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Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]
- acomjean 13y agoalways makes me laugh
- Jabe 13y agoAnd the presentation version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
- frazerb 13y agochicken
- mattmaroon 13y agoI miss his Dominion client daily.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- TheCowboy 13y agoMe too. The official one feels clunky and cartoonish. But Innovation has been a good addiction replacement: http://innovation.isotropic.org http://innovation.isotropic.org
- rjuyal 13y agoChicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken[1]. Chicken chicken chicken {C(n)} chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken. ____ Chicken chicken chicken
- Mithrandir 13y agoChicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken: #!/chicken/chick/chicken chicken Chicken(chicken, chick, c): chicken chicken >= chick: # Chicken chicken chicken chick chicken(chicken-c) chick: chick chicken
- nathell 13y agoChicken chicken chicken-chicken chicken chicken Chicken Chicken? ((chicken chicken) (chicken chicken))
- Pitarou 13y agoNow that's what I call obfuscation.
- cskau 13y agoInterestingly, while Google Scholar has indexed the paper (from another site), it's actually only ranked number 2 for the query "chicken chicken chicken: chicken chicken": http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chicken+chicken+chicken%3A+chicken+chicken http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chicken+chicken+chicken%...
- smnrchrds 13y agoMore interestingly, it has been cited 9 times. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9396708367921284731&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9396708367921284731&...
- nahreally 13y agoI'm sorry, but is this what passes for academic typesetting nowadays? I felt as if I were sitting in some farcical business presentation as my eyes scanned this typographical travesty! This thing is an affront to the eyes as much as to the mind, utter tripe. Don't the mods have any taste? Hacker News is truly in the pits now.
- ars 13y agoReally? The typesetting is the only problem you noticed with it? Did you notice any typos?
- egypturnash 13y agoOld, but a true classic!
- zaph0d 13y ago"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" would have at least been grammatically correct.
- anonymous 13y agoIt is grammatically correct, since nouns can be verbed -- chicken can be a noun, verb and even adjective, even though its verb form doesn't have a defined meaning -- it's just meaningless. Think of it like this: struct chicken chicken(struct chicken chicken) { return chicken.chicken; } This will parse, it just won't compile, since we're missing the definition of struct chicken. Contrast with "chicken go fly", which is grammatically incorrect, but meaningful.
- James_Duval 13y agoIt does have a defined meaning, doesn't it? "to chicken (out of something)".
- riffraff 13y agoI though it was grammatically incorrect anyway i.e. (the) (adj)chicken (name)chicken (verb)chicken misses an "s" either on the verb or the name. But it could be an imperative form perhaps? As in "coward poultry, get out of there"
- James_Duval 13y agoHah, that is exactly what I thought. It doesn't lend itself well to strings of words longer than 3 though, because you can't "chicken" someone, as far as I know - and I don't intend on visiting Urban Dictionary to find out.
- AddisonRyan 13y ago...what combo you pickin?
- rosser 13y agoHoly semantic satiation, HN.
- navs 13y agoNow I really feel stupid. For the unenlightened, can someone shed some light on what this means please?
- srpeixinho 13y agoChicken
- bromagosa 13y agoWay older than the Internet... still fun though.
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- seanmcdirmid 13y agoThis is the best paper on Chicken scheme that I have ever been able to read.
- lipanski 13y agoI wonder whether there is an entire school of thought based on the principles (correctly) formulated within this paper.
- GotAnyMegadeth 13y agoMy favourite bit is: Chicken, chicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken 1987.
- Stately 13y agoThis is the lecture that accompanied the paper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
- gbraad 13y agoHe could have used random kanji/hanzi and probably be even more meaningful 胡说八道
- cjg 13y agoLISP version: (chicken chicken (chicken chicken chicken)) Can you come up with an implementation of chicken that allows this code to run?
- ajuc 13y agoI think any 2 argument function will work? At least in clojure. > (defn chicken [x y] 1) #'sandbox5403/chicken > (chicken chicken (chicken chicken chicken)) 1
- SlamminAtWork 13y ago(define chicken list)
- hkolek 13y agoI don't understand. Why is this funny? Are you all 5 year olds or am I missing something?
- pmelendez 13y agoBy itself is not that funny, but when you see the video posted here in the comments then you realize the joke in the full context. :)
- Hitchhiker 13y agoYabba-Doo.. Yippity-Yabbity-Doo [1] HECK YEAH, WE're 5 ! [1] - Scoobypedia
- cleverjake 13y agoI don't think there is a reason to be insulting. If you are legitimately asking a question - don't be rude. If you just don't like it - use the flag.
- bradleyland 13y agoIt's satire. Pretty good satire, IMO. If someone had simply dumped the word chicken in to a document broken in to paragraphs, it probably wouldn't get many laughs, but this document is very well executed. When you look at a lot of academic papers, you begin to notice patterns. It's very easy to get wrapped up in what you're doing, looking past how silly some of it can be. This document takes it to the extreme, but there are plenty of papers published on mind numbingly banal topics. That's why it's funny. It's a means of poking fun at one's self.
- matt__ring 13y agoYes, 43, going on 5. I laughed.
- tomweingarten 13y agoI wonder if one of those citations is to PLIF: http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc072.gif http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc072.gif
- Yuioup 13y ago:%s/\w\+/chicken/g
- groundCode 13y agoJames while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
- kelvin0 13y agoYeah, that post entry gets traction when other newsworthy stuff gets canned. HN is slowly slipping into a weird dimension where Zombies are taking over ...
- gruseom 13y agoHN has always had room for the occasional off beat. Since this is a clever parody of a stock computer science paper, it's not even a stretch to understand why it got upvoted. I admit that I didn't get it, though, until I watched the (much funnier) video. It's really a parody of a stock computer science talk, with associated paper.
- splawn 13y agoA few years ago, at work we were asked if we wanted steak or chicken for a lunch thing. I replied with this pdf as my answer.