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Advisors who beat their students were themselves beaten as students.
— Fred Schneider,
explaining why some advisors pressure their students to publish a lot
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Nov. 22, 2016
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In higher dimensions, anything can work, right?
— Ashudeep Singh ,
in NLP seminar
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Nov. 11, 2016
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Boob Constable
— Molly Feldman,
"Apologies for the typo in my previous email, definitely need to deal with my monitor screen resolution problem!!"
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Nov. 5, 2016
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Are you a robot?
— Isaac Sheff,
Answering a call from a real person working at Nielsen
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Oct. 31, 2016
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Yeah, that's future work, to ensure the user is not intoxicated.
— Rahul Chatterjee,
Talking about his research on detecting typos in passwords.
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Oct. 31, 2016
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You can't cut the wood without sharpening a saw.
— Dexter Kozen,
explaining why he had given a brief overview of probability spaces and Lebesgue integrals in a programming languages seminar talk.
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Oct. 19, 2016
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Stay away from negative people, solution aren't the problem, they hate that, they are the problem.
— Werley Nortreus
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Sept. 26, 2016
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GrammaTech is the largest Computer Science department in Ithaca.
— Fred Schneider,
introducing a speaker from GrammaTech
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Sept. 22, 2016
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My favorite pastime is trolling Scott Aaronson.
— Dexter Kozen,
Talking about crank emails
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Sept. 21, 2016
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Group loops -- are those a mathematician's cereal?
— Dexter Kozen,
On his breakfast
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Sept. 21, 2016
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Happy slaves are productive slaves.
— Andrew Myers,
discussing graduate students
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Sept. 20, 2016
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The passive voice should not be used.
— Ross Knepper,
when discussing common fellowship application pitfalls
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Sept. 13, 2016
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