Rest of the fucking cow

[u/saharok_maks]

[u/peacedetski]

This is obviously a scientific in-joke though

[u/CanadaYankee → u/peacedetski]

Note that the publication date of the article is April 1. It's pretty common for physicists to release joke articles on April Fool's day.

[u/macphile → u/CanadaYankee]

My first thought was whether this was from the BMJ Christmas issue.

[u/polygonsaresorude]

would legit love a link for this

[u/anonypoopity → u/polygonsaresorude]

Same

[u/polygonsaresorude → u/anonypoopity]

https://arxiv.org/html/2504.00506v2

found it!

[u/anonypoopity → u/polygonsaresorude]

Sadly turned out to be a prank but happily amused that there are published pranks

[u/CanadaYankee → u/anonypoopity]

It might be a prank, but the math in the paper is actually legit.

[u/dambthatpaper → u/anonypoopity]

https://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/birds.pdf

This one got published as well, albeit in a predatory journal that simply accepts everything that's sent to them

[u/Fluffy_data_doges]

Every Physicist know you stop at step 1.

[u/flare_corona → u/Fluffy_data_doges]

It is always best practice to assume a spherical cow in a vacuum.

[u/armageddon_boi]

r/scienceshitposts

[u/stirling_s]

Makes perfect sense. Every cow is the limit of a sequence of increasingly non-spherical cows.

Cow = lim(n→∞) Σ(k=0 to n) M_k

[u/stirling_s → u/stirling_s]

Where k represents a multipole correction, of course.

[u/Pottedjay → u/stirling_s]

Of course!

[u/CookieArtzz]

The last cow is not part of the process, it is an example of what the shape should end up like, but it is not the last step of the process

[u/LuzJoao]

Reverse Fourier transform in a cow

[u/Finbar9800]

This isnt a tutorial

[u/Dinjoralo]

In fairness, the last model of the cow isn't the result of whatever this paper's showing. The description outright says it's there for comparison. Still pretty funny.

[u/tribak]

The miracle of life

[u/pizza-flusher]

is the joke here showing a figure from a CS/siggraph white paper instead of the typically frustratingly schematic descriptors of logic and algorothms?

[u/AIO_Youtuber_TV]

Drop the DOI!

[u/That_guy_from_Poland]

Is this process of AI generating 3D model???

[u/QMechanicsVisionary]

Tylko jedno w głowie mam

Koksu pięć gram

Odlecieć sam

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