Plasmon comments on Grad Student Advice Repository - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Stabilizer 14 April 2013 09:28AM

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Comment author: Plasmon 14 April 2013 02:24:19PM *  -2 points [-]

This is good advice. Strive for real understanding rather than rote memorisation.

(is this too obvious to be worth mentioning? Probably. Unfortunately I have seen several doctoral students fail and in hindsight it appears to me that this was part of the cause of that failure.)

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 14 April 2013 10:05:28PM 1 point [-]

I saw it too. It wasn't pretty.