Thursday, April 26, 2007

Math Test Standards

Been really busy with work lately. It is hard to imagine that 1GB of main memory is insufficient for an application. However working on a program that generates subset lattices for analysis cripples my machine rather quickly. Basically I have been working on a program that detects artifacts in XML databases (a big XML file). It currently analyzes outliers (data that differs compared to its peers) and duplicates (data that seems the same, e.g. big and bog).

Boring stuff aside, I read an interesting article on BBC about the difference in standards between the Chinese system's pre-entry math tests and the British system's first year math tests for students in Chemistry. Rather hilarious.

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