Spike

joined 1 year ago
[–] Spike@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

If we were playing "Who wants to be a millionaire?" Id choose this answer.

[–] Spike@feddit.de 8 points 6 months ago

It is how he does it, not that he does it.

[–] Spike@feddit.de 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Best I can do is 3.99

[–] Spike@feddit.de 97 points 11 months ago (13 children)

How very cyberpunk, except for the fact that permission was given.

[–] Spike@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

True, true. I dont know about you guys, but I am not having a lot of fun buying and building computers lately. Shit like this headline doesnt help.

[–] Spike@feddit.de 15 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I was thinking about buying a Macbook Air and run Linux on it, just for the battery life. But then I read this shit and yea...

[–] Spike@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something something dogfooding

[–] Spike@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Next, deleting your account gets axed. Feature makes no sense.

[–] Spike@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have found it relatively early after it was created, using it for getting a quick overview over papers when writing my own. It is sooo good for that.

[–] Spike@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Used only papers in german so far, sadly.

Here is something I found interesting in english:

Testing the test: Are exams measuring understanding? Brian K. Sato, Cynthia F. C. Hill, S. Lo Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

in general: elicit.org

really good site.

[–] Spike@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

In my experience, the best means of preparing for exams, as is universally advised, is to take previous or practice exams … which I think tells you pretty clearly what kind of task an exam actually is … a practiced routine in something that narrowly ranges between regurgitation and pretty short-form, practiced and shallow problem solving.

You are getting some flak, but imho you are right. The only thing an exam really tests is how well you do in exams. Of course, educators dont want to hear that. But if you take a deep dive into (scientific) literature on the topic, the question "What are we actually measuring here?" is raised rightfully so.

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