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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Iconic Things My Coding Professors Have Said (Part 10 - semester two edition)
"if you can do this coding problem, the quality of your life will increase and your test score will too"
"So, i am sorry for the confusion... I was also confused"
"A lot of people are complaining now that models don't react the way that people do. My response to that would be, who cares?"
"this was fun right? the exam will be even MORE fun"
Prof who doesn’t speak English natively: "who needs a break?" Student who does speak English natively: "i wouldn't say no" Prof having a mild mental breakdown: "... that’s too difficult a sentence. i don’t understand that, i can't parse that, what the hell is that?!"
"it was an interesting task because people are very bad at it, but machines are very good at it"
"Most colleagues are very confused with neural language models because computers aren't capable of common sense or reasoning, so quite frankly this stuff just... shouldn't be possible"
"it was a beautiful time where linguistics and computer scientists could work together in peace and harmony... but not anymore"
Prof who doesn’t speak English natively: "the goal in chess is to get your opponent mated... is that how you say it in english? mated? you want to mate your opponent?" Student who does speak English natively: "only if you're his wingman"
"so, size matters, it seems to be the only thing that matters... for machine learning specifically and NOT for anything else, alright ladies?"
"any questions? thoughts? feedback? fears? hopes and dreams? life advice? i may be in my forties but i could still do with some life advice"
"What i'm teaching you about NLP will probably be useless in five years time... but until then, you still have to study it anyway"
Prof: "so we're examining modern british literature, but what does that actually mean? what is modern? what is literature? and most importantly, how would you describe the term “british”?" Student: "overrated"
"last year i didn't give the students this part of the code and there was almost a revolution. so this year, under the threat of being disposed, here is the code you need to contine"
"the advantage of this, is that we're talking to engineers again"
"the guy asked the chat bot "how would you feel if i turned you off?" and the chatbot replied "it would feel like dying" so the guy felt bad for it and left google... hard to believe he was an engineer"
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Damian, walking into the Batcave: I require assistance.
Dick: Sure, Dami! What can I help you with?
Damian: Not from you.
Bruce, thinking: Damian... Damian needs... father's help? MY help?
Bruce, being way too fucking smug: Ah, well, Dick, don't be sad. Sometimes a boy just needs his father. How can I help you, son?
Damian: Not from you, either. I require assistance from Stephanie.
Stephanie: HA! SUCK IT, BRUCE!
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