Et al.: Because not all research deserves a Nobel Prize (Paperback)

Et al. is a satirical academic journal that uses machine learning and scientific principles on absurd studies, from the cat Lord Whiskers' role in the extinction of the dodo bird to the quantum mysteries of untidy toddler rooms.

Key Features:

• Conducts satirical research on topics ranging from quantum computing to clingy robot dog algorithms
• Answers questions like "Can a computer understand a Scotsman?" and "Is Sarah Palin real?"
• Secures the power grid and your home from the prying eyes of government drones a.k.a. birds
• Expands science by studying cow-based atmospheres, and the flavortown center of the brain
• Solves climate change and saves the world by proposing a banana-based fission reactor
• Nullifies the possibility of getting lost at the fair with a mirror-house escape algorithm

Book Description:

Tired of the same old math, science, statistics, and programming memes people post online and want something a little more elaborate? This is the book for you.

Tremble as we make up all our own facts and data, hand draw diagrams in MS Paint, and quote from fictional studies and journals. Cower as authors write in the first person because their study is just a little too personal for them. Recoil from the sheer mass of oversimplified methodology, distilling someone's entire thesis into a paragraph of jokes crude enough to make it into a Mike Myers movie.

Over the last few years, we have taken arguments that you would normally have after four Jack and cokes at game night and turned them into properly formatted research papers with a writing tone serious enough to confuse the uninitiated. These papers are high-effort jokes by researchers and scientists for researchers and scientists. They cover a range of topics from the consequences of re-releasing tourists back into Yellowstone National Park after COVID-19, or how to play StarCraft competitively online on a quantum computer, and most importantly, how trees around the globe are becoming increasingly radicalized.

What You Will Learn:

• How to draw a graph using MS Paint, maybe
• Whether Sarah Palin is a figment of your imagination
• How one pirate cat brought about the extinction of the beloved dodo
• Why rabbits used to be jerks back in the day
• If you actually learn anything from these articles, get your memory erased immediately

Who this book is for:

This book is for researchers and those who love science mingled with humor. It's for those who are a little too tired of the talking heads and futurists of the science world and would like something more entertaining in the form of absurd speculative studies by researchers as unbelievable as their work. Anyone who has experienced academic writing, or the tribulations of any research institution will enjoy the wide range of bizarre, yet real-world topics compiled in this book. Even if you don't know much about the subject, we usually have a background section.

Et al. 是一本諷刺性的學術期刊，利用機器學習和科學原理進行荒謬研究，從貓咪 Lord Whiskers 在渡渡鳥滅絕中的角色到混亂的幼兒房間的量子奧秘。

主要特點:
- 進行諷刺性研究，涵蓋從量子計算到纏人機器狗演算法的主題
- 回答問題，如「電腦能理解蘇格蘭人嗎？」和「莎拉·佩林是真實存在的嗎？」
- 保護電力網絡和您的家免受政府無人機（即鳥類）的窺視
- 通過研究基於牛的大氣層和大腦的味之鎮，擴展科學
- 提出基於香蕉的裂變反應堆，解決氣候變化並拯救世界
- 通過鏡子屋逃生演算法，消除在遊樂場迷路的可能性

書籍描述:
厭倦了人們在網上發佈的相同的數學、科學、統計和編程迷因，想要一些更加精心製作的東西嗎？這本書就是為您而設。

當我們捏造自己的事實和數據，用 MS Paint 手繪圖表，引用虛構的研究和期刊時，請戰慄。當作者以第一人稱書寫，因為他們的研究對他們來說有點太個人化時，請退縮。面對過度簡化的方法論的巨大質量，將某人的整個論文浓縮成一段足以進入麥克·邁爾斯電影的粗俗笑話。

在過去的幾年裡，我們將通常在喝了四杯傑克科克的遊戲之夜後才會發生的爭論，轉化為格式正確的研究論文，其寫作語氣足以讓未經訓練的人感到困惑。這些論文是研究人員和科學家的高度努力的笑話，為研究人員和科學家而寫。它們涵蓋了一系列主題，從 COVID-19 疫情結束後重新釋放遊客對黃石國家公園的影響，到如何在量子計算機上在線競爭性地玩星海爭霸，以及全球樹木如何越來越激進。

你將學到什麼:
- 如何使用 MS Paint 繪製圖表（或許）
- 莎拉·佩林是否只是你想像中的產物
- 一只海盜貓如何導致心愛的渡渡鳥滅絕
- 為什麼兔子在過去是混蛋
- 如果你真的從這些文章中學到了什麼，立即抹去你的記憶

這本書適合對科學和幽默交融感興趣的研究人員和愛好者。對於那些對科學界的傳統談頭說法和未來學家感到有些厭倦，希望以研究人員的荒謬推測研究為基礎的更有趣的東西的人來說，這本書是為他們而設的。任何曾經經歷過學術寫作或任何研究機構的磨難的人都會喜歡這本書中匯編的各種奇怪但現實世界的主題。即使您對該主題了解不多，我們通常都有一個背景部分。