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#140 Up↑ /13 Down↓ [Report] 2009-03-30 04:47 EST
[X]: woke up this morning sweating and burning up, with a sore throat and a sore stomach
[X]: the burning is gone, the sore throat is gone now that I spit out the blood that was causing it, but stomach still hurts
[X]: but it doesn't matter, because a Panthers cheerleader got caught having sex in a bathroom...with another cheerleader -
#22 Up↑ /70 Down↓ [Report] 2009-02-12 23:31 EST
//Written on the Pecker Board
Functor was a map,
I mean it was an.. abstract map,
Or maybe it was just.. abstract,
But it was still FUNCTOR!!!
FUNCTOR!!!!!!
Actinating on the objects,
Actinating on the morphisms,
Actinating on all the identities,
And the commutative diagrams!!!
COMMUTATIVE DIAGRAMS!!!!!!
And the functor comes in the niiiiigghhtt!!!!
//When you mix guitar hero with category theory... some things man was not meant to know. -
#317 Up↑ /8 Down↓ [Report] 2009-11-01 21:37 EST
Prof Winston: This year, I got booted out of my favorite 11 am slot in 32-123 in favor of some Chemistry General-Institute-Requirement subject, and I found my subject, 6.034, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, assigned to 34-101, which I consider as dark and gloomy as a crypt.
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#58 Up↑ /134 Down↓ [Report] 2009-02-20 13:45 EST
//Discourse on extra term in Maxwell's equations were magnetic monopoles to exist
Prof McGreevy: ...here, I'll write it on the board in purple, because purple is the color of unicorns.
* class giggles after disbelieving pause *
Prof McGreevy: No, really. Magnetic monopoles are like unicorns - they're perfectly reasonable things, but no one has been able to find them. -
#44 Up↑ /47 Down↓ [Report] 2009-02-18 14:41 EST
A: Last term I had a really terrible TA. He was so bad and the recitation was at 9am, not many people would show up. Once I was the only student who was there, but he was going through the recitation as if he was talking to a room full of people, drawing on the blackboards and stuff. I wonder what he would do if no one showed up.
B: Ha! I also had a bad TA. Once the students in my recitation decided to all skip and see what he would do. We were outside and peeked through the door to find him lecturing and writing on the blackboards to an empty room! -
#111 Up↑ /30 Down↓ [Report] 2009-03-18 11:20 EST
//On the opening PPT slide of 6.005: Abstract Data Type, Rep Invariants, Equality, Visitors
Professor Rinard: One of the MIT Faculties has recently won the Turing Award. Does anyone know who it is?
Student one: Barbara Liskov
Professor Rinard: Good! Can anyone name one of her great contributions?
* Silence *
Professor Rinard: Hint, it's on the slide.
Student two: Equality!
Professor Rinard: NO! It's Abstract Data Type!
