Smoking Weed with AI... and well... it gets weird...

[mikelewis]

3. I learned to just read the book and not listen to the lectures...

Last edited Fri Dec 6, 2024, 10:33 AM - Edit history (2)

Saved time but cost me grades... still... I prefer to know what Whitman said than what my teacher thought I should think. But I feel ya... two sides of the same coin!



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But my class was about Hashes. Not like corned beef or Spam hash... nothing so delicious. No, this class was about number hashing, swirling and twirling words so out of shape you can't remotely recognize them. They showed us that illusion in class... the teacher set up 1000 Red Solo cups and then hid snippets of words under just a few. Then he let us run in and try to find them all in under 10 seconds or so. The only way we could do it was for all the students to run in at the same time and flip the cups and hold up the papers.

But what we realized... We realized, we didn't need the hash, just the solution. That was cool... except...

I wasn't happy with that solution and the teacher saw it on my face. He said, Mr. Lewis, Problem?

I said, yes, that's not beating the hash and it's definitely beatable.

The teacher looked at me with a grin. So beat it...

As I stared out the window as the storm in my mind echoes the one outside, thinking... I grinned too.

The class set the experiment back up... everyone funneled outside. I stepped into the room... and broke the hash.

That was a cool day... even though I still got an F.