Preprint Memes

Nothing screams "academic existential crisis" quite like downloading a 50-page arXiv paper at 2 AM only to understand approximately three words in the abstract. It's that magical repository where brilliant minds dump their unfiltered thoughts before peer review can tell them they forgot to explain why anyone should care. The last definition is clearly from someone who's spent too many lonely nights with differential equations. Though honestly, after staring at tensor calculus for 12 hours straight, even the acknowledgments section starts looking spicy.