Comments on: Let's find out why most educational institutions yield graduates that make dumb (or otherwise unknowledgeable) people

By: Simplicity and ease « The Tar Pit

Simplicity and ease « The Tar Pit — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 20:33:00 +0000

[...] in other olds, the field of education has been getting progressively worse in the last two decades or so, much to no one's surprise. Just so you know, in Romania [...]

By: spyked

spyked — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:53:39 +0000

To sum this up: the utilitarian viewpoint could only yield so much until it yielded nothing.

By: The Geostationary Truth Machine « The Tar Pit

The Geostationary Truth Machine « The Tar Pit — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 21:21:04 +0000

[...] to understand closed-loop feedback systems, you need to understand the basics of systems, i.e. control theory. Did I not say this before? learn your control systems, already, [...]

By: On wills, won'ts and lack thereof « The Tar Pit

On wills, won'ts and lack thereof « The Tar Pit — Wed, 25 May 2022 21:59:49 +0000

[...] Democracy works great whenever you tell people precisely what they want to hear, and as folks get dumber under the inevitable pressures of "the market" (of ideas, or whatever), by the end of it all you [...]

By: Jurnalul lui Shotae « The Tar Pit

Jurnalul lui Shotae « The Tar Pit — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:49:36 +0000

[...] rather describes lab techies than assistants. This is, by the way, the result of just a decade of grade inflation: let the orcs pass the baccalaureate (Romanian SAT) and they'll join the university benches without [...]