Post #1364980 · Elektrine

2026-02-08 23:37 UTC

@tao Not just making exams in class, but also tightening up and more people (myself included) making them closed-book, even though I have never liked that and it's not how we do research. There's just no choice. There are too many shortcuts available outside of the exam that we have to tighten up the rules to encourage students to study and learn, even at the expense of creating more "unrealistic" settings.

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@masonporter@mastodon.social 2026-02-08 23:39

@tao Also, with log tables, there is the question of what AI-based or AI-necessited things should be added to projects like the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF). This is an exact question that Charles Clark asked me last week. The DLMF is the 'modern' version (though getting older) of Abramowitz and Stegun, and one change is that the latter has things like tables of values of evaluated special functions but the former does not (deemed as old-fashioned).

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@adityakhanna@mathstodon.xyz 2026-02-09 12:34

@masonporter @tao honestly. I don't think in-person exams are a result of AI, whereas it was the lack of in-person that's a relic of covid era. Plus, it's worse than *any* non in-person assessment has been affected by AI. So the classical homework is also threatened.

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