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You can do whatever you want.
— Chris De Sa,
describing how to design algorithms in MachineLearning.
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Oct. 24, 2022
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Aside: I was thinking to myself this morning: the fact that we are giving you yet another update makes me want to stab myself in the eye, and also I was thinking that some of you might want to beat me to that. I was so distracted by this thought that I didn't watch where I was going, and I got hit in the head by a lowering parking-garage arm.
So take what comfort you can out of the fact that the universe is extracting its cosmic revenge on me for you.
— Lillian Lee
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Oct. 19, 2022
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It's a paper proof ... but we believe it
— Joshua Turcotti,
explaining how he knows the correctness of his type system
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Sept. 14, 2022
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Shitposting is a young man's game
— Pedro H. A. Amorim,
on why he wants tenure young
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July 5, 2022
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Polynomial functors should be illegal. I don't understand them and they make me feel weird.
— Pedro H. A. Amorim,
on taking the derivative of a polynomial functor
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June 27, 2022
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You get the sense that object oriented people invented the nuclear bomb when all they really needed was a gun
— Rolph Recto,
Great Works in PL Seminar
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May 2, 2022
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We find ourselves in a quandary that is similar to Question 1 on Homework 5, which I am sure was so traumatizing that you still remember it.
— Prof. Kleinberg,
analyzing randomized algorithms.
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April 25, 2022
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Either there is a name for this already, or it is a dumb idea.
— David Bindel,
describing ideas to improve Gauss-Newton.
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April 15, 2022
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To compute your grade in this course, we need to solve a linear program.
— Prof. Kleinberg,
discussing the grading scheme in CS 4820 and CS 4850.
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April 13, 2022
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As usual, it's five pages of Calculus to get five lines of code.
— David Bindel,
discussing algorithms in numerical analysis
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April 11, 2022
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L + ratio + bozo
— Giselle Washington,
After an inappropriate student response.
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March 20, 2022
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I hope all of you did well. I know some of you did not.
— Robbert van Renesse,
discussing the results from the first CS 4410 prelim.
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March 15, 2022
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