Patrick Winston has died

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Post by nikofeyn » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 9:54 PM UTC

Patrick Winston has died
news.mit.edu

Re: Patrick Winston has died

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Post by tlb » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 10:02 PM UTC

His excellent "How to Speak" lectures can be found at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9F536001A3C605FC

Re: Patrick Winston has died

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Post by bobosha » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

He was a great man, I loved his courses at MIT. Definitely the best teacher I have had. RIP Prof. Winston.

Re: Patrick Winston has died

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Post by nikofeyn » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 10:09 PM UTC

can someone re-edit the title to change "Csail" back to "CSAIL", the way i had it in the first place? a moderator must have incorrectly edited the title, because "Csail" is incorrect.

Re: Patrick Winston has died

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Post by tlb » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 10:11 PM UTC

nikofeyn wrote: post #4

can someone re-edit the title to change "Csail" back to "CSAIL", the way i had it in the first place? a moderator must have incorrectly edited the title, because "Csail" is incorrect.

Changed.

Re: Patrick Winston has died

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Post by ddavis » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 10:12 PM UTC

Very sad, he was an amazing teacher. I love his MIT 6.034 lectures on youtube. One of the best is the SVM lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PwhiWxHK8o -- it's awesome how he gives the lecture to completion without any notes.

Re: Patrick Winston has died

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Post by segfaultbuserr » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 10:20 PM UTC

nikofeyn wrote: post #4

can someone re-edit the title to change "Csail" back to "CSAIL", the way i had it in the first place? a moderator must have incorrectly edited the title, because "Csail" is incorrect.

> a moderator must have incorrectly edited the title, because "Csail" is incorrect.

It's not a human moderator, it's the ALGORITHM (TM)! It seems Hacker News has a capitalization algorithm that automatically capitalizes the title to proper news headlines.

Most of the time it works well, but sometimes it would ruin intentional caps and it's pretty annoying. And mysteriously, it doesn't always trigger for all titles, it must have a set of hardcoded pattern-matching code.

Re: Patrick Winston has died

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Post by gumby » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 10:26 PM UTC

I had him for 6.034 and knew him from working in the lab. He was a great scientist and a good person.

He had more patience for me than I deserved.

Re: Patrick Winston has died

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Post by wittedhaddock » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 10:27 PM UTC

RIP Professor Best teacher I've ever had, he let me audit all his classes and took me/my ideas seriously at all times. And would grade my papers even though I was never an official student, or his his words "a paying customer." First Minsky now Patrick. RIP and perhaps they are both back in touch. ;(

Re: Patrick Winston has died

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Post by whymauri » Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 10:29 PM UTC

The best lecturer at MIT... this is so sad.