https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=108.162.219.15&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T10:04:50ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2590:_I_Shouldn%27t_Complain&diff=2281022590: I Shouldn't Complain2022-03-08T01:23:16Z<p>108.162.219.15: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2590<br />
| date = March 7, 2022<br />
| title = I Shouldn't Complain<br />
| image = i_shouldnt_complain.png<br />
| titletext = Bald-faced hornets are only a 2 on the Schmidt pain index, so I shouldn't complain. The tennis ball ejected from the dryer exhaust vent could have ricocheted off the nest of a much higher-scoring insect before knocking me off the ladder. Really, I'm lucky.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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Megan has had a very unfortunate experience of falling into a garbage can and being stung by wasps. Cueball expresses an approriate amount of horror about it. However, Megan seeks to downplay this experience by saying "I shouldn't complain" and that she's "lucky" it wasn't worse.<br />
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In the title text, Megan continues to downplay her experience even though it was very painful. The {{w|Schmidt sting pain index}} is a pain scale for different insect stings, which ranges from 1 to 4. Megan says her stings were a 2 on the scale, which compared to a pain of 4 is "less painful", but still worse than not being stung at all!<br />
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She further downplays by focusing attention on the sting pain index instead of the sting lethal capacity, described by the [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3810666/ author of the pain index]. The two are not necessarily equivalent. Assuming all insects in the colony affected stung Megan at least once over her two hour ordeal, potentially delivering enough venom to kill 84 kg (185 pounds) worth of mice (or human?), the scenario shown (Megan standing in routine conversation, casually discussing the incident soon after the fact) is implausible. She is far more likely to be in hospital, and in a [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32252275/ gruesome fight for her life].<br />
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Victims of severe abuse offer have learned habits to downplay the most severe suffering, which could be a reminder for visitors or readers with exposure to such things. It's possible Randall is engaging personal experience in such an area, making a joke about how difficult it is to process somebody behaving that way.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[Cueball and Megan standing together. Cueball has his hands on his chin, shocked.]<br />
:Cueball: I can't believe you fell headfirst into a garbage can and were stuck there for two hours while wasps stung your exposed legs!<br />
:Megan: I shouldn't complain! Lots of people have been stuck for longer in worse places.<br />
:Megan: Really, I'm lucky.<br />
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:[Caption below the panel]:<br />
:The more unpleasant someone's experience is, the more they apologize for complaining because it could be worse.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Animals]]</div>108.162.219.15https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2586:_Greek_Letters&diff=2275602586: Greek Letters2022-02-26T02:25:23Z<p>108.162.219.15: Add lower case beta</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2586<br />
| date = February 25, 2022<br />
| title = Greek Letters<br />
| image = greek_letters.png<br />
| titletext = If you ever see someone using a capital xi in an equation, just observe them quietly to learn as much as you can before they return to their home planet.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by '''''O R B S''''' PRO®- Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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Mathematics uses lots of Greek letters, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters_used_in_mathematics,_science,_and_engineering typically using the same letter consistently to represent a particular constant or type of variable]. <br />
This comic gives a (non-)explanation of what they typically mean.<br />
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The letters are:<br />
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- lower-case pi<br />
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Typically used to refer to the constant ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter (approximately 3.14). This usage of pi commonly applies to equations in introductory geometry classes, which would be considered "simple" by advanced mathematicians. However there are several advanced (facetiously, "impossible") equations which also use pi to represent different variables, see: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(letter)#Lowercase_Pi Pi (letter) - Wikipedia]<br />
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- capital delta<br />
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Typically used to refer to a change in quantity.<br />
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- lower-case delta<br />
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Also typically used to refer to a change in quantity, but unlike the capital delta, this is only for infinitesimal changes and is used in derivative and integration expressions in mathematics hence the text's reference to "a mathematician's fault".<br />
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- lower-case theta<br />
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Typically used to refer to an angle, and is notably used in the polar coordinate system. The text refers to its close relationship with circles, on which the polar coordinate system is based on.<br />
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- lower-case phi<br />
<br />
