Riddle: The World’s Simplest Card Trick
Class Activities
- Invitation to post at Rate My Professor
- Follow this link directly to David Hodges
- If asked for a Course Code, use COMP 2 FA23
- Preview of Portfolio Readiness
- We’ll spend time together on this
- You’ve already started to build your Portfolio
- Don’t worry.
- You can still revise everything.
- Give every Portfolio item a Title.
Review Citations
- Review your In-text citations for compliance.
- They need Author or Title or Publication (or any combination), Said language, and a Quotation, Paraphrase, or Summary.
- NO PARENTHETICAL AUTHOR NOTATIONS.
This is INCORRECT:
NO PARENTHETICAL AUTHOR NOTATIONS.
This is CORRECT:
Make Separate posts for Short Arguments
First the Initial Post
Then a New Post for the Revised Argument
(Shows Responsiveness to Feedback)
Check Bibliography for Compliance
Entries need APA Bibliographic notations,
Links to the Sources,
and thorough descriptions of Background Material and How I Used it.
Check Reflective Statement for Compliance
Entries must specific descriptions of changes you made to your work in response
to feedback or detailed descriptions of how you met course objectives.
Make references and links to the posts that best demonstrate
your accomplishment of the Core Values.
Feedback Protocol
- If you’re posting arguments for the first time, you’re too late to request Feedback.
- If you posted weeks ago but never asked for Feedback, you’re too late to request Feedback.
- If you’re already engaged in feedback on an assignment, you can request additional feedback by making substantial revisions to your post, asking specific questions in a Reply, and placing your post in Feedback Please.
Grade Please Protocol
- If you’re posting an assignment for the first time, drop a Reply to alert your beloved professor to its existence. Ask for a Grade. Put the post in the Grade Please category.
- If you’ve never received a grade on an assignment, likely you professor has not noticed it. Drop a Reply to alert your beloved professor to its existence. Ask for a Grade. Put the post in the Grade Please category.
- If you’ve improved your post since it was first graded, drop a Reply to ask for a Regrade. Put the post in the Grade Please category.
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Counterintuitive Fall 2023 
December 4 Class notes
– we start class with shuffling a deck of cards. As DH told a story about rice he laid the shuffled deck out across the desk. Then explained the cards laid out in that specific order is basically impossible to replicate.
– Then we went over the format of the reflective statement for the department.
– going over what goes into the portfolio.
– Live feedback
Class Notes: 12/4/23
– Riddle: the trick to the simplest card trick is that this shuffle that was done is improbable to be done again, as it has a chance of eight times ten to the sixty-seventh power to be done again.
– I learned how to organize my reflective argument after asking how to do it.
– We moved onto organizing our Portfolio, what i took away from this part of the lecture was how to correctly use my citations, and to have the correct titles for each. I also learned that unless I have specific feedback needed then I should not request more.
-We would then talk about how to get our grades updated and the best way was to post the assignment into, “regrade please”.
– We ended class reviewing a classmates argument and giving feedback, from this I learned a better way to include my citations and how to correctly space out paragraphs.
Class notes
We are going to be able to revise our research paper
We discussed the final reflection post, and we went through the core values and how they apply to our statement.
Rate professor Hodges on rate my professor!!
We reviewed the bibliography. How we intended to use sources in the proposal +5 and then in the other annotation it is how you used it in the text.
We reviewed a classmates work and did live feedback.
Class notes
Discussed daily riddle
Went over reflective statement and discussed the instructions for the assignment
Went over end of semester housekeeping for assignments
Reminded to double check our citations in essays
Went over new protocol for feedback and grades on assignments
A deck of cards has been shuffled seven times according to the Las Vegas standard and has a sense of randomness. The simplest card trick in the world is arranging the cards on a table in the order you pull them. This trick is the easiest in the world as no one has pulled it off before in a random fashion because the odds of the pull are 8 x 10^67. If our galaxy contains a trillion stars every star has a trillion planets every planet has a trillion residents and every resident has a trillion decks of cards and every deck has been shuffled since the big bang and even, then shuffles begin to be repeated.
We have one more class left in the semester and only a few assignments left of the coursework. The Annotated Bib is the culmination of the proposal+5 and should be fifteen sources long of citations we have both consulted and not consulted.
The self-reflective statement is one last argument that is a requirement of the department and what we are trying to prove is that we have met the core values of the first-year writing program. The five values have been formatted and a template which we should copy and paste into our new post.
For the short arguments, each essay needs a title, review the intext citations to be sure that there are no parenthetical citations, and we need to put an intext hyperlink behind the sources.
