I wonder which is more efficient: to manage tools or manage the need. Rather than putting up a yard sign for "I have a hammer, guys", one that says "hey guys, I need a hammer"
Great point — and thanks for sharing it. We’re actually exploring ways to let people post requests, not just listings, so it's easy to say “I need a hammer” and connect with someone nearby. It’s all about making those timely, local connections simple.
I'll say it again: It's a culture problem, not an AI problem.
No one is going to stop the student and ask them why they cheated even if they were practically being asked to eat a tomato soup with a fork. It's easier to hide the problem under the rug and scapegoat.
Are you saying that college homework/assignments are unreasonably hard? I don't think so, after all people were successfully completing them before ChaptGPT.
Yes, it took a long time and some sleepless nights (unless the student has perfect time management). This is all by design, you can't learn without it.
Yes, some people got bad grades. This happens, after all what even is the point of grading if everyone gets good grades.
What is the problem that you think is "being hidden under the rug"?
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How to distinguish mastery of a complex subject from parsing one formally expressed in a complex way?
In my opinion: the difference between a complex subject and one formally expressed in a complex way is that in the former, the results that you get are really deep (understanding them at the end feels like a spiritual experience).
Knowing the rules of chess doesn’t make you a chess master. Knowing the syntax and semantics of a programming language doesn’t make you a master software architect.
It depends what you include in your definition of "parsing". For example, the chess master looks at the board and "parses" it in a very different way to the amateur player: he includes his knowledge of thousands of games played, analysis of potential future outcomes, and so on.
I disagree. "Parsing" is the first level of understanding. If you are not moving past the parsing level, you have not achieved any kind of mastery.
My experience is that mastery means more like "you have a mental model which gives you 'intuitive' reasons to accurately classify things as true/false and provides some motivation for the reasoning".
An example: you see someone has solved a degree 4 equation by repeatedly applying the quadratic equation, getting 8 solutions. "No way."
Another example: watch a famous baking show and you see somebody put a bunch of different sized pieces of bread in the oven at the same time. Right away: "aren't they going to cook at different rates?" Sure enough, some burned, some raw.
It makes me remember a story I'd read, about a certain "Comrade Ogilvy", who recently died a hero whilst serving.
Theres no real records of this guy, but a few lines text and a couple of faked photographs seemed easy enough to do.
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