Typically used to refer to another angle other than one referred to by theta. It's used in spherical coordinates, and the text refers to how spheres, or orbs, are important in spherical coordinates. <br />
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- lower-case epsilon<br />
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Typically used to refer to very small quantities which go to zero in the limit.<br />
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- lower-case upsilon and lower-case nu<br />
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- lower-case mu<br />
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The SI prefix for "micro" = 10<sup>-6</sup>, representing very small quantities: a micrometer (μm) is tens of times smaller than the width of a human hair, a microgram (μg) is one single fine speck of flour, both of which are barely visible with the bare human eye nor feelable through the skin.<br />
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- capital sigma<br />
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Typically used as a symbol for summation of a series of numbers.<br />
<br />
- capital pi<br />
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Typically used as a symbol for multiplication of a series of numbers.<br />
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- lower-case zeta<br />
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- lower-case beta<br />
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This could be a reference to the typical usage of beta to represent coefficients of independent variables in the [http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_least_squares#Linear_model ordinary least squares regression model]. Regression can potentially have a large number of independent variables, hence potentially many different betas (differentiated by subscript, or compacted into matrix notation) would be used.<br />
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- lower-case alpha<br />
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- capital omega<br />
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- lower-case omega<br />
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- lower-case sigma<br />
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In statistics, commonly refers to the standard deviation of a distribution. Statistics often attempts to use simplified models to explain real-world phenomena.<br />
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- lower-case ksi<br />
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- lower-case gamma<br />
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Gamma ray is the most powerful classification of electromagnetic radiation AKA "light", and powerful lights are frequently associated with high-tech, futuristic devices and weapons, hence "space noises".<br />
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Alternatively, this might be a reference to the Lorentz factor, an important variable in special relativity calculations.<br />
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- lower-care rho<br />
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- capital ksi<br />
<br />
- lower-case psi<br />
<br />
...<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:What Greek letters mean in equations<br />
<br />
:π This math is either very simple or impossible.<br />
:Δ Something has changed.<br />
:δ Something has changed and it's a mathematician's fault.<br />
:θ Circles!<br />
:Φ '''''O R B S'''''<br />
:ϵ Not important, don't worry about it.<br />
:υ,ν Is that a V or a U? Or...oh no, it's one of ''those''.<br />
:μ This math is cool but it's not about anything that you will ever see or touch, so whatever.<br />
:Σ Thank you for purchasing ''Addition Pro''®!<br />
:Π ...and the ''Multiplication''® expansion pack!<br />
:ζ This math will only lead to more math.<br />
:β There are just too many coefficients.<br />
:α Oh boy, now '''''this''''' is math about something real. This is math that could '''''kill''''' someone.<br />
:Ω Oooh, ''some'' mathematician thinks their function is cool and important.<br />
:ω A lot of work went into these equations and you are going to die here among them.<br />
:σ Some poor soul is trying to apply this math to real life and it's not working.<br />
:ξ Either this is terrifying mathematics or there was a hair on the scanned page.<br />
:γ ''Zoom'' pew pew pew [space noises] ''zoooom!''<br />
:ρ Unfortunately, the test vehicle suffered an unexpected wing separation event.<br />
:Ξ Greetings! We hope to learn a great deal by exchanging knowledge with your Earth mathematicians.<br />
:ψ You have entered the domain of King Trition, ruler of the waves.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>108.162.219.15https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2586:_Greek_Letters&diff=2275552586: Greek Letters2022-02-26T02:09:54Z<p>108.162.219.15: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2586<br />
| date = February 25, 2022<br />
| title = Greek Letters<br />
| image = greek_letters.png<br />
| titletext = If you ever see someone using a capital xi in an equation, just observe them quietly to learn as much as you can before they return to their home planet.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by '''''O R B S''''' PRO®- Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
Mathematics uses lots of Greek letters, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters_used_in_mathematics,_science,_and_engineering typically using the same letter consistently to represent a particular constant or type of variable]. <br />
This comic gives a (non-)explanation of what they typically mean.<br />
<br />
The letters are:<br />
<br />
- lower-case pi<br />
<br />
Typically used to refer to the constant ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter.<br />
<br />
- capital delta<br />
<br />
Typically used to refer to a change in quantity.<br />
<br />
- lower-case delta<br />
<br />
