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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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What are the eigenvalues of this butt?
— Eston Schweickart,
in response to a poor diagram
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Feb. 19, 2016
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Gun: Can we move on from this?
Naveed: Actually, this is my last slide...
— Muhammad Naveed,
after a lot of questions about one slide of a systems lunch talk
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Feb. 12, 2016
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It seems like someone will just come along and fork your system and call it "ThunderCoq"
— Xiang Long,
Discussing Names for Programming Languages that will sell
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Feb. 10, 2016
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I know this looks like obfuscated C code, and it is.
— Antonio Carzaniga,
showing the implementation of a routing algorithm
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Feb. 5, 2016
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Trees are beautiful. I want to hug a tree right now.
— Antonio Carzaniga,
on why we should bring back routing trees
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Feb. 5, 2016
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Every paper has a chart like this, saying "our system is better and faster," so here's mine.
— Arnab Nandi,
introducing a bar graph in his talk
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Feb. 4, 2016
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We now have a dashboard interface showing which students are slacking off.
— Arnab Nandi,
on applying advertising metrics techniques to e-textbooks
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Feb. 4, 2016
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I think we should start exploiting humans...human limitations I mean.
— Arnab Nandi,
on new directions in database research
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Feb. 4, 2016
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Truly, ponies are fearsome beasts
— Isaac Sheff,
on fighting with the devil
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Jan. 30, 2016
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A rank-one matrix...is rank one.
— Charlie Van Loan,
colloquium talk
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Jan. 28, 2016
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