Over the years, we (@anishathalye, @jjgo, @jonhoo) have helped teach several classes at MIT, and over and over we have seen that many students have limited knowledge of the tools available to them. Computers were built to automate manual tasks, yet students often perform repetitive tasks by hand or ...
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Hi all! We (@anishathalye, @jjgo, and @jonhoo) have long felt that while university CS classes are great at teaching specific topics, they often leave it to students to figure out a lot of the common knowledge about how to actually _use_ your computer. And in particular, how to use it _efficiently_....
A while ago, I [asked](https://lobste.rs/s/cqnzl5/lobste_rs_access_pattern_statistics_for) about traffic statistics for lobste.rs for a research project. Finally, the result of that work has now been published as the linked system, which speeds up lobste.rs by ~5x over that provided by MySQL. The so...
Hey fellow Lobsters!
Iām a [grad student at MIT](https://thesquareplanet.com/) working on [distributed systems](https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/), and have been [developing](https://github.com/mit-pdos/distributary) a [research prototype](https://jon.thesquareplanet.com/papers/sosp17src-xylem.pdf) of ...
A number of stories both on HN and here are about how to [teach](https://lobste.rs/search?utf8=ā&q=teach+science&what=stories&order=relevance) and [learn](https://lobste.rs/search?utf8=ā&q=learn&what=stories&order=relevance), and on [education in general](https://lobste.rs/search?utf8=ā&q=education&...