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"How fast I run depends on how loaded I am."
— Joe Halpern,
Giving a justification for asychronous message-passing systems
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Oct. 7, 2003
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We're almost ready to look at what Jacobi did back there in 1846 . . . just before I was born.
— Charlie Van Loan,
While presenting Jacobi's algorithm for computing Schur Decomposition.
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Oct. 6, 2003
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There you have it: a lot of coool properties about the trace.
— Charlie Van Loan,
Regarding the trace of a square matrix.
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Oct. 3, 2003
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As long as it doesn't explode everything is fine.
— Jayavel Shanmugasundaram,
CS432: B+-tree lecture
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Sept. 29, 2003
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It reminds you of an Aesop's fable:
"We ask, 'Who is the biggest?'
'I am,' says column 3."
— Charlie Van Loan,
On QR factorization with column pivoting.
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Sept. 29, 2003
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The professor is a jerk.
— Charlie Van Loan,
After borrowing a student's homework description, and pretending to read from the paper.
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Sept. 24, 2003
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You can actually label this vector and this vector meaningfully; I won't do that.
— Charlie Van Loan,
While demonstrating how Householder vectors work, in a geometric sense.
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Sept. 24, 2003
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This subtree is now damaged goods and needs to rethink life.
— Eva Tardos,
On the amortized analysis of cascading cuts (CS 681)
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Sept. 22, 2003
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Remember that the tokens are figments of our imagination
— Eva Tardos,
On the use of tokens in proofs of amortized bounds
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Sept. 22, 2003
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Obviously, this stronger statement is stronger than the weaker one.
— Eva Tardos,
On the use of strong statements in induction proofs, especially in amortized analysis.
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Sept. 22, 2003
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I can spend five minutes proving this but I don't want to, so I'll just tell you the result.
— Charlie Van Loan,
Explaining pivoting in LU factorization.
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Sept. 12, 2003
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ET go home
— Charlie Van Loan,
Discussion of Markhov matrices.
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Sept. 3, 2003
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