jonjonc ([info]jonjonc) wrote,
@ 2006-07-06 10:20:00
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Colloquium Bingo
(via Obscure and Confused Ideas)

Next time you are bored in a colloquium talk, why not play this fun little bingo game?

While most of that card is univerally applicable, some of it seems more geared towards philosophy. Anyone got some good maths and/or computer science ones? Or, heck, some other subject? I'll have a bash at this:

Computer Science:

* Speaker reads slides to audience
* Audience member checks email on wireless connection
* Speaker flashes 20 slides of graphs with no discussion of the experiment design
* Speaker discusses the one case where their algorithm is superior but neglects to mention that it is slaughtered in every other case
* Audience member suggests that their pet theory would provide a better solution, citing jargon and chanting letters like HMM, FPGA and CSP

Maths:

* Speaker writes in tiny illegible handwriting
* Audience member proof reads their latest paper
* Audience member states that the problem has already been solved but neglects to mention that the solution uses different hypotheses, a different construction and came on the back of a cereal box

A very easy modification yields a fun drinking game...



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[info]easwaran
2006-07-08 06:41 pm UTC (link)
What do you do for Hartley Slater's AAP talk last year, where he read his slides, which were also his handout, which was also the entire paper in paragraphs and everything!

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[info]jonjonc
2006-07-09 04:40 am UTC (link)
cry? :-)

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[info]pozorvlak
2007-12-16 01:27 pm UTC (link)
That's apparently quite common in Arts subjects.

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[info]easwaran
2007-12-16 10:12 pm UTC (link)
I've never seen the complete text on the slides as well as being read off the paper.

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[info]pozorvlak
2007-12-16 01:27 pm UTC (link)
My late friend [info]floor_sitter used to play Greek alphabet bingo in seminars. Works particularly well in analysis talks, apparently.

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