The surprising part is not that math grad students named Cox and Zucker would come up with the idea of writing a paper together just as a joke.

It's that they followed through after they were professors, and wrote a paper that was actually rather significant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine

@gmusser - 4.6 billion years of floating in space, only to land in New Jersey.

Wayne Shorter, August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023, was an absolutely amazing jazz sax player. Endlessly inventive, he had a rich tone and catchy compostions that makes his music easy to love even when he's exploring advanced harmonic concepts.

Let me try linking to a few of my favorite pieces of his.

Here he is with Miles in 1967.

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@mcnees - wow, I didn't know that! I have that book, and love it. Just seeing the cover provokes a Pavlovian response.