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In physics, the first time I came to the realization that I could no longer do things by “winging it”, was in graduate school after I passed all the “weedout” exams (ie. prelims, comps, etc …).
The Cult of Genius Julianne 2007
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There is an enormous weedout factor for wannabe writers.
Weekend Update suricattus 2004
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One of the smart-alek Citrix administrators came up with a surprisingly successful weedout question: "Can you tell me the different between a forest, a domain, and a tributary?"
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Those courses were often used as weedout courses: they were so hard that anyone that couldn't handle the mental challenge of a CS degree would give up, which was a good thing, because if you thought pointers are hard, wait until you try to prove things about fixed point theory.
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