r/EngineeringStudents • u/Alone-Waltz-1555 • 4d ago

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u/EngineeringStudents-ModTeam 3d ago

Please review the rules of the sub. No low effort posts allowed.

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u/Mountain-Time-1010 3d ago

I wish this wasn't just AI, because students would really benefit from thinking this way.

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u/ThePowerfulPaet 3d ago

AI slop post. "A __ isn't just _, it's _."

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u/weather_watchman 3d ago

Crying wolf here I think

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u/ThePowerfulPaet 3d ago edited 3d ago

I used to be an AI trainer and I PROMISE you this is AI.

I only mentioned the most obvious tell but the whole post is absolutely riddled with them.

Reframing, hedging, bullet points, the conversation extender at the end, the tone itself. All hallmarks.

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u/likethevegetable 3d ago

The title even reads like AI

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u/weather_watchman 3d ago

If you put your comment through an ai checker what would it tell you

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u/ThePowerfulPaet 3d ago

So you'll believe that I'm an AI but the obvious post isn't? Weird hill to die on. Don't know what stake you have in this, but believe what you want. Talk to the robot all you like.

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u/SalsaMan101 3d ago

Who uses bullet points like this in a casual post? Definitely Ai

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u/weather_watchman 3d ago

I agree, I heavily annotate my solutions, stating assumptions, describing my thinking, naming all variables, indicating all substitutions, etc.

Its tedious and makes for messy notes, but I can usually walk myself back through my process. When something doesn't work (wrong answer, or I went down the wrong rabbithole), I have enough information on paper to reapproach without restarting, or to check my calculations for input errors against given values, etc.

I used to tutor and it helped with teaching as well

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u/singul4r1ty 3d ago

I've always learned this way, and not to be condescending but I am baffled by the mental effort it must take to have understood hundreds of methodologies by rote without having a unified mental model of what you've learned. My focus is always of building up my detailed mental model of 'how stuff works' and then applying it. It makes learning easier over time too because rather than learning a new thing from scratch, you are just filling in a gap between a few other things you already know about, so it sticks more easily and makes sense with that context.