Also typically used to refer to a change in quantity, but unlike the capital delta, this is only for infinitesimal changes and is used in derivative and integration expressions in mathematics hence the text's reference to "a mathematician's fault".<br />
<br />
- lower-case theta<br />
<br />
Typically used to refer to an angle, and is notably used in the polar coordinate system. The text refers to its close relationship with circles, on which the polar coordinate system is based on.<br />
<br />
- lower-case phi<br />
<br />
Typically used to refer to another angle other than one referred to by theta. It's used in spherical coordinates, and the text refers to how spheres, or orbs, are important in spherical coordinates. <br />
<br />
- lower-case epsilon<br />
<br />
- lower-case upsilon and lower-case nu<br />
<br />
- lower-case mu<br />
<br />
The SI prefix for "micro" = 10<sup>-6</sup>, representing very small quantities: a micrometer (μm) is tens of times smaller than the width of a human hair, a microgram (μg) is one single fine speck of flour, both of which are barely visible with the bare human eye nor feelable through the skin.<br />
<br />
- capital sigma<br />
<br />
Typically used as a symbol for summation of a series of numbers.<br />
<br />
- capital pi<br />
<br />
Typically used as a symbol for multiplication of a series of numbers.<br />
<br />
- lower-case zeta<br />
<br />
- lower-case beta<br />
<br />
- lower-case alpha<br />
<br />
- capital omega<br />
<br />
- lower-case omega<br />
<br />
- lower-case sigma<br />
<br />
- lower-case ksi<br />
<br />
- lower-case gamma<br />
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Gamma ray is the most powerful classification of electromagnetic radiation AKA "light", and powerful lights are frequently associated with high-tech, futuristic devices and weapons, hence "space noises".<br />
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- lower-care rho<br />
<br />
- capital ksi<br />
<br />
- lower-case psi<br />
<br />
...<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
:What Greek letters mean in equations<br />
<br />
:π This math is either very simple or impossible.<br />
:Δ Something has changed.<br />
:δ Something has changed and it's a mathematician's fault.<br />
:θ Circles!<br />
:Φ '''''O R B S'''''<br />
:ϵ Not important, don't worry about it.<br />
:υ,ν Is that a V or a U? Or...oh no, it's one of ''those''.<br />
:μ This math is cool but it's not about anything that you will ever see or touch, so whatever.<br />
:Σ Thank you for purchasing ''Addition Pro''®!<br />
:Π ...and the ''Multiplication''® expansion pack!<br />
:ζ This math will only lead to more math.<br />
:β There are just too many coefficients.<br />
:α Oh boy, now '''''this''''' is math about something real. This is math that could '''''kill''''' someone.<br />
:Ω Oooh, ''some'' mathematician thinks their function is cool and important.<br />
:ω A lot of work went into these equations and you are going to die here among them.<br />
:σ Some poor soul is trying to apply this math to real life and it's not working.<br />
:ξ Either this is terrifying mathematics or there was a hair on the scanned page.<br />
:γ ''Zoom'' pew pew pew [space noises] ''zoooom!''<br />
:ρ Unfortunately, the test vehicle suffered an unexpected wing separation event.<br />
:Ξ Greetings! We hope to learn a great deal by exchanging knowledge with your Earth mathematicians.<br />
:ψ You have entered the domain of King Trition, ruler of the waves.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>108.162.219.15https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Countdown_in_header_text/images&diff=224219Countdown in header text/images2022-01-12T23:17:36Z<p>108.162.219.15: /* Explanation */ SHA256</p>
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<div>'''[[#Go to bottom|Go to bottom picture]]'''<br />
==Explanation==<br />
*Here are (work in process) all the images from {{xkcd}} used in the [[Countdown in header text]].<br />
**The images can also be found [https://munvoseli.github.io/xkcd-countdown/ here], on munvoseli's page.<br />
*The images have been numbered here on explain xkcd and the number is a link to the image in the count-wimRikmef folder on xkcd.com:<br />
**<nowiki>https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/</nowiki><br />
**Each picture's filename is the [[:wikipedia:SHA256|SHA256]] hash of the image itself, so it is impossible to predict future file names:<br />
***Here the name for the first picture: ac84f99b9c41eb75e1a595ea74c7bccf48f36c345d8b88ad5dd478d4520bc0b2.png<br />
***https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/ac84f99b9c41eb75e1a595ea74c7bccf48f36c345d8b88ad5dd478d4520bc0b2.png<br />
*If someone has the time might one find future versions provided they have been uploaded already?<br />
**I guess this belongs in the discussion, maybe on the main page... I will leave it for a bit, but if you mean it put this there and delete this here. As for the edit I just made above here, conflicting with your edit, I do think all images are there, but it will be almost impossible to search through all the possible images with such long names if I understand anything about this correctly [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 15:11, 12 January 2022 (UTC)<br />
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==Images==<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/ac84f99b9c41eb75e1a595ea74c7bccf48f36c345d8b88ad5dd478d4520bc0b2.png 0001]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0001.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/6a73d565838a58e4d3069ad6cc49cc1a1466a8e602c95fd752126900d2074e28.png 0002]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0002.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/98b1c93977c76fd31529ff07f8f6f83209ba69ccc5a6b245e3a1061d36093370.png 0003]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0003.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/154e4cdc63e9b5c6874e0f8cc2146a945c6b53089854fe4827ed6a822fbf8f53.png 0004]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0004.