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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: b_force on August 17, 2020, 03:47:16 pm ---I really never bother about facts, nowadays there is Google as well as YouTube.
Rather safe time, energy and effort (= hard-disk space in the brain) in understanding things.
For an engineering/scientist tackling new unknown problems is far more important.

--- End quote ---

Feynman used to have a hack at medical students, who had to remember the names of all the bones etc. He wondered why they didn't just consult "a map of the body" when they needed to.

Apart from that, many "simple facts" are very transient in nature, e.g. which button to press in FroobleApp v3.5 to cause the splodger to be faddled. You know, the kind of stuff that fills stackechange and similarly boring sites.

b_force:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on August 17, 2020, 04:37:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: b_force on August 17, 2020, 03:47:16 pm ---I really never bother about facts, nowadays there is Google as well as YouTube.
Rather safe time, energy and effort (= hard-disk space in the brain) in understanding things.
For an engineering/scientist tackling new unknown problems is far more important.

--- End quote ---

Feynman used to have a hack at medical students, who had to remember the names of all the bones etc. He wondered why they didn't just consult "a map of the body" when they needed to.

Apart from that, many "simple facts" are very transient in nature, e.g. which button to press in FroobleApp v3.5 to cause the splodger to be faddled. You know, the kind of stuff that fills stackechange and similarly boring sites.

--- End quote ---
hahaha, yes very typical.

Mostly also with math for example, something like differential equations or similar.
After doing 10 of them you get the point and what it's for and what it can (and can't) do, so why doing another 2000?  :palm: :=\
Especially the weird ones that don't have ANY practical value, except for staying busy and being bothered about it.

Second, raise an hand who does this by hand on a daily basis?  (sound of crickets)

You just fill those things into your math calculator of choice and let it ramble while you do actual serious work or get some coffee.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: b_force on August 17, 2020, 04:48:43 pm ---You just fill those things into your math calculator of choice and let it ramble while you do actual serious work or get some coffee.

--- End quote ---

I do like to see candidates that know the correct answer to "what is 1+2*3?" I don't mind if they prompt me to say "using the normal laws of arithmetic". If they don't know "BEDMAS" or equivalent, then they need some other truly outstanding characteristics :)

ucanel:
I am an EE.
First year of the collage at the C lessons
i think that the first thing that i will fail at my education life will be the programming,
indeed that happened, i failed,
at the summer school exams i memorised 10 pages of programs that likely to be asked,
i passed the exams knowing nothing about programming.

Now i am an embedded programmer,
i love programming, i love problem solving.

b_force:

--- Quote from: ucanel on August 17, 2020, 07:39:31 pm ---
at school exams i memorised 10 pages of programs that likely to be asked,
i passed the exams knowing nothing about programming.


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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a perfect way to get ACTUALLY a degree without knowing anything.

No offence towards you obviously, happy you found something you like  :-+

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