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Fun fact: CZ is an alumnus of McGill University! Before he became a cryptocurrency tycoon, he was working on an EdTech platform called Classroom 2000. [1, 2] Ma
by bmc7505 4y ago
Fun fact: CZ is an alumnus of McGill University! Before he became a cryptocurrency tycoon, he was working on an EdTech platform called Classroom 2000. [1, 2] Maybe if he had devoted as much energy to replacing PowerPoint as fiat, we would have better presentation technology today.
[1]: https://www.mcgill.ca/engineering/files/engineering/cv.pdf#page=61 https://www.mcgill.ca/engineering/files/engineering/cv.pdf#p...
[2]: https://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/c2000/overview/ https://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/c2000/overview/
- lvl102 4y agoIs McGill considered a good school? Never heard of it before.
- gloryjulio 4y agoYes, it's a pretty good uni in Quebec
- HDThoreaun 4y agoMaybe the best school in Canada, certainly top 5.
- misiti3780 4y agowaterloo is better.
- speed_spread 4y agoFor CS, absolutely. The McGill brand spanks Waterloo's for most other domains. Note I said "brand". What you do with your diploma has little to do with the university you graduated from.
- misiti3780 4y agoagreed.
- phoenixreader 4y agoYoshua Bengio studied there, and I think Doina Precup teaches there as well. They are ranked 31st in the world in QS (rankings are not that useful, but they can be a metric to whether people "consider" it a good school). Extremely well-known research-wise, at least in Canada and north-east.
- astura 4y agoI would say it's certainly the most well known university in Canada.
- wh0thenn0w 4y agoYou linked to the wrong CV
- phoenixreader 4y agoIt's the CV of Jeremy Cooperstock, a Professor at McGill. It lists Changpeng Zhao as one of his former students.
- wh0thenn0w 4y agoAh, thanks!
- Aperocky 4y agoSlides is a digitized version of the old practices. Better presentation technology will not be found here, as much as I detest Powerpoint, I'm willing to admit that it is the pinnacle of slide presentation. To reach a better presentation and flowing of information across the society, the answer is to ditch slides altogether. Which I am not envisioning how as I'm not a product manager or a salesman but for myself I'm doing perfectly fine with markdown and other text based means of communicating information.
- bmc7505 4y agoIn classroom settings, slides are a poor local optimum. Personally I feel that professors rely on slides too heavily and would strongly them to use chalk. Writing in real-time forces you to teach at the pace of human thought. This also allows students to take notes and actually absorb the material - otherwise, there is a tendency to pack too much into slides and you end up loosing half your audience. Although sometimes helpful for giving visual intuitions, more often than not, slides just get in the way. When there really is no alternative to slides (e.g., for workshops and conference presentations), I find LaTeX/Beamer much easier to handle. It has good defaults and does not require fiddling with transitions and formatting and superficial but ultimately pointless settings.