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What doesn't kill you ... makes you sad.
— Ethan Cecchetti,
regarding being a graduate student and in response to repeated declarations of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger".
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Sept. 27, 2019
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Shit.
— Rundong Wu,
On response to "what shall we eat for lunch?"
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Sept. 20, 2019
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I don't have a proof that this is all you need... but in practice this is all you need
— Fred Schneider,
explaining the necessary conditions for thread-safe code in CS 4410
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Sept. 17, 2019
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The purpose of the prefix "co" is to take something you don't really understand and turn it into something you really don't understand.
— Andrew Myers,
responding to a description of co-monads as "monads, but the other way around"
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Sept. 16, 2019
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Everyone likes ladders, it's how you get high
— Ross Tate,
defending his ladder-related pull request in CS 5152
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Sept. 6, 2019
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If I had to pick a way to die: suffocated by baby golden retrievers.
— Molly Feldman
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Sept. 6, 2019
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High quality sleep is a constant of the productive function, high quality dining is a coefficient of it.
— Liuting Chen
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July 28, 2019
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Dexter: It's called a "Kludge"
Yizhou: ...... ok.
Andrew: You're dating yourself, Dexter
— Dexter Kozen, Yizhou, and Andrew Myers,
Helping Yizhou describe an anti-pattern during his B exam
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July 24, 2019
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So with 500 data points...Wait, this is computer vision. With 50,000 data points we get this result.
— Himank Yadav,
discussing using bandit data in the context of computer vision
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July 24, 2019
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That last glitch in the schedule was intentionally designed to illustrate Isaac Sheff's research on which failures can be tolerated.
— Bobby Kleinberg,
explaining confusion in the commencement presentation schedule
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May 25, 2019
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Fun fact: A pipe organ is emacs, but for sound.
— Shrutarshi Basu
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May 17, 2019
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It said it's safe and it was wrapped in plastic, what more do you want?!
— Andrew Myers,
Explaining how we should all definitely trust defense contractor handout goodies.
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May 13, 2019
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