Following citations until you hit a guy in 1974 saying 'could be'
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-10-15
A relatable joke about academic citation chains: follow one citation to another and you eventually land on a 1974 paper whose entire claim is a vague "could be." A meme that resonates with anyone digging through references, especially in AI research.
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