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April 01, 2019

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KC

There were a few years in there where it seemed like Tech Company April Fool's Jokes had gotten sort of semi-required, and that felt weird. But I do enjoy the genre of people being very very silly, as long as they are being very very silly (see: Google's PigeonRank algorithm instead of PageRank algorithm) and not sort of mean.

I do apparently have one humor circuit linked up to "surrealist" - I found this sometime last year, and it practically made me choke with laughter - although I suspect part of that is due to knowing many of the "April Fool's Pranks" that the neural network was trained on, plus the aforesaid "surrealist" humor circuit, so results may vary. http://aiweirdness.com/post/172345256807/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-network

TheQueen

KC - I cant even find what NPR did yesterday, and they are my favorite.

KC

Maybe their April Fool's joke was not doing an April Fool's joke so as to force people to repeatedly scour their site to find the (missing) joke? I don't know...

(sorry they fell through on you, though)

TheQueen

KC -AHHH, here it is. It was on in the afternoon, so I missed it:
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/01/708856161/irrational-exuberance-audiences-love-broadway-hit-greenspan

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