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Humor
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loldefi
loldefi.com — a DeFi-themed community or humor site bookmarked during a DeFi research session alongside Foundry, Alpha Pro, and AMM theory. Content unavailable at processing time.
"RIP My Portfolio" — December 2021 Crypto Drawdown
A retweeted image lamenting crypto portfolio losses in December 2021 — saved during the mid-cycle correction that preceded the 2022 bear market. A timestamp on market sentiment at a specific moment.
The Art of Code — Dylan Beattie
Dylan Beattie's 'The Art of Code' is a conference talk covering the weird, playful, and surprisingly profound corners of software — esoteric languages, code golf, musical programming, and the question of what 'beautiful code' even means. A reminder that software is a creative medium.
Fizz Buzz in TensorFlow
Joel Grus deliberately solves FizzBuzz using TensorFlow — a satirical demonstration of using a neural network where simple conditional logic would do. A sharp critique of ML overcomplexity disguised as a tutorial.
Is It Pokemon or Big Data?
A quiz that asks whether a name belongs to a Pokemon or a Big Data tool — hilariously difficult because the Hadoop ecosystem's naming conventions are indistinguishable from fictional creature names. A sharp cultural critique disguised as a game.
That Time When "Recurrent Neural Network" Was Replaced with "Dog"
The joke where replacing 'recurrent neural network' with 'dog' in ML papers produces sentences that remain plausible — a 2015 meme that captured real frustration with AI hype language. Still a useful test for vague ML claims.
The IV Doc
The IV Doc — an on-demand intravenous drip service for rehydration, saved in response to a joke tweet. A cultural artifact of the 2014 San Francisco startup-and-excess moment.
Dog GIF
A dog GIF saved from Giphy, shared with Rachel Binx and Fulgent EFT as a 'current status' reaction. Ephemeral humor from July 2014.
Math Dance
An imgur image captioned 'Oldie, but a goodie. Math dance!' — a humorous mathematics meme saved from the data science community's social feed.
"Data Visualization Be Like" — Rachel Binx Tweet
Rachel Binx's 'data visualization be like' tweet — a humorous jab at data viz complexity or pretension, circulated in the data science Twitter community in mid-2014.
Spurious Correlations
Tyler Vigen's Spurious Correlations site generates charts showing absurd correlations between unrelated variables — US cheese consumption vs. deaths by bedsheet tangling, etc. The clearest possible demonstration that correlation does not imply causation.
Happy Holidays: Five Gifts for the Data Scientist on Your List
AnalyticBridge holiday post listing gifts for data scientists — saved for the quote that circulated on Twitter: 'A data scientist is a machine for turning coffee into insights.' A cultural artifact of the 2013 data science hype moment.
The Double Wrap Trick
Viral tweet about a double-wrap food trick — a non-technical bookmark, likely saved for amusement.
The Burrito Bomber
Darwin Aerospace's Burrito Bomber — a fixed-wing UAV that delivers burritos to GPS coordinates via a parachute-drop system. A 2012 maker project that presaged the commercial drone delivery industry by a decade, framed as humor but technically serious.
Kittydar: JavaScript Cat Face Detection
Kittydar is a JavaScript library for cat face detection in images — a real implementation of neural-network-based object detection in the browser, released in 2012 when running ML in JavaScript was novel and this kind of project showed what was becoming possible.
The Genetics of Muggle/Wizard Inheritance
A fan-written genetic analysis explaining how the wizarding gene in Harry Potter could be singular, autosomal, and dominant despite apparent exceptions like Muggle-born witches and squibs. A delightful example of real science applied to fictional worldbuilding.
Artisanal Pencil Sharpening
David Rees's artisanal pencil sharpening service — genuinely real, not a joke — charged $15 to $35 to sharpen a single pencil by hand using specialized tools, with a certificate of authenticity. A perfect cultural artifact of the 2012 artisanal/craft backlash against mass production.
God Uses Lisp
A Twitpic image shared with the caption 'Guess God really does use Lisp' — programmer humor around the idea that the universe's underlying structure resembles a Lisp program. A recurring joke in hacker culture about Lisp's elegance and its position as the 'language of ideas'.