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by hintymad 2y ago
Speaking great products, DynamoDB is pretty good too, to the point that there's no open-source equivalent to it yet. Cassandra probably comes the closest, but it does not have true GSIs, no cross-table transactions, no easy and robust
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Strict ranking is indeed terrible. A threshold makes sense, though. If a kid can't keep up with the demand of the gift program, the kid should seek a more suitable program.
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Yeah, I'm totally for this. I can see a push-back from some people, though: a talented kid may have access to more scarce resources, say a professor in a prestigious university, or a highly-selective camp like SAMS. For that those peop
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All those are about equality, namely equal access. I'm totally for that. What I'm not for is manufactured equity, namely equal outcome by force. You probably know a typical situation in many families: one kid is years ahead of mat
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> Equity isn't about holding back high-achieving students or bringing everyone to the same level. Instead, it's about ensuring everyone has access to the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential, whil
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> Engaging kids doesn't mean pushing them to academic heights Agreed. I guess the previous discussions were conditioned on the assumption that some kids want to perform well enough academically.
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I wish I could find it, but unfortunately it was likely ten years ago. The article left a lasting impression on me, though, so I repeated it once in a while in different context, at the risk of totally rewriting what actually happened.
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The solution is to make gift classes fluid. That is, the worst performing kids leave the program every year, while the best kids outside the program move in. Parents can only push so much, but they can't change talent distribution. Wha
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I'm not sure where the contradiction is. The key to me is "which places a high academic standard and holds teachers accountable", which I equate to "rigorous training". I guess the difference is on how we define &qu
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> I've studied at Community Colleges, State Schools, and Ivies/Ivy Adjacent programs, and the curriculum is largely comparable. I'm very happy with the education system of the US colleges too. I was specifically talking ab
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I meant programs like No Kids Left Behind, so we are careful to make sure the least talented won't feel singled out in school, or to make sure that their egos get as little bruised as possible. We also tailor the difficulties to them s
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I'm not. All I want is that students get trained rigorously. The last thing I want is as what NYT used to report: a straight-A student who dreamed to be a scientist couldn't even pass the placement test of a city college. That sho
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I don't care about G&T program per se, either. Nor did my country have it when I grew up. I do care about education. I guess my fundamental assumption is that when everyone maximizes their full potential, the outcome will naturally
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> Taking resources away from those who move society forward And those people do not even have to be geniuses or top students. Our society moves forward on the back of millions of ordinary people, yet those ordinary people, me included, w
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> Killing truly progressive programs for the purpose of virtue signaling is a loss for society I wonder if the progressives ever wondered why so many Chinese students or Indian students could excel in the STEM programs of those top unive
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Did anyone check the course material of the gifted programs? My honest assessment is that even students in a gifted class are not necessarily challenged. For instance, the math problems of 6th-grade gifted class on negative integers are som
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by hintymad 2y ago
Great article and thought provoking. > and unlike your colleagues in management, you won’t spend all day in meetings. The author will be surprised. In a bureaucratic company like Google, even an E6 can spend all their time having meeting
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The key factor is that the success of the establishment breeds bureaucracy, while the disruptive growth has stalled. Case in point, who would think that the once most innovative company, Google, could become the most bureaucratic organizati
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> lonely not to everyone. I love being alone and hate to deal with people or drama on public transit.
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Long commute is indeed a pain. My way of coping it is listening to audio books and podcast, and in the meantime cut as much screen time on my phone. Listening to good books improves commute immensely.
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Agreed. I think it is indeed moderation. It's just the moderation that shows how intolerant and how hysterical the left has become.
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> Pushback: Is math acceleration equitable? Many people seem refuse to accept that the innate talent can't be suppressed. In contrast, the biggest hurdle for kids to get ahead in math, or in STEMM in general, is their innate interes
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If one does want to get into FANNG-like companies or whatever those acronyms are, I'd suggest a few practical tips. - Use probability as your advantage. Or put it another way, perseverance works. Do recognize that interviewing is a hit
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No argument about it. I was just explaining from the perspective of the companies. Per another thread, the companies usually do not care about false negatives and they recognize that there will be false positives. In the meantime, they get
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I think the analogy by Steve Yegge still holds: if you claim you're a juggler, you should be able to juggle in front of people at any time. So, yeah, coding challenges is a good filter, at least. The problem is not coding challenge per
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As many countries demonstrated, wealth does not buy good genes. Talented kids stand out, as long as we have a decent public school system, which places a high academic standard and holds teachers accountable. That's how East-European c
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by hintymad 2y ago
> that this is always done in the name of "equity", I never understood the rationale behind these progressives. Don't they have kids? Don't they know even twins may perform differently in school? I have two kids. They
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As someone who tried all kinds of EdTech, I'd venture to say that the key to education quality is not in tech but in pedagogy and student engagement. The pedagogy depends on the quality of teachers, or specifically the quality of lectu
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I despise Trump for that too
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I like that now it is states that decide the abortion rules. I think that's as democratic as it gets. Besides, even Ginsburg was against the Roe vs Wade ruling. She said using privacy as the reason makes the ruling vulnerable, and she

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