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And yet CS grad programs seem to care about only the math section of the GRE

• ivape 1y ago
  Societally we made that association, so it's not the programs fault, they simply live the same world we live in. Kurt Vonnegut: See, I came up through a chemistry department. Charlie Rose: Yeah, right. Kurt Vonnegut: And so I wrote and there was nobody there to tell me whether it was any good or not. I was just making my soul grow, writing stories. There's some stuff about his opinion on training for writing that could be relevant: https://charlierose.com/videos/25437 https://charlierose.com/videos/25437 I don't think it's fair to attribute anything to anything. Stuff comes from all over the place. In other words, attributing programming prowess to math was a mistake, and we are making the same mistake again attributing it to language. --- Just one more: Kurt Vonnegut: --consider himself in competition with a world's champion. And this is one reason good writers are unlikely to come from an English Department. It's because the English Department teaches you good taste too early. I think his main point is when we put something on a pedestal, we actually limit people, whether that be math or language.
  • latexr 1y ago
    Video isn’t loading for me. But from the still frame of the preview, it seems to be this one on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyr83rib3Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyr83rib3Q
  • odyssey7 1y ago
    Maybe they didn’t invent the problem, but the admissions priorities are theirs to repair