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/582bbf28305fefb09ea44beae1330585aea155adf6f5125fc70ebdfa6af8c70c.png 0005]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0005.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/5c65f55f9a51a8b5bb7184a7b42e2930aea829e4d5ef2ff6373d1408fee4cce3.png 0006]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0006.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/75f4551c542cadfde5b5708d40679dfb66c1477ed344d061d6ba4e28f46fc0b8.png 0007]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0007.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/32fe6cc4abef25d91abebdbdd59273044061be7d49a9b4a16ce2864628247999.png 0008]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0008.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/72cb154b23f959f908f5dc8eb03069c6df3f0f54aae896a0e7ed27befb2ee639.png 0009]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0009.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/5a0d51a4f85c24edbd647e18e33044ffe5e49a8474c5f9850dadb742252a5582.png 0010]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0010.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/85cb9234739c590b3c649c80e6d388f8c53f600327abbdbe476dca495705f86c.png 0011]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0011.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/62081002ad92456a911eae8eae3f3d74f8147eab8f42330d4f81c473aaa648ba.png 0012]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0012.png]]<br />
*[https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/6782889ad1cf7ebdf154672b58f7260df61662537ca00536efeb3470c29d66b1.png 0013]: [[File:Countdown in header text 0013.png]]<br />
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==Go to bottom==<br />
*Just an easy fix making it easy to jump to the newest image here at the bottom of a potentially very long list of pictures.<br />
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[[Category:Comic subpages]]</div>108.162.219.15https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1376:_Jump&diff=68650Talk:1376: Jump2014-06-02T12:03:52Z<p>108.162.219.15: </p>
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<div>I guess the "G L I D E" could be a reference to Fight Club scene. The one with the Penguin during one of Tylor's support groups. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.88.214|141.101.88.214]] 09:03, 2 June 2014 (UTC)<br />
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The statement someone added, saying that if gravity had ceased he'd leave the earth's orbit due to the lack of the Sun's gravity, is incorrect; the Sun's gravitational force at the Earth is far lower than the Earth's gravity, so the loss would not be noticeable until well after he'd ended up in space. As such, I removed that statement.</div>108.162.219.15https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1376:_Jump&diff=686481376: Jump2014-06-02T12:02:05Z<p>108.162.219.15: /* Explanation */ Removed incorrect statement about sun's gravity</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1376<br />
| date = June 2, 2014<br />
| title = Jump<br />
| image = jump.png<br />
| titletext = I hope I'm at least following the curve of the Earth around to land ...<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
Cueball is (presumably) experiencing a common dream subject, flying or floating. As in many varieties of such a dream, the ability to fly, float or glide only gradually manifests, going from longer and longer jumps to a sort of flight or hovering. In Cueball's case, his jumps become longer and 'lighter' until at last he is gliding just above the surface of the Earth. He has apparently had such a dream before, with just such a flight mechanic manifesting itself, as he indicates that he 'loves' these dreams.<br />
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In his (presumed) dream, Cueball finally achieves his gliding flight just as he reaches the shoreline, and his gliding carries him over the water's edge and out to sea. After a moment's reflection, he indicates that he HOPES it is a dream, as if he were really gliding out to sea without any real apparent means of control, his situation would presumably be rather perilous ... death by starvation or thirst, gradually slowing down and becoming 'stuck' over the water with no way to land, the loss of his gliding ability as suddenly as it came, etc, all suggest themselves as possible perils he would now be subject to if, in fact, his 'dream' were actual reality.<br />
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The title text adds a further worry not immediately apparent unless one considers the possibility that Cueball's 'gliding' is actually some sort of cessation of gravity acting upon his person, in which case he would (if his forward momentum were maintained) continue moving in a straight line while the Earth's surface would curve away beneath him, sending him out into space instead of the (relatively) preferable scenario of merely floating across the ocean to the opposite shore.<br />
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Also note that this situation is similar to the case of {{W|Newton's cannonball}}.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
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Cueball is jumping in the open...<br />
<br />
"I love these dreams... Each jump is a little longer... Each push off the ground a little softer... Until I...GLIDE"<br />
<br />
Cueball jumps over a fence and floats in the air, over the sea<br />
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"...I ''hope'' this is a dream."<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>108.162.219.15https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1374:_Urn&diff=682221374: Urn2014-05-28T17:26:59Z<p>108.162.219.15: added concept of trigger warnings</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1374<br />
| date = May 28, 2014<br />
| title = Urn<br />
| image = urn.png<br />
