NeurIPS joke: our lab has k papers accepted, and k is a large number
gklambauer · x · 2026-09-25
An academic-circle joke: one researcher reports the lab has k NeurIPS 2026 papers, "since k is a large number, our science is great"; another quips they expected n or N—satirizing paper-count bragging in academia.
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