Yesterday I decided to see “Don’t Look Up” on Netflix. All I heard about the movie was that it involved a comet disaster, and mass media trying to distract the public from the reality of science. I remember that I really liked Deep Impact and even Armageddon back in the day, so I was looking […]
Today was a tiring day — I had to talk to half of the students that we caught for plagiarism in the programming intro class, and this is something I’m really bad at. At least in the middle of the lecture one student (a different one) asked me a question about why pointers are so […]
This week I have been feeling super drained because of a plagiarism problem in my programming intro lecture. Last week one of the TAs noticed a trio of identical reports. I sent a message to the students asking them what was up with that, and what one of them said in response rang some alarm […]
These days I’ve been trying to pick up on my Japanese study again. Part of the requirements for me to take Japanese citizenship is that I need a Japanese level at least equivalent to that of a Japanese middle schooler, so I guess I’m trying to read books for middle school children… Honestly, I’m not […]
Today I saw this amazing story on twitter about a report that google had flagged a file in google drive as “containing copyright infrigement”. The catch? The file only contained a single “1” in it. Abuses of automatic copyright detection are not rare (specially on youtube), but this reached new heights of stupidity. Someone in […]