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In the optimistic protocol, you shoot the orphans.
— Lorenzo Alvisi,
explaining failure recovery.
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Feb. 22, 2023
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What should you do when someone rushes into your room in the middle of the night and asks you to fix a failed server?
You don't need to wake up. Just shout "Replicate! Replicate!" 99% of the time you will be right.
— Lorenzo Alvisi,
introducing state machine replication
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Feb. 15, 2023
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What did our friend Fred do? He figured out that if replication doesn't work, just cheat!
— Lorenzo Alvisi,
fate-sharing of voter and client
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Feb. 15, 2023
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Happy Sunday (aka Happy Laundry Day)
— Prof. Guidi,
in CS 5220
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Jan. 30, 2023
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Compilers is not the class to take if you plan to take the easiest classes to satisfy the CS curriculum.
— Andrew Myers,
during the first Compilers class
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Jan. 23, 2023
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Every semester there's this evangelical team member who wants to use Rust for the compiler and convinces the rest of the team to come along. Here's what I'll tell you - there has been one successful Rust group in the history of this class.
— Andrew Myers,
during the first Compilers class
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Jan. 23, 2023
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All modern meetings must begin with an AV failure. It is an invariant.
— Ramin Zabih,
following an online research meeting with many AV failures.
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Nov. 13, 2022
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You might have a computer that can operate on infinite-dimensional data, but I can't afford one on an academic budget.
— Chris De Sa,
discussing kernels in CS 4787.
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Nov. 1, 2022
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I include a True / False section on exams to warm up your brain, and move course content into main memory.
— Chris De Sa,
before the CS 4787 midterm.
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Nov. 1, 2022
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This is a very good, very modern approach that has no theoretical guarantees whatsoever.
— Chris De Sa,
on autoencoders
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Nov. 1, 2022
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Due to the lack of dependence on n, SGD is King. Or Queen, depending on how you gender your algorithms.
— Chris De Sa,
discussing optimization algorithms in Machine Learning
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Nov. 1, 2022
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This is a class where I like my exponents to sum to 3.
— David Bindel,
in CS 6210: Matrix Computations
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Nov. 1, 2022
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