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by nmrm2 12y ago
Some advice (again, assuming you go this route; not saying you must/should): 1. Try to find a not-too-expensive, non-flagship state school ($5-9k / semester for a full course load is a good ballpark. You can bring that down a lot
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by nmrm2 12y ago
Not that I disagree with your proposal at all, but you're probably significantly under-estimating the cost. The cameras need to be "designed for LEO!", so double their price. You also need very expensive retention technology
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by nmrm2 12y ago
I don't see any pressing need to freshman to write their very first non-euclidean proofs in the same style as professional mathematicians. Obviously, it's a matter of style. I still maintain few mathematicians would write canonica
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by nmrm2 12y ago
There are about a million exucses (er, reasons). Some of them are legit: older professors often have better handwriting at blackboard; chalk is sometimes better for certain drawings; left-hand smear; etc. I suspect the biggest reason is tha
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by nmrm2 12y ago
OT, but I learned Linear Algebra out of your textbook (if that's who you are). The "Topics" section on voting paradoxes was my favorite bit. Thanks for giving it away!
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by nmrm2 12y ago
This isn't true, bounding functions are really useful for many proofs. But see nilkn's response.
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by nmrm2 12y ago
It's not that the raw labor doesn't exist, it's that this labor -- esp in STEM -- has other job opportunities and doesn't need to teach. Given the choice, most would leave academia rather than live on scraps once they
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by nmrm2 12y ago
The networking thing is absolutely true. Networking and "buddy hires" are way more common in CS than in (secondary) Education IME. edit: in fact, in education, network-hires are basically impossible even if your buddy is all the
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by nmrm2 12y ago
I was primarily referring to network. But: 1. private schools often don't require certificates. 2. At least the testing requirement for obtaining a certificate IS meritocratic and isn't prohibitively expensive. We could standard
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by nmrm2 12y ago
Folding with the wrong initial value. Recursive functions where the base case is improperly defined. Stuff like that I consider 'functional off-by-one' because the student understand the general shape of the correct solution but g
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> no library, no dining hall, no gym—and students will use city parks and recreation centers, as well as other local cultural resources, for their extracurricular activities. I commented on another article that this is an interesting sol
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by nmrm2 12y ago
One of the problems with existing for-profits is that because of the lack of tenure and unwillingness to match industry salaries, they have trouble recruiting and retaining high-quality faculty. Especially in STEM, where non-research teachi
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by nmrm2 12y ago
It sounds like the college is residential but courses are online. Is that accurate? Is this something temporary for their first couple of cohorts, or is this the intended setup? Interesting in any case. It's also worth noting that this
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> someone with a CS education needs to rely much less on their credential/alumni network than someone with, say, a liberal arts degree To the extent this is true, I think it's only as a result of an employee's market in
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by nmrm2 12y ago
After reading the wikipedia article, I'm not convinced that her scholarly life had nothing to do with her murder. In fact, it seems to have played a pretty crucial role. e.g. we can ask "why Hypatia?" given that there were pl
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> but if someone thinks that writing incomprehensible but correct proofs is as fine as it gets — it's huge mistake to think so. In the brute force case, it's simply a conceit of mathematicians that algorithms implemented in a p
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by nmrm2 12y ago
The details of proposals vary. Generally the idea is a "compromise" whereby funding increases in exchange for regulation. I suspect in reality, given the current political climate, it will be "regulation, or we'll blindl
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> I think the last thing any part of the higher education industry -- for-profit or not -- needs is more subsidies. edit: some revision. There are two forms of subsidy: direct funding for state systems, and loans. With respect to subsidi
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by nmrm2 12y ago
There's a middle road: slash administrative costs substantially and roll back cuts to state funding for local and regional public universities.
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by nmrm2 12y ago
And in true reactionary fashion, you'll find that everyone shows up for the revolution, but no one agrees what should come next. Coming up with a workable solution is a lot more difficult than throwing out the old, both objectively and
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by nmrm2 12y ago
This is a fantastic way to teach courses, and is in some sense the canonical seminar. The model works very well for upper-level courses, but not so well at the first 2 or 3 years, which is where most drop out of college. edit: the short pre
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by nmrm2 12y ago
wrt ASM, I think tomp meant something like what Robert Harper is getting at in his post on the linked article. edit: got grandparent's username wrong.
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by nmrm2 12y ago
Thanks for sharing, that's very well written! I'm not surprised, either. Siek's papers are always as accessible as they are insightful.
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by nmrm2 12y ago
Yes. A convenient way to do the former is to add another judgement err, so that you can prove theorems about things which go err, and know that there's nothing which isn't safe and also isn't subject to your theorems about go