Grad students: devices that turn their employed friends' tweets into papers
aryaman2020 · x · 2026-09-24
An AI-circle joke: "a grad student is a device that turns their employed friends' tweets into papers," quoting interpretability researcher khoomeik's quip that backprop is his favorite interp researcher — she can identify neurons for any behavior, and her steering vectors are just gradients.
More from Fun
- Claude Opus 5.5 draws a 40-second 'how browsers work' animation frame by frame in JS — addyosmani · 2026-09-24
- Who rebranded classifiers as 'decision models'? HF dev calls out the marketing — AntonObukhov1 · 2026-09-24
- AI meme: "Wet Claude" implies the existence of the wet lab — beffjezos · 2026-09-24
- Extrapolating ICLR Submissions to 1.23 Trillion by 2046 Sparks Sci-Fi First Contact Joke — prajdabre · 2026-09-24
- Meta Mocked for 'Inventing the Tamagotchi' as Users Say They Want One — jonstephens85 · 2026-09-24
- Robots fold laundry and write code, but camera calibration still takes hours — RexDouglass · 2026-09-24