Insane EECS people
Dec. 17th, 2004 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanithryudoSo one of our homework assignments for cs162 was to sign up for a day to take lecture notes, which are then posted on the class website (and graded too). Naturally, some people take better notes than others.
Some people also take notes by taping the lecture and doing a verbatim transcription.
The latter are more useful when studying for exams, though, so we like these overly/obssessively complete neat-freaks. But it also means that in the middle of some stuff on Network Protocols, we get stuff like this:
/* Questions..?
* Questions..?
* Student: Did you see the football game?
* All: laughter
* Professor: No, but this has been the best team Berkeley
* has had and by the way our Cal band is so un-Berkeley.
* We should be more like the Stanford band.
* Students: (shocked expressions)
* Professor: Really, the Stanford band is really crazy and
* out there, and our band is so proper, it seems like it
* should be switched
* Okay...back to computers
*/
/* You are getting this next slide hot off the press,
* I just made it an hour ago
* Okay...
*/
/* Professor: By the way, when discussing cache coherence,
* coherence is not right word. The right word is consistency.
* Coherence means that things make sense, but the computation
* doesn't have to make sense it just has to be consistent.
* This may be because early papers were written by French
* guys, and not speaking English, probably just chose their
* best guess at an English word. Most techies, who are also
* not good speakers, just adopted word.
* All: Laughter.
* Professor: Okay...
*/
/* Professor: This is the fun section of the course where we
* get to talk about systems being broken into and destroyed,
* causing some people to believe that murder shouldn't really
* be completely illegal, just discouraged.
* All: laughter
* Professor: Okay...
*/
Now that I think about it, I was actually there for that particular lecture.
Be amused, dammit. :p
Some people also take notes by taping the lecture and doing a verbatim transcription.
The latter are more useful when studying for exams, though, so we like these overly/obssessively complete neat-freaks. But it also means that in the middle of some stuff on Network Protocols, we get stuff like this:
/* Questions..?
* Questions..?
* Student: Did you see the football game?
* All: laughter
* Professor: No, but this has been the best team Berkeley
* has had and by the way our Cal band is so un-Berkeley.
* We should be more like the Stanford band.
* Students: (shocked expressions)
* Professor: Really, the Stanford band is really crazy and
* out there, and our band is so proper, it seems like it
* should be switched
* Okay...back to computers
*/
/* You are getting this next slide hot off the press,
* I just made it an hour ago
* Okay...
*/
/* Professor: By the way, when discussing cache coherence,
* coherence is not right word. The right word is consistency.
* Coherence means that things make sense, but the computation
* doesn't have to make sense it just has to be consistent.
* This may be because early papers were written by French
* guys, and not speaking English, probably just chose their
* best guess at an English word. Most techies, who are also
* not good speakers, just adopted word.
* All: Laughter.
* Professor: Okay...
*/
/* Professor: This is the fun section of the course where we
* get to talk about systems being broken into and destroyed,
* causing some people to believe that murder shouldn't really
* be completely illegal, just discouraged.
* All: laughter
* Professor: Okay...
*/
Now that I think about it, I was actually there for that particular lecture.
Be amused, dammit. :p
