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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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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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