The protocol for feedback now is that assignments without any past conversation will be flat-out ignored unless a specific thing is asked.
For the final 15 minutes of class, we did live feedback on a classmate’s Causal argument.
Class Notes 12/4
Riddle: The World’s Simplest Card Trick:
– Background: The Invention of Chess
– Unimaginable Numbers
– One of a Kind
– Make History
o How big is this number? Someone shuffling a deck of cards once per second since the beginning of the universe believed to be about 14 billion years ago would not have shuffled the deck more than 10 times. Thus it is almost certain that any given configuration achieved through random shuffling has never appeared before in the history of shuffling!
o
– 100 Ways to Shuffle
o Video on 100 WAYS TO SHUFFLE CARDS (Captivating Card Manipulation)
– We are Impossible
o I tell you about this trick, these numbers, the incomprehensible enormity of the odds against everyday occurrences to remind you, again, that we, the world, our ability to perceive anything at all, are almost entirely impossible.
o We could have been thwarted at any time, at any stage of our development, and we’d never know we had been denied our brief awareness.
o Yet we, and the world, and our awareness . . . in defiance of all the odds . . . undeniably exist.
o So. Never despair. The impossible happens every day. It’s happening now all around us if we care to look at it.
o Also, for Christ’s sake, stop taking life for granted.
Class Activities:
Review Citations:
Feedback Protocol:
Grade Please Protocal:
Class Notes 12/4
Riddle: The World’s Simplest Card Trick:
– The professor has a deck of cards that was shuffled 10 times and it made a random deck of cards. Professor Hodges talks about the paramedic taking the money out and making new coins.
– A card trick that’s about chance and number theory like chess.
– Background: The Invention of Chess
o The Shah of Persia, bored with dice games that rewarded chance, challenged the brightest minds of his time and place to invent a game that depended entirely on intellect. When he invited the inventor of chess to name his reward, the crafty inventor made what sounded like a modest request.
1) Give me just one grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard, please. And two grains of rice on the second square, four grains on the third square, eight on the fourth, and so on, and I will be satisfied.
o The shah agreed and his ministers began to fulfill the simple request, gathering enough rice to cover the 64 squares of the board. By the time they reached the 14th square, they reported to the shah:
2) We ran out of rice before we reached the third row. By the time we reach the 40th square, we’ll need more than a trillion grains of rice. A few more squares and we’ll need all the rice on earth. A few more squares and we’ll need more rice than has ever been produced. By the time we reach the end of the board, we will need more rice than will be produced by the end of history.
– Unimaginable Numbers
o In just a few seconds, I will create something unique in human history using an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards. I will shuffle them seven times, and the result will be a card order so unusual that the odds of it being generated by my shuffling are one in:
1 in 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,
505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000.
– One of a Kind
o Link to the “OT (For Fun): What Is the Probability That Two Decks Of Cards Were Sequenced Identically…” from TKR(The Knight Report)
– Make History
o How big is this number? Someone shuffling a deck of cards once per second since the beginning of the universe believed to be about 14 billion years ago would not have shuffled the deck more than 10 times. Thus it is almost certain that any given configuration achieved through random shuffling has never appeared before in the history of shuffling!
o
– 100 Ways to Shuffle
o Video on 100 WAYS TO SHUFFLE CARDS (Captivating Card Manipulation)
– We are Impossible
o I tell you about this trick, these numbers, the incomprehensible enormity of the odds against everyday occurrences to remind you, again, that we, the world, our ability to perceive anything at all, are almost entirely impossible.
o We could have been thwarted at any time, at any stage of our development, and we’d never know we had been denied our brief awareness.
o Yet we, and the world, and our awareness . . . in defiance of all the odds . . . undeniably exist.
o So. Never despair. The impossible happens every day. It’s happening now all around us if we care to look at it.
o Also, for Christ’s sake, stop taking life for granted.
Class Activities:
– Invitation to post at Rate My Professor
o Follow the link directly to David Hodges
o Asked for Course Code, use COMP 2 FA23
– Preview of Portfolio Readiness
o Spent time together on this
o You’ve already started to build your Portfolio
– Don’t worry.
o You can still revise everything
– Give every Portfolio item a Title
Review Citations:
– Review your In-text citations for compliance.
o They need the Author or Title or Publication (or any combination), Said language, and a Quotation, Paraphrase, or Summary.
o NO PARENTHETICAL AUTHOR NOTATIONS.
– Make Separate posts for Short Arguments as a first the Initial Post
– Bibliography for Compliance entires needs APA Bibliographic notations,
Links to the Sources, and thorough descriptions of Background Material and How I Used it.
