CS/IT 285L

This free conference, with breakfast included, takes place on Thursday, May 1st. We have an optional class that day, so if you’re not taking our final, it could be a good chance to explore the MIT campus and attend a great event. I wish I could see you there!

Please don’t forget:

The use of LLMs in this course is forbidden in every part of every assignment and every capacity. Such use results in failure of the course on the first instance.

Please review the syllabus, BOS quiz, syllabus quiz, plagiarism page, and in-class lectures (specifically Day 2, slide 7) for both general and specific guidelines on this policy. All of those documents say the same thing: No LLMs in this class, ever.

Nice job on your midterm! Remember to schedule an office hours appointment if you’d like to review your answers.

Project presentations start today! Please review the instructions page carefully regarding connectivity, time limits, content, questions, etc. Please be active audience participants – presenters are counting on your for their engagement points, and you will eventually be counting on them for yours.

Could you go one week without ordering from Amazon?

If you’ve ever experienced cognitive dissonance while ordering from a tax-evading, worker–exploiting, environment–trashing company like Amazon, now might be a good time to see how you would fare without it!

The following post may safely be ignored. Even reading it at all is completely optional.

If you think the teaching in this course is average quality or below, you can stop reading here.

I have been nominated for a teaching award at Umass Boston. If you think the teaching in this course is above average quality, and are willing to write a short statement to that effect, it can be used to support my candidacy for this award. Writing such a statement of support is completely optional and will have no impact on any graded assignments or your overall score in the class.

If you feel like supporting me in this way, please create a brief word document in which you include:

• The date
• One page or less of why you think I might deserve a teaching award
• Your name
• Your email

and email it to me between now and March 18. Thank you for reading!

Make sure to bring the Answer Sheet for Quiz E when you come to class on Tuesday.

STUDY. Quiz E is more complex than Quiz D.

Remember that not everyone in the discussion group has to have the same term on their memos.

Remember that only the top part of the memo can (and should) be filled out before you come to class. The term selection, definition, and application should only be written when you have discussed the matter with your classmates. Therefore, that section should be blank when you arrive to class!

Make sure you are putting together your handwritten notes for use on the midterm (or that you are studying to take the midterm traditionally, with no notes).

So far, so good. Keep up the good work!

You printed and brought your answer sheet… right?

If not, do so quick! Canvas > Modules > Quiz Answer Pages > Answer Page for Quiz D

Our SI instructor, Ryo, is usually on campus for Monday sessions, but there will be an exception tomorrow. Please email him to schedule a Zoom meeting if you’d like to meet on February 24.

COPPA is a class term, but must be researched and studied outside of class time. It is not in our lectures. Please add it and its definition to your notes.

You also need to know the general content (one-sentence summary) of what these whistleblowers leaked:

Frances Haugen, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Reality Winner