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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Comments from John Hamer ==<br />
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* Overview: I appreciate reading your comments. These reflective essays are a big help for me in finding out how the class is coping.<br />
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* The labs are intended to present you with things you don't understand straight away. If everything was laid out, it would reduce to a mechanical exercise with no opportunity for learning. Striking the right balance is the challenge (this lab was a lot harder last year!)<br />
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* "used a sample size of 1000 because anything less is not enough and anything greater is getting a bit over the top." &mdash; that's not an adequate justification. You need to provide evidence to back up this claim. What do "not enough" and "over the top" actually mean?<br />
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* "Base256 low 0.00000 0.01% 97.000 27.32% undefined" &mdash; this is worth commenting on, that base256 has no entropy (all the values it returns are the same!)<br />
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* Just reporting the results is not enough. The lab was about coming up with an ordered list of best-to-worst. You haven't done that.</div>Mark