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bxh

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    Comment #11799839

    I find the use of examinations and tests to assess the "quality" of the student non-ideal. It's very possible to perform very well on tests with minimal actual comprehension of the…

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    Comment #11190415

    Simulation videos of different boarding methods from a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDlKAojWte0JQRABHbJmYg I fly frequently, and most of the time, the airlines…

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    Comment #11123875

    I've seen many instances of people coming up with great ideas, then subsequently developing the technical skill necessary to implement them. On the other hand, being highly skilled…

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    Comment #11028442

    I just started getting into proper Android development, and found it extremely difficult to structure my code when using a whole bunch of interfaces to communicate between dynamica…

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    Comment #11018608

    This is a fantastic idea! After this manual process of recognizing and highlighting the object, you'd have a really great dataset to train machine learning algorithms on!

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    Comment #11017677

    This article perfectly describes how it is to watch many sports. I find it even more evident with highly technical sports like badminton, where top players like Lin Dan appear to c…

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    Comment #11013460

    The line about how the engineers view the tests as an optimization problem really resonates with me. When the results of tests administered in an artificial setting becomes the pri…

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    Comment #11013357

    I agree. Furthermore, I think pointers in C is a simple concept that becomes incredibly powerful, and also gives a lot of insight into how memory works and the different data struc…

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    Comment #11013286

    What language would you suggest is friendlier, and less rife with gotchas? I find the rules of C fairly reasonable, at least on the surface.