles a turtle eating a cheeto!)

Did the idea of using Grade Point Median go anywhere? Do any schools actually do that already?

We lament that students are disengaged from the important parts of learning and yet here are professors modeling the same kind of disengagement. Where does this end? I'm very sympathetic to the problems of too many students, not enough time. Those were the circumstances for my entire career.

...allowing an LLM to make your presentation from your notes is to actively avoid what is, in reality, part of the creation of that presentation. I've been doing a couple of these things a week since January and I can tell you that making the slides always always always results in changes.

2. But the more pernicious risk may be what I call "self-alienation" that is you gradually remove yourself from the experience of your job until you've entirely lost touch with what is and meaningful about this work. Processing student writing with an LLM is not the same thing as reading it...

1. Faculty who use LLMs for core aspects of their labor are inviting their own replacement. This is obvious and a cycle that will mirror what happened with adjunctification. You are showing you are unnecessary. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

If we do not find an alternative source of funding, this means that the US will not be represented in ongoing conversations with the global community about issues in mathematics education.

The isolationism is not just political, it is also intellectual and will have consequences for decades.