Posted on 03/18/2022 7:45:25 AM PDT by karpov
Contrary to popular belief, the wars of tomorrow won’t be fought in the trenches. They’ll be fought in labs and lecture halls around the world. Powerful minds, rather than powerful machines, will prevail. And if powerful machines are to prevail, then powerful minds will be required to create such machines. China, the United States’ biggest rival, is busy creating a new generation of individuals with powerful minds.
In fact, according to the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, a think tank dedicated to examining international security and emerging technologies, based at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, China is fast outpacing US STEM PhD growth. “Based on current enrollment patterns,” the authors predict “that by 2025 Chinese universities will produce more than 77,000 STEM PhD graduates per year compared to approximately 40,000 in the United States.” Well over “three-quarters of Chinese doctoral graduates” now specialize in STEM fields, a trend that threatens to “undermine US long-term economic and national security.”
This is, clearly, bad news for the United States. The demise in educational standards across the country is as profound as it is evident. To compete with China, and to essentially save the country from becoming second-in-command to a tyrannical regime, the US needs more STEM students. Without enough STEM graduates, scientific progress becomes difficult, if not impossible.
A fundamental ingredient of all STEM subjects is math, something millions of American students struggle with. It is not controversial to say the following: US students are bad at math. In fact, out of 79 countries, the US, supposedly the greatest country in the world, now ranks 31st in math literacy. Why?
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In my experience as a software engineer with a computer science degree, most older programmers (say 50 or older) can often be identified with how they use their analytical skills in productive ways in their personal lives (i.e. studying God and the Bible, investing based on metrics, researching tax strategies and estate planning, etc.).
Most younger programmers or soon-to-be programmers can be found in video games. To hear them talk, they gravitate towards the video games that require a combination of strategy and quick thinking. Even if it's an action game it requires changes in tactics (to hear them talk about it LOL) "to beat the Koreans". LOL
Better Stem use: Play Blackjack, Bridge, Chess, and reading books on a regular basis, today being a Kindle user/reader.
A good goal for Blackjack players, is to not be allowed to play in casinos, because you can account for a full deck most of the time when playing with 3 or more people and the dealer. That is called card counting and is not allowed in most casinos.
With Bridge, numbers/points are used in bidding. You don’t get to see your partners hand until you win a bid. When playing a hand not bid by you or your partner, your goal is setting the bidder.
If your opponents win the bid, you need to keep track of your opponents’s dummy’s 13 cards layed down, face up, besides yours and your partners unseen hand. The difficulty is you can’t see their hands before/during and after bidding. If your opponents win the bid, you still can’t see your partner’s cards nor the winning bidders hand.
If you win the bid, you get to see your partner’s hand, so do your opponents. So, you can only guess and plot your strategy based on your hand and your partner’s hand after he lays it down, when you win the bid.
You never get to see your opponents’ cards until they are played one card at a time to the end of the game following a winning bid for your side. The opponents get to see your partner’s hand after he/she lays it down if you win the bid or your hand if your partner wins the bid.
Add daily crossword puzzles for the non math exercises.
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Such as Bobby Fisher?
From the exhibit at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, learning to play a musical instrument might be more helpful. From brainscans, almost all aspects of the brain are lit up when playing an instrument.
I bet none of the STEM programs at Chinese Universties teach social justice math.
Also the article uses university enrollment numbers as a measure of success. He needs to be asking why China sends students to US programs if their in country universities are better.
Texas Hold’em.
1) China has literally 4 to 5 times as many brains as we have, and
2) China still can't invent their own intellectual property -- they have to steal 1/4 to 1/2 trillion $'s of our IP every year.
It’s funny—my college freshman son (majoring in Computer Science) has ADHD and struggled in high school in most classes that he wasn’t interested in (he only liked coding and engineering) but is really good at chess and plays it all the time and now writes chess programs. He’s good at programming, chess, and self-taught excellent ragtime piano. Even when he was a little boy he really could master what I call “pattern recognition” but it’s something much deeper than that—he “sees” things others can’t see. . .but also literally doesn’t know the months of the year in order. The classic chess obsessed”absent minded” professor type.
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