| titletext = Can this PLEASE be drawing with replacement?<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|More in-depth? Why does Megan imagine that the urn contains ashes?}}<br />
A common scenario for teaching elementary probability theory is drawing coloured balls from a container, such as a bag, hat, and traditionally quite often an urn. The word 'urn' is by many people (apparently including Megan) associated with the receptacle used to collect the human (or possibly animal) ashes that remain after a cremation. This explains why Megan, when asked to imagine drawing balls from an urn, imagines an urn containing not (only) balls, but (also) human remains. One could speculate that her grandfather recently died, leading her to make this irrational connection. <br />
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The title text refers to two distinct scenarios in the coloured ball experiment: The balls may be replaced between each drawing, or not. In the former case, each draw is independent of the previous, in the latter the chances of picking a particular (remaining) ball the next time have increased. Megan (or rather Randall if it is he who speaks in the title text) would prefer to put the ashes back into the urn.<br />
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The distinction between repeated drawing with and without replacement is used in most presentations of elementary probability because it illustrates a subtle but important theoretical distinction: if the balls are replaced, one at a time, before drawing the next, the number of balls of a certain colour has the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution binomial distribution], but if the balls are not replaced, so that the same ball cannot be drawn twice, you instead get the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergeometric_distribution hypergeometric distribution].<br />
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The timing of this comic comes during a media popularity of the idea of trigger warnings in classrooms. The idea that teachers should be warning students about any and all concepts from the class that may cause traumatic associations for them. Randall appears to be mocking this by taking it to a logical extreme.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
[Cueball is standing in a classroom with Megan at a desk.]<br />
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Cueball: Imagine that you're drawing at random from an urn containing fifteen balls - six red and nine black.<br />
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Megan: OK. I reach in and... '''''My grandfather's ashes?!? Oh god!'''''<br />
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Cueball: I... what?<br />
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Megan: '''''Why would you do this to me?!?'''''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>108.162.219.15https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1369:_TMI&diff=67583Talk:1369: TMI2014-05-20T04:49:52Z<p>108.162.219.15: </p>
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<div>I assume "TMI" here stands for "too much information". Cueball stares at the screen (presumably with an Internet browser open) and realizes that he will never be able to internalize the amounts of data freely available on the net. The off-screen voice simply confirms it. The humor of the exchange seems to be derived from the fact that "too much information" is usually used to indicate that someone has publicly given away too much ''private'' and potentially embarrassing information and made others feel awkward. Cueball, however, uses the phrase in its most literal sense. --[[User:Koveras|Koveras]] ([[User talk:Koveras|talk]]) 06:47, 16 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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TMI is probably {{Wiktionary|too much information|Too Much Information}} (taken literally, not figuratively about ''overshare'') --[[User:JakubNarebski|JakubNarebski]] ([[User talk:JakubNarebski|talk]]) 06:49, 16 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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: ... despite lot of places on Internet where it CAN be used figuratively. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 10:13, 16 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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It could also refer to Three Mile Island; but 'Too Much Information' or 'Too Much Internet' are the most likely meanings. TMA! (Too Many Acronyms!) [[Special:Contributions/173.245.53.123|173.245.53.123]] 07:06, 16 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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The title text may be a reference to the quote from the Sherlock Holmes novel ''A Study in Scarlet'': "From a drop of water, a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other." If that logician stared into an entire sea worth of water drops, all the possible inferences would probably make his head explode from literally too much information. --[[User:Koveras|Koveras]] ([[User talk:Koveras|talk]]) 07:15, 16 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Maybe ''Everything'' is litteraly just information, like in ''{{W|Decoding Reality}}''. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.27|173.245.52.27]] 08:55, 16 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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There were a explanation of the title text as to be a reference to Hemingway's "Old man and the sea" which sounded about right to me -- would somebody like to elaborate as to why it was removed? [[User:Spongebog|Spongebog]] ([[User talk:Spongebog|talk]]) 17:04, 16 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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The title text may also be a reference to a well-known quote from Isaac Newton: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) by Sir David Brewster (Volume II. Ch. 27) [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.118|199.27.128.118]] 20:24, 16 May 2014 (UTC)2minions (sorry, no login - I'm at work)<br />
