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Re:I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled on Thursday January 09, 2025 @03:49PM (#42649683)
Even if this student isn't a member, the local graduate student union (https://www.uaw4121.org/) would probably be a useful ally. All TAs are in the bargaining unit, and UW CSE has _a lot_ of undergrad TAs, so I wouldn't even be surprised if this student is a present (or former) member.
I'm a CS academic who _should_ be working on finalizing a new submission, so when I saw this on HN I decided to give it a try and see if it could find anything in the literature that I'd missed. Somewhat to my surprise, it did - the top 10 results contained two items that I really ought to have found myself (they're from my own community!), but that I'd missed. There were also some irrelevant results mixed in (and lots of things I was already aware of), but overall I'm very impressed with this and will try it out again in the future. Nice work :)