“‘STEM Humor’ Tag”,2019-11-28 (humor)⁠:

Bibliography for tag math/humor, most recent first: 2 related tags, 115 annotations, & 60 links (parent).

• See Also
• Gwern
  • “The Carcinisation of Satan”, Gwern2024
  • “Paperclip Alignment Chart”, Gwern2023
  • “The Math of Hunting Lions”, Gwern2021
  • “Rare Greek Variables”, Gwern2021
  • “Gilles Goullet, Author of the Blindsight”, Gwern2010
• Links
  • “How a Silly Science Prize Changed My Career: A Levitating Frog, a Necrophiliac Duck, Taxi Drivers’ Brains—The Ig Nobel Prizes Have Shined a Spotlight on Offbeat Work. Here’s an inside Look at How Winners Feel about This Sometimes Unwanted ‘Honor’”, Clarke2024
  • “On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers [Claude-3.5-Sonnet]”, Claude-3 2024
  • “An Abundance of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming”, Blumer et al 2024
  • “Polyamorous Scheduling”, Gąsieniec et al 2024
  • “Paperclip Alignment Chart (Alternate)”, saturn2 2023
  • “A LLM Assisted Exploitation of AI-Guardian”, Carlini2023
  • “On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers”, Gwern et al 2023
  • “Can a Good Philosophical Contribution Be Made Just by Asking a Question?”, Habgood-Coote et al 2022
  • “Immaterials and Methods: Reagents for the Total Laboratory Synthesis of the Chocolate Chip Cookie”, Schlonk2022
  • “Rare Greek Variables”, Bayer2021
  • “Are Cats Good? An Important Study”, Owen & Lamon2021b
  • “My Cat Chester’s Dynamical Systems Analysyyyyy7777777777777777y7is of the Laser Pointer and the Red Dot on the Wall: Correlation, Causation, or SARS-Cov-2 Hallucination?”, Armstrong & Chester2021
  • “How Fast Can Evangelion Run? Application Of Aerodynamics And Scaling Laws To The Super Robot”, Ryu et al 2020
  • “Single Headed Attention RNN: Stop Thinking With Your Head”, Merity2019
  • “A Mulching Proposal”, Keyes et al 2019
  • “Real Numbers, Data Science and Chaos: How to Fit Any Dataset With a Single Parameter”, Boué2019
  • “Spooky Fizz Buzz § Pg42”, Menghrajani2019 (page 42)
  • “Mathematicians Who Never Were”, Pieronkiewicz2018
  • “Super-Earths in Need for Extremely Big Rockets”, Hippke2018
  • “It’s a Man Eat Man World”, Graham et al 2017
  • “Factoring in the Chicken McNugget Monoid”, Chapman & O’Neill2017
  • “F—K Nuance”, Healy2017
  • “On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines”, Garfinkel et al 2017
  • “Identifying the Source of Perytons at the Parkes Radio Telescope”, Petroff et al 2015
  • “Optimal Tip-To-Tip Efficiency: a Model for Male Audience Stimulation”, Chugtai & Gilfoyle2014
  • “Heaven Is Hotter Than Hell & A Refutation”, Simanek2014
  • “A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Economist Coauthors”, Goodman et al 2014
  • “Two Curious Integrals and a Graphic Proof”, Schmid2014
  • “Searching the Internet for Evidence of Time Travelers”, Nemiroff & Wilson2013
  • “The Survival Time of Chocolates on Hospital Wards: Covert Observational Study”, Gajendragadkar et al 2013
  • “Possible Bubbles of Spacetime Curvature in the South Pacific”, Tippett2012
  • “Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate”, Gunji et al 2012
  • “Non-Detection of the Tooth Fairy at Optical Wavelengths”, Armstrong2012
  • “Gods As Topological Invariants”, Schoch2012
  • “A Parasite from Outer Space: How Sergei Kurekhin Proved That Lenin Was a Mushroom”, Yurchak2011
  • “Quantum Computation With Devices Whose Contents Are Never Read”, Yakaryilmaz et al 2010
  • “The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution”, Mankiw & Weinzierl2010
  • “Are Birds Smarter Than Mathematicians? Pigeons (Columba Livia) Perform Optimally on a Version of the Monty Hall Dilemma”, Herbranson & Schroeder2010
  • “Time Variation of a Fundamental Dimensionless Constant”, Scherrer2009
  • “Big Game Hunting for Graduate Students in Mathematics”, Athreya & Khare2009
  • “COM3200: Programming Language Semantics: Chapter 5. Induction Techniques. 5.5. Backward Induction and Petard’s BGH Theorem”, Birtwistle2009
  • “Japan’s Phillips Curve Looks Like Japan”, Smith2008
  • “Possible Girls”, Sinhababu2008
  • “Down-Sizing Forever”, Scott & Frolop2008
  • “Rugby (the Religion of Wales) and Its Influence on the Catholic Church: Should Pope Benedict XVI Be Worried?”, Payne2008
  • “Sex, Aggression, and Humour: Responses to Unicycling”, Shuster2007
  • “Serge Lang, 1927^–₇₈2005_19ya § Part 1: Paul Vojta, University of California, Berkeley”, Jorgenson & Krantz2006 (page 12)
