ChatGPT Revisited
A colleague of mine now told me that ChatGPT as advanced to a state where homework assignments can be treated, at least in the first courses in Analysis and Linear…
A colleague of mine now told me that ChatGPT as advanced to a state where homework assignments can be treated, at least in the first courses in Analysis and Linear…
This is inspired by a very nice and entertaining Video on the Stand-Up-Math channel featuring Matt Parker and Hannah from NumberPhile. They aimed to repeat an experiment from a book…
I recently was asked a question about mirrors which has been asked a million times before: Why does a mirror flip the left and right side of a face, but…
Probability theory is always a more difficult topic than it seems at first sight. In another posting, I talked about the „two envelopes problem“ and described my basic approach to…
The following is the Wason Selection Task, as cited by Wikipedia. „You are shown a set of four cards placed on a table, each of which has a number on…
Ich finde immer wieder Pisa-Aufgaben im Netz, die schlecht formuliert sind. Ich hoffe mal, dass die zitierten Aufgaben nicht wirklich die Aufgaben sind, die gestellt wurden. Aber immerhin habe ich…
I learned about this problem from a video of „Veritasium“. The story goes like this: A beauty falls asleep. Then a coin is flipped. On each wake up, the beauty…
This construction works without stretching or bending. Everything is sitting exactly on the studs. Here is a mathematical abstraction of the situation. This has been observed by a friend who…
Ich habe meinen Java-Kurs modernisiert. Die erste Version entstand ja kurz nach dem Erscheinen von brauchbaren Java-Versionen. Es war dringend nötig, moderne Techniken genauer zu erklären. Insbesondere wird kein AWT…
The principle of „restricted choice“ in the card game Bridge made it to Wikipedia. The article is somewhat mysterious, however, and obscures what is really happening. I never infer with…