#applicable alg

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It turns out my children can open doors. Like the velociraptors in jurassic park.

- applicable alg professor and the challenges of online instruction

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we spent over half an hour trying to figure out why this hw problem worked as it does and there might not even be a deeper reason behind it and we possibly spent longer on the problem than anyone else in the class on it despite the fact that unlike most people, we’ve done this stuff before. But in making the homeworks so easy, our professor has simply made us shoot straight for the rabbit hole every time anything remotely interesting happens.

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Discrete prof: I was just talking about my kids getting to spray paint and now [alg prof] wants a giant spiked icosahedron to destroy campus

Alg prof: Math is breaking down barriers!

Part of a long and fantastic conversation before applicable alg class

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Under any system of common sense, you wouldn’t let a trickster god made a mathematician teach cryptology class but yet here it is and it’s the best

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TFW your guess for the RSA puzzle your prof gave the class is "be sure to drink your wolverine"

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You’re not laughing villianously!

- applicable alg professor after including it in the worksheet instructions

Follow up: i come back to lab meeting later that afternoon from the bathroom or something to find him laughing villainous. “Is that what you wanted from the class earlier?” “Eh”