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2021-05-13, 08:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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This reminds me of a time when I was trying to explain a caltrop or Czech Hedgehog and explaining that they looked like a jack to someone born in the 80s and getting complete non-understanding.
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2021-05-14, 12:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-05-26, 08:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Speaking of czech hedgehogs...
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2021-05-27, 03:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-01, 07:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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You know that Alignment Chart Alignment Chart Comic (Comic 2251)?
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2021-06-21, 09:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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To be fair, the problem with the fruit press was not that it was poorly built, but rather that it was inefficient and over engineered for all the wrong things.
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2021-07-30, 09:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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This is just beautiful.
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2021-07-30, 10:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: It's solvable, even not knowing the blank mineless squares or the number of mines.2_1_
__3_
3___
_1_1
Only one of the two squares in the bottom left is a mine, so we know where 2 mines are, and two squares that are not mines:
2_1_
**3_
3?x_
?1x1
There has to be a mine next to the bottom 1, and no other mines next to the top one, which leaves only one place left a mine could go next to the 3:
2x1x
**3x
3*x*
x1x1Last edited by Rakaydos; 2021-07-30 at 11:06 AM.
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2021-07-30, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-07-30, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Nothing happens when I click on the picture in either Firefox or Edge?
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2021-07-30, 04:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-08-04, 07:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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I totally did not work it out either. That is a silly thing to do!
Spoiler4 mines. The two squares below the 2 and the square above each lower 1
Having said that, I feel like this is a bad captcha. Teaching a computer to solve minesweeper seems like a fairly simple thing and computers are generally better at logic puzzles that can be written as math than people, at least once they are written as math.
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2021-08-04, 08:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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From what I remember of a person who came in to present to one of my university classes at some point years ago, Minesweeper is actually a bit of a complex puzzle to solve if you want it done quickly. A human's far better at being able to take shortcuts and see rules intuitively, while a computer has to scale up and recurse through all of the table and keep cross-referencing.
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2021-08-04, 09:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2021-08-04, 07:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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The real challenge for computers is infinite minesweeper.
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2021-08-07, 04:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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I felt that, drone. I felt that.
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2021-11-11, 03:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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https://xkcd.com/2540/
Sure, sure... but what about an organ transplant done on an airship surrounded by butterflies, using a gyroscope to stabilise the operating table, and a medical sewing machine to suture the wound?
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2021-11-11, 07:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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This convention is going to get into a dispute with the convention on Things That Seem Like They Should Work But Don't, over who has rights to the initialism TTSLTSWBD.
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2021-11-11, 07:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-24, 10:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Or "A Miracle of Science!"
Sorry, I occasionally go back and read that comic and it was on my mind. I will go give myself 20 lashes for the wasted time I just caused.
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2021-11-24, 05:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-23, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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I really like Immunity.
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2021-12-23, 06:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-23, 09:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-12-23, 10:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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You've never heard of pox parties? I guess they have really declined since the mid nineties, thankfully.
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2021-12-24, 12:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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No, I have heard of them. They depend on a disease being more dangerous for older people and babies than for children while also having no vaccine. Chicken pox is so much worse for adults we don't even call it the same thing. They pretty much died off when the chicken pox vaccine became available.
Vaccines originated in a similar idea: give people a mild disease and they won't get the nasty variant.
Which is a subtlety that Randal is leaving out, hence why I think the recent docs about infection feels like a strawman.
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2021-12-24, 01:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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A, um, more recent disease... has seen people deliberately gathering... to give each other that disease... because "then you're immune"... even though that really doesn't appear to be the case.
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
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2021-12-24, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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The most recent thing I saw about the disease you are probably talking about is that people who have had the disease are an order of magnitude less likely to contract it than people who received any of the available vaccines. And, if it is what I think you are talking about, most of those people were a) at a low risk of complications, and b) able and willing to hide out for a month or so after contracting it.
Which all goes back to there being reasons other than simply never getting it again to purposefully contract a disease*. As I said, Randal isn't wrong. It just feels like he is setting up a strawman argument to show everyone how clever he is. To be fair a lot of xkcd is him trying to show people how clever he is so this isn't anything new, but normally he manages without being snide.
*As with Granny Weatherwax in Witches Abroad, timing is important.
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2021-12-24, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Um... not really.
Having had it before falls well behind the major vaccines, especially after a few months.
Last edited by Max_Killjoy; 2021-12-24 at 03:44 PM.
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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2021-12-26, 04:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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In other news, the James Webb Space Telescope made it to Space...
And today's xkcd is nicely complemented (and debunked) by explainxkcd.I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.