Wednesday, May 02, 2007

This week's topic was probability. From the lecture notes: "The Halting Problem is the canonical undecided problem in computation theory that was first introduced by Alan Turing in his seminal 1936 paper. The problem is to determine whether a Turing machine halts on a given ... blah, blah, blah. But what's much more important, it is the name of the MIT EECS department's famed C-league hockey team."

I'm gonna miss Professor Meyer next year. This is almost as good as the time he told us that his best student ever did his most important work while stoned. (Which was different than the lecture where the TA told us "you guys come up with the weirdest fucking ans- oh, never mind, I'm on crack". I see a sequel in the works: There's Something About Mathematicians, perhaps.)

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