A field guide to Chinese AI Twitter's "PhD theories": big bench, big intern, big fan count
malliktwts · x · 2026-11-16
Billy Zhang rounds up the meme "theories" circulating in Chinese-language AI Twitter about PhD life, joking that it feels like "a hundred schools of thought contending": the Big Bench theory, Big Intern theory, Big Fan theory, Big Day-rate theory, Big Slope theory, HR theory and more, each linked to the original posts. A fun snapshot of Chinese AI academia's meme culture.
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