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by gchallen 4y ago
> Point is, most data dashboards are non actionable. Maybe you find out that one specific class or set of classes is responsible for a lot of people leaving the program. So you zero in on that part of the curriculum and improve it. Sound
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by gchallen 4y ago
> Of course there are lots of rationalizations for why every program needs to be unique and special, but does it really benefit the students? Of course not. What would benefit the students would be having a lot more standardization so th
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by gchallen 4y ago
Working in a top-tier computer science department, I find our ability to answer basic questions about the health of our degree program fairly troubling. I think non-academics may be surprised by how much we don't know, and how little u
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by gchallen 4y ago
I suspect headcount actually makes the situation look better than it actually is. A lot of administrators also get paid a pretty large amount—more than many faculty, sometimes a lot more. So administrative spend may be at ratios even higher
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Eliminate Final Exams(geoffreychallen.com)
1 points by gchallen 4y ago|0 comments
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How and Why We Run Untrusted Java Bytecode in a Secure In-Process Sandbox(geoffreychallen.com)
2 points by gchallen 4y ago|0 comments
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by gchallen 6y ago
Very cool idea! We actually built something very similar for the CS course I teach at Illinois. Example: https://cs125.cs.illinois.edu/lessons/asserting/#switch . We've built this on top of Ace, which allows u
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by gchallen 6y ago
I used RabbitMQ to distribute messages between components of a distributed grading service that I wrote in Kotlin and deployed on Kubernetes. My experiences were pretty mixed. Overall I found it to be more difficult than I would have wanted