CarlMarks

Yes, of course

100%. By solved I really mean graded with a high score. Also, rampant cheating on homework is also basically the same as using an LLM. I have seen a very large number of college students share homrqork answers. But I don't think homework should be scored for a grade anyways. Homework should be for learning and for the teacher to know how well the class is going. If students understand this, that homework is a participation grade, and that the evaluations like tests are what determine grades, then cheating, LLMs, and getting parents' doing all the homework will be solely detrimental to grades, i.e. will no longer have any incentive. A win-win for pedagogy.

I think it's probably pretty bad at both of those things when it comes to what should actually be evaluated, which is students' understanding of concepts, not just recall. If you ask for the complexity of some algorithm, an LLM will try to find some pattern that matches the kinds of answers it has already seen before. It might get the answer right because it has digested 100 examples like it before and matched the input to it. But if you ask students to actually explain their reasoning and walk through it step by step, and throw in a modification to the algorithm that impacts the answer, the LLM is likely to fail in some way.

Though really, what should be graded is evaluations like tests. Homework should be for learning and practice, not a grade.

If homework and other at home assignments are graded (not just scored for learning), the teacher is already following bad practice. As you suggest, homework is for practice and learning. So it doesn't need to be graded, just scored so that students know what to improve on. It is evakuations like tests that should be graded. Tests aren't foolable by "AI" so long as they arw done in person.

Also, as you mention, the better demonstration of learning is synthesis, to apply concepts in new situations (teaching is even better for demonstrating knowledge, but this is rarely evaluated). LLMs don't understand concepts, they are bad at any actual synthesis questions. They can merge vocabularies and patterns, ape narrative structures, etc, but are very bad at combining actual reasoning concepts. If a teacher's test grading (let's say it's online) is fooled by an LLM it is unlikely to be synthesis questions. More likely recall and patterns.

If your coursework can be solved by a plagiarism markov chain-ish machine that is more of an indictment of your course than the students.

Treating homework and quizzes as participation credit and only grading tests is fairly common in US universities. Probably a minority, but still common.

Nothing major politically happens because an individual does something. We have to get together with other people that think like us and build that organization until it can take substantiative action, possibly in coalition with other organizations.

As an individual, that looks like joining an org and improving it. Improving it is you gaining skills, teaching those skills, doing logistics and planning, facilitating actions, interfacing with other orgs, and recruiting. I'm lumping in knowledge with skills - reading and knowing theory and history is also a skill.

Doing this is work, particularly emotional labor. Most socialist organizations retain heavy doses of liberalism both officially and among members. Many people and meetings will be exhausting. But this is how you learn the most valuable skill: navigating conversations to organize other people, including those who just said the must absurd thing you've ever heard. Building our movement means socially building a big series of conveyor belts to loop people into action and development so that we have a growing core of dedicated revolutionaries as well as a larger mass of sympathizers who can take action when called upon.

There is no other mode by which we can be said to have done anything substantial politically. The rest of what we can do as individuals is basically charity and making those around us a little less reactionary. Those are good things, but highly limited, and not up to the task of taking on the number 1 sponsored genocidal apartheid settler colony of capitalist empire.

Ah, thank you. I'll still probably avoid but it's good to know what's changed.

Vindaloo is from Goa and this post feels racist

A web server is just any software that can be accessed with web network protocols. This can look like a lot of things. If you have Python installed you can start a web server right now by running python -m http.server. localhost:8000 in a browset would then let you browse files via the (local) web.

What kind of server do you want to run?

Does anyone know what happened w/ Adidas? I've been avoiding them for years but they're not a priority target anymore?

I kind of like it. I want to change just one word to make it less threatening but still ironically make fun of gamers.