PhD scientist offered paid robotics collab citing his 'expertise in NaN'
chrisalbon · x · 2026-11-05
Chris Albon jokes that after getting a PhD and 15 years of hard work, he received a paid collaboration outreach from a robotics/automated-lab team praising his "background and expertise in NaN" — apparently misreading his specialty as the floating-point Not-a-Number value. The screenshot of this earnest outreach pitch is delighting the AI crowd.
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