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Would a mention of the similar themes in [[975: Occulting Telescope]] be relevant here? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.60|108.162.216.60]] 00:56, 17 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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This may explain the mention to the sea http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/12/us/nasa-antarctica-ice-melt/ ...and the dramatic tone {{unsigned ip|173.245.56.78}}<br />
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There's a lot of speculation here about whether the title text is a deliberate reference to something. I'd added that it may echo Nietsche's famous warning "When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." But on reflection maybe there's no more reason to impute that one as any of of the others listed here (especially since none are a perfect fit), so I removed it. Probably gazing at the ocean/stars/emptiness/whatever is just a cliche image that gets recycled a lot.[[User:Cs7|Cs7]] ([[User talk:Cs7|talk]]) 17:08, 18 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I think there might be something, maybe irony, in the comic having very little information. There's next to no dialogue. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.15|108.162.219.15]] 04:49, 20 May 2014 (UTC)</div>108.162.219.15https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=351:_Trolling&diff=64901351: Trolling2014-04-08T20:40:50Z<p>108.162.219.15: /*Rick Astley was rickrolled when he showed up at Tout le monde en parle. This is relevant because the event is significan in regard of the comic. */</p>
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| date = November 30, 2007<br />
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| titletext = And I was really impressed with how they managed to shock the Goatse guy.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
The term ''{{w|Trolling}}'' is used to describe provocative, destructive or annoying behavior on the {{w|Internet}}. Especially common are Internet pranks of the {{w|bait-and-switch}} type, an example of which is {{w|Rickrolling}}. It involves placing a {{w|hyperlink|link}} that is supposed to contain interesting or funny material, but instead directs to the music video of the 1987 {{w|Rick Astley}} song ''{{w|Never Gonna Give You Up}}''. The prank first occurred in May 2007 on the popular {{w|imageboard}} {{w|4chan}} and has since become a widespread {{w|internet meme}}.<br />
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The comic has [[Black Hat]] and [[Cueball]] digging into the ground and splicing Black Hat's computer into the TV cables of {{w|Rick Astley}}'s house. They are feeding the video of ''{{w|Never Gonna Give You Up}}'' into Astley's TV signal, who can be seen sitting in his living room and wondering why CNN has been replaced by his own video. The act of Rickrolling Rick Astley himself is declared to be a "great moment in trolling".<br />
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The title text mentions {{w|Goatse.cx}} (prounced ''goat sex''), a former {{w|shock site|shock website}} that was used in a similar prank. People clicking on the feigned link would instead see the disturbing picture of a man holding open his anus. The title text suggests that Black Hat and Cueball somehow made the (unknown) founder of the site click on an even more shocking link.<br />
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Rick Astley was actually Rickrolled on Tout le Monde en parle, a french canadian television show. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh5bxY1Radk]<br />
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:[Black Hat and Cueball are in Rick Astley's yard, hacking into his cable TV connection and replacing the signal. Rick Astley is sitting in a chair in his house, watching TV.]<br />
:TV: CNN has obtained this exclusive footage of the riot-torn-- ''*CZZZHT*'' ♫ Never gonna give you up... ♪<br />
:Rick Astley: What the hell?<br />
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:GREAT MOMENTS in TROLLING:<br />
:Rick Astley is successfully Rickrolled<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]</div>108.162.219.15https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:164:_Playing_Devil%27s_Advocate_to_Win&diff=61851Talk:164: Playing Devil's Advocate to Win2014-03-05T15:12:41Z<p>108.162.219.15: </p>
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<div>I'm sure that no matter what scientific evidence about global warming is, the political issue lost contact with science long ago. I mean, do we really need global warming to prove that burning all fossil fuels and deforesting most of planet is bad? Also, our ability to endanger species doesn't seem limited to global warming. And the so-called solutions to global warming? This is not about science. It's a fight between people who are getting rich on oil and people who are getting rich on projects labelled as ecological. And both sides are manipulating science data - one to deny the global warming, one to make it even worse that it is. ... I don't believe anyone have working solution to global warming which doesn't involve at least 3 billions dead humans. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:14, 23 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
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We have a global warming since the last twenty thousand years. And we are still at a cold period (on long term meanings). A real global warming would bring us back to the conditions of the dinosaur ages.--[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 21:15, 28 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Correct. And it would be catastrophic on a global scale. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64|108.162.237.64]] 17:48, 24 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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They have totally messed with old temperature data. They "adjust" old thermometers to make them fit the data they want. [[Special:Contributions/184.66.160.91|184.66.160.91]] 03:30, 27 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
