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I took Huffman's class "Cybernetics" (we never discussed origami) which was pretty fun. It's the only CS class I ever took in college, and the only class I fai
by dekhn 3y ago
I took Huffman's class "Cybernetics" (we never discussed origami) which was pretty fun. It's the only CS class I ever took in college, and the only class I failed (his tests were hard). The class was filled with interesting tidbits of information theory and random interesting math problems like sphere packing.
- jmspring 3y agoCybernetics, if I recall rightly, was a “multidisciplinary (80 series when I was there) class, no? His classes were my favorite because he was one of the few profs that really didn’t sugar coat things and appreciated those that put effort in.
- dekhn 3y agoWell, this was 1993 so my memory may be faulty but I believe it was a CS class (or maybe math?) I put the effort in but he didn't appreciate me. I still got a lot of out of the course, though: the imposter syndrome it gave me made me work extra hard to learn actual CS I needed to be successful later in my career.
- jmspring 3y agoHe was a hardass. I had a class with an acquiantence/friend (who went on to found two start ups) and failed is 103a class the first time around with Huffman. We caught Huffman in a mistake and gave back as good as he gave. It was a fun time. Learned a lot.