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seems like a pretty obvious thing to add
IMO, this idea is very poorly thought out.
You’re in high school. No course is hard.
>> Free and competitive markets are more efficient than command economies. Arguably, this same principle holds true on an individual level.
This is a silly statement. Free and competitive markets are not always more efficient than command economies, and they certainly aren’t as you move away from a market to a market unit. So, no, your erroneous principle does not arguably hold true on an individual basis. There is a reason that corporations are structured more like a command economy than a free market.
Not only do my peers and I find many of these courses challenging, but AP classes are widely recognized as college-level coursework taken in high school. I will have completed 17 of them by the time I graduate.
That said, my argument doesn't depend at all on whether these classes meet your standards for being "hard." Even if you believe you'd ace them with flying colors, they're still time-consuming and rigorous for most high school students. Focusing on semantics about the word "hard" instead of the point I'm making suggests there's little substance to your rebuttal.
Finally, if no course is hard, as you claim, why is note-taking even necessary?
One's goal when studying is to optimize learning as a function of time. When note-taking is forced, this goal becomes impossible for me. I spend time taking notes when I could be spending time on more impactful study techniques (videos, practice sets, etc). To be clear, I think the notion that "notes are useless" only applies to specific groups of people. The bottom line is that everyone learns differently, and forcing a certain approach is an awful idea.
> How have you been disallowed from discovering what works best for you?
I would not say that I have been directly "disallowed," but undeniably, there are bandwidth constraints for students. If I'm taking multiple hard courses, I only have so much time to spend. If I am spending my time note-taking, which my teacher requires to turn in to him/her, then I have less time to do other, more productive things with my time. I think naturally, freedom spurs efficiency. Free and competitive markets are more efficient than command economies. Arguably, this same principle holds true on an individual level.
Khan Academy has been such a lifesaver. They not only have in-depth videos, but also have practice sets after every lesson.
AP Classroom (a platform made by College Board) is also amazing. They have videos and progress checks.
I am currently in high school and have taken 17 AP classes. I have tried taking notes time and time again and have consistently found that they do not help me at all. I have a 3.99 GPA, 1570/1600 SAT, and have received 5s on all of my AP Exams. I know how to study and know what works best for me. I am not a notes person, and when teachers force their "scientific" teaching methods upon me, it does nothing but harm my learning and waste time.
I love the idea of science being incorporated into learning but we need to make sure students are allowed to discover what works best for them.
I currently use convnext for image classification at a size of 4096x2048 (definitely counts as "high-resolution"). For my use case, it would never be practical to use VITs for this. I can't downscale the resolution because extremely fine details need to be preserved.
I don't think LeCun's comment was a "knee-jerk reaction" as the article claims.
I’m all for benchmarking and showing that your product is better from a technical standpoint. But at least for me, this is not the way.