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by portal_narlish 2669 days ago
He also encourages students to make a pull requests when they find errata.

I can see the argument that this "open sources" the literature and brings students closer to it.

However - students are not experts in the subject matter and this makes for anxiety-inducing and frankly ineffective pedagogy. You are there to learn, but never know if the proof you are reading is correct or not. The errors get in the way.

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It's not a wiki; he's free to not merge changes people offer him.