  • “A Box, Darkly: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Esthetics”, Mateas & Montfort2005
  • “The Case of the Disappearing Teaspoons: Longitudinal Cohort Study of the Displacement of Teaspoons in an Australian Research Institute”, Lim et al 2005
  • “Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty: an Early Report of Prosopagnosia?”, Larner2004
  • “The Temperature of Heaven and Hell [Retrospective]”, Pérez2001
  • “Storks Deliver Babies (p = 0.008)”, Matthews2001
  • “Some Remarkable Properties of Sinc and Related Integrals”, Borwein & Borwein2001
  • “Is Hell Endothermic or Exothermic? Old Collegiate Legend Involves a Student’s Coming up With a Clever Proof about the Physical Properties of Hell”, Mikkelson2000
  • “A Letter from the Frustrated Author of a Journal Paper”, Glass2000
  • “What Do Animals Do All Day? The Division of Labor, Class Bodies, and Totemic Thinking in the Popular Imagination”, Martin2000
  • “(Para)bosons, (para)fermions, Quons and Other Beasts in the Menagerie of Particle Statistics”, Greenberg et al 1993
  • “Szeged in 1934”, Lorch & Hersh1993
  • Geoffrey Sonnabend: Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter—An Encapsulation (Fourth Edition, Abridged), Worth1991
  • “Lion-Hunting With Logic”, Euler1985
  • “Letters [Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 4, Issue 1, March 1982]”, Neumann et al 1982
  • “Humour: The Interdisciplinary Denominator in Science”, Kohn1982
  • “An Epistemological Nightmare”, Smullyan1982
  • “Child’s Play: A Distorting Factor in Archaeological Distribution”, Hammond & Hammond1981
  • “Seven Years of Manifold: 1968^–₁₂1980_44ya”, Stewart & Jaworski1981
  • “A Rebuke of A. B. Smith‘s Paper, ‘A Note on Piffles’”, Farlow1980
  • “Paul Darwin Foote (1888^–₈₃1971_53ya) § The Temperature of Heaven & Hell”, Astin1979 (page 12)
  • “15 New Ways To Catch A Lion”, Stewart1976
  • “The First Sally (A), Or, Trurl’s Electronic Bard § Love And Tensor Algebra”, Lem & Kandel1974 (page 7)
  • “Further Techniques in the Theory of Big Game Hunting”, Dudley et al 1968
  • “Some Modern Mathematical Methods in the Theory of Lion Hunting”, Morphy1968
  • “On the Enfeeblement of Mathematical Skills by ‘Modern Mathematics’ and by Similar Soft Intellectual Trash in Schools and Universities”, Hammersley1968
  • “A Note On Piffles, By A. B. Smith”, Austin1967
  • “On a Theorem of H. Pétard”, Roselius1967
  • “A New Method of Catching a Lion”, Good1965
  • A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown: Essays for a Scientific Age, Baker1963
  • “On The Nature Of Mathematical Proof”, Cohen1961
  • “Hiawatha’s Lipid”, Sinclair1960
  • “Mathmanship”, Vanserg1958
  • “How to Write Geologese”, Vansberg1952
  • “How Newton Discovered the Law of Gravitation”, Miller1951
  • “A Royal Practical Joke”, Oesper1948
  • “A Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Big Game Hunting”, Pétard1938
  • “Some Unattractive Meta-Ethical Positions, Free to a Good Home”
  • “Theological Engineering Exam”, Anonymous2024
  • “Some AI Koans § Http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241”, Raymond2024
  • “Some AI Koans”, Raymond2024
  • “Bahfest”
  • “Determining Cat Chirality”
  • The Space Child’s Mother Goose, Regehr2024
  • “Extremely Linear Git History”, zegl 2024
  • “The Hardest Chess Problem in the World?”
  • “HTTP Cats”
  • “Is the Great Attractor a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?”
  • “King James Programming”
  • “Occupy Babel!”
  • “The New Economics of Chess”
  • “Does Garlic Protect against Vampires? An Experimental Study”
  • “The Association for Computational Heresy”
  • “SIGBOVIK 2019”
  • “Turing-Complete Chess Computation”
  • “How to Burn a Magnesium NeXT Cube”
  • “Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design”
  • “Futurama Theorem”
  • “Scunthorpe Sans: a Profanity-Blocking Font”
  • “Population Dynamics in Madoka”
  • “BMJ Christmas Issue”
  • “The Most Popular Chess Streamer on Twitch”
  • “What Are You Paying For in a $300 Chess Set? Mostly the Knights”
  • “How Magnus Carlsen Turned Chess Skill Into a Business Empire”
  • “Frayn’s Spoof of Wittgenstein”
  • “Seraphim: An Angelic Conlang for Agma Schwa’s Cursed Conlang Contest”
  • “Harder Drive: Hard Drives We Didn’t Want or Need”, tom7 2024
  • “Bracket Symbols”, Munroe2024
  • “Correlation”, Munroe2024
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