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Comment Re: Russian problem solving (Score -1, Flamebait) 47

Meanwhile, there is no corruption in Ukraine, and certainly not in the office of the president, the Ukrainian military conscription office is not treating Ukrainian citizens as cattle, and Zelensky isn't making fake statements about "future" victories and an imminent collapse of Russia. What happened with the Flamingo cruise missile? Ukrainian president announced that they're building seven a day a YEAR ago.

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Comment Re: In-class tests (Score 1) 151

that you are taking your own personal experience with what is apparently a poorly-run math major,

That was not a poorly run math major. That's pretty much the standard STEM major experience at the top research universities. That's based on my experience from attending two such universities, talking to faculty, and other students. Hell, even going to graduate school myself. The education is basically driven by homeworks, and students' work with each other. You end up learning at least as much from your peers as you learn from the faculty, and most of the learning done outside of the lectures on your own with your peers. Clearly you didn't do a stem major at a top level university.

Comment Re: In-class tests (Score 2) 151

Obviously you were not a math major. If you're studying upper division math courses or other stem fields at a major research university, the pace of courses is such that it is expected that a student should spend something like 15 hours per week on one such course outside of class time (So taking more than two such courses during one semester is basically a suicide for most students). If you fall behind the lecture material by more than a week, chances are good that you're going to fail. Because of the pace of the course, there are weekly homeworks, the homeworks are often worth 50% of the final grade to encourage students to keep up with pace. By the way, group work is almost always encouraged because many problems are freaking hard to solve alone. I am not talking about first or third semester calculus courses with BS homeworks that have the numerical answers posted on the back of the book, but formal prof-oriented courses like Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra, etc.

If homeworks are nit going to be graded any more, the way I see it, more students are going to fail advanced STEM courses unless the they're going to get seriously dumbed down.

Comment Re: uh no (Score -1, Troll) 173

This is war is not about the borders. There is no denying that Putin is in the wrong here by starting a war of aggression. There is no excuse. However, Ukraine and the west have done everything they could to provoce a Russian invasion. It's like, if you live next to a crocodile and for years you keep poking it with sticks and throwing rocks, one day this croc will attack you.

Comment Re: What's old is new again (Score 3, Informative) 46

Well, remember how every Unix app, server, and utility in the 80s and 90s was written in C? Because there was only one refrigerator-sized departmental server with a only few megabytes of memory and two dozen users connected through serial lines, and writing in C was the only way to squeeze out every bit of performance out of it. There was a disk usage quota system allowing each user only a few megabytes of storage. The developer mentality today is that the resources are infinite and they can write code in the least efficient programming languages, and download frameworks the size of a Walmart when they need only a pocket knife.

Comment A very low priority goal (Score 0) 64

Saving publishers? You gotta be kidding. The priority should be helping Ukrainian citizens survive at all. Books can be printed later. This country already lost roughly half of its population to emigration because of war. Those who remain in Ukraine are preparing to survive another winter without central heating or electricity.

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