They had built a network on their own, which provided students Internet connection from 2002 till 2013 (when the administration effectively legalized this network).
In the beginning, there were only 10 Mbps hubs available. They were extremely slow because the packet arriving at one port was mirrored to all other ports, flooding the network with unnecessary traffic. Later they were replaced by L2 switches, that are smart enough to choose the destination port for the packet.
但宿舍網路是有競爭對手的,兩邊常常破壞對方 XDDD
Having two competing networks was a cherry on the top of it. They were cutting each other’s cables, executing DDoS attacks, stealing equipment, etc.
To connect this router to the other parts of the network, we laid fiber cables through secret passages in the walls, ceilings, floors, and ventilation shafts.
Most of the time, we managed to reduce the number of cables coming out of the window down to ~15. We could do this because of a simple trick: the regular ethernet cable (Cat 5e) has 8 wires. And to transmit 100 Mbps, you need just 4 of them. All 8 wires are required only for a 1 Gbps connection. So using a single cable, you can connect 2 clients who live close to each other. We always tried to do that if possible because the hole can’t fit so many cables.
In addition, a number of educational institutions, teachers, and students have expressed concerns about the reliability of Blackboard. McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has replaced their Blackboard system after multiple problems during one year of use.
Citing numerous glitches and high costs, many universities are turning to the cheaper, open source alternative Moodle, including Montana State University, Vassar College, California State University, Long Beach, and many other schools.
炸掉的:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's implementation of the system notably suffered sporadic outages in the Grade Book section during the finals of the Fall 2014 semester.
然後這次 COVID-19 也有災情:
In Spring 2020, during coronavirus pandemic, Fairfax County Public Schools, one of the largest school system in the United States with 189 thousand students abandoned Blackboard Learn 24/7 after weeks of unsuccessful attempts to use it. The issues included, poor security allowing live instructions to be hacked and disrupted and inability for the system to cope with the volume even on the days when only elementary schools were using the system.
For the training data, we label on output ?? as follows. For each self-play game, first calculate territory difference ? at the end of the game. Then, based on the Chinese rule, label 1 (win) on ?? for all ? < ?, and -1 (lose) for all ? > ?. (Note that the draw case ? = ? is ignored in this paper since the komi is not an integer normally.) For example, if black occupies 7 more points of territory than white, the ?-komi game is considered a win for all ? < 7, and a loss for all ? > 7. Thus, in this case, a 7.5-komi game is a loss, and a 6.5-komi or 0.5-komi game is a win.