– Check Reflective Statement for Compliance entries must specific descriptions of changes you made to your work in response to feedback or detailed descriptions of how you met course objectives. Make references and links to the posts that best demonstrate
your accomplishment of the Core Values.
Feedback Protocol:
– If you’re posting arguments for the first time, you’re too late to request Feedback.
– If you posted weeks ago but never asked for Feedback, you’re too late to request Feedback.
– If you’re already engaged in feedback on an assignment, you can request additional feedback by making substantial revisions to your post, asking specific questions in a Reply, and placing your post in Feedback Please.
Grade Please Protocal:
– If you’re posting an assignment for the first time, drop a Reply to alert your beloved professor to its existence. Ask for a Grade. Put the post in the Grade Please category.
– If you’ve never received a grade on an assignment, likely your professor has not noticed it. Drop a Reply to alert your beloved professor to its existence.
– Ask for a Grade. Put the post in the Grade Please category.
If you’ve improved your post since it was first graded, drop a Reply to ask for a Regrade. Put the post in the Grade Please category
Deadlines Due 12/11:
– Annotated Bibliography
o Adapt your Proposal+5 into an Annotated Bibliography.
o 10-15 Sources. Most likely after a semester of research, you will have a dozen strong sources or so to include. The upper limit is 15. Under no circumstances cite fewer than 10.
– Self-Reflective Statment
o The final piece of work for your Portfolio is the Self-Reflective Statement required of all students in Composition II. It is a one-draft assignment that you will post directly into your Portfolio without feedback and without a rewrite.
o Your Guide to the First-Year Writing Program devotes a very large section to a full description of the Self-Reflective Statement, its purpose, its goals, and methods for completing a successful Statement.
o The first week of class, we read and discussed the Core Values of the First-Year Writing Program, which form the basis for the Self-Reflective Statement. As you craft your Statements, refer to the following descriptions of the Core Values.
Portfolio Checklist:
– Visual Rhetoric Rewrite
– Definition Argument/Rewrite, 1000 words
– Causal Argument/Rewrite, 1000 words
– Rebuttal Argument/Rewrite, 1000 words
– Research Position Paper ( Definition, Causal, Rebuttal), 3000 words
– Annotated Bibliography
o Bibliographic details of up to 15 sources that you consulted in your research, complete with a Purposeful Summary of the argument made by the source and How You Used It to advance your research or support your argument. In which you demonstrate your responsiveness to feedback, essential for meeting the Core Values of the Writing Arts curriculum
– Self-Reflective Statement
o This is a persuasive argument too. It uses the template provided by your Professor to argue that you have met the Core Values of the Writing Arts curriculum, with links to your own work that support that thesis.
– started off with every student shuffling the same deck of cards
– professor told us about Persia story, stars, and odds- I didn’t really understand
– I think it’s funny that Professor went over his bad rate my professor reviews. Most teachers don’t even acknowledge this website.
– went over live feedback on a post
Class note: 12/4/23
-puzzle- the essence of the simplest card trick lies in the improbability of replicating a particular shuffle, with a chance of eight times ten to the sixty-seventh power for it to occur again.
-personal growth- acquired the skill of structuring my reflective argument after seeking guidance on the process.
-Portfolio organization- our focus shifted to arranging our portfolios, highlighting the importance of proper citation usage and accurate titles additionally I gained the understanding that unless specific feedback is required it is advisable not to seek more.
– Grade update tactics- exploring methods to update grades, the recommended approach was to submit the assignment under regrade, please
-Peer review insight- The class concluded with a review of a classmate’s argument providing valuable insight into improving my citation inclusion and paragraph spacing.
Class Notes Monday 12/04:
-The funny thing about the card trick is that even if you got the same order that someone else had gotten before, you would never know it. You probably have better odds of winning the lottery multiple times in a row, but you would still never know. Even if you got the exact same shuffle twice in one sitting, you would likely never even notice. Even if you did notice, you probably wouldn’t even get anything. A whole lot of nothing for ridiculous odds.
-Everything can still be revised and if you do revise, put it into the Grade Please category to get a regrade. Very Important!
-Make sure to change the language in the bibliography to “How I Used It.” It could be easy to miss this, especially how a lot of this assignment could theoretically be copy/pasted into the new assignment.
-Make sure your citations don’t have the parentheses at the end of the sentence. Wrong format and an easy mistake to make.
What do you mean, you wouldn’t get anything? You’d reset the Universe Clock to 00:00 and all of creation would start over again from the beginning with one difference: your shuffle would have occurred in the first version. 🙂
Thanks for your thoughtful response.
Class Notes:
-impossible things happen everyday. With the example of us being born and the deck of cards.
