Robert Talbert retweetledi
Student evals have to go, man. At least, anonymous ones do. Students should not be allowed to lie with impunity.
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Robert Talbert
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Robert Talbert
@RobertTalbert
Mathematician, professor, writer, speaker, bassist, dad, non-cradle Catholic. Music: https://t.co/OmjA3vaXef My views != my employer
Michigan, USA Katılım Ekim 2006
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Very interesting. The response to this by mathematicians seems to be pretty skeptical.
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@DevorahLeah Not sure why this one was so hard to guess. Anyway I'm fine with a workmanlike 4.
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I seem to be stuck in a rut this week. All I keep getting are 5s. Okay fine, a win is a win, but I'd like to do better. Maybe tomorrow? And how did you do? Wordle #1,797 5/6
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@DevorahLeah Was worried after guess 2 that there were too many options left, but then the right one just sort of happened. I'll take it! Have a great Wednesday everyone.
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That took much longer than it should have. Only had 2 letters & it took 4 tries to get anywhere. Solved the Wordle in 5. Oh well, a win is a win. And how did you do? Wordle #1,796 5/6
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@DevorahLeah Eliminating vowels was the key this time.
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Sometimes, it's logic. Sometimes, it's luck. And sometimes, like tonight, it's one very fortunate guess. Solved the Wordle in 3. And how did you do? Wordle #1,795 3/6
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The acclaimed psychologist Abraham Maslow, burn this into your brain
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I'm speaking to a group at the University of Michigan on Thursday about alternative grading and, since U-M plays an outsized role in the history of grading, I thought I'd add a few U-M specific tidbits to the talk. One of these, is the following quote from President Erastus Haven in 1866:
"[U-M students are] competent and inclined to perform their duties without an appeal to the puerile ambition engendered by rank in classes and prizes and medals… It is doubtful whether these even promote good scholarship… and it is certain that they engender strife and envy, if not hatred… The proper stimulants to study are not medals, or position in class, or prizes, but the gratification produced by an enlarged acquaintance with truth, and by the greater influence for good thereby produced.”
U-M would remain gradeless except for the overall marks of "pass", "fail", and "conditional" until 1912, when the establishment of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter drove the adoption of an institution-wide letter grade system.
Remember: Grades are not some ancient artifact of the very DNA of higher education. In fact the historical precedent is to have no grades. Grades are relatively new and we can all do something different than traditional systems if we want.
Source: This incredible short article on grading at U-M. michigantoday.umich.edu/2011/04/13/a79…
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@JVMonte2 Yes -- Drama (1980). Anderson and Wakeman replaced by the guys from The Buggles, doing proto-new wave prog rock based on leftovers from the Tormato sessions. Wasn't supposed to be good but it's brilliant and a top-5 album for me.
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I'm speaking to a group at @UMich on Thursday about alternative grading and, since U-M plays an outsized role in the history of grading, I thought I'd add a few U-M specific tidbits to the talk. One of these, is the following quote from President Erastus Haven in 1866:
"[U-M students are] competent and inclined to perform their duties without an appeal to the puerile ambition engendered by rank in classes and prizes and medals… It is doubtful whether these even promote good scholarship… and it is certain that they engender strife and envy, if not hatred… The proper stimulants to study are not medals, or position in class, or prizes, but the gratification produced by an enlarged acquaintance with truth, and by the greater influence for good thereby produced.”
U-M would remain gradeless except for the overall marks of "pass", "fail", and "conditional" until 1912, when the establishment of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter drove the adoption of an institution-wide letter grade system.
Remember: Grades are not some ancient artifact of the very DNA of higher education. In fact the historical precedent in higher ed is to have no grades. Grades are relatively new and we can all do something different than traditional systems if we want.
Source: This incredible short article on grading at U-M. michigantoday.umich.edu/2011/04/13/a79…
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Every electron in the universe might be the same electron.
In 1940, John Wheeler called Richard Feynman and suggested that the reason every electron has exactly the same mass and charge, to a precision we cannot even measure a deviation from, is that there is only one of them.
A single electron, weaving forwards and backwards through time, threading through every moment of cosmic history, appearing as matter when it moves one way and as its antiparticle when it moves the other.
The idea was never proven, but it was never quite killed either. The math allows it.
An electron going backwards in time is mathematically identical to a positron going forwards, and the equations do not care which description you pick.
If Wheeler was right, then the particle in your retina reading this sentence is the same particle burning in the heart of a star ten billion light years away.
You are not made of many things. You are made of one thing, seen from many angles at once.
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@DevorahLeah Was nervous about this one. That three letter combo in step 3 is trouble.
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Logic. That's how I was able to solve the Wordle tonight, in a nice, logical 4. And how did you do? Wordle #1,792 4/6
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Come ON, X. Putting the solution to the Wordle right there in the summary, alongside clues? Bad look.
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@DevorahLeah Could have had this one in 3 but I talked myself out of the correct word at step 3.
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This could have ended badly, but I escaped the Dreaded Wordle Trap in time, and managed to solve the Wordle in 5. And how did you do? Wordle #1,791 5/6
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