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Student: What are you trying to prove?
Hartmanis: I don't know, I never know when I start.
— Juris Hartmanis
April 19, 1974
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I know of no logic, except my own.
— Shir Cohen,
when presented with a temporal logic formula.
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Oct. 23, 2023
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"I only write segfault free code"
— Suraaj Sureshkannan,
A naive junior grad student.
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Oct. 1, 2023
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I'm gonna be super corporate and eat a salad.
— Albert Gong,
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Sept. 12, 2023
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I’m nothing if not a square
— Spencer Van Koevering
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Sept. 10, 2023
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I think most people are bad presenters - not because they're terrible human beings, but ... wait.
— Raunak Kumar,
discussing presentation styles
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Sept. 7, 2023
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[...] breaks have a great purgatory effect; that, and the finals!
— David Bindel,
CS 4220, after the spring break
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April 10, 2023
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(*someone*: we're learning NP-hard problems in algo.)
Tushaar: Oooh, what's your favorite NP-hard problem? I like the graph-coloring problem; it's pretty!
Jonathan: Are you talking about your favorite NP-hard problem!? This is the nerdiest conversation I've ever heard!
— Tushaar Gangavarapu,
at a CS 4300 grading session, while in line to get food!
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March 30, 2023
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QUESTION! For all of you! Well not you [Neil], I don't like you.
— Lorenzo Alvisi,
Obviously joking
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March 28, 2023
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The monotonicity of transfer functions is often quite natural because of a principle that should've been the motto of this university: "It never hurts to know more!"
— Andrew Myers,
when explaining dataflow analysis
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March 15, 2023
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Maybe we're looking at this all wrong? Maybe, words sit in a dimension where their interactions aren't as complex as we seek them out to be!
— Tushaar Gangavarapu,
in a discussion in CS 6700, on probabilistic modeling
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March 10, 2023
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Don't try to reason with high-dimensional space, anything you can imagine about high-dimensional space is probably wrong!
— Tushaar Gangavarapu,
in CS 4300 review session, in showing why cosine similarity fails in low dimensions and in really high dimensions
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March 7, 2023
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Communication is bad in general.
— Prof. Giulia Guidi,
explaining how to accelerate parallel codes.
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March 2, 2023
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