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[colombian85]

"What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've

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[ehrenyu]

I don't think we could ever figure out if a computer is humanly intelligent or not because we in the educational field don't even have accurate and precise indicators because of the present bias of the teacher and the split between norm-referenced and criterion-referenced. Norm-referenced testing is how average a student is compared to other students who took the test, and to me this isn't a very good indicator of how intelligent a student is, but it DOES tell you how smart the batch of kids are overall compared to previous batches. Whereas criterion-referenced is how much you actually got correct with no relation to any other student who took it.

I don't quite understand why one is important over the other, but eh.

Also, forgot what point I was trying to make in all my rambling...