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Re: AI and even more exiciting stuff
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:27:11 GMT
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alex wetmore <ALEX@stopspamPHRED.ORG>
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From: "Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com>
> Right you are. I guess I wasn't clear headed when I wrote my original
> response. I wanted to say that engineering (or CS) students shuold learn
> about fixed point methods at some point in their academic careers. The
> earlier the better.
Things are probably turning for the worse in this regard. When I started at
my university (Carnegie Mellon) in 1991 in the CS dept you basically got a
CS degree by also getting a math degree (and the program was called
Math/CS). During my time there (probably around 94/95) they dropped most of
the math requirements and just require that students need to get a minor or
a 2nd major in non-CS topic (which could be Math, in which case you end up
with a similar degree to the one that I have).
Numeric Methods covered floating point error and fixed point math, and was
typically a first semester 3rd year course. I don't believe that this
course is required in the new curriculum, but I haven't looked at the
curriculum in years.
> I was bored stiff during these lectures, but some nuggets of knowledge
> remained with me, and I'm thankful I didn't give up on it because
> it seemed irrelevant.
Same here. I actually had a lot of trouble in some of my math classes
(mostly from not doing homework/not paying attention), but once I started to
care about them I found them interesting, challenging and useful.
alex
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| (...) Right you are. I guess I wasn't clear headed when I wrote my original response. I wanted to say that engineering (or CS) students shuold learn about fixed point methods at some point in their academic careers. The earlier the better. I was (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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