Not quite the same, and it sounds kind of hellish, but check out Polyphasic Sleeping.

Some of these studies sound pretty interesting. Links to them in the article:

Botany

Given to Jacob White in the US and Felipe Yamashita in Germany for reporting evidence that the South American plant Boquila trifoliolata can mimic the leaves of plastic plants it is placed alongside, leading them to conclude that “plant vision” is a plausible hypothesis.

Medicine

Won by a Swiss, German and Belgian group for demonstrating that fake medicine that causes painful side-effects can be more effective in patients than fake medicine that does not cause painful side-effects.

Physics

Awarded to James Liao at the University of Florida for a comprehensive, multi-publication investigation into the swimming abilities of a dead trout.

Probability

Shared by a team of 50 researchers, mostly Dutch, who flipped 350,757 coins to test a hypothesis put forward by Persi Diaconis, a former magician and professor of statistics at Stanford University. Their work supported Diaconis’s prediction that tossed coins are (slightly) more likely to land the same way up as they started.

I dunno fam, I can see this one happening.

That’s exactly why Sarah broke up with him.

Usually the talks are just an advertisement for the paper. The real value of in-person conferences is meeting your peers and talking about your field in less-formal settings i.e. during the dinner and breaks.

btw if you’re a student, see if there are any student organizations to join, especially if they do workshops or research tracks at a conference, it’s a great way to build a network.

Hmm… In school they would be taught some magic that is not really useful but that “has pedagogical value.” At work they’d be forced to use the magic that the market demands, but it’d be unimaginative and micromanaged. But they would have some hobby magics that are very amusing but slightly embarassing…

Contemporary LLMs are static. LLMs are not static by definition.

“Darling he meant nothing to me! He was just a one-hit wonder!”

I don’t see any clowns in the pictures. That would also make them… comic sans.

Egypt is 1,596 km away from Greece in OUR world. But they’re in a whole new world.

!fuck_ai@lemmy.world and sometimes !sneerclub@awful.systems

If you’re REALLY strict, then “retaining the memory of it happening” is a consequence. So maybe this already happened under the strict setting, but none of us remember it.

Insufficient information. Need to know the physician’s gang affiliation.

I realize this is supposed to depict a hellish situation, but this is literally a primate among the branches.

Not every community does it this way. For example, computational linguistics put most of their conference proceedings online for free: https://aclanthology.org/. Deep learning researchers just publish a lot of stuff to arxiv.

Academic publishers like Elsevier are predatory scammers.