Wondering how relatable this is: starting college I was v star-struck by "famous" profs, and I have since 100% lost that. Still have tons of professional respect for people but the "omg scary famous person" feeling isn't there anymore.
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Replying to @sydgibs
This reminds me of back in undergrad... I loved when professors would just wing-it in lecture because it helped me “see the ceiling”, i.e. get a since for how much further I had to climb in order to make it to the top. It was comforting to see that it really wasn’t that far off.
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Replying to @shwestrick @sydgibs
Except Frank Pfenning, who managed to do an entire semester of compilers lectures from memory. Some ceilings are unreachable.
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Wait... what? So no lecture notes/slides. Just from the top of his head?
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Heh, he did have notes on the course website which I assume he prepared from. But IIRC most lectures he just drew on the whiteboard for 80 mins without checking any notes.
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cognitive psychology. PhD