Not really? The joke about the spherical cow is about reducing a problem to a hyper-simplified version to make computation easier at the cost of accuracy.
The spherical bastard is more a joke about mathematical projections, since a sphere looks the same from any angle.
It’s just a variation of the old physics joke about a Spherical cow.
Oh, yeah, haha, very funny joke. Or you could treat the topic with the gravity it deserves:
https://youtu.be/xgnuxd0tiHk
Not really? The joke about the spherical cow is about reducing a problem to a hyper-simplified version to make computation easier at the cost of accuracy.
The spherical bastard is more a joke about mathematical projections, since a sphere looks the same from any angle.