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Re: MIT Mathlets
#2What I find obnoxious, and typical of MIT, is how credit is allocated.
"Copyright © 2009--2015 H. Miller"
Only hmm (H. Miller) didn't do the work. The "About" page, fortunately, lists the authors, but doesn't really credit who did what.
Nothing personal about hmm, but a lot personal about the MIT culture of credit theft. MIT didn't have this culture 25 years ago. If this was © MIT, it'd be okay. But it's the PI on the project, who often doesn't do much of anything, who gets to pick-and-choose what goes to whom, and more often than not, allocate anything of value back to themselves.
Re: MIT Mathlets
#3What I find obnoxious, and typical of MIT, is how credit is allocated. "Copyright © 2009--2015 H. Miller" Only hmm (H. Miller) didn't do the work. The "About" page, fortunately, lists the authors, but doesn't really credit who did what. Nothing personal about hmm, but a lot personal about the MIT culture of credit theft. MIT didn't have this culture 25 years ago. If this was © MIT, it'd be okay. But it's the PI on th…
Unfortunately, all of academia is like this now. The most successful PIs are the best marketers of work produced by an army of grad students recruited for their cheap labor costs more than their future in the academic world.
Re: MIT Mathlets
#4Interesting, but in the first one I clicked on, "T distribution", there should be more explanation. It says only "The t distribution depends on one parameter.". I would say, "The shape of the t distribution depends on one parameter, the degrees of freedom, which controls the kurtosis. As df approaches infinity the t distribution approaches the normal distribution."
Re: MIT Mathlets
#5What I find obnoxious, and typical of MIT, is how credit is allocated. "Copyright © 2009--2015 H. Miller" Only hmm (H. Miller) didn't do the work. The "About" page, fortunately, lists the authors, but doesn't really credit who did what. Nothing personal about hmm, but a lot personal about the MIT culture of credit theft. MIT didn't have this culture 25 years ago. If this was © MIT, it'd be okay. But it's the PI on th…
How is copyright the same as credit?
Re: MIT Mathlets
#6What I find obnoxious, and typical of MIT, is how credit is allocated. "Copyright © 2009--2015 H. Miller" Only hmm (H. Miller) didn't do the work. The "About" page, fortunately, lists the authors, but doesn't really credit who did what. Nothing personal about hmm, but a lot personal about the MIT culture of credit theft. MIT didn't have this culture 25 years ago. If this was © MIT, it'd be okay. But it's the PI on th…
Yep.It should be copyright MIT, especially if he is using his post and other personnel to make this.
Nothing against him personally.
Re: MIT Mathlets
#7What I find obnoxious, and typical of MIT, is how credit is allocated. "Copyright © 2009--2015 H. Miller" Only hmm (H. Miller) didn't do the work. The "About" page, fortunately, lists the authors, but doesn't really credit who did what. Nothing personal about hmm, but a lot personal about the MIT culture of credit theft. MIT didn't have this culture 25 years ago. If this was © MIT, it'd be okay. But it's the PI on th…
This might explain the reason for the copyright: https://mathlets.org/training/
Edit: More specifically:
> This self-paced short course by Professor Haynes R. Miller, Ph.D. [ Biography ] focuses on the use of technology in mathematics education at the university level. The course begins with an introduction and then explores the MIT Mathlets collection by providing examples of Mathlet use in three different contexts.
Re: MIT Mathlets
#8What I find obnoxious, and typical of MIT, is how credit is allocated. "Copyright © 2009--2015 H. Miller" Only hmm (H. Miller) didn't do the work. The "About" page, fortunately, lists the authors, but doesn't really credit who did what. Nothing personal about hmm, but a lot personal about the MIT culture of credit theft. MIT didn't have this culture 25 years ago. If this was © MIT, it'd be okay. But it's the PI on th…
> the MIT culture of credit theft
This makes me think about who we revere as scientists and who we compare ourselves to.
A lot of success in life is out of our control. Conditions produce outliers, not diligence and hard work (Outlier X probably did work hard, but the conditions were so for their nervous system to act as such).
Re: MIT Mathlets
#9Interesting, but in the first one I clicked on, "T distribution", there should be more explanation. It says only "The t distribution depends on one parameter.". I would say, "The shape of the t distribution depends on one parameter, the degrees of freedom, which controls the kurtosis. As df approaches infinity the t distribution approaches the normal distribution."
It's designed to be used in a MOOC, so there should be lots of text around them. edX math classes use them a lot.
Re: MIT Mathlets
#10Nun of these seem to be accessible for screen readers, unlike what PHET has.