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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TIL that "honey drug" and "dry enough" are anagrams.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"embrace your humanity, be yourself, be creative, think critically"

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Michael S. Kirkpatrick @kirkpams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I have a request for anyone who helps organize or leads an ACM SIG, conference, etc. I'm chairing a task force on publication integrity in CS (clear-computing.org). Part of that work is surveying the community on tools used. If you can help spread the word to SIG/conf leaders, please do.

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CLEAR Survey: Tool Adoption For Ethics And Policy Violations

The CLEAR Task force is gathering information from conference and journal organizers about tools used or being developed to identify, investigate, or manage ethics and policy violations in peer review...

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Obviously, humanities majors can be unethical assholes (*cough* Peter Thiel *cough*) and I know many amazing STEM majors. The point is that we need a healthy blend of academic backgrounds, we need lots of interdisciplinary folks, and we need those who specialize to talk to one another across fields.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If related, that's some power!

Image of news story about Vatican excommunicating bishops juxtaposed with an alert that the S&P 500 is down 0.36% with a question mark suggesting that the excommunication may be influencing the market.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our Commissioners are impressive! Their knowledge, their dedication, their problem solving skills, their commitment to the environment, and their commitment to their constituency--both those asking for variances and the residents of the county--are so uplifting. Small government is cool!

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I am currently watching my (rural) county's Planning Commission/Board of Adjustment meeting: folks are asking for variances in the county rules for changes they are hoping to make (in some cases, have made) to their property. This is government at its finest. Further, it is dramatic TV!

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Ours are near our house, so they are a bit further north. IDK. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Ours are running a day or two behind yours.

Showy Lady Slipper blossoms that haven't yet opened.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Oh, yes! There are so many good ideas for having people pay for the damage they do and rewarding people for the good that they do.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

IDK, maybe call it a carbon tax?

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I own a PEHV and haven't put gas in it for the last couple of months despite the 1000 miles or so we have driven. I am happy to pay this extra tax for the damage my vehicle does to the roads as long as the owners of ICE vehicles are charged a tax for the damage that their vehicles do to the climate.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I resemble that relationship. 😬

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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 10/05/2026

Hello this is me!! It’s so disheartening when I see otherwise credible academics use it. Just feels like it’s rotting them out from the inside

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I am thrilled to have played a small role in this recognition of Nicki. Congratulations! and best of luck as you continue on your professional journey.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Bar fight, no. Bear fight, yes.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I think there's a paper waiting to be written here ...

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This sounds a lot like problems facing academic publishing.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

What does this even mean!!! I'm sticking with bahn mi as is. Sheesh.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Maybe not normal, but I hear you!

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If you like word games, you might enjoy Parseword. It's from the same person who made Wordle. www.parseword.com

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Parseword - A tricky wordplay game

Transform phrases through wordplay to solve cryptic crossword puzzles.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Ahhh TACO. Futures markets up 2%, oil down $20/barrel. Who got richer this time?

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

To be fair, there are even new clocks on campus that famously do not work. Time is just plain weird there.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

One of the many, many things genAI destroys is human collaboration. It actively creates loners, guys spinning off into the deep end with literally no one around them to go "hey what the fuck are you talking about" or "hey this sounds like the thing I've been working on" or "check out this book"

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I am increasingly of the opinion that if someone says they are using AI for something good or something cool they ought to a) make the distinction about the type of AI they are using: is it genAI or traditional AI? and b) if they are using genAI, why isn't traditional AI sufficient?

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It states: "AI helps process that data to pinpoint the real-time carrying capacity of a specific power line." I suspect that AI, and especially genAI, are not involved in the computation. If that's the case, why bring up AI at all? (I'm not sure who introduced AI here: the manufacturer or MPR.)

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There seems to be a sneaky way that AI gets hyped. This article describes "magic balls" gather real-time data.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This seems easily addressed: authors who include ethical considerations in the methods section get an extra 250 words. It opens those considerations to evaluation--a good thing, I think. Further, it drives home the message that ethical consideration is an essential part of the research process.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

As I finish reviewing for FAccT I'd love to get other opinions on a topic. (I'm trying to decide if this is worth raising to decision makers or if I'm overreacting.) TL;DR Ethical considerations should be in the methods section, so explicitly instructing authors to put them at the end is bad. 🧵

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

While I was out xc skiing today, I often felt like a stone gliding across ice under the control of some force outside me. Is that what you have in mind?

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

We do have some amazing curlers here in Minnesota--and decent hockey players, too. My money is on yes.

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

“If Minnesota secedes, will Canada take them in?” is a question I find myself seriously asking this morning

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Tonight was the last night of three that our grandchildren spent with us without their parents. As we were putting them to bed, "Grandpa, do we *have* to leave tomorrow?" #ALLTHEFEELS

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Merry Christmas! Three generations of handiwork here.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

November is very cheeky this year, taking up six lines in standard calendar notation, rather than the usual five.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

And it's been going on for some 75 years and had loads of cash thrown at it and been addressed by some of the brightest people ... It continues to be an amazing shit show.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Once again - there are things you can learn about the United States only by being outside the United States. This is one of them.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I'm about 1/3 of the way through the new Billy Joel documentary on HBO Max. It's been fascinating so far. He's got a great story and it has been so fun to relive the music from when I was a kid.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I wonder how many of the books at the book sale have been in your hands once upon a time. You are the Tammy Bookseed of Bemidji.

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The verb "dust" is curious. It means to both do a thing and to undo a thing. One can dust a cake with confectioner's sugar. One can dust the furniture to remove the powdered sugar that fell from the cake as it was eaten. Are there other such verbs in English?

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Tammy @tbobrowsky.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Nature's Pong

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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 15/05/2025

Behold: my two most cited examples of why hyphens matter

Newspaper article with a headline that reads "Students get first hand job experience"

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Marty J. Wolf @martyjwolf.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Well someone really screwed that up. Carl's at 70 now.

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