Is there any reference showing that this is the reason that people were asking about linked lists?
There is the old joke that organic chemistry saved more lives than penicillin by preventing dumb people from reaching med school. It’s a silly joke but it rests on some correlation between the kind of thinking needed for this course and needed to be successful doctor or medical student. If anything there is probably a stronger correlation between the kind of thinking needed for basic algorithms and data structure questions and the thinking needed to be a strong programmer.
More doctors who kill people is probably a bad idea.
I had a joke about bad PMs...if you can be replaced by a spreadsheet in a shared folder you are probably a bad PM.
I think having tons of bad doctors is probably a worse way to solve the high price if medical care than just having better shifting of work within healthcare to apps, therapists, telemedicine, and nurses.
Great PMs are awesome and way less important than great doctors since usually people don’t die from non-great PMs.
The Armstrong report is problematic. Its main goal is to justify the conduct of the NYPD and it does so by inventing new theories of the crime. In presenting the report the committee members themselves said that they could not rule out the possibility that the defendants are completely innocent of the crime (which is the definition of “reasonable doubt “).
For some reporting on this committee at the time see
The Armstrong Report was also authored by someone who had previously worked in the Knapp Commission, which investigated and exposed corruption in the NYPD. Additionally, reasonable doubt isn’t the standard in the court of public opinion and history. Obviously the conviction itself must live or die based on whether reasonable doubt exists. But if we want to sit here on a message board and speculate about what really happened, the reports conclusion of what “probably” happened may be a better standard. (There is an important distinction between the state’s failure to meet the burden of proof, and complete exoneration, as recent goings-on with Bob Muller demonstrate.)
To be fair, it’s not just Reyes’s “word “. If you read the motion to vacate, Reyes gives a full account of the rape beginning to end that is consistent with the evidence and included some details only the attacker would know. There is also evidence that he was later in the park by himself and not with this group of teen agers.
Reyes's testimony was after he spent a year in prison with one of the men originally convicted.
Further, his testimony was not consistent with the physical evidence:
> Reyes, 31, doesn’t mention using a knife, and a law-enforcement source said that when he was interviewed by prosecutors, he never mentioned using a knife or a razor. The medical source said this makes it doubtful Reyes acted alone because the scalp wounds that made her lose 75 to 85 percent of her blood volume were caused by a sharp object.
Is there any reference showing that this is the reason that people were asking about linked lists?
There is the old joke that organic chemistry saved more lives than penicillin by preventing dumb people from reaching med school. It’s a silly joke but it rests on some correlation between the kind of thinking needed for this course and needed to be successful doctor or medical student. If anything there is probably a stronger correlation between the kind of thinking needed for basic algorithms and data structure questions and the thinking needed to be a strong programmer.