George Mari @GeorgeMari@social.cleverlibre.org

♻️ Reposting for the new year

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Two years ago today, Trump intended for his mob to storm the Capitol. He knew they were armed. He knew there would be violence. He watched the riot unfold for hours without lifting a finger. He egged them on. He showed no remorse. He knew what he was doing. He must be prosecuted.

So hey if you're reading this help a neurodiverse trans girl out, I'm stuck living with and working for my Dad who doesn't understand ADHD, and as a duck who struggles to navigate the strange human maze of "find an employer and get paid enough to live independently" I have basically no hope of ever getting out of this situation.

If you need a programmer who can solve problems put in front of her and optimize those solutions, but who struggles to be her own project manager and so can't be a one-woman indie developer team, and you have money to pay such a person for programming and optimization, please please please reach out to me.

I'm not actually a duck, that was a metaphor, I won't peck or bite, I promise!

An AI test from 1971 shows you need to adjust your #ChatGPT expectations.

In 1971, Terry Winograd devised the Winograd Schemas, simple sentence understanding tasks that require the use of knowledge and commonsense reasoning. Humans understand them easily. ChatGPT... not so much.

Well I got laid off today. Looking for remote iOS engineer opportunities, mid to senior level. Please share ❤️ #ios #layoffs #stitchfix

Tiny #introduction from us: We’re a small consultancy/training company based in Oslo, Norway. We are working in the intersection of programming and security, with an emphasis on programming. We try to be transparent about what it’s like working at TurtleSec, see more on our website
https://turtlesec.no/working/

The history of Auschwitz is a warning of where human hatred may lead to. It is a call for moral responsibility & action. Today & in the future.

In social media, we depend on your support.
Use your voices to amplify ours.
Please help us preserve the memory & never forget.

#Auschwitz #support #memory #NeverAgain #NeverForget #support #history #SocialMedia #people #help

So many years we fought with the Twitter API. I love that if you want an RSS of someone's Mastodon feed, you just add .rss at the end of their URL. Open Web, my friends. https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman.rss

Hackers leak email addresses tied to 235M Twitter accounts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/04/witter-leak-emails-handles/

Those who argue that Trump should not be criminally liable because no president in American history has been criminally liable overlook the fact that no president in history has staged an attempted coup to change the outcome of an election.

Equally empowering and disastrous is how I see it after three years (500 students, 60 semesters worth of total course load) of ungrading. I am going to modify the ungrading or flipped grading with a more flexible system. For many students and fellow educators, ungrading is unnatural, confusing and even bad practice that challenges institutional norms. Many students complain that they have now to do more work, ie, reading the lecturer’s response and then think for themselves, where they could ‘just’ get a grade and ‘done with’. It’s a risky practice with students with inflated ego and who think university is same as high school. Works well with motivated, good students (who are A students anyway) and mature students.

On the plus side, it’s an emancipation and perhaps the most robust system one can think of. Teaching is enjoyable and students, when they realise that the grading is flexible and negotiated between the teacher and then, focus on the learning aspect. Most students tend to be harsh on themselves, so teaching them to assess themselves is a plus.

In summary, I will make some compromises. Make the grading system a whole lot flexible, and instead of entirely ditching rubrics (as Stommel et.al. suggests), introduce a mastery rubric. I think there are merits of old grading system that can be combined with ungrading practices. I am still figuring out that compromise.

There you go. What is your experience?

#Ungrading

#introduction
Hello everyone! I have just moved from types.pl to try out this instance by ACM. Since my toots were not migrated with me, let me introduce myself again.
My name is Yao Li (李垚). I am currently an assistant professor at Portland State University. My research area is programming languages/formal verification/interactive theorem proving. Always happy to chat with people about research or general things about programming languages!

I'm doing #ungrading again.

Because I can't realistically keep a sense of the progress of each of 50+ students in my head, I give a number for each assignment:

0: Turned in nothing or a blank document.
1: Significantly incomplete.
2: Basically complete. For programming assignments, passes all unit tests.
3: Above and beyond -- perhaps tackled an optional challenge problem.

Several 0s and 1s indicate a problem to be addressed. 2 is by far the most common result. If a student wants to argue for an A, they should have a few 3s.

**The question: should I show these numbers to the students?**

Pro: It give them a sense of how they're doing, and therefore how much energy they need to allocate to this class.

Con: They will look at the number, think of it as a "grade", and pay no attention to written feedback.

Thoughts?

Time for a quick #introduction: I'm an academic working at the University of Southampton in the UK. I tend to write about #SpaceDebris & #SpaceSustainability, domains I have been researching for 20 years. I also provide monthly updates on conjunctions in orbit involving #Starlink and #OneWeb, something I will try to do here as well as on Twitter. Occasionally, I will write about my experiences as a #pwME in an effort to raise awareness of an overlooked & often invisible chronic illness

Fine. I'll be House Speaker.

In CES news, we're launching our own Roku-branded Roku TVs! https://www.roku.com/blog/introducing-roku-select-plus-series-tvs #weAreRoku

A group of Chinese researchers claims it can break 2048-bit RSA using a quantum-ish computer and it's worth reading Schneier's comments https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/breaking-rsa-with-a-quantum-computer.html

Jumbo, the #Dutch supermarket chain, introduced slow checkouts when it discovered some people enjoy chatting while paying for their goods.

 The added personal touch is helping many people, especially the elderly, deal with loneliness.