jdshaffer

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by jdshaffer 3mo ago
I considered that... and in the "worst comes to worse" scenario where they decide to use an LLM and re-write everything by hand, I'm still hoping they'll learn SOMETHING during the copying process... kind of like the old
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by jdshaffer 3mo ago
Yes. I've tinkered with the idea of non-graded homework, too. Unfortunately, if I give homework that will not be graded, almost no one will do it. But I WANT them to do it for the practice it gives them. The only reasonable answer I co
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by jdshaffer 3mo ago
The big advantage of writing in cursive is speed and less muscle fatigue. Writing in cursive requires far less lifts of the pen and far less tiny movements... a reasonable cursive script (Spencerian, but with a little less flourish) is quit
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by jdshaffer 3mo ago
Not disagreeing with your opinion, just answering your question: The big advantage of writing in cursive is speed and less muscle fatigue. Writing in cursive requires far less lifts of the pen and far less tiny movements... a reasonable cur
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by jdshaffer 3mo ago
Is it paywalled? I honestly didn't realize that. Sorry. I'll edit the comment and change to an open URL and paste the two main ideas here: FORCED SKILL-BUILDING GOALS Where my original purpose of giving homework assignments was t
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by jdshaffer 3mo ago
I've been trying to figure out how to avoid AI fraud in my classes, like many others. While not perfect, I've written down my thoughts and attempts in the hope it might help someone else: https://web.hedc.shizuoka.ac.jp
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by jdshaffer 3mo ago
Thank you so very much, I'll definitely check them out!
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by jdshaffer 3mo ago
I've become more and more curious about GA after bumping into it when learning a little 3D programming for fun. I'm looking to learn more, wondering if it would help my understanding of physics. Do you have any resources (books, v
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by jdshaffer 4mo ago
Yes. I developed hay fever after living here in Japan for a couple years. Was fine the first few years, though it was amusing to watch "yellow clouds of pollen" being blown from the trees with random gusts of wind. Now it's n
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by jdshaffer 5mo ago
Is it a problem with "cat" or a terminal problem? If I wrote my own version of cat in C, simply reading and displaying a single TXT character at a time, wouldn't I see the same behavior?
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by jdshaffer 7mo ago
I remember back in 1995 or so being in a professor's office at Indiana University and he was talking about trying to figure out how to use Neural Networks to automatically track particle trails in bubble chamber results. He was part o
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by jdshaffer 8mo ago
Why are people downvoting this? It's just a quote from the movie...
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by jdshaffer 8mo ago
Hey! I've seen bonsai before. Amazing work!
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by jdshaffer 8mo ago
Thanks for the detailed reply, examples, and links! Yeah, I definitely rely heavily on bash script functions, but had never thought about using git to share or sync my scripts and little programs. Thanks again, I really appreciate it!
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by jdshaffer 8mo ago
Thanks for the input! :-)
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by jdshaffer 8mo ago
If you don't mind, I'd like to hear more about your setup. I have a bunch of bash scripts and python programs I've used to make working in the terminal easier (and more fun). Are you saving your dotfiles are a git project and
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by jdshaffer 11mo ago
Mine was a little 4-wheeled buggy riding along the guardrails as we drove. Really cool to see other people had similar imaginations!
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by jdshaffer 11mo ago
So, in the end, I guess only the affluent can read after all...
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by jdshaffer 1y ago
Interesting article, though I wonder why they didn't mention the Fram -- Nansen's ship that WAS designed to resist the crushing ice, and DID survive a trip across the northern seas purposely trapped in the crushing ice (but just m
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by jdshaffer 1y ago
If I remember correctly, this sound is part of Pink Floyd's song "Money"... part of the background rhythm. I wonder how many of the "Never heard of these" crowd would recognize it if they hard it in person... smile
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by jdshaffer 1y ago
I have three kids, now just turning adult. My wife and I took the point of view that we are modeling a healthy lifestyle for our children. So, we only used technology as tools -- looking up stuff, scheduling, reading PDFs, etc.... AND we ma
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by jdshaffer 1y ago
Didn't know about Gaussian elimination until today. Really cool, and really useful! Thanks for sharing!
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by jdshaffer 1y ago
I live in Japan, and have lived here for the last 25 years. Yes, bread is far more popular for breakfast than rice is. If you go to a Japanese-style Inn, they will serve rice and fish and miso for a "traditional" breakfast, but at
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by jdshaffer 1y ago
Looks nice! Purchased a copy. :-)
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by jdshaffer 1y ago
Reminds me of my first computer... a 386 20Mhz black and white laptop. Ran DOS by default, but you could jump into Win 3.11 with the lovely "win" command. laugh I remembering so wanting a color monitor so I could play games...
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by jdshaffer 1y ago
Wow! That's really cool. Thanks for sharing!
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by jdshaffer 2y ago
"Farthest North" In 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea’s drift closer to the North Pole th
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by jdshaffer 2y ago
Very very impressive work! I tried the Hassan agent and the conversation felt pretty real, though he seemed to nod and move his head an awful lot. Starting to feel like he had neck problems. :-) Great work, though!
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by jdshaffer 2y ago
Thank you for your kind comments, and I'm very glad you like the samples. I actually can't remember what I wrote with my comments, though I tend to not take myself very seriously. smile I'm not an expert with M1 assembly, j
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by jdshaffer 2y ago
Here are some simple programs in assembly for the M1 chip, annotated as best as possible. Perhaps they will help? https://github.com/jdshaffer/Apple-Silicon-ASM-Examples

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