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Wow, this is extremely sexist and not at all evidence-based. Wouldn't it be nice if you could prove any nonsense proposition p simply by insisting that p "isn't PC" and therefore a…

Ah, but it's only a thoughtcrime if you don't say it, and people call you an idiot for just thinking that.

> Before we move to CS for all, can we at least solve the problem of Computer Literacy for all!? I see no reason that they can't be tackled concurrently!

I remember reading a review/summary/explanation of Primer that was written up--by necessity--in LaTeX.

Usually the grading scale is the same as is used in the iteration of the college class that the MOOC is based off of.

I'm a current HS senior who took a Theory of Computation class the year prior, and I got a few chapters into QCSD before realizing that I needed to learn some more about complexity…

Silicon Valley , on the other hand, is great.

I am a mildly dyslexic. I have excellent reading comprehension, but I read about a standard deviation slower than the average reader. Thus, I don't think I've ever read a book "onl…

Those dominate much of the thinking of a player in the 1200-1800 range, but become second nature after that point.

The first-move-advantage becomes increasingly relevant the higher the level of play, of course.

Yeah, but who shares URLs with their friends by speech these days? In fact, who really speaks?

I am also an expert player, and agree with most of what was said, but I do think I should point out that this player's style is not the only strategy ("My strategy is usually to th…

I play chess "seriously" (expert level) and am about a gold/platinum league Starcraft II player, and the games do show a surprising amount of similarity. Both show the most varianc…

This type of training game is more often used to practice a certain structure that arises from a specific opening, and thus is a type of practice used more towards the higher level…

My favorite thing about the MITx MOOCs are that they have really well-designed, carefully-devised problem sets, which I think might be the most important factor of a great class.

That is still an issue, but it is better than purposefully weighting admissions toward applicants who can afford full tuition.

That's true. I actually read a study recently that talked about how every non-Ivy League university admits exactly one high-achieving person: YOU!

It is interesting that people are talking about the Ivies, not "elite colleges" in general. The article defines a high achiever as "anyone who gets a 29 or better on the ACT or a c…

Most colleges are moving towards need-blind admissions too, debunking the common complaint that they don't admit low-income students because they'd rather admit students who can pa…

Okay, but you could use that logic to claim (possibly validly, though I don't think so) that nobody should care about the Ivies because they only make up a fraction of schools (.08…

It disappoints me that so many commentators on the NPR site infer from the title--"Why Many Smart, Low-Income Students Don't Apply To Elite Schools"--that the article is essentiall…

If you don't actually believe the poster has that problem, why respond the way that you did? Doesn't that make your comment at least as terrible?

Just a heads up: The HN community tends to dislike jokes, especially jokes meant to do nothing more than make another laugh. In fact, I have found the HN community weighted towards…

I am a high school senior taking two college math courses, but to discourage this practice (which costs the school money) the school counts my grade as a 4.0 max in my GPA (AP clas…

That summarizes the author's conclusion, not what he is trying to say.