The internet runs on cats: what the research says

Cats are the internet's unofficial mascot, and the programmer with a cat on the desk is a stereotype. But do tech people really prefer cats? Along the way you'll meet the neural network that learned "cat" without anyone telling it what a cat was, a survey of nearly 7,000 people about why they watch cat videos, an Ig Nobel prize for asking whether cats are liquid, and software that locks your keyboard when a cat walks on it. Each Question sorts the fun claim from what the evidence supports.