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Epsilon, is, like, a social construct.
— Dylan Foster,
in a discussion of math
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Don't grade bad
— Noah Snavely,
visiting a CS 311 grading session
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How about Bayes Watch?
— Dexter Kozen,
Response to Alex Niculescu's plea for title suggestions for his untitled B-exam talk on Bayesian networks.
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June 9, 2008
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Tom: I could lend you my broomstick.
Benyah: But then how will you get here?
— Benyah Shaparenko,
After his A-exam practice talk, on suggestions for pointing devices.
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Jan. 10, 2008
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Go directly to CS280. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
— Fred Schneider,
Critiquing notation during a talk.
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May 5, 2006
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The colloquium will ... provide graduate students opportunities to resent their work ...
— CS Webmaster,
Announcing NESCAI '06, a student run AI colloquium.
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Dec. 12, 2005
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You guys there in the back need to grow longer necks... Lamarckian evolution.
— Andrew Myers,
After constant problems with using lower parts of the blackboard.
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Sept. 23, 2005
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So we may be computing the wrong thing, but at least we can compute it very quickly.
— Lillian Lee,
During a Colloquium talk, discussing the application of fast min-cut algorithms to an NLP problem.
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Sept. 8, 2005
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You know this is important if there are two levels of introduction. And if I put on a skirt.
— Claire Cardie,
First Charlie introduced the Gerard Salton lecture series, and then Claire introduced Karen Sparck Jones, the first speaker in it.
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March 1, 2005
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Dexter: I mixed up left and right.
Juris: You're left handed, aren't you?
Dexter: Yes
Juris: Oh, that explains it.
— Juris Hartmanis,
During AI Lunch
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Feb. 11, 2005
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Tom Finley: [At home,] I would like to have bookcases that are completely filled up with books.
David: Well, there are two ways to achieve this - you can either buy books or throw away bookcases.
— David Martin,
In the office, while discussing textbook purchases and considering the attractiveness of books and bookcases for interior decoration.
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I hate probability . . . why didn't I make a deterministic protocol . . .
— Mahesh Balakrishnan
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Structural operational semantics are kind of kinky.
— Fred Schneider
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This is easily the crappiest paper I'll ever ask anyone to read.
— Gun Sirer,
On a paper read for discussion at the Copano Group meeting
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May 6, 2004
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A single host is an extreme example of a peer-to-peer system.
— Robbert van Renesse,
During a Copano meeting
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