Take your comment and change any gendered words from male to female and ask yourself “Would I say this to or about a man in the same situation?” For example: “This office is a lot prettier than when I was here” [to a male graduate student, while thumbing the female grad student hard at work] [...]
January 19, 2012
It won't change
It was in the week before Christmas. An older friend of mine dropped by, as he does so every few weeks. He is a university employee, not faculty, with whom I struck up a passing friendship shortly after starting at Oregon State. We chatted for a while. He asked me how a recent work trip [...]
September 22, 2011
Inoffensive stable matching
I like to start my grad algorithms course with stable matching. It is a beautiful, clean, practical algorithm. It can be covered relatively quickly and give an overview of the basics of algorithm design and analysis. I love it. What I hate is that every treatment of stable matching available online and in the textbooks [...]