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On slide 22, what does his fake name say in Greek? Catastropheaz Dedomeviv?

• jaspax 3y ago
  Katastropheas dedomenon Means, I think, "given over to overthrows".
  • greenpeas 3y ago
    google translate gives a different translation: data shredder or data destructor https://translate.google.com/?sl=el&tl=en&text=%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%AD%CE%B1%CF%82%20%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B4%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BD%20&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=el&tl=en&text=%CE%BA%CE%B1%...
    • hgsgm 3y ago
      Dedomenon meant given in the Biblical past, and data now. ("Take is as given", in a logical/mathematical sense). For a database integrity scientist, "data destroyer" makes sense.
      • jaspax 3y ago
        Ha! Well, that's what I get for having studied Classical Greek in school but not Modern Greek.
• apavlo 3y ago
  I have no idea what it's supposed to say. I think I just put "Andy Pavlopolis" into Google Translate. It's meant to be a joke. Before I started at CMU, all of the database professors in the city of Pittsburgh (Carnegie Mellon + University of Pittsburgh) were Greek. So the joke is that the only reason that I got hired at CMU was because I pretended to be Greek with a fake Greek name. It's in the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2MEcvMHzkY&t=4507s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2MEcvMHzkY&t=4507s