My Hobby: Sitting down with grad students and timing how long it takes them to figure out that I'm not actually an expert in their field.
Engineering:
Students: Our big problem is heat dissipation
Me: Have you tried logarithms?
48 seconds
Linguistics:
Me: Ah, so does this Finno-ugric family include, say, Klingon?
63 Seconds
Sociology:
Me: Yeah, my latest work is on ranking people from best to worst.
4 Minutes
Literary Criticism:
Me: You see, the deconstruction is inextricable from not only the text, but also the self.
Eight papers and two books and they haven't caught on.
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We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus. This is not the algorithm. This is close.