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#9931

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Feb. 8, 2022, 9:17 a.m.

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// Presentations on sorting algorithms Sahu: Quicksort, noiceeeeee. Everyone's favorite sorting algorithm. // Later, someone is presenting bogosort Sahu: This is beautiful, I know this algorithm sucks but its beautiful. // Later Sahu: So back when I was at UMD, there was this poem writing contest for CS people and the winner would get a free t-shirt. Sahu: And I wrote a poem about Bogosort, and it was about how nobody loved me because my big O was too big. Sahu: Turns out I was the only person who entered the contest. Sahu: I don't know why CS majors don't want to write poems to win shirts.

He said it was a good t-shirt though || Bogosort is slow / its big O is very huge / whatever the last line was

aoa, sahu, sorting, poetry

#9008

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Feb. 18, 2021, 11:42 a.m.

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Kirk: I could imagine someone writing an entire calculus course ... as poetry.

#9007

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Feb. 17, 2021, 12:36 p.m.

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Student: Keep in mind -- I'm not Amanda Gorman.

#8951

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Jan. 28, 2021, 12:24 p.m.

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//reading student's message Kirk: "We're all fractals." Kirk: That's poetic.

#7437

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April 23, 2018, 8:51 a.m.

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Stein: I wrote a couplet //Class looks up in naive anticipation Stein: P-value low, reject the Ho

#5870

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April 4, 2016, 9:17 p.m.

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//While presenting on Walt Whitman in English class, Anna mentions that he was criticized by a man named John Peter Wesley Anna: But in the end, it all worked out for him, because he has a high school named after him. I don't see a John Peter Wesley High School anywhere.

#2104

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Sept. 15, 2010, 7:08 p.m.

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//Poetry in English class Student: Wow, that's ironic! Stelzner: The irony is that this isn't ironic -- it just sucks.

#2090

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Sept. 10, 2010, 2:41 p.m.

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//Students are composing poems during modsim Lev: We should write a haiku! Shirley: My favourite haiku is Roses are red Violets are blue I'll beat you with a rake //everyone laughs Shirley: Oh wait, maybe it isn't a haiku...