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I graduated from a top Russian university 13 years ago. I absolutely cheated on a few exams I considered non-essential for whatever I imagined my future would b
by lostmsu 1y ago
I graduated from a top Russian university 13 years ago. I absolutely cheated on a few exams I considered non-essential for whatever I imagined my future would be, including some that are directly part of CS/AM major like stats, after minimal studying effort (for humanitarian requirements, I would not even flinch with 0 effort beyond typing an assignment into the chatbox). Thinking about it, I would do it again with ChatGPT today if for some reason I had to go and pass them again because employment requires a formal diploma.
This is because I know my responsibilities would not involve stats, they know it, I don't enjoy stats, and I feel confident in my ability to learn if the need arises with the rest of the math as the basis, but the university requires stats for a diploma.
To solve the problem, universities just need to streamline the requirements in their programs. Or find another way to accommodate for slightly more focused people.
- relaxing 1y agoFucking hell, once you get beyond basic trig, prob & stats is like the most useful math there is. (Unless you work in a physics or engineering field that makes regular use of calc.)
- lostmsu 1y agoMaybe basic stats, but we are not talking basics here. In the course knowing the proof of the law of large numbers for Markov chains was mandatory for example. I am in systems programming and LLM research (as in worked on improving attention mechanism). And even in the latter the stats are only relevant because attention softmax looks like a probability distribution, and, surprise, attention works just fine without it, so even that relevance is questionable.