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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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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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