Chicken chicken chicken

Why HN readers recommended it

Beloved as a humor masterpiece and often cited as required viewing on what not to do in an academic talk.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Yoram Bauman

Topic

academic satire

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

14

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• It may not be the original video, but a video presentation of it is available at [VIDEO] by the original author, contrary to the link's claims. It is probably the better way to approach the paper, due to the importance of timing in comedy and …

• That chicken paper always gets a chuckle from me. In case you have never seen the video[0]. Unfortunately, it appears to have been recorded on a potato. Do not miss the audience question at the end. Beautiful academic satire. [0] [VIDEO]

• If you've read a lot of papers and/or attended conference presentations, you will find that you almost know what he is saying in the presentation version: [VIDEO] . The same charts in every presentation; up and to the right, my thing higher than previous thing, …