Iconic Things My Coding Professors Have Said (Part 13)
"i myself graduated from this course in 2020 at the height of corona, so i have a lot of experience in, uh... crying"
Prof1: "How do you evaluate your methods?" Speaker: "how do we... evalutae our methods?" Prof2: "they're a company, dave, they don't evaluate shit"
"Is there a laser? Ah, yes, here it is! We need more lasers in this life"
"So, what we're going to do now, is write this plain english example down in maths, do some... magic, and get the answer"
Student: "I was trying to explain how we've reclaimed the word queer" Prof: "are you trying to be a woke-ist?"
"the church was very cautious of a woman becoming such an influencial figure... not much has changed, huh?"
Prof1: "so, as you can clearly see from the marauders map that i bought specifically for this class-" Prof2: "you LIAR" Prof1: "I'm sorry, what?" Prof2: "you great big fat liar! I know you bought that map for yourself years ago!"
"coming from linguisics i felt that didn't really fit in, but it really helped my self image to do this course and- oh boy this is turning into a ted talk, isn’t it?"
Prof: "You mentioned annotating some truly horrible hate speech. Can you say something about how you maintain your mental health while doing this?" Speaker: "oh yes, i can say a LOT of things. Number one, funny cat videos"
"so what is the problem with this approach? it's too loco... local! it's too local! although loco isn't exactly wrong..."
Prof: "Do you think that AI will be able to generate movie’s based on requests in our lifetime?" Student: "no" Prof: "bet"
"As someone who had a degree in computational pyscholinguistics, which no one reading my resumé understood and a title which my in-laws still can't pronounce-”
"How are you guys doing? How are your projects coming along? Does everyone think they'll get it finished in time?” *silence* “... this excitement and enthusiasm is really blowing me away, guys"
"i asked a lawyer and they say not to do it but they're very... defensive... Literally. LOL!”
Prof1: "We'll only show the top three teams’ scores on the board and the others will get their results by email" Prof2: "Because they were so bad... i'm kidding! i'm kidding! or am i?”
"we're going to be working on the marauder's map from harry potter, are you all familiar with- wow, okay, you're all looking incredibly digusted that i ever doubted your hp knowledge, so i'm gonna take that as a yes"
Prof1: "can anyone tell me what a pickle is?" Prof2: "... a vegetable?" Prof1: "i was clearly asking about it in the context of machine learning, dave"
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