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Another vote for Make It Stick. I did much better in my classes and was much more efficient in my prep using the SPRInt method (Spaced Repetition, Interleaving topics, Testing). I tried to read 'How we learn' but it really couldn't hold a candle to Make It Stick.
This is a solid. Simple, intuitive, organized. How long did it take to write?
I will admit, as a once ardent anti-math student, I appreciate how frustrating it is to sit down, stare at a problem for 10 minutes and advance no where through feeble attempts.
When I began taking Calc 2 (as an adult who's worked and gone back to school), I found wolfram alpha's integral solver to be INCREDIBLY helpful for working through practice problems (to your point, I was using it as a check/next step assistance). I ended up with an A in that class because of Wolfram's ability to help me work through a problem regardless of the hour, or day.
I think if this (or a similar app) helps students work through problems and recognize errors they're making, it can absolutely be beneficial. I would concede with respect to the homework solver aspect, but hope that teachers could some how incorporate this into their classes, something along the lines of an account management system that shows the teachers which students are requesting which equation.
I'm going to write a Grease monkey script to prevent the word "hacking" from ever being displayed on my screen.
Kind of interesting, according to the case file, the PACER records were being pulled en masse during normal court hours (typically when courts are also accessing the PACER database). A user noticed that PACER was going slow and notified PACER of the apparent slowness. Looks like they investigated, shut the PACER system down and were able to detect the requests were coming from an Amazon Web Hosting account linked to Swartz.
I find this interesting because it wasn't some flag on the PACER system screaming "HEY SOMEONE IS DOWNLOADING THESE EVERY TWO SECONDS" but instead was noticed because some law clerk was irritated at how slow the server was at responding.
An engineering degree is also no longer a requisite to using technology, as seemingly anyone today can install a printer or upload a video.
Yikes - does that mean that we all needed engineering degrees to drive cars?
Seems like a general way to reduce bandwidth consumption, but there are probably better ways then a fake 404 page?