14 thoughts on “Gaming The System”

  1. Is it cheating to know how to deal with AI, or is it as example of an advanced proficiency that will make you successful in an AI run world, which is the point of the “assignments” in the first place?

    An AI and its money are soon parted?

  2. Yet another example of horribly misusing the term Artificial Intelligence. There’s no attempt whatsoever being made to parse the answers, it’s a keyword-hit-counter.

  3. The real lesson is, don’t waste your education dollars on cheap-ass lazily programmed crap like Edgenuity.

  4. Hmm- so schools turn over grading of short answers to a computer and yet teachers are highly trained professionals we can’t live without. I can some tension here.

    1. The sad truth is that students have been doing this to teachers for eternity. They don’t write what they think the right answer is. They write what they think the teacher wants to hear.

    1. Warp to scene. Drop a full load of photon torpedoes into the Kobayashi Maru and warp out.

      Keywords: Romulans, Neutral Zone, Vulcans, Kirk, No Win Scenario, ambush, photon torpedoes.

      1. Drop a full load of photon torpedoes into the Kobayashi Maru

        You know, technically, the Kobayashi Maru was the Federation cargo ship yelling for help. This is certainly one way to avoid the No Win Scenario, but still …

    1. I sense a parody book title from T. Weller:”Software Made Stupid”?
      I heartily recommend its predecessor: “Science Made Stupid” and its periodic table of the elements which includes: chocolate, lint and WD-40.

      https://www.amazon.com/Science-Made-Stupid-Tom-Weller/dp/0395366461

      On a related note it looks like Apple removed the Firesign Theater Easter Egg from Siri at least on iOS 13.6.1 as “Hey Siri, this is worker speaking, hello” no longer does what it used to.

      https://medium.com/@stannenb/with-one-of-its-easter-eggs-siri-evokes-the-firesign-theater-and-steve-jobs-86ea5b4874d3

  5. Youth vs Computing

    A story from my checkered past. I learned by practice and a small bit of knowledge about division that they way to insure lubrication was well worked into an Olivetti Underwood Divsumma24 was to divide 1 by .999999999 (i.e. as many .9’s as it can take) If you find one in working order in a museum somewhere and the curator is dumb enough to let you access it try it.

    It won’t break it unless it was about to break anyway but it will sure scare the bezos out of the curator. The beauty of it is that I don’t think unplugging and plugging it back in will help. 🙂

    http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/olivetti_electro-mechanical_calcs.html

    1. David, for some reason that really hit my funny bone, thanks for the hearty laugh. Tweaking docents and curators is always a fun sport.

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