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Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by chii on Sunday March 17, 2019 @04:32AM (#19412927)
> The important thing to remember is that the goal of an university is not to prepare you for what you do in industry, but to teach you fundamental knowledge about a topic

that's an undergraduate degree. I would imagine a masters or graduate studies to not only teach that, but more (such as actual state of the art stuff).

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Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by skrebbel on Sunday March 17, 2019 @05:04AM (#19413015)
FWIW, my Master's did exactly that, but it was still fundamental state of the art stuff.

Like how to prove a huge complex distributed / multithreaded system deadlock free, or how to transform no complete problems into parameterized SAT expressions that SAT solvers can solve (which was pretty state of the art at the time). Those were super fun to learn and do, but I can't say I apply much of it at my company.

In other words, I agree both with you and the commenter you're replying to.

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