Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India

Re:Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital p... by alsodumb on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @12:35PM (#35442291)

I wouldn't be so sure about the author making up the narrative, it very well could be real but it is definitely not the majority.

I get what you are saying, but none of this would put "a Math grad student to shame". If you really think it does, you definitely have no clue what grad students do - sincerely, a grad student whose best friend is a math grad student.

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Re:Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital p... by asdted on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @12:52PM (#35442556)

I saw college students (not indian) fail to answer basic arithmetic questions like 50-13 stuff like that.

He meant they do basic calculations very fast with out a calculator.

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Re:Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital p... by GuB-42 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:49PM (#35447817)

I am pretty sure many math grad students are not that great at mental arithmetic, which is the topic here. We are obviously not talking about the kind of advanced maths grad students to.

It is an interesting topic. I remember seeing an article about teaching maths to shopkeepers kids in third world countries. By western standards, they are quasi-illiterate. They are however remarkably good at tasks like giving change. When asked about their reasoning, it involves exchanging bills and goods rather than abstract numbers, and IIRC, they do better than western schoolkids of the same age.

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