Love this idea and the execution. Would it make sense to make this for synth patches or some other musical idea? I'm wondering if that's something you plan on exploring in the future?
The software people who work on embedded systems like medical devices, speakers, sensors, electronics etc. are doing engineering all the time. Although I guess it's mostly EEs or computer engineers who do that kind of work, but many concepts of CS are still relevant there.
Nobody was literally solving them offhand in the sense that they had no background in algorithmic problem solving. Those who didn't explicitly "prepare" were the people who liked competition programming and solving these problems for fun in their spare time. Though I'd agree those candidates were probably better quality on average than those who just grind problems solely for the interview
I mean, that's just wrong lol. Obviously that's apart of it, but to imply that it's not so much about ideas is profoundly wrong. In my opinion, anyway.
Sure, I think this will probably just be reaffirming what you already interpreted the idea as but basically I think that the notion of humans being able to perceive self sacrifice in an abstract manner (as opposed to traditionally killing other humans as a means of sacrifice and whatnot) gave us the ability to perceive 'the future' in a sense.
An example would be the parents in poor family working very hard day in and day out to ensure that their children go to college and secure future prosperity. That's just one example but you can think of countless different scenarios where people sacrifice a bit of their present to capture an ambitious future - or to make that present sacrifice in the name of ambition and future success.
I actually heard all of this in a video but I can't for the life of me remember who said it, and it was put infinitely better than my explanation. If I remember I will let you know!
To an extent, yes. But I would also say learning how to think should continue to explicitly fall under the university umbrella, or at least that particular notion should be extended to a greater degree in university.
From my experiences, too many kids straight out of high school go to university blind in the face of knowledge and don't think for themselves, and the capacity for independent thought (or lack thereof) is a very big issue.
You say you may be a little opposed to colleges becoming simply a means for attaining a job, is that correct? In that case, could you expand on why you wouldn't be completely be opposed to such a notion?
I think that's what colleges have indeed turned into but to the student's detriment rather than benefit. The pursuit of knowledge scarcely seems to be emphasized upon now - though I'm not sure to what extent that's purely the fault of colleges.