profsilas.bsky.social
I do math and play Pokemon, and apparently make art sometimes. He/him.
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I parked at Southdale and took a bus in; best decision I made all day once I saw the traffic.
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Congratulations, and happy Pride to you!
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Fantastic news, congratulations!
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And the coach/staff Super Relay team! We lost to the kids.
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For the first time in a while, I wasn't running the "tiebreaker hive". Always enjoyed it, but I also enjoy not trying to do five things at once!
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And tiebreaker
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Shout out: you too can get Bill's coffee at hydrangea.coffee!
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If you're trying to draw faces, it's SO HARD. Sorry I have no good advice, I'm still not good at them.
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And I'm back at the airport and through security with over an hour to spare! A successful afternoon in my book.
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Update: Got the sushi!
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More ARML posts to come, assuming I have time to post them!
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to continue first as a coach, then on the contest staff and problem writing team. Today, I'm off to Reno to be scoring room lead at the west coast site. It'll be an exhausting week, but incredibly fun.
#ARML #ARML2025
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Disclaimer, of course, that it matters how you define AI. Feeding an essay to ChatGPT and asking it to match the writing to a rubric is right out. But I'm fine with using fancy OCR to parse mathematical expressions and classify them as right/wrong/unsure, and you could maybe call that "AI".
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I'm with you on this, I think it all comes down to whether it violates professional ethics.
Personally, I think grading with AI does. Teaching with it could mean so many different things that I'm not sure a blanket statement is possible. (I still intend to never do it, though.)
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Thanks! Yeah, it's been a heck of a week, but we're safe, and our stuff made it too. Even our car, which is probably the biggest stroke of luck given our location.
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And a random side note: the atmospheric pressure drop in a tornado is *really* dramatic. It was so sudden and pronounced that I felt dizzy momentarily until my ears popped.
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Incidentally, we were very, very lucky and made out with just minor damage to the house, even though the tornado went incredibly close. Many of our neighbors have it worse.
And these drawings are from before it strengthened to EF-3. I can't even imagine what North City is like.
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I would vote for the median 15-year-old member of a public high school Gay-Straight Alliance Club over at least 90% of sitting Democratic US Senators
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I just gave a talk to colleagues about alt grading, and told them at a minimum to allow one full class day at the beginning to talk about the grading and assessment structure (not even the rest of the syllabus). And then at least another half day later on to do it again.
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I do more or less the same thing, and I appreciate it when my opponents do, too.
*Even if* I found it bothersome, it would still be far less so than the opposite, when people just play their cards out on the table without ever saying a word.
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For coffee in STL, I'm a big fan of Blueprint and Northwest. Both are reasonably accessible by Metrolink, too, if you're using that to get around.
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There's also a huge difference between 8 rounds and 9 rounds on day 1. At the end of round 4, when I'm just starting to wear down, it's the difference between "half done!" and "oh no we've barely started".
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Having done a couple of these a year for quite a while, I can say the late-round exhaustion kinda gets better, but also kinda doesn't. I mind it less now, I think partly because I'm used to it, and also partly because regionals run much more smoothly lately. Getting the routine down helps a lot.