Comment on Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating

DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Back when we were doing quadratic equations; I wrote a program on my TI-84 that would ask which parts of the equation you already had, and would fill in the rest for you.

  My teacher liked it so much he bought a transfer cable for those calculators so he could get a copy for himself. Then used to to grade tests.

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  • Khanzarate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I did the same thing. It was allowed in general, with the correct thought, “if you can code it yourself, you know the content”

    I had another “program” that would fail to run but that’s because I wrote notes into it. Doubt that was allowed.

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    • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.

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      • piecat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh I would have been so pissed. I was programming on my calculator 24/7 instead of my classes.

        I wrote a sudoku “editor”

        I put that in quotes because I had a grid that could be navigated, arrows moved, storing the numbers, had number entry down, and then I learned the hard way what p vs np is.

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      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They did that here too, but students would use a cheat program that made it look like teachers were resetting it, but really the memory was safe

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    • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I did that but made it return success before it got to the notes. You had to scroll to get to the notes, but it looked innocuous before that.

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    • UNY0N@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh god I remember doing that too. Those “programs” were the best. I even mad sure to make the code long, so that even if someone thought to take a look at the code they would have to scroll for a while to find the notes.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I could never remember the formula to calculate compound interest.

    But I had no trouble writing a for loop.

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    • VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      K•(1+r)^n

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      • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I would just rebuild something in my head like this every time.

        While i < n; k=k+(k*r); i++;

        You’d think I could remember k(1+r)^n but when you posted, it looked as alien as it felt decades ago.

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    • BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What always annoyed me was having to draw charts by hand. Just let me put the data in a computer for god’s sake, the rest of the working is there… I did actually write a python function for one of my assignments which was fine, but they told me not to do it for the exam.

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  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I made one to decompose polynomials it was very good because it showed all the steps it was literally just copy what’s on the calc to the page

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  • ShunkW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So you didn’t get the transfer cable with your calculator? Smells fishy

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    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Issued by the school; I never owned it.

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    • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      you can code directly on the device, it’s just a PAIN to do compared to moving the files over

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      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Can confirm, as someone who spent multiple study halls trying to program a top down shooter on his calculator

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As someone who was a kid who would do things like this to avoid putting in the work, no this kid will probably not be fine.

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