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>watching engineering lecture on zoom
>people asking questions
>"How does the pi*f*T*n become pi*n?"
>"Could you explain why f is 1/T?"
Why are students such brainlets nowadays?

>> No.12184972

>>12184969
we were all learning such basic things once desu

>> No.12184973

>>12184972
I'm in 3rd year

>> No.12184995

>>12184973
my apologies, I didn't read the OP correctly, having re-read it it is clear the reason that such people exist in your class is because you are an engineer

>> No.12186195

>>12184969
country? uni?

>> No.12186258

they don't do the homework

>> No.12186271

>>12186258
https://youtu.be/ih9hH0Z5hGU?t=18

>> No.12186272

>>12184969
Eh, I'd rather lecture time be punctuated by questions. If you know it, it's a good reminder. If you don't, then it's a good reminder. It's always better to ask questions (in good faith, and those that are for clarification) than it is not to. Of course there's nuance here (you don't want people asking questions about how to multiply two matrices or w/e) but if a detail is fuzzy, you might as well take the plunder and ask.

Maybe this is just because I'm in math, where you have to learn to really swallow your pride and ask the damn question or suffer in ignorance and confusion.

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>>12184969
>sign up for machine learning course
>prereqs are lin alg + multivariable calc + basic Python experience
>most people have never even used a code editor before
>one guy literally doesn't know what the chain rule is
>professor spends most of the first lecture asking everyone to show pictures of their cat
>only gets to one simple example showing how to use Baye's rule to calculate conditional probability
>still takes like 30 minutes because half the class kept interrupting to ask about simple substitutions, get confused by variables, and ask whether fucking set theory applies
>mfw

>> No.12186697

>>12186306
Thank god I can choose an ML course given by the maths department at my uni instead of having to choose the one given by the CS one.

>> No.12186864

Physicist doing engineering PhD and lecturing here. In my department, the math classes for engineering students extraordinarily suck. They're neither interesting nor relevant for the most part.
Engineers aren't as stupid as /sci/ wants to make you believe, on the contrary. There are many people at least on par with physicists, they just lack proper guiding. The reason is that engineering departments care not at all about teaching, they're too busy getting easy grant money by lying about what they can do.

>> No.12186871

>>12186697
Not sure if relevant, but the math ML course I had was worth at least three CS ML courses plus two online courses.

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>>12186306
>>professor spends most of the first lecture asking everyone to show pictures of their cat