The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious

If Julius Caesar had debuted this year, William Shakespeare might have been accused of writing it with AI. A certain ...
InfoWorld

Write cleaner and faster Python code

Check out Python’s powerful new linters and profiling tools, and learn how virtual environments can save you time and trouble. Meta’s long-awaited Pyrefly linter is out in a 1.0 version, and the ...
LAist

Write-in candidates in SoCal are no joke. Election officials require them to qualify

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Write-in candidates in Southern ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...
The New York Times

Louise Erdrich on Her New Story Collection and the Mystery of Writing

This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this ...
The Washington Post

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better?

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...
Nature

Technology is changing how we write — and how we think about writing

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...
syracuse.com

How an unlikely squad of write-ins won every seat in an Upstate NY town

Cato, N.Y. -- In September, when the ballots were printed for the town elections in Cato, it seemed the races were already won. There were no challengers for any of the five spots. That’s how things ...
The Conversation

We teach young people to write. In the age of AI, we must teach them how to see

From the earliest year of school, children begin learning how to express ideas in different ways. Lines across a page, a wobbly letter, or a simple drawing form the foundation for how we share meaning ...
Education Week

How Digital Tools Can Spark Writing Growth in Young Students

If a student writes a story or a paragraph on a piece of paper, it can easily be crumpled up, stuffed into the bottom of a backpack, and forgotten or thrown away. But letting a 1st grader use a ...
Education Week

How AI Helps Our Students Deepen Their Writing (Yes, Really)

Corrected: A word was misspelled in the title of the book co-authored by Magliozzi and Peterson. The correct title is AI in the Writing Workshop: Finding the Write Balance. Since ChatGPT’s release, we ...
University of Vermont

Math and Python: subscripts are indices

Here we make explicit the connection between subscript notation in mathematics and indices in Python. In mathematics: Say we have a collection of objects X. We can refer to individual elements of the ...