Kevin A. Bryan

We've passed 100 paying institutions for www.alldayta.com! Super exciting to see profs using it in 26 countries, from Ivy League grad courses on down. About to release updates to our AI-driven, prof-in-loop, adaptive quiz: first thing we've done some students dislike (but that's a good thing!) 1/2

Something I didn't expect that we can see in www.alldayta.com data: study effort is so correlated with exams. Across courses, if use on Finals week is "1", relative use on midterm week is .7, and on non-exam weeks .05-.1. For courses with no exam, use always sticks at the lower level.

So much studying & revision in All Day TA classes happens via platform that I can see exact day, time, nature & type of studying students are doing. Gap (in my classes but also for customers) between exam weeks and others makes me thing we need more testing, not less, and more spread out over term.

I know it's my company, but All Day TA AI-driven quizzes are so good. Student cheat on all take-home work. How do you get them to learn? Do even better than we used to by having them learn *as they do low-staked hw*. Here's use just this week in a Texas univ course - students really use this. 1/4

The path forward for higher ed w/ AI is that teaching *complements* AI. Students learn more using AI, and learn *exactly* what we want to teach, instead of just cheating. Can do even better than pre-AI! (And if you want this - alldayta.com, $100 per term. Super easy.)

I know it's my company, but All Day TA AI-driven quizzes are so good. Student cheat on all take-home work. How do you get them to learn? Do even better than we used to by having them learn *as they do low-staked hw*. Here's use just this week in a Texas univ course - students really use this. 1/4

Toss my lecture audio, slides, handouts into a module. A crazy AI workflow pulls out learning goals. AI then spins up questions (you can approve or not) from your docs plus context on why students might get them wrong. 2/4

New class on Progress starting tomorrow - I'm amped! Trying to put some rigor from economics, economic history, and philosophy on a topic very much in the air. It will be awesome. (And first class running slides in my all html browser-based slideshow program - details soon!) 1/2

Perhaps of interest to folks with social science PhD programs: at Rotman, we added an experimental 3 session "tech stack" training in addition to the math boot camp. My lecture was "how to do reproducible, open, quick research", aka version control, LaTeX, AI. 1/2 kevinbryanecon.com/techstack.html

I know lots of skepticism about AI here, but let me show you something we put out which I think is a huge improvement for university assignments. This is "Intelligent Quiz", a feature on All Day TA (www.alldayta.com). Assignments now have tons of cheating + little feedback to us or the students. 1/9

Honestly, it's a really nice system. As always, everything is all siloed: your content is never used for any training nor leaves your course, and is deleted on demand. The whole alldayta.com is $100 per class section per term - a couple bucks per student on average. AI complements our teaching! 6/6

I know lots of skepticism about AI here, but let me show you something we put out which I think is a huge improvement for university assignments. This is "Intelligent Quiz", a feature on All Day TA (www.alldayta.com). Assignments now have tons of cheating + little feedback to us or the students. 1/9

When the students do their assignment, and get a question wrong, the AI forces them to explain their logic, then uses your lectures, handouts, and so on to try to correct mistakes. We then use another AI system to report back to you precisely where students have been going wrong *and why*. 4/6

I know lots of skepticism about AI here, but let me show you something we put out which I think is a huge improvement for university assignments. This is "Intelligent Quiz", a feature on All Day TA (www.alldayta.com). Assignments now have tons of cheating + little feedback to us or the students. 1/9

The whole deal with All Day TA is "AI for university classes that is pedagogically-sensible, uses your language, and emphasizes your content only". What does that mean for assignments? Questions at level of your class, covering your learning goals, and giving students feedback the way you would. 2/6

Beautiful Day 1 of school here at U Toronto! Love seeing the students back, and that the undergrads all dress exactly like we did in '98 (I saw 3 Nirvana T-shirts, literally). I'm doing my best to crank up the rigor in my courses - we're taking the role of univs back to '98 also!

Eight rules to regain trust in universities. All can be done today. They're absolutely not the core beliefs about the role of the university for some faculty right now, but are essential if we're to contribute to the trusted production and diffusion of knowledge. kevinbryanecon.com/trust.html

It does mean we push back against those who deny the possibility of objective research, against those who see the university as a political body, against those who speak and write in an insular way, against those who think public perception of universities is irrelevant. They are wrong.

Eight rules to regain trust in universities. All can be done today. They're absolutely not the core beliefs about the role of the university for some faculty right now, but are essential if we're to contribute to the trusted production and diffusion of knowledge. kevinbryanecon.com/trust.html

Incredibly excited for my brand new class at Rotman this fall: Progress! Econ history + theory + history of thought + philosophy on why rare orgs at rare times in rare places accomplish new things. Trying to put rigor onto an idea that is very much in the air. kevinbryanecon.com/Bryan-Progre... 1/3

Getting "big" things done and maintaining existing things are not the same. But why? What causes path dependence? What role do liberty, or particular individuals, or cities, or science, or incentives play? 2/3

I've built a bunch of tools this summer to move my whole workflow to using things that are "pure text" so I can use AI on top. Here's the first: a modern paper reader. PDFs suck. Ugly, terribly interface, big files, fixed. I want papers that are adaptive, interactive, pretty. 1/5

To create the XML, just drag and drop pdf or latex/bib into the browser, wait a minute, and you have things all set. Occasionally a couple minor manual edits needed, and you need to place your figures in the same folder. Otherwise, that's it - just upload to your website! 4/5

I've built a bunch of tools this summer to move my whole workflow to using things that are "pure text" so I can use AI on top. Here's the first: a modern paper reader. PDFs suck. Ugly, terribly interface, big files, fixed. I want papers that are adaptive, interactive, pretty. 1/5

This code, which runs on one .html file, takes your pdf (or latex/bib), rewrites the whole thing in a pure text XML format, adds in-line references and footnotes, zoomable images, and retains clickable navigations. Plus prettier, and adapts view for phones. But also... 2/5

Cleaned up and updated my AI-driven text editor - controllable 'style' editing smart enough to ignore your LaTeX commands. Based on your red pen-editor preferences, your own complex style rules then use this simple UI to edit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Pj...