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To fix George's posture, we did what you usually do, and surgically implanted a skeleton.
— David Levin,
explaining an animation
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April 14, 2016
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And now, on a lighter note, let's talk about human sacrifice.
— Xanda Schofield,
introducing a talk at ETC
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April 13, 2016
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Does this mean we'll never be able to shoot lasers out of our eyes?
— Scott Wehrwein,
responding to Jonathan Shi's explanation of why memory can't work backwards
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April 13, 2016
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I don't know the bible, I only know David Bowie
— Fran Mota,
On definitions
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April 8, 2016
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The fact that there is green grass in this picture tells us that it was not taken in California.
— Philipp Krähenbühl,
on using related image features to make inferences
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April 7, 2016
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I’ve never had a real job.
— Nate Foster,
Offering to talk to a prospective student thinking about working before going to grad school.
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April 4, 2016
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It's like one of them showroom floors where you have a spinning car, but killing people.
— Isaac Sheff,
on Teslas on escalators
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April 1, 2016
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It's not a falsifiable assumption. It's just false.
— Rafael Pass,
concerning the random oracle model
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March 16, 2016
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Any plan that starts with "Make a method more practical" and ends with "by putting it on a drone" is...suspect.
— Steve Marschner,
on an algorithm for rendering images of finished wood
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March 4, 2016
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This illustrates the most indirect method of keeping a sheep warm.
— Steve Marschner,
showing a picture of a sheared sheep wearing a wool sweater.
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March 1, 2016
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Physics is about Fourier transforms.
— Michael Forbes
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Feb. 25, 2016
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I haven't written a deterministic, non-threaded program since... 1983.
— Ken Birman,
explaining why it's important to handle non-determinism in debugging tools
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Feb. 19, 2016
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