<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> > From: sk@cs.brown.edu > Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:45:17 -0400 > Subject: Re: [racket] Math Guidance > To: wookiz@hotmail.com > CC: users@racket-lang.org > > > Come now Shiram, there are lots of people who don't want to go to CS grad > > school, didn't go to a name school and/or maybe don't have the stellar   GPA > > that the likes of Google tend to look for. > > Your mistake is in assuming that the "likes of Google" look for > "stellar GPA"s. My experience suggests otherwise. > > > It doesn't make them poorly trained. > > You created a false equality and then knocked it down. I sure hope > you don't reason about programs the same way. (-: > > > The point is that   CS grads are doing worse than comparable > > graduates of other disciplines. > > Based on data with lots of questionable assumptions. If it turns out > the assumptions are wrong, maybe they're actually doing quite well. > Are you perhaps suffering from selection bias? > > And this still doesn't justify your remarks about courses. > > Okay, troll confirmed. I really will stop now. > Mate. I realize that for a CS professor agreeing with this stuff is kind of like a turkey voting for Christmas but seriously you should chill. If you are going to throw out a presumption as loose as that these CS grads are "poorly trained" then you should cut others some slack on the assumptions they make. Since this seems to be getting a bit personal I will address some other issues you are raising off line. </body> </html>