The factual, serious answer is that most conferences pretend to provide an opportunity to "learn" by catching up with the status quo, and that's why they bore alpha geeks to tears.

实际上，要认真回答这个问题的话，那就是绝大多数会议都打着提供“学习”机会的幌子，实其实不过是让大家补课了解现状。 这就是为什么这些会议无聊得让alpha极客们（译注：alpha geek，顾名思义，也就是专玩alpha版走在技术潮流最前沿的人）郁闷到直想做俯卧撑！

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These are questions that can't be answered by Facebook's latest Graph Search, but they're perfect for the stats geeks over at Wolfram Alpha.

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