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You get the sense that object oriented people invented the nuclear bomb when all they really needed was a gun
— Rolph Recto,
Great Works in PL Seminar
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May 2, 2022
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We find ourselves in a quandary that is similar to Question 1 on Homework 5, which I am sure was so traumatizing that you still remember it.
— Prof. Kleinberg,
analyzing randomized algorithms.
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April 25, 2022
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Either there is a name for this already, or it is a dumb idea.
— David Bindel,
describing ideas to improve Gauss-Newton.
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April 15, 2022
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To compute your grade in this course, we need to solve a linear program.
— Prof. Kleinberg,
discussing the grading scheme in CS 4820 and CS 4850.
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April 13, 2022
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As usual, it's five pages of Calculus to get five lines of code.
— David Bindel,
discussing algorithms in numerical analysis
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April 11, 2022
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L + ratio + bozo
— Giselle Washington,
After an inappropriate student response.
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March 20, 2022
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I hope all of you did well. I know some of you did not.
— Robbert van Renesse,
discussing the results from the first CS 4410 prelim.
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March 15, 2022
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The gantry is only 17 years old, still a teenager!
— Steve Marschner,
on discussing our large goniometer not working properly
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March 15, 2022
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The neural network in your brain can be trained to see hard to read sections of math formulas.
— Bobby Kleinberg,
explaining his explaining
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Feb. 14, 2022
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This is a fun enhancement to my job and I am grateful to the university for going out of their way to keep me on my toes.
— Anne Bracy,
when asked by a student why Canvas and Gradescope scores weren't the same for a project.
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Dec. 10, 2021
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I was doing Active Learning in the 2000s before it was cool.
— Walker White
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Dec. 7, 2021
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I need another Greek letter for this. I'll call it omicron, that's been in the news lately.
— Bobby Kleinberg,
6820 lecture days after omicron covid variant was announced
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Dec. 1, 2021
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