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by caddemon 4y ago
As mentioned by OP: > in chapter one of the earlier draft of the California framework it said, in a prominent place "we reject ideas of natural gifts and talents" The people that wrote said publicly available draft are still in
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by caddemon 4y ago
Yeah this is a huge part of it. It's one thing to say "we don't have the resources for high achievers", but it's a million times worse to force them through a shit curriculum because we don't want to acknowledg
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by caddemon 4y ago
I don't think he's talking about this debate, just that the Equitable Math extremists have some common ground with e.g. southern conservatives in how they view educational achievements.
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by caddemon 4y ago
Most colleges I'm aware of these days have a completely softball core math/science requirement. "Rocks for jocks" and that kind of thing. Whether it's a waste of time or not, I don't think it really impedes the
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by caddemon 4y ago
"not everybody is born with math skills" isn't the argument though. The argument is "not everybody has the same math skills". It's a multidimensional and continuous thing, but it's not exactly feasible to
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by caddemon 4y ago
Eh I don't think things working out in the long term necessarily invalidates the criticism, we have no idea how OP would have turned out if in a different situation. I'm sure most people that should have been in fast track math bu
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by caddemon 4y ago
It really depends on how you define "high-level". Yeah the attitude that some people "just can't do math" is not good, I don't disagree with you there. But that's not the same as acknowledging that some pe
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by caddemon 5y ago
I agree I don't understand why your post was so heavily downvoted. I actually upvoted it just because it seemed excessively downvoted. The impact of college degree on dating scene is interesting to me and it's a unique discussion
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by caddemon 5y ago
Calling into question a new Google Docs feature isn't some massively time consuming process. Suggesting that the time saved by ignoring the feature could lead to some real human improvement is about as stupid as suggesting that the tim
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by caddemon 5y ago
It depends what stage of the dating game OP is getting stuck at I'd think. Getting first or even second dates I could see an art degree making a difference for a plumber. Because it would give him something else to lead with conversati
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by caddemon 5y ago
It's a pretty visible part of the profile on any major dating app. It's true that one could fairly easily lie about it at first, but you'd have to be committed to the lie if you're trying to get into a long term relation
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by caddemon 5y ago
Do you really find many women without college degrees that reject you over not having a college degree? I'd guess the problem is more the sheer number of women that get degrees - look at almost any subpar liberal arts college and you&#
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by caddemon 5y ago
My favorite part about the "why are you so upset" argument is that it almost always gets used against both sides in the "culture wars". I doubt anybody commenting on HN is frothing at the mouth, but given that we treat s
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by caddemon 5y ago
I mean if someone is choosing to write the n-word I don't think a Google suggestion box is going to change their mind. The use cases I see here are either words with multiple meanings (particularly when the meanings differ between cult
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by caddemon 5y ago
But that isn't at all what Google is trying to do here. The first example in the Twitter thread is an "inclusiveness warning" about the word landlord. On the one hand, nobody is forced to use their suggested words just like n
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by caddemon 5y ago
I also don't get headaches from hangovers, the only symptom I really get is nausea. A handful of times bad enough that I actually puked while hungover, whereas I've never thrown up while drunk.
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by caddemon 5y ago
I think CS has pretty different dynamics than most fields for a few reasons. CS is really well positioned when it comes to both funding received and average funding required to do a project. Similarly, the time required for set up of CS wor
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by caddemon 5y ago
Exactly, it's not about being literally unconstrained, but a lot of biology PhD programs turn into "follow my advisor's weekly (sometimes even daily) instructions to the letter". This can be very demoralizing and it is c
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by caddemon 5y ago
Organizing workers does not necessarily require joining a huge national labor union that was obviously not meant for the type of problems grad students face. It's fucking weird to me that so many schools have joined United Auto Workers
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by caddemon 5y ago
A big reason they charge tuition and then credit it is because it leads to more grants. There's a bunch of bizarre accounting between schools/departments/labs behind all this, but at the core my school "charges" tui
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by caddemon 5y ago
Except withholding research work also means ceasing degree progress in practice. For some types of work it could mean setting degree progress back months - experiments can be very time sensitive in some fields, and thesis committee will oft
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by caddemon 5y ago
Except this is still true at US schools that have had a union for many years. The pay and benefits go up a little bit but the fundamental issues remain. I've never even heard of a grad union trying to bargain for true changes in fundin
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by caddemon 5y ago
Students voted for this union because of major issues with the entire academic training process, not to get a small salary bump. The presence of the union at other schools has not led to any real attempts to fix the systemic issues, yet it
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah this is related to the reason I'm not sure how much a traditional union can really help here - "school" and "work" become blurred beyond distinction for many grad students. Anyone with funding from an RAship is
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by caddemon 5y ago
It really depends on the situation IMO. "Sucking it up quietly" doesn't necessarily mean that the entire event will be unpleasant. Sometimes it is more like the activation energy necessary to stick to an exercise routine - if
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by caddemon 5y ago
Haha I figured you were just using a different definition for "extracurricular" but I hadn't really considered that these are relatively new options.
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by caddemon 5y ago
A room full of box checkers is also worse for education. I want to have classmates that are willing to question the teacher, classmates that will spend time thinking beyond a class instead of cramming every trivial detail for an A+, classma
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by caddemon 5y ago
Extracurriculars like research, robotics competitions, math camp, etc. are absolutely considered heavily by MIT. SATs and grades are way too saturated at the top end of the curve to make reasonable admissions decisions, and performing highl
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by caddemon 5y ago
I 100% agree about MDs, but believe me I've seen plenty of garbage basic bio research done by people who took a pure PhD track and ostensibly passed a statistics requirement. So I don't think it's the only issue, even though
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by caddemon 5y ago
It's possible to get closely involved with this kind of research with just a PhD, but there are all kinds of issues with that career path too.

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