Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken (2002) [pdf] (isotropic.org)

Chicken chicken chicken?

Watch to the end, the presenter responds to one of the audience's very erudite questions with an additional slide and it's just chef's kiss

My stomach hurts...I haven't laughed this much for as long as I can remember!

Oh my goodness, the last EXTRA slide was the tip of the iceberg for me ^_^

How come I didn't watch this ever before?! This is a masterpiece!

Starting the night before was when they had to work alone, this will be the hour before.

It's like a calculator for chickens. Useless though, since it says "duck" sometimes.

Chicken-GPT

The Parking Lot Is Full:

http://j.aufbix.org/plif/

It's a commentary that scientific papers are inscrutable and a slave to form, over intelligible content. I find it a weak argument. The author's conference presentation of it, though, is brilliant, a masterpiece.

I'd always thought it was an example of how peer reviewed journals are scammy. That this paper got accepted as peer reviewed science of some sort. But while of course peer reviewed science isn't objective (there are studies on this, peer reviewed naturally), this apparently isn't that.

It dates to 2003. I'm so surprised to see new commentary on this (blogs and what not) in 2021 and even later. I mean actual commentary and attempt to derive some insight from it on independent blogs/journals. Not just repeated link farming.

If you've read a lot of papers and/or attended conference presentations, you will find that you almost know what he is saying in the presentation version: https://youtu.be/yL_-1d9OSdk. The same charts in every presentation; up and to the right, my thing higher than previous thing, here's some boxes and lines that really mean nothing in this context, some standardized statistical distribution with my dots scattered about... there's a fairly standard presentation that one could give with almost just a few made up payload words for your thing and it would apply to almost anything.

I particularly remember in one of my machine learning classes where we had to give project presentations, the degree to which you could almost substitute the slide decks for each other and it would have been hard to notice.

It doesn't mean that they have no content necessarily, merely that there is some ground to riff on here.

I particularly like the presentation as one of the few bits of humor I know where you can make a two year old laugh and you can make a veteran professor laugh, and everyone in between, yet they are all laughing about different things at incredibly different levels of intellectual sophistication. The presentation is truly a humor masterpiece.

It was listed as a famous PDF in the post about Apple shipping the bitcoin paper with osx:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35461011

That post got a lot of attention, and all recent submissions come after that mention.

Chicken!

Smith where Jones had had had had had had had had had had the examiners' approval.

Chicken chicken? Chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken!

Interestingly in my native Russian, it can sound like a philosophical adage: курица курятника курочкой курит курирование куринных курсов... to be completely honest, not all of that means "chicken", but most of it does. This a great illustration of why some languages are hard to learn.