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To thrive in a world that now includes generative AI tools like ChatGPT, students need to develop five essential skills, says professor Oguz A. Acar. Use this four-step framework to empower your students and equip them for success in the digital age.

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Login and Background Items are increasingly common, and can cause all sorts of problems. Diagnosing and fixing them is better in Ventura.

This is the ultimate Dokku + Ruby on Rails guide — I cover running Dokku on x86 and ARM, deploying Sidekiq and Redis, dockerizing our Ruby on Rails app, and more...

Why AI Will Save the World | Andreessen Horowitz URL: https://a16z.com/2023/06/06/ai-will-save-the-world/ Type: article Domain: a16z.com Notes: This article has been heavily referenced because Marc Andreesen is famous and opinionated.

What is Standards-based Grading? - TeacherEase URL: https://www.teacherease.com/standards-based-grading.aspx Type: link Domain: teacherease.com Notes: "Standards-based grading (SBG) is an innovation in education that focuses on learning and helps increase achievement. It is often combined with updated instructional practices and culture to better engage students and foster a positive environment. This page is an introduction for parents and educators new to standards-based education."Explaining Standards Based Grading, which I think is almost the same as Specs Based Grading. Another concept I am learing about.

A stop/start/continue for the ungrading community URL: https://rtalbert.org/a-stop-start-continue-for-the-ungrading-community/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_7146472_nl_Teaching_date_20230629&cid=te&source=&sourceid= Type: article Domain: rtalbert.org Notes: I am looking into the idea of ungrading or other alternative ways of dealing with assessment and grading. So expect to see more links along those lines!

I’ve been building out a small suite of command-line tools for working with ChatGPT, GPT-4 and potentially other language models in the future. The three tools I’ve built so far …

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Thor is a great way to write simple CLIs like one-off Rails scripts, but it does have its own gotchas. Here’s how to use Thor in practice.

This article is a high-level overview of design patterns that are commonly used in Ruby on Rails applications. I also mention the cons and pros.

ORMs, often criticized, are typically misused rather than inherently flawed. While they present challenges in visibility and performance, correct usage can mitigate these issues.

A round up of the most-read and most-loved contributions from the community this past week

The number of leaked information from Copilot were surprising. I’ll show you what it his and how to prevent it your code from leaking.

Closures and anonymous functions are very useful concepts, especially in functional programming. Ruby makes working with them a pleasure via its flavors like blocks, procs, and lambdas. This post provides an in-depth tutorial and shows the subtle differences between them.

At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you through the motivations behind this work, the way it was developed, and the path forward.

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