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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gadersd via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Series of blog posts on this email list, origins of Bitcoin, problems with Yudkowki, effective altruism, and more<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>><span style='color:black'>pitch it to the computer science students, hope none of them undercut you</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…<span style='color:black'>Spike, you may be unaware but many CS programs hardly teach practical programming. I’ve heard stories of professors complaining that their CS grad students could barely string code together. These graduates may know a thing or two about lambda calculus but just try getting them to build an app.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Even startup Stanford is not immune: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SiFgB1lGxw">Stanford Computer Science is Broken - YouTube</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Owwwww, I was afraid of that. We in the USA have grown complacent. Fat, dumb and happy we are. I fear a bad ass whooping is going to happen soon because of stuff like you describe. Our universities are getting far too distracted with the latest culture war to recognize when a literal shooting war is nearly upon us. I see the high school seniors and college freshmen, oh I can scarcely imagine trying to run a boot camp to train this bunch so the don’t get their asses shot off on the first day.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In any case Gadersd, we are cheering wildly for you, just as we are for Adrian and Stuart, and the other business guys among us.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>