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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: In the exact subjects, just change the numbers a bit and you have a brand-new question.
Most of those students were clever enough to remember the steps to solve the problem and fix the numbers, but without understanding neither the problem nor why the solution was what it was. Sometimes they were grossly ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ed because a single change in the parameters would completely change the category of problem, you caould smell something like that happening by the smile on the face of the professor when handing the exam papers.
Also copying from other students was discouraged giving alternating versions of the exam questions, in some cases up to 27 different versions so that every student was surrounded by 2 rows of different sheets, and during exams usually seats where spaced with an empty seat in all four directions.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Of course, then the instructor would have to solve the new question, rather than using the crib sheet handed down from previous instructors
I had a few idjits like that. Most of our exams were not multiple choice, but lazy professors would simply check the final number without bothering to actually examine the answer, and sometimes they failed in that too and had to be corrected by a horde of enraged students.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: Most of those students were clever enough to remember the steps to solve the problem and fix the numbers, but without understanding neither the problem nor why the solution was what it was.
IOW, they were like many of the "Send codez please" crowd in QA. 
den2k88 wrote: Sometimes they were grossly [mastadon] ed because a single change in the parameters would completely change the category of problem
Again, like many of the people in QA.
den2k88 wrote: Also copying from other students was discouraged giving alternating versions of the exam questions
And yet, they still try to cheat. 
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Me too, just work past papers until you can figure out the style of question and then waffle...
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Wait, people were allowed to go to the bathroom during the exam and used their phone from there?
Never mind the phone, back in my day, you weren't allowed to leave a 3-hour exam to go to the bathroom.
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Yeah but back in those days I could guarantee lasting three hours between pees. 
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Same here. Good thing I'm not faced with taking a three-hour exam any time soon.
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These are highschool and college kids we're talking about. Not us old timers who have bladder control issues...
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For 3 hour plus exams we were allowed two drinks (sealed containers) and snacks (sealed containers) also there was mascots allowed on the desk (one student in Control Systems Engineering desk was buried by small bears(!))
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glennPattonWork3 wrote: mascots allowed on the desk
I suppose that's how things start. Why? Emotional support?
Watch people bringing in their pets now.
Scratch that. I'm certain it's already been done. I don't look to google it.
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In the old days they would have been called talismans. New language for old concepts.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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In my day, I think you were allowed to use your own pen and, for appropriate exams, your own slide rule!
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I was about to say the same thing.
We we're allowed a bathroom break, but only one person at a time and no phones 
It seems this cheating could've been fixed a lot more easy...
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In the days before mine there were exams lasting 8 hours, they had measures in check to allow for the lunch break (2 hours, we ARE italians) and two bathroom breaks. Architecture still had them.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Ah, 14 potential future Harvard presidents.
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...and a Nobel Laureate or two I believe 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Reminds me of a big company I joined in my third year at university as part of my sandwhich degree.
There was a whole assessment day as part of the application process and one of the tests on that day was an IQ test.
The sheet I was handed had all the answers written on it in pencil, so I put my hand up and explained that the answers were on the sheet when the invigilator approached me.
The invigilator quietly told me to just carry on.
I wonder if I got the place because I was honest rather than the results of the IQ test(I'm not the best with IQ tests).
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GuyThiebaut wrote: sandwhich degree.
Where do you work now, Subway?
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Yes, because I can't even spell "sandwich"!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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At least you didn't spell it "sandwitch"... 
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Oh Reddit is hyperlinked, so can read the original story... NOPE
ok, maybe somewhere else links the reference article... NOPE
in the comments of 60+ people ... NOPE
wtf
oh, this reddit post is 4 years old, no wonder they don't want to reference it.
there is recycle, and then there is I don't know how to do reporting.
unless its a bot article, which when the search on their site for author doesn't work. 🤷
interesting read, as well as the original.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/e8f0z1/not_my_revenge_but_my_professor_against_cheaters/
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Back when I was a college student, I worked for a professor as one of his research assistants. We were tasked with researching material for him to present to his freshman classes. We smelled that there was a lot of cheating going on, so we came up with a solution: The questions and answers were in a file on the computer. We added an algorithm using a random number generator which scrambled the order of the questions. For each exam, we also printed a sheet with the correct order of questions. You should have heard the howls at the frat houses when the students who cheated, which turned out to be more than half of them, got their exams back.
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Greetings Kind Regards
May I please inquire of your kind selves who of course are much more knowledgeable than myself meaning of Task Manager CPU Utilization reported percentage. I wish to know what it is in fact a measure of. All the answers I have found on-line are along the lines of "The percentage you see (e.g., 25%) represents the proportion of the CPU’s capacity that is actively in use. It indicates how much of the CPU’s processing power is currently allocated to running tasks and processes." Web search of term "capacity" seems to result as identical to speed id est bits or perhaps instructions per second similarly for "processing power".
I am motivated to this inquiry as my intel i7 reported % is usually mid 60s even whilst performing several simultaneous tasks exempli gratia a build and two console programs each running random testing.
Other than not knowing what in fact is being measured I do not understand why the CPU would not run at 100% as I assume doing so would complete assigned tasks sooner rather than later. Perhaps it is a matter of temperature throttling. My temperatures are typically mid 60s.
So to paraphrase inquiry if reported % is exempli gratia 50 does this mean the CPU is sitting idle half the time? If so why?
Thank You Kindly
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In large part, because your computer has multiple cores.
You cannot just break a task down to use all cores.
Add 2 + 2 using two threads to divide the task between two cores. You can't.
So if you add 2+2 your CPU will not spike to 100. If it had two cores, the best you'd get is 50%, 4 cores - 25%, etc.
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At this moment Task Manager is reporting :
Utilization 23%
Speed 3.84 GHz
Base Speed: 3.41 GHz
Cores: 4
Logical processors: 8
Processes 356
Threads 4960
Handles 189319
The graph of each of the eight logical processors shows more or less the 23%.
w/ so much to do why is the CPU deciding to utilize only 23% of itself?
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