thomblake comments on Shut Up And Guess - Less Wrong

79 Post author: Yvain 21 July 2009 04:04AM

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Comment author: thomblake 21 July 2009 05:09:34PM 3 points [-]

This matches my experience as well. They did explain the math, but they didn't dwell on it. Mostly, they just drilled it into the heads of the students that you MUST guess or horrible things will happen.

I left the course at that point because it seemed to me like cheating.