Recently, York University's Information Technology (UIT) department blocked access to our Learning Management System with a message about AI called "AI Features in eClass". You could not get to eClass without clicking on the "I acknowledge" button. I didn't click the button because I actually read the message and I don't accept it. And, because […]
When I lived in Germany in 2006-8 I had a bank account with Deutsche Bank. To log in securely to my account they printed out a piece of paper with a table in it. The table contained "one time codes". No devices needed. No apps. Just a piece of paper that I could put in […]
Writing assembler code is hard, for a few reasons. First, the lack of abstraction forces you to think about each and every step of your program. Second, the lack of abstraction requires you to know a great deal about the hardware. Then, the grammar is just weird. You might write it from left to right […]
Piracy of professor-authored teaching material is rampant. I've written about it before. Students and teaching staff have uploaded my material to Course Hero and I'm not happy about it. In spite of requesting that they don't do it, they still do it. I write explicit footnotes in my documents saying not to do it, and […]