#7224

2121

Feb. 13, 2018, 8:44 a.m.

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//Practicing interviews Stav: How many letter a’s are on our website? *steeples fingers* Naveen: Well, uh… the most common vowel is e, so.. if we assume that your website has 2000 characters, then… Bosse: (Starts clapping) Thank you two for the interview! //Another interview Daniel: A permutation of n elements is chosen uniformly at random. A partition of the permutation into contiguous blocks is correct if, when each block is sorted independently, the entire permutation becomes sorted. Find the expected value of the maximum number of blocks into which the permutation can be partitioned correctly. Kevin Qian: Nice job stealing a question from a math competition. Have you even solved this? Daniel: To be honest, Bosse: (Starts clapping) Thank you two for the interview!

#7223

55

Feb. 12, 2018, 9:07 p.m.

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//Discrete, continuing a proof of the Euclidean Division Algorithm that started on Friday. Kevin Qian was not here on Friday. //Rose asks about what the cases are. Kevin: I guess for that case, you factor and get b-1, and for the other case you get b+1... Rose: Kevin Qian. You're going to learn some things in this class. But not a whole lot.

#7222

1313

Feb. 12, 2018, 3:14 p.m.

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//Liam is falling asleep in PoE Kaluta: Am I really that boring? //Kilian taps Liam on his shoulder to wake him up Liam: Yes Liam: Wait that's not what I wanted to say.'

#7220

55

Feb. 12, 2018, 2:28 p.m.

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Komo: If you have feelings, you shouldn't be on the Internet.

#7219

1214

Feb. 12, 2018, 12:45 p.m.

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//Discussing brownie cookies Mr. Horne: Who in here likes chocolate chips in their brownies? //Several people raise their hands Mr. Horne: I've found the communists in this classroom.

#7218

1212

Feb. 12, 2018, 10:35 a.m.

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// Today is February 12 Whitacre: Today is Darwin's birthday. I put up a poster since we should have a Darwin Day, but we don't. Whitacre: The thing is that while today is a great day, in two days we will have a really crappy one. // confusion Whitacre: How many of you are participating in this Valentine's Day madness? KAZ: Oh, I thought you were talking about the AMC!

#7217

810

Feb. 12, 2018, 10:35 a.m.

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Whitacre: Valentine's Day is the only day where you can legally do things without being called a stalker.

#7216

1818

Feb. 12, 2018, 9:52 a.m.

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//Street walks in to AChem Pham: By the way, you know Miter Street is Asian, right? Students: ?? Pham: He married to Asian wife, and he have two kids who are half Asian half white. So it's 1/2 + 1/2, that's 1 total, so he Asian! Street: It's more like 1 + 3, or maybe 2+4. Brian plays the viola, he got into an Ivy league college, and he's married to an Asian girl. He's Asian. But my other son, he plays the saxophone and he plays... Lacrosse... and he's married to a white girl. He's white!

#7215

44

Feb. 12, 2018, 9:42 a.m.

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//Whitacre hands out a reading //A little later, Whitacre looks at Shwetha’s desk Whitacre: Where’s your reading? //Shwetha picks out a packet from the bottom of a pile of papers on her desk Whitacre: After just several seconds, it’s at the very bottom of the pile! It’s like a card trick-- whup! Here it is, at the bottom!

#7213

33

Feb. 11, 2018, 12:55 a.m.

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//Estimathon Jane Street employee: Please put your smartphones and smart people away.