The scale of the cheating crisis in higher education is staggering. Depending on the survey, between 60% and 92% of college students now regularly use AI for their coursework. Professors are ill-equipped, and administrators are broadly turning a blind eye to the entire situation. Treating this as wholly the fault of AI is, however, a grave mistake.
The truth is that education has been broken for a long time, and AI was the accelerant that made the bonfire bright enough to see from a distance. In a system where degrees now primarily function as an expensive IQ screening mechanism, where learning is wholly secondary to certification, and where industrial-age teaching methods clash with information-age realities, AI has finally revealed the plastered-over fractures that have been growing for decades.
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Axiom is an ecosystem of formal logic tools for education. If you’ve used Carnap or Logic Penguin, you know the idea — but those platforms send proofs to a server for validation. Axiom runs entirely client-side. No network latency. No tracking. Works offline.
The core is a TypeScript reimplementation of Kevin Klement’s fitch-checker, the PHP validator that powered the original Logic Penguin. The JavaScript version means you can embed proof checking anywhere: static sites, LMS platforms via SCORM, Electron apps, interactive textbooks. Build your own interface or use the provided Web Components.
Bob and Alice are two hackers working on an embedded system with a severe computational constraint - there is a bug in their low-cost microcontroller making OR operations significantly slower than any other operation on the chipset.
When they profiled their micropython code, they found that OR operations were up to 5x slower than any other operation.
AliceThis is a big problem! We could replace the faulty chips with better ones, if they arrive before the deadline.BobI don’t think we can afford to wait - the deadline is in 3 days. A better option is to rewrite the code to avoid the OR operation.AliceHow could we do that? We’re using the OR operation in a lot of critical places. Look:def authorize_access(request): # A user is denied if they are on a blacklist OR # their account is expired if (user_is_blacklisted(request.user_id) or account_is_expired(request.account) return "Access denied" return "Access granted"Let’s take a moment to understand the problem. The
authorize_accessfunction is used to check if a user is authorized to access a resource. Theoroperation is used to combine the conditions. How could we rewrite this function to avoid the OR operation?