-Reviewed Citations
-Feedback
-Grade Please
-Annotated Bibliography due next week.
12/04
I enjoyed the beginning lecture. It was some advice in life. Never take anything for granted. You want to spend your time on this earth doing something purposeful.
There were some comments on the rate my professor that were actually pretty funny. But none the less i still will give a good rating.
One of the best things Mr. Hodges does that most teachers don’t do is letting us revise any work we previously submitted. I am going to try to utilize this.
12.4.23 notes
– fill out rate my professor for this class to help out future students that want to take the class (link on agenda)
– the chance of getting the same shuffle twice is just as high as any person being born
– preview portfolio readiness. The full portfolio should be put together by Monday, 12/11.
– Overall research paper may not receive feedback from professor, review feedback on each short argument to apply to paper.
– You can continue to revise everything until semester grades are released sometime between Dec. 18-21.
– Make sure to label AND title EACH assignment that goes into portfolio. (Center, heading 2 for title)
– No parenthetical citations on any assignment. Use APA.
– If an assignment has never been graded, post it in the “Grade Please” category and drop a reply on it to draw professors’ attention.
. An annotated bibliography is a part of the proposal + 5 but with 10 more sources that you have used to write your research paper even if it isn’t directly cited in the paper itself
. The reflective statement is the final argument we make in this class. In a way, it is the culmination of all we have learned throughout the semester proving that we have grown as writers by using examples of our work.
12/4/2023
Card Tricks riddle… once in (more than) a million chances
Unimaginable numbers
Rate my professor and class reviews!
REVIEW ALL CITATIONS IN REVISIONS
-Review your In-text citations for compliance.
-They need Author or Title or Publication (or any combination), Said language, and a Quotation, Paraphrase, or Summary.
-NO PARENTHETICAL AUTHOR NOTATIONS
FeedBack Protocol… you are too late to ask for feedback unless you asked before the due date.
DROP DEAD DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 11TH… GET YOUR $H!T TOGETHER.
Self-Reflective Statement
-Final piece of portfolio work.
-Go back to the first weeks Core Values and those will be your guide
Portfolio Checklist
-Visual Rhetoric Rewrite (1000 words)
-Definition Argument Rewrite (1000 words)
-Rebuttal Argument Rewrite (1000 words)
-Research Position Paper (Definition, Causal, Rebuttal) (3000 words)
-Annotated Bibliography
-Self-Reflective Statement
Class Notes 12/4/23:
– Today’s riddle allowed students to recognize that the impossible happens everyday and we defy odds, similar to how shuffling cards also defies odds.
– Students are welcome to leave a review for Professor Hodges on Rate My Professor, a site which assists students who will take this course in the future.
– Students have the ability to revise all assignments, but should continue to build their portfolio and determine which pieces they would like to showcase in their final portfolio.
– Citations are extremely important and students should ensure they are doing them correctly. In order to do it correctly, there should be NO PARENTHETICAL AUTHOR NOTATIONS.
– Each post made by students must have an initial post, then a rewrite post. This must be fixed if not done already.
– Students have the ability to ask for feedback on posts which they have already asked for feedback on, but only after significant changes have been made.
– There is now a “grade please” category, which students can have their work graded again after changes have been made.
Class Notes 12/4/23:
starting the class with a magic trick.
review the professor on “rate my professor”.
Live feedback on student essay
reminder about all the deadlines and grading for the end of the semester.
everything can get revised.
– Students were asked to rate Professor Hodges on rate my professor and give him feedback on his teaching and class for his knowledge and for future students who might be taking his class.
– The portfolio essay within should have titles, and all citations should be correct with the author or title or publication, said language, and a quote.
– You can still rewrite or add to any of the assignments for feedback and a new grade unless you have not posted anything for the assignment.
– Since it is the end of the semester it is important to complete all rewrites and ask for any feedback now to receive the best grade possible.
-Looked at how a simple card trick is almost impossible to repeat again with the odds of over a trillion
-Were showed the rate my professor website and asked to give Professor Hodges a rating
-Spoke on the final portfolio and how everything needs a title and also how we can still get feedback on certain assignments
-Were given live feedback on a classmate which was pretty helpful as I had some similar questions about my essays
– We Explored the rarity of replicating a specific card shuffle and related it to the improbability of unique life occurrences.
– Emphasized Rate My Professor feedback and the opportunity for assignment revisions.
– Highlighted portfolio organization, stressing accurate citations, titles, and avoiding parenthetical author notations.
– Introduced the “Grade Please” category for assignment re-evaluation.
– Engaged in live feedback on a classmate’s essay for insights into citation and spacing improvements.