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Re:The average college student today by drewcoo on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:13AM (#43523905)
> you end up with lossy notes

Notes are definitionally lossy. If they weren't lossy, they'd be a transcript.

The act of compressing a lecture into notes helps students learn. Merely transcribing does not imply understanding.

Re:The average college student today by ghaff on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:08AM (#43524785)
What I find though when taking notes from a non-academic conference presentation is that I often don’t know what the most salient points or compressed takeaways are in real-time. I don’t end up with a transcript but I do end up with a lot of discard and I’ll take pics of some slides.
Re:The average college student today by Groxx on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:17AM (#43530939)
Compressing accurately requires understanding what's important.

If you understand it that well already, why are you attending a lecture that covers it?

Truly excellent lecturers can often guide some people to that understanding in a note-friendly amount of time, but oh god, most people are not excellent lecturers. The vast majority that I attended were almost literally just reading from the book in class. Book-structured information isn't at all the same as lecture-structured.