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⚐ Report//Reynald finished his math SRP presentation Wensen: How is this applicable? Reynald: Well, suppose you're in an MIT interview...
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⚐ Report//Period 4 SRP Bosse: Make sure to be a good audience. Last period, not to name any names, but Mark Jung fell asleep. Bosse: To be fair, it was not a lively presentation. Haydn: Was it Schaffer's? Bosse: No, it was Naveen, his voice just lulls you to sleep.
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⚐ Report//SRP Pd 4 //writing qualifications sections Tyler: How am I qualified? Connor: Good at manual labor. Tyler: Can get coffee exceptionally well.
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⚐ ReportBosse: ...We're not that worried, but what are people thinking about after spring break? Everyone: APs? Bosse: No!! Bosse: Normal people! //Silence Bosse: Summer break!!
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⚐ Report//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!
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⚐ Report//SRP Period 4 Bosse: Tyler, what should you not do in an interview? Tyler: Don't do drugs. Bosse: Are we sending him out for an internship?
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⚐ ReportPham: What you write was your errors for your SRP report? David: Well, I did a math project, so... Pham: Why you do math? Is BORING.
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⚐ ReportCoy: You should put your SRP paper in Wingdings. Sambuddha: It's already incomprehensible.
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⚐ Report//Unnamed student (henceforth "Student") is giving a practice SRP presentation on people’s ability to distinguish between speaking and singing. //Student finishes presenting; more than half of the class raises their hand. Mike, to Matthew: Sorry, what’s everybody’s question? Matthew: Like, "what exactly did you do, again?" //Questions went on for half an hour. Below are some highlights. -- Harrison: So basically your project is about differentiating between speaking and singing. Do you have an objective definition of singing? Student: Singing is pleasing to the ears. Harrison: But do you have an objective definition? Student: No. Music is subjective. Harrison: Okay, so basically your project is meaningless. //Student calls on someone else. -- Arjuna: Doesn’t perception change with age? Student: Yeah, but age doesn’t really matter. Arjuna: So are you blocking by age? Student: Um... uh... yeah, sure. -- Eric: How many age blocks do you have? Student: Age doesn’t really matter. Eric: But are you blocking by age? Student: Uh, sure. Eric: So you have a sample size of 24, you have two gender blocks, and you have several age blocks. How will you be able to get statistically significant results? //Class laughs. Student: Well, after we have the data, we’ll figure out whether it’s statistically significant. Matthew: But Eric just figured out that it’s not statistically significant. Mike, to Matthew and Eric: Okay, we’ve determined that the whole project is BS. Let’s move on. //Student calls on the next person with a question. -- Sachin: Can you go back to the first slide? //Student goes back to the title slide. //5-second silence Student: So what’s your question? Sachin: Oh, I don’t have one. I just wanted you to go back to that slide. //Later Eric: Wait, why did you ask to go back to the first slide? Sachin: I just wanted to stall. Eric: So there wouldn’t be any more presentations? Sachin: Yeah, and to troll. -- Eric, to Mike: I think his project is not topologically equivalent to Salamano. //Note: Salamano, a character in _The Stranger_, is Eric’s go-to example of something that doesn’t have holes in it. Mike, to Eric: I think his project is topologically equivalent to a sponge. //After 5 seconds. Mike, to Eric: Actually, it’s topologically equivalent to a Sierpinski sponge, because it has no volume. Dennis, to Mike and Eric: If he did a math presentation, he would understand numbers better than anyone since Morris Kline. //Note: making fun of this ridiculous quote at the bottom of the front cover of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Loss-Certainty-Oxford-Paperbacks/dp/0195030850/ref=cm_rdp_product_img -- Ms. Bosse: Did anybody not ask a question yet? -- //This one might not be very accurate. //Kevin frantically waves his hand. Student calls on him. Kevin: You said during your presentation that audio evidence cannot be used in court, but I think that you can in fact use audio recordings in court. Student: Oh, by audio evidence I mean what people say they heard, not actual recordings. Kevin: But what if there’s hearsay? Student: What’s hearsay? //Kevin explains what hearsay is. Student: Oh, but I’m talking about actual recordings.