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Re:In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emot... by thoughtpalette on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:58PM (#34420733)
I was going to make an initial offhand comment about the author explanaing critical thinking skills, then I viewed the problem sets[0].

I def agree with the other commenter about setting expectations up front on these types of problems.

[0]: https://twitter.com/ShengwuLi/status/1615063879381569536/pho...

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Re:In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emot... by chisquared on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @05:07AM (#34425109)
Interesting problems!

It’s not hard to intuit the truth values of the conjectures in the first two questions. I don’t have proofs, though.

No idea about the third one.

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