What would happen if now plug in another calculator? AFAIK that only a P2P connection and never meant for >2 parties.
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Bring your calculator to the Spanish exam. Trust me, this plan is flawless.
But can you still play Drug Wars?
Has anyone ever beaten that game? Is it even possible?
No one has beaten The Game, but it is possible. We just need to wait for the Pope to declare that it has come to an end
Oh you fucker, its been over ten years. i just lost The Game.
It's possible to get to the last day and have a lot of money, which is your "score." The world leaderboards have some ridiculous highscores on the remake called Dope Wars.
https://stevekola.tripod.com/dopewarsguide/id2.html
That is a strategy guide.
I have never managed to do it.
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The earliest exponention clicker game I ever discovered. Lost dozens of hours to ti83 drug wars
If a kid is smart enough to figure this out and make it work for them, they're gonna be fine...
Yes, but the kids buying the modded devices may not be
good. they will learn not to buy their way out of a problem at least.
Back when we were doing quadratic equations; I wrote a program on my TI-84 that would ask which parts of the equation you already had, and would fill in the rest for you.
My teacher liked it so much he bought a transfer cable for those calculators so he could get a copy for himself. Then used to to grade tests.
I did the same thing. It was allowed in general, with the correct thought, "if you can code it yourself, you know the content"
I had another "program" that would fail to run but that's because I wrote notes into it. Doubt that was allowed.
Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.
Oh I would have been so pissed. I was programming on my calculator 24/7 instead of my classes.
I wrote a sudoku "editor"
I put that in quotes because I had a grid that could be navigated, arrows moved, storing the numbers, had number entry down. And when it was time to implement the solver, I learned the hard way what p vs np is.
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I could never remember the formula to calculate compound interest.
But I had no trouble writing a for loop.
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I made one to decompose polynomials it was very good because it showed all the steps it was literally just copy what's on the calc to the page
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As someone who was a kid who would do things like this to avoid putting in the work, no this kid will probably not be fine.
Not anymore since it's spreading news instead of remaining on YouTube
I wonder what can counter this except banning it, or provide calculators to students instead of using their own.
I used to store formulas in basic programs in my ti84 but they were never useful because I didn't need help memorizig formulas
I wrote one that printed a fake "memory cleared" screen so I could keep my stored stuff saved even if the protectors wanted to see us wipe the storage.
I did the same, but it was helpful because I'm terrible at memorization.
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Ok but calculators are only allowed in math class and if there’s one thing language models suck at, it’s doing basic math. Forget anything at least as complicated as algebra
Time to build a wolfarm applet
Wolfarm, the militant brother of WolframAlpha SCNR
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For me they weren't allowed in Calc I, II, III, Alg I, II and Differential equations. Every other class pretty much required it.
if there’s one thing language models suck at, it’s doing basic math.
If you're using a GPT 3.5 turbo level models, sure. Synthetic data is perfect for teaching LLMs, o1 will be good enough up to Calc III IMO, maybe even better.
The only thing I don't like about this is that it uses a TI, yikes.
LLMs do suck at math, if you look into it, the o1 models actually escape the LLM output and write a python function to calculate the output, I've been able to break their math functions by asking for functions that use math not in the standard Python library.
I know someone also wrote a wolfram integration to help solve LLMs math problems.
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TI, yikes.
Yeah, well, TI has spent bucketloads of money bribing textbook publishers to only include instruction for their specific models so they are now the de facto standard in American schools. This is apparently legal.
Anyway, team Casio represent.
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Oof getting ChatGPT to help on a test is likely to lead to some wrong answers.
Probably mostly correct answers though...
You know what they say: C’s get degrees.
"C's get degrees, and here’s the tease: no one’s asking for transcripts, just expertise."
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"ChatGPT what is the formula for Work Done in an enclosed system expressed as a triple integral?"
"42"
"Ok cool ty."
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Wat? Does it have wifi?
They added wifi with a extra circuit board hidden inside the calculator case. It's connected to the calculators communication port, and pretends to be another calculator. So they can use the calculator's built in "send" function to send variables/text/etc to the hidden card, which then uses it's internet connection to look up answers and send the results back.
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Sounds fake but okay.
Not sure if it's the same thing but a few days ago I saw a youtube video where person modded it with a wifi card so it could communicate with your pc which is at home. It required internet access from your phone which needs to be near though.
It sounds fake because it sounds like they only used software hacks. But they also added a microcontroller board in it with wireless networking
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