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Mike Judge’s HBO show Silicon Valley is beloved for both sending up the Valley’s financially frenetic, bro-grammer culture while highlighting many of the very real, sometimes insane stuff that results from it.
It does so by drawing from reality itself. In 2014, a three-minute mathematical dick joke from its first season was actually vetted by Stanford mathematicians in a 12-page paper titled “Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency: A model for male audience stimulation.” The authors were playfully listed as Dinesh Chugtai and Bertram Gilfoyle, two characters on the show.
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