The bit that I've been generically using as a preview to get people excited:
"So I did a full-spectrum scan of the tesseract's emission profile and I'm trying to match it to particle decay paths to build a composition map. Once I have that fully diagrammed I can work out the terms of its Yang-Mills solution. But there's a lot of literature review ahead of me. Can you believe nobody's ever sat down and catalogued all known isotopic decay paths in machine readable format? You'd think every professor in the country with an extra grad student on stipend and no work to give him would have them plugging away at that."
"Oh, I had JARVIS do it two years ago when I had a lunch break. It comes in useful more often than you'd think."
"XML or JSON?"
"Oh, fuck that. SML. XML is a camel fucked by committee."
"I've never heard of SML."
"Stark Markup Language. I invented it. Fully parseable syntax, reprogrammable and redundant but entirely consistent. Built-in allowances for programmer drunkenness. You think JARVIS's data files are stored in XML? I'm not that insane. If his data structures got corrupted he'd never recover. Here, I'll transfer you the spec."
Bruce swore. "Tony Stark, this tree structure is impossible. Here, Erik, look at this spec. I have to work through 6 dimensional hypergeometries just to write a simple pattern-matcher. I almost prefer the idea of starting from scratch with my own literature search."
Tony shrugged. "It was easier for me to visualize that way."
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"So I did a full-spectrum scan of the tesseract's emission profile and I'm trying to match it to particle decay paths to build a composition map. Once I have that fully diagrammed I can work out the terms of its Yang-Mills solution. But there's a lot of literature review ahead of me. Can you believe nobody's ever sat down and catalogued all known isotopic decay paths in machine readable format? You'd think every professor in the country with an extra grad student on stipend and no work to give him would have them plugging away at that."
"Oh, I had JARVIS do it two years ago when I had a lunch break. It comes in useful more often than you'd think."
"XML or JSON?"
"Oh, fuck that. SML. XML is a camel fucked by committee."
"I've never heard of SML."
"Stark Markup Language. I invented it. Fully parseable syntax, reprogrammable and redundant but entirely consistent. Built-in allowances for programmer drunkenness. You think JARVIS's data files are stored in XML? I'm not that insane. If his data structures got corrupted he'd never recover. Here, I'll transfer you the spec."
Bruce swore. "Tony Stark, this tree structure is impossible. Here, Erik, look at this spec. I have to work through 6 dimensional hypergeometries just to write a simple pattern-matcher. I almost prefer the idea of starting from scratch with my own literature search."
Tony shrugged. "It was easier for me to visualize that way."