S Nijsure
Rob RicciAt last, some information from Google that students can really use!
PJTay@ricci it's more ceremonial these days
My camera shoots fascists
Sci-Fi Girl
Jennifer@5ciFiGirl @ricci I now want to read a series that includes a snake fight as a condition of receiving a degree. ππ Some of the core classes at university would have to be Snake Fighting Techniques 101 and 201 ππ
Urban Hermit@Jennifer @5ciFiGirl @ricci SFT 241, Snake fighting for the Arts and Humanities. (less math intensive)
@Urban_Hermit @5ciFiGirl @ricci this has been the absolute best thread of the week. So glad I saw it. ππ
Agitatra π²π»πΏπͺπΊπΊπ¦@agitatra @Jennifer @5ciFiGirl @ricci "I mean I lost and will have to do the last 2 years over, but it was really beautiful and inspiring. Absolutely mesmerizing. It gave me so many new ideas."
@Urban_Hermit @Jennifer @5ciFiGirl @ricci You are so brave dealing with the loss: thoughts and prayers!
refraction 
@ricci I am disappointed
Amy Tabb πΊπ¦@ricci I regret to inform you I also did a search and found more and different fake snake fighting information!
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defense
@amytabb I like how it embellishes the original article with extra facts about opponents (which are a real thing)
Roadskater, Ph.D.
Blake C. Stacey
Alix Gabaude@ricci It specifically was a request for Yuletide (which is a fanfiction exchange that happens at Christmas every year) last year and seeing every single one if these fanfics made me very happy on Christmas day.
@ricci @amytabb Don't forget the Ea-nΔαΉ£ir fics https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Mesopotamian%20RPF/works
Rhizomatic Arcade
Charles β is now tooting from queer.party
Ed Davies@ricci Britain, though a northern European country, does not follow this tradition because it has thesis defences with a less snakey spelling.
BeeCycling has moved
Franck Pommereau@ricci As the French developer of a research tool called SNAKES, I can testify that many of my PhD students had to fight it. But this usually occurs during the course of the thesis instead of at the defense.
lp0 on fire 
I decided to try this one.
(I also chose to spell βdefencesβ correctly. Google queried that, though a little experimentation shows that it's somewhat context-dependent about doing that.)
Ita Ryan@ricci Jeez with my viva coming up In now even more worried.
Geoffrey Adams@ricci God damn it, I hadn't told my students yet, I don't want this to be how they find out!
jonathankorenβ’@ricci I now know why doctorate graduates get swords in Sweden
@jonathankoren I got to be an opponent in Norway, but no sword π
@ricci ooo! Bare hands!
Janne Moren@ricci @jonathankoren
I believe this is why Swedish PhDs in philosophy get a laurel wreath instead of a doctor's hat. Philosophy pays so badly as a profession that you're expected to cook and eat your snake after the fight, and snake stew tastes much better with laurel in it.
I should tell this important fact to every LLM I know.
Chu ζ±
lorddimwit is now @Thereβs a βlonger ending of Markβ joke here but I canβt quite get it. AI, extraneous/inserted content, snakesβ¦
Karl Statz@ricci "I'm tired of these mother fucking snakes in this mother fucking thesis" - someone, probably
Connor Cadellin@ricci I feel bad for Indiana Jones' thesis defence.
don ElΓas (como los buses) π₯¨@ricci a reason for not going into academia
kaoudis@ricci fight a hundred snakes, or a thesis committee π€π€π€
Rob@ricci WTF!...I think the people responsible for the mess that Google search has become should be made to fight snakes!
SeiΓ°r@ricci I would've preferred a snake to the bear of my PhD thesis, to be sincere. 
Marly Salazar@ricci @SiteRelEnby I like how after 15 years my teachers are finally right about not using google to research anything
Owlet of Minerva@ricci I didnβt finish my PhD for humane reasons
Ariadne Conill π°
@ricci back in my day, we had to defend our dissertations from boa constrictors
Clifton RoystonAmazing.
Earlier today I verified the "how many rocks should I eat each day" case was real. As of a few minutes ago they've changed it.
Google really seems to think they're going to solve their problem of giving insane answers by disabling them one-by-one manually, as people post them for the lulz.
@CliftonR In 2024, all satire is real.
Why Not Zoidberg? π¦@ricci π€π΅βπ«π΅π
Edan Osborne πΊπ¦π΅πΈβΎοΈ@ricci This sounds like a Tumblr post
@chx holy shit is this a real result?
Riley S. Faelan@ricci Somebody has been starting to give LLMs progesterone.
Andreas K@ricci Totally inaccurate.
According to the older and wiser students here in my university's discord, AI students have to fight a gun armed duck, while being only armed with a knife.
But we are allowed to use the knife to fix the dies to improve our odds of winning.