How bad is it if I turn down an ARC assessment assignment? I do not have sufficient expertise in the area they have assigned a project for me to review (I have expertise in the very broad area, but that is because the area is really broad).

Our university requires me to guarantee that no questions from previous 3 years have been reused in the final examination question paper.

Unfortunately, I also have to compose at least 4 question papers for the final examination (a main and replacement exam) x (in-person and remote). I have already exhausted all questions I can pose to students, and am wondering what to ask next year. #newfaculty #newfacultyproblems

Pet peeve: In a number of research papers, I see that the bibliography is sorted by author name. The problem with this sorting is that it supports a single function --- to check how many times a particular author is cited in a printed paper as the first author. Unfortunately, when bibliographies are sorted in this fashion,  it becomes very difficult to look up where in the paper that particular entry was cited. If you order the bibliography by the order in which it is referred to in the paper, it becomes much more easier for the poor reader to look up where and why a particular entry was cited in your paper.

IMO, the second function is much more important than the first. So, my plea to the authors: Please, order the bibliography by the order of reference.

I am trying to introduce my students in software engineering to LLMs. I want them to have a good idea of what it is like to work with them, or to build tools on top of them.  What is the best option currently?

It seems that I have almost entirely replaced my use of Grammarly and LanguageTool with ChatGPT (GPT4). The ability to instruct the AI on what to do in different parts, --ignore latex comments, keep the structure, make abstract concise, make introduction simple etc.--are a real game changer for me. However, I find its ability to write code I want *extremely* lacking!.