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"Interesting," it turns out, is hard to define.
— Scott Wehrwein,
on building an "interesting detector" for videos
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Sept. 23, 2015
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That's just data collection, so don't blame me.
Well, I collected the data too, so blame me.
— Scott Wehrwein,
during a student brown bag talk.
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Sept. 23, 2015
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The question I want to ask is, can we make algorithms boring?
— Boaz Barak,
introducing his research area
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Sept. 17, 2015
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The definition is kind of like pornography: I'll know it when I see it.
— Boaz Barak,
on combinatorial optimization
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Sept. 17, 2015
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There is a saying in Hebrew: it's OK to piss in the pool, but don't do it from the diving board.
— Boaz Barak,
on allowing negative probabilities, as long as they're not too negative
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Sept. 17, 2015
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To the naked eye these algorithms seem indistinguishable: the difference is in the number of umlauts in the names of the authors.
— Boaz Barak
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Sept. 17, 2015
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The computer was invented by Charles Babbage who lived in China during the Ming dynasty.
— Isaac Sheff,
while viewing a film on historical China
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Sept. 12, 2015
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I'll move to this slide because it's much more interesting.
— Michael Walfish,
skipping the implementation details slide to get to the results slide.
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Sept. 11, 2015
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I work on it, but I don't understand it.
— Steffen Smolka,
regarding networking.
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Sept. 11, 2015
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Grad school. The kind of misery you can really get behind!
— Xanda Schofield,
Discussing how it's not always fun.
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Sept. 4, 2015
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In my last... NaN minutes... I'd like to tell you about a surprising application of Differential Privacy.
— Cynthia Dwork,
running over time at Colloquium
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Sept. 3, 2015
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Here's the answer to Greg's question: we don't know.
— Cynthia Dwork,
going to her backup slide to answer the question, "What should be the value of epsilon?"
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Sept. 3, 2015
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