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When I was a first year computer science undergraduate at University of York, I bumped into Sir Tony Hoare at the bus stop outside Ron Cooke Hub in Heslington East campus the day before I learnt quicksort. | When I was a first year computer science undergraduate at University of York, I bumped into Sir Tony Hoare at the bus stop outside Ron Cooke Hub in Heslington East campus the day before I learnt quicksort. | ||
- | I have never heard of him before. He was complaining about the bus being late. He looked like a learned scholar, considering that we were not far away from the Department of Computer Science, I said to him that the bus arrival time is Poisson distributed, | + | I have never heard of him before. He was complaining about the bus being late. He looked like a learned scholar, considering that we were not far away from the Department of Computer Science, I said to him that the bus arrival time is Poisson distributed, |
Anyway, for quite a while, I joked that the best pick-up line would be a discussion about Poisson distribution. You end up talking to really intellectual people. | Anyway, for quite a while, I joked that the best pick-up line would be a discussion about Poisson distribution. You end up talking to really intellectual people. | ||
Dr Jeremy Jacob (https:// | Dr Jeremy Jacob (https:// |
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