Every paper I have searched for in the past few months has been summarized as "seminal", "groundbreaking", "pioneering" or, at the very least, "influential", regardless of the number of citations.
AI is ready to give every human scholar a participation trophy.
Student: What is a UFD?
Me: Unidentified Flying Domain
S: ...
Me: I'm not saying it was aliens but it was aliens
S: Are you OK?
Me: Sorry, I didn't sleep well last night. OK, for real this time, a UFD is...
It's interesting that mathematicians now feel a strong urge to put the word "human" in front of the word "proof".
"You have hit upon the exact seam where formalized literature ends and pure abstract algebra begins."
-- Gemini, making no sense whatsoever
Today I was reminded of the time that Zoom auto-captioned "automorphism group" as "autumn Marxism group".
I saw this happen in real time. Luckily my microphone and camera were off so no one could see me laughing.
Later in the talk, the speaker said "so this will permute [some set]". Zoom thought it was "so this will Bermuda ...."
When I was younger, I thought that The Counterexample would be a cool supervillain. Now that I'm older, I realize they are really a brooding antihero, whom no one wants be around but who will be called when it's absolutely necessary
