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By the way, I'm not here. I dropped this course.
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Arthur Mattuck, Ordinary Differential Equations
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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submitted: April 25, 2003 |
Mattuck's rants are the greatest.
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"Hey, this is neat...hey what the..? Oh God, I think I just broke some expensive piece of technology. How do I make it stop doing that?"
(calls help desk) This is _____...what do you mean who am I? I am a professor at this university who are YOU? History department. I think I just broke the big thing that hangs down off the ceiling. It's called what!? Yeah, that thing, I was playing with it and now it is making loud noises. Can you come up here and make it stop? I've got 60 people who are just dying to hear all about the history of alcohol."
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, America to 1865
Northern IL University, Dekalb, IL
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submitted: April 25, 2003 |
Yeah, the schools should teach the professors how to use the new "smart classrooms" otherwise they just break them.
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Problem 2: Fri. (5 pts: 2 [for part a], 2 [for part b])
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Arthur Mattuck, Ordinary Differential Equations
MIT, Cambridge, MA
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submitted: April 25, 2003 |
On a problem set. 2+2=5? I would think a math professor at MIT would know better.
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"This is a DAG, a Directed Acyclic, as in no cycles, Graph, as in Graph"
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Carl Sturtivant, Csci 4041/ Algorigthms
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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submitted: April 25, 2003 |
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"The first quiz is usually a bloodbath."
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Prof James Eckert, IT Physics I
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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submitted: April 25, 2003 |
Regarding midterms.
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"Unless it's intuitively obvious to the most casual observer upon initial inspection, you have to prove it."
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Prof. James Eckert, IT Physics I
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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submitted: April 25, 2003 |
Regarding test answers
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"You need to learn this stuff or people are going to die."
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Prof. James Eckert, IT Physics I
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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submitted: April 25, 2003 |
Referring to our discussion of angular momentum.
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Can you imagine yourself without some physical outlet as an adolescent? Besides sex I mean.
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Ann Page Stecker, New England History, HIS 301
Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire
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submitted: April 25, 2003 |
Talking about the horrible education funding problem for public primary and secondary schools in New Hampshire.
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Pi aren't squared, Pi are round!
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Prof Mullen, Physics for Engineers
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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submitted: April 24, 2003 |
Concerning circular area....
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When last we met, we were in a life-and-death struggle with Angular Momentum....
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Prof Mullen, Physics for Engineers
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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submitted: April 24, 2003 |
If it was truly a life and death struggle I would have died.
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"you shouldn't hang around [smart student]. he's on crack and will corrupt you."
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Bill Sullivan, CIS 375
devry, Tinley Park, IL
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submitted: April 23, 2003 |
His reply when someone corrected him and mentioned that [smart student] proved it.
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"Now, who here thinks that it's ok to copy someone's code and distribute it, without giving credit to the author?"
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Bill Sullivan, CIS 410
Devry, Tinley Park, IL
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submitted: April 23, 2003 |
This said after he was caught plagiarizing his labs from other schools' web sites
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Your summary should be better than sex and sliced bread.
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Dr. John W. Lamont, EE/CprE 491
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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submitted: April 23, 2003 |
Explaining how the summary of a design report should be.
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Generally cracking walnuts with a sledge hammer will not yield you whole nuts.
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Dr. John W. Lamont, EE/CprE 491 Senior Design
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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submitted: April 23, 2003 |
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I think at least 3 of these 4 questions have answers, I just don't know how to find them.
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Mani Mina, EE 333; Electronic Devices & Circuits
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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submitted: April 22, 2003 |
while handing us a test
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"One of my very few policies is I try not to be an ass."
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Dr. Ray, CIA and Congress
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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submitted: April 22, 2003 |
In response to a student asking for a little leeway due to unusual circumstances.
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"They (the Chinese) are a brilliant society, but how they misssed the alphabet and the fork I'll never know."
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Dr. Ray, CIA and Congress
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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submitted: April 22, 2003 |
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"So no one fell in love or got mugged yesterday? Not that the two are mutally exclusive..."
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Dr. Ray, CIA and Congress
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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submitted: April 22, 2003 |
When asking how everyone's first day was.
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"So the probability of being Shakespeare is 0.01..."
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Manuela Veloso, Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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submitted: April 22, 2003 |
Continuing the Hidden Markov Models lecture, about speech recognition.
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If you don't understand this, you'll never be successful, you'll never get a PhD, you'll never do anything.
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Manuela Veloso, Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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submitted: April 22, 2003 |
Explaining the fact that picking numeric parameters and patterns for Hidden Markov Models is essentially black magic.
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Is it the warp or the weft? It's the warp, because weft goes from "weft" to "wight".
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Daniel Newsome, History of Science and Technology
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
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submitted: April 22, 2003 |
Explaining how looms work. This guy is a total spaz and funny as hell. Usually I'm too busy laughing to write down his quotes.
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Is it friday yet?
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Bent Petersen, Math 351
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
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submitted: April 22, 2003 |
Said daily, when mistakes were made by him on the board, only right about 1/3rd of the time
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"Now I can tell you, when I was at The Farm in the 80s, they weren't practicing the monogamy they are now."
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Gabe Logan, History 260
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
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submitted: April 22, 2003 |
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"Look in my book, it's all there, written when I was a lot younger, a lot more coherent, and, if I'm remembering correctly, sober."
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Eugene Galanter, Science of Psychology
Columbia University, New York, NY
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submitted: April 20, 2003 |
What happens when one of the most brilliant minds in the field gets a little senile and forgets how to derive his own equation.
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"I will love you just as much, regardless of the grade you get on my quiz." "I mean, who cares what you get in this course? It's stupid!"
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Eugene Galanter, Science of Psychology
Columbia University, New York, NY
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submitted: April 20, 2003 |
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