Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024, Lars Poulsen wrote:

On 2024-12-23, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

It seems the psychology education in the 60s where on to something! They
created the best technological people in a generation, so a la carte seems
to be very beneficial for innovation and following ones natural talents
and interests.

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At UC Santa Barbara, there is (was?) a "Department of Creative Studies".
The annual course catalog always just contains a notice that "The
Curriculum had not been finalized at the time of publication". It is
really an "invitation only Graduate school for undergraduates", effectively
by invitation only. My stepdaughter Birgitte was invited, and put together
a series of mathematics programs. She said that no class had more than a
dozen students, most had only half that many. And none of them were
"regular Americans". The other guy in her math seminars was Iranian.
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But these are probably fading away these days.
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Reminds me of one of my philosophy classes. On the first day on campus in chicago, where I studied for a year, I bumped into the philosophy professor by chance. We started to talk, and liked each other. He said.. you know what... why don't we just put together a philosophy course, completely open, and meet twice a week to talk?
So we did...
We were about 5 people I think. 2 from pakistan, me, 1 american and someone else I've forgotten.
It was wonderful!
We had a introductory book in metaphysics, no agenda, but just explored what interested us. Based on each students personal preferences he would then give out some extra reading to discuss the next time we met. Wonderful way of doing philosophy! I miss that professor! He must be 80+ by now.