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how does an 18-year-old who cant even make popcorn even get into college???
Or get hired by Google or Facebook. https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1237577750480740353?s=2...
that thread is the bestof of this forum
MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester
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> In what way are dorms worse than personal homes for diseases anyway? There is literature on respiratory infections in dormitories: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-019-0196-4 It’s unfortunately paywalled, but the original authors claim they’re working on getting it more openly available
https://sci-hub.se/downloads/2019-12-06/f645/10.1038@s41370-... > “ Our study was conducted at one U.S. university, which may limit generalizability.“
The topic under question is the respiratory hygiene of dormitories as compared to living in a house or other living condition. The N that is under consideration is the number of dorms, and the people who live in those dorms.
There are pros to having the study done on a single university if there is a large enough sample of students and dorms. Since they all were in the same university, it makes it easy to isolate for the dorm variables in a way that wouldn't be as easily accomplished with multiple universities.
[Same university, different dorms] isolates for dorms, keeping the university constant.
[different universities, different dorms] does not inherently isolate for just dorms, since there may be compounding factors present due to known or unknown variables present in different magnitudes in different universities.
Some universities have many dormitories. My alma mater had 18 different dorms and an 30,000-40,000 undergraduate student enrollment. It was like a mini city, complete with its own area code, police department, and post office. If you lived in a dorm, you could go a whole semester without stepping foot off campus if you wanted to. The vast majority of undergraduates lived in dorms during their underclassman years. You can get good data from 18 different dorms and tens of thousands of students. And arguably you can get good data with an even smaller number of dorms and students.
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What does the rootkit even achieve? People can easily have a second laptop available.
I took a quick glance at their website and it says: "No non-religious head coverings" Which makes me think that they record a video of you while you're taking it, which is kind of eerie. That being said, it won't stop anyone who has a USB webcam you can just unplug, unless the software requires you to have a webcam plugged in and pointed in the right direction.
No need to unplug when a piece of tape or folded paper will do it. I'd be more worried about the microphone.
Unless maybe the requirement is to catch you looking elsewhere?
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> Most of the value of an elite education is signaling Not in my case (Caltech). It was clear when I got an industry job that a BS from Caltech was at about the same level as an MS from other institutions. But if the institution is large enough, one can get an elite education by careful selection of the classes and professors, and doing the maximum in those classes rather than just getting by. For example, take honor…
> If you don't find yourself studying 6 hours a day, you're not getting an elite education. This is absolute nonsense and a garbage mentality, akin to gate keeping.
In my experience 4 years at Caltech, the ones who didn't flunked out.
Of course, there were a couple unicorns (like Hal Finney) who didn't study and aced the tests, but they are as far beyond you and I as we are from a first grader. Me, I tried studying less, and it simply did not work.
I also have a friend who flunked out of Caltech. About 10 years later he asked if he could try again, and they said sure. He got straight As this time. I asked him if he was any smarter - he laughed, and said no, just that the second time he was ready to work.
I'd guess that if you attended an elite institution and got a degree without studying 6 hours a day, you're either a unicorn or a victim of the institution's marketing department.
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Grading on a curve is nice, but it defeats the purpose of having a standard.
There’s no such thing as an objective standard. Professors change, course materials change, and as with here, circumstances can be different. That’s why we use a curve.
Caltech institute policy was no grading on a curve. The standard was to be decided on in advance. If half the students failed an exam (which happened) so be it. If half aced it, so be it as well.
Stack ranking in employee evaluations is unfair, and is the same thing as curve grading.
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#576Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does the rootkit even achieve? People can easily have a second laptop available.
I took a quick glance at their website and it says: "No non-religious head coverings" Which makes me think that they record a video of you while you're taking it, which is kind of eerie. That being said, it won't stop anyone who has a USB webcam you can just unplug, unless the software requires you to have a webcam plugged in and pointed in the right direction.
For higher value tests:
- Someone will watch you
- The entire session is recorded
- You hold up multiple forms of ID and rotate it / tilt it
- It's effectively a keylogger + mouse tracker + eye tracker + ..., basically malware
- Triggering any security features like looking "to the side or down" will result in human intervention asking you to do a 360 degree view of your room
- You are not permitted to cover or pause the video stream and you may be randomly asked to do things like blink or hold up fingers
- Yes, they can remote control your device
Re: MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester
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There’s no such thing as an objective standard. Professors change, course materials change, and as with here, circumstances can be different. That’s why we use a curve.
Caltech institute policy was no grading on a curve. The standard was to be decided on in advance. If half the students failed an exam (which happened) so be it. If half aced it, so be it as well. Stack ranking in employee evaluations is unfair, and is the same thing as curve grading.
Stack rankings and curves aren’t anywhere close to the same.
Grading on a curve allows everyone to get a perfect score. Stack ranking means that if everyone is perfect only one person can get a perfect score.
They are in fact opposites.
Also, if half the class fails, that is a teaching failure, not a student failure. The teacher failed to teach the material and/or failed to write a good test.
At Berkeley, if 1/2 the class failed, the professor usually wasn’t allowed to teach that class anymore.
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#578Earlier quoted context omitted.
Caltech institute policy was no grading on a curve. The standard was to be decided on in advance. If half the students failed an exam (which happened) so be it. If half aced it, so be it as well. Stack ranking in employee evaluations is unfair, and is the same thing as curve grading.
Stack rankings and curves aren’t anywhere close to the same. Grading on a curve allows everyone to get a perfect score. Stack ranking means that if everyone is perfect only one person can get a perfect score. They are in fact opposites. Also, if half the class fails, that is a teaching failure, not a student failure. The teacher failed to teach the material and/or failed to write a good test. At Berkeley, if 1/2 the…
> Stack rankings and curves aren’t anywhere close to the same.
Sure they are. The best get a raise/A, the worst get fired/F.
> that is a teaching failure, not a student failure
Let's put it another way. Do you want the pilot flying you across the Atlantic 747 to be graded on a curve where he happened to be better than some of the other students, or graded against "met the standard / did not meet the standard"?
Me, I want "met the standard" every time for someone I trust with my life. The teacher failing to teach is not a reason to pass a pilot who didn't meet the standard.
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Yikes, I wonder what you think of people like me that couldnt get an elite education.
I don't care if someone has an elite education or not. It's about whether they can do the job or not.
After what you just said, color me skeptical. I went to a state school and got an average-ish CS degree with average-ish internships and research, how far behind am I?
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I don't care if someone has an elite education or not. It's about whether they can do the job or not.
After what you just said, color me skeptical. I went to a state school and got an average-ish CS degree with average-ish internships and research, how far behind am I?
You're already far behind due to your insecurities or Will an internet forum really guide your life ?
An MIT grad will always have more gates open than an NCSU grad. You need to do other things in your career to lessen the gap. There is no moving past this point no matter who you ask. And no the amount of hard work you do doesn't matter. Everyone of the "elite" school students work hard.