Talk:819: Five-Minute Comics: Part 1

2022-09-28T13:28:31Z

172.70.93.13: Comic 4 possiblly contains reference to IronWolf NAS HDDs

''The Magic Flute'' was composed by W.A. Mozart, not Bach! --[[Special:Contributions/96.20.169.44|96.20.169.44]] 02:10, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

:You are correct! I've fixed that particular mistake. If you spot any other errors on any explanation, please edit the explanation to be correct. Or, if you find an explanation to be lacking, please add to it! [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]]<span title="I'm an admin. I can help.">_a</span> ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 06:13, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Is it possible that the unnamed Cueball is Mozart? {{unsigned ip|162.158.59.40}}

Regarding #7, couldn't perhaps the lines of the respective girls be transcribed, too? (can't read them)--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.197|108.162.254.197]] 10:59, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
::Ups,sorry, very bad reading. Refers only to the first girl.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.197|108.162.254.197]] 11:03, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

::Can anyone tell what the magazine girl is saying? To me it looks like "Airbrush!", but I'm not sure. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.130.180|199.27.130.180]] 03:29, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
:: It's 'Airbrush!', referring to the Photoshop tool that paints, as the photo has been edited. [[User:Fizzle|Fizzle]] ([[User talk:Fizzle|talk]]) 05:11, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
:::An airbrush is an actual spray-painting tool that was used for many years to touch up glamour shots long before personal computers even existed, never-mind Photoshop! The function in Photoshop that produces a similar effect was named after the mechanical tool. [[User:The Cat Lady|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady|talk]]) 15:10, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Regarding #6, the motorcycle could be a reference to Tron. The music for Tron 2 is composed as an opera by the band Daft Punk. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.140|108.162.254.140]] 17:48, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

The explanation of "reintroduction" only refers to captive-raised animals. Reintroduction programs often use wild animals from another geographic area. The wolves reintroduced to Yellowstone, for example, were wild wolves trapped in Alberta, Canada. The main point is that putting wolves back where they haven't been for a while; the source is beside the point. {{unsigned ip|173.245.62.173}}

I don't think that it starts taking a turn for the worse when the girl's wearing one of your shirts. I mean isn't that the climax of hotness? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.237|141.101.98.237]] 10:13, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

I read #1 as Jupiter doing a PUA style 'approach', did anyone else get that? {{unsigned ip|108.162.249.205}}

"Human skin is not generally designed to detach from its owner." [Citation Needed] {{unsigned ip|188.114.106.119}}

the horse being crammed into the well makes me think of this fable where a donkey falls into a well and they decide to fill the well with the donkey in it. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.57.107|172.68.57.107]] 16:16, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Relating to comic 4, Coincidentally [Seagate sells HDDs for NAS devices called IronWolf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagate_Technology#Internal_SSD_and_HDD_storage). I don't know for how long they've been around for this to possibly be referenced in the comic, but I reckon it's a possible link. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.93.13|172.70.93.13]] 13:28, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Talk:849: Complex Conjugate

2022-08-31T15:13:37Z

172.70.93.13: +interpretation

Actually multiplying complex number (x + iy) by its complex conjugate (x - iy) does not "remove" imaginary part, but calculate square of absolute value of complex number, (x^2 + y^2). BTW. in quantum physics the wavefunction is complex valued, and its absolute value is probability density (a real valued function). --[[User:JakubNarebski|JakubNarebski]] ([[User talk:JakubNarebski|talk]]) 00:57, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I got hit in the face with my complex conjugate and lost an eye. {{unsigned ip|108.162.238.114}}

I procreated with my complex conjugate and lost myself. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.114|108.162.216.114]] 19:44, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

(a+bi)*(a-bi)= a^2-b^2 not a^2+b^2
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.142|108.162.218.142]] 15:48, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

(a+b)*(a-b) = a^2 - b^2 . However (a+bi)*(a-bi) = a^2 + b^2 since i^2 = -1. {{unsigned ip|108.162.219.65}}

I think that the moving to a title text is a joke about them kicking you out of the room [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.65|173.245.50.65]] 20:54, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Is it relevant that when he performs the complex conjugate multiplication, we go from a 2d image of the board to a 1d image of the board? My thinking is, that complex numbers are often used to describe a set of coordinates in 2d space. {{unsigned ip|162.158.158.233|06:58, 14 January 2020}}
:It might be a nice coincidence, or happened on purpose. However in my understanding and the usecases I've seen for example in electrical engineering, it was the other way round. Complex Numbers were used to describe something , e.g. phase shift, and then it could be visualized as coordinates where it was visible as a sinus-curve. (I Might be slightly wrong about the details here. It's been some time...) --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 07:18, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

What's with that red text? Is that MML? [[User:Marethyu|⟨Winter is coming⟩ Marethyu]] ([[User talk:Marethyu|talk]]) 21:27, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Everyone immediately recognised how the product of a complex function with its conjugate "makes shit real" but I think there's another layer of comedy (in a sort of anti-joke way) where the complex conjugate of a real number (a+0i) is (a-0i) in other words the product of an entirely real-valued function and its complex conjugate would just be its square which is an anticlimactic turn on the joke. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.93.13|172.70.93.13]] 15:13, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:819: Five-Minute Comics: Part 1

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