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@mrcornfield @NomDeFlume @CuddleCryptid I know this to be true, but if you got accepted to Harvard, either you had one hell of an experience, have some nepotism in, or have a perfect GPA and a perfect SAT score.

I didn't have a perfect GPA or perfect SAT score, so I didn't get in. Neither did any of my 1k classmates.

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@Krisbraddock @GadSaad @RichardDawkins They don't reproduce, but they do the other things.

Regardless, this seems like a tech problem, not an impossibility.

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@CuddleCryptid @NomDeFlume I'd say for STEM majors.

We can split the difference at saying that it's not necessary for Engineers or CS or probably math, but is necessary for chem.

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@NomDeFlume @CuddleCryptid The point is that classes aren't necessary at 90% of schools.

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@NomDeFlume @CuddleCryptid You're right. It was my safety school, but the tiers are "community college," "not community college," "basically an Ivy".

So unless someone is in MIT or Harvard or some such, the experience is going to be roughly the same.

Like I didn't get accepted to CMU, so what do I do?

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@CuddleCryptid @NomDeFlume That's fair I guess?

Any STEM major will now be this way with the advent of AI and Google.

All the engineers have a time with stuff like calc 3, diff eq, etc., but there are tons of resources online.

Maybe this is CS bias? I am used to using these resources and they aren't?

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@CuddleCryptid @NomDeFlume It's stem in the engineering college. We have to take the same calculus 3 classes as everyone else, and I aced those.

The average GPA of compsci students at PSU sits around a 3.2-3.5 I think.

What major would you be more impressed with?

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@CuddleCryptid @NomDeFlume Not going to lie, I had a 3.8 unweighted in HS, and am a senior in college and have a 3.8 and also never go to any class that lacks an attendance grade.

I am a computer science student at Penn State University.

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@David_Kicinski God is a lot of things, good seems pretty core.

So they attack that premise sometimes.

Sometimes they attack other premises instead.

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@Krisbraddock @GadSaad @RichardDawkins Why would we believe this? Life is pretty arbitrarily human defined.

Even under your religious view, life in the Bible and life as we define it aren't the same.

Also, we can totally make babies, even without women attached. How far do we need to go before we can "create life"?

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@Krisbraddock @GadSaad @RichardDawkins We have artificial protocells, which are almost cells. I don't really understand the distinction, but I'm not an expert.

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@stacycay @ExistentialEnso It depends on the player. In a suburban school, the best basketball players were generally not very academic, same as the football linemen.

This is just a general statement.

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@justalexoki Low-key, it's kind of a nonsense question, no?

What would convince you that dogs actually have an intuitive grasp of the English language, and they're expert poets if they can be taught how to properly hold a pen?

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@gabriel1 ...He had to implement the initial memory allocation, so it was critical that his piece worked, as well as some free features.

This was before AI was that good. I did his half in 1.5 hours with my girlfriend bothering me.

Not super impressive, but the most impressive thing.

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@gabriel1 In college, I had a project where we made C malloc, and it had to be fast and space efficient.

My girlfriend was hanging out when my partner told me that he tried working on his half of the work for 8 hours and that he couldn't do it, 2 hours before deadline...

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@GarrettPetersen Sometimes, reading creates a connection that speaking doesn't, or an aesthetic.

But I agree, it's now fully designer choice.

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Everyone says AI codes better than them. I doubt it.

AI doesn't code better than me, it codes faster than me. Which is good, quantity has a quality all its own, but I don't see why everyone is lying about the code quantity.

I have to give explicit optimization techniques.

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@Gaus450 What do you want exactly?

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@m966021 Many words are unsaid in our language, and this false dilemma takes advantage of that.

When a relativist says "X is wrong", they imply within some context. "X is wrong <to the end of Y>"

"Murder is wrong" is similar to "Murder is worse" in this case. Meaningless on its own.

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@azninthesun Fair enough is a thought terminating cliche like "Agree to disagree" which serves to say "I don't care about what you're saying, it's not going to convince me and I have also given up on convincing you."

Phrases such as this one are fairly critical.