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[taiwan_girl]

@Horace said in Quiet here:

if you made a calculator error at the final step, you only lose one point. This is how I scraped by with the 95.

That is good. It proves that you know "how" to do the problem. That is more important than getting the right answer buy not understanding how you got it.

[jon-nyc]

Just curious, Horace, how does o3-mini do on that test? Or any other reasoning model?

[Horace]

@jon-nyc Mosty standard derivatives and integrals, so I guess pretty well. For instance, https://www.symbolab.com/solver/integral-calculator is able to solve any of them, though that's a hand-written system of logic rather than a generative AI.

[kluurs]

I think I told this story once before. In high school calc, our teacher liked to give power tests - essentially tests that could not be completed in the time provided. Calculators hadn't been invented at that point in time. When we got to integral calculus I did the test but failed to add "+C", C being the constant. He deducted a point for every question. Next power test - I went through all 70 questions and wrote "+C" before starting any calculations. He have me partial credit for them - of course, that sparked some disdain from the rest of the class. The instructor assured us this was the last time he would allow that gambit. From my perspective, karma and equilibrium had been restored to my personal universe.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc Actually come to think of it, that website can't do solids of revolution problems where you have to set up the integral and solve it rather than solve a given integral. It would be interesting how the AIs would do on those. Could try a slightly complicated one like "the volume of the solid of revolution about y=7 of the region between y=x^2 and y=x".

[Horace]

@kluurs said in Quiet here:

I think I told this story once before. In high school calc, our teacher liked to give power tests - essentially tests that could not be completed in the time provided. Calculators hadn't been invented at that point in time. When we got to integral calculus I did the test but failed to add "+C", C being the constant. He deducted a point for every question. Next power test - I went through all 70 questions and wrote "+C" before starting any calculations. He have me partial credit for them - of course, that sparked some disdain from the rest of the class. The instructor assured us this was the last time he would allow that gambit. From my perspective, karma and equilibrium had been restored to my personal universe.

That's well gamed. And the teacher accepted his loss gracefully.

[LuFins Dad]

Compare this Saturday’s active threads vs last week’s…

[Copper]

@LuFins-Dad said in Quiet here:

Compare this Saturday’s active threads vs last week’s…

Nobody ever said this would be easy.

But maybe we could ask Mr. Musk if he could take a moment and cut a few threads.

[Mik]

How do you do that comparison?

[jon-nyc]

From memory it’s much busier today.

[Mik]

Good questions to discuss today.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in Quiet here:

How do you do that comparison?

Just the first post in this thread tells the story. There were no active threads for most of the day on Saturday. Even after Jon’s thread, it never got busy. Today? This place is slamming’…