Just gonna leave us wondering about the algorithm, eh?
In arithmetic geometry, the Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set of sections[further explanation needed] provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line.
Or was that just me?
I’m not wondering any less now.
I wasn’t very curious since according to them, the primary point of the paper was making a joke. I assumed the algorithm wasn’t groundbreaking or truly interesting, just something that could be published.
Scientists are dorks
Wasn’t there an actual NASA project called C3PO? I’m vaguely remembering a MattPatt video from Pre-FNAF days
Update: NASAS Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO)
It looked like it ended in 2013 but my memory was still right
Oh man, pre-FNAF? Thats the deep magic.
And a very acedemic response to ‘hehe our names say cock sucker’
Some other mathematicians took another set of work by Cox and created the Cox Ring.
I love that this originated from NJ, via Princeton and Rutgers.
This was a deliberate choice by Cox and Zucker, who, as first-year graduate students at Princeton University in 1970, conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper for the express purpose of enabling this joke. They followed through on it five years later, as members of the faculty at Rutgers University
A thing to note is that they didn’t name the algorithm. It was 5 years later when Charles Schwartz gave it that name
Fair enough
May their research be revered forevermore
If Deadwood had been set in France.
Forêt morte?
Deadwood (NSFW)