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You don't want to hear this, but my take is:<br />
1. Global warming is probably real.<br />
2. Global warming is probably exacerbated by human activity.<br />
3. There is no possible way of averting global warming by reducing the output of greenhouse gases from human activity. WILL NOT HAPPEN.<br />
Oh well! As Cueball says, it should be a wild ride. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]] 01:13, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Note: "if we keep people from understanding just a little longer" ... as if someone need to actively do something to prevent majority of people of understanding hard to explain scientific topic. Most people still didn't accepted the fact that debts are supposed to be paid, and that's simple arithmetics. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 10:11, 24 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Actually, debt owed by entities that emit currency is very different from debts owed by other economic entities. It's very far from "simple arithmetics" (and that's the reason there is such a thing as a central bank). {{unsigned ip|173.245.53.197}}<br />
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Thanks 199.27.128.144 for your fix on my bad HTML mishap here. If you would have an account here I could talk to you directly. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 00:19, 25 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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It's been eight years since this comic, so I guess it ended up being the latter. Except I don't think anyone is embarrassed for the inaccuracies in the climate models. [http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/06/satellites-show-no-global-warming-for-17-years-5-months/ No warming for 17 years 5 months][[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.15|108.162.219.15]] 15:12, 5 March 2014 (UTC)</div>108.162.219.15https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1335:_Now&diff=61234Talk:1335: Now2014-02-27T12:59:44Z<p>108.162.219.15: Time Zone Database</p>
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This doesn't work. Maybe if we added *.xkcd.com/* to the (external) image whitelist or something? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.121|108.162.231.121]] 07:27, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:A fine suggestion. I'm probably going to shoot for full archival like we did with [[time]], but this is an ample good solution in the meantime. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:30, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Hold on, having wee issues, will resolve soon. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 07:37, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Here is a scaled animation of every image. The full size version was too big for me to upload. <br />
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For Australia and New Zealand, at least, the clock shows local time with summer time factored in. I bet that it undergoes some changes in March and April as various jurisdictions go on or off daylight saving. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.224|108.162.249.224]] 09:20, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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: Good point! I added this to the explanation. —[[User:TobyBartels|TobyBartels]] ([[User talk:TobyBartels|talk]]) 13:15, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:: There's also British Summer Time and all the ''other'' national seasonal adjustments(1)... could you perhaps de-specify the "move the list of North American cities and regions for Daylight-Saving Time (which is the same thing as Summer Time)" statement to remove the inadvertent US-centrism? Maybe "...of northern-latitudes cities for Daylight-Saving Time or equivalent Summer Time designation"..? (Definitely could be better phrased than I just put, though.)<br />
:: (1) Note, they don't even all switch at the same time, necessarily. If Randall is going to change the basic map template (pre-rotation) for any Summer/non-Summer transition, he's probably going to have to do it multiple times each spring/autumn, as various regions jiggle about. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.41|141.101.99.41]] 13:52, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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::: Exactly, they don't all switch at the same time. North America isn't mentioned to be US-centric, it's mentioned because the change happens there first. Sure, we could bring up BST and all the rest, but there's no need to make the discussion longer than necessary. (The original wording also was not US-centric, privileging the non-US term "Summer Time" that's used where it's currently being observed, but somebody changed that.) —[[User:TobyBartels|TobyBartels]] ([[User talk:TobyBartels|talk]]) 18:14, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
::::I made that change just to use the same title as the Wikipedia page to which we are linking. I don't feel strongly about it. --[[User:BlueMoonlet|BlueMoonlet]] ([[User talk:BlueMoonlet|talk]]) 18:46, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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As for the map itself, I think the title text should provide the exact time for the location under the cursor, by doing calculations for the mouseover event and updating the t.t. accordingly. I imagine it is doable for Randall. For accuracy's sake, the Antarctic region could be excluded. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.89.225|141.101.89.225]] 12:19, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
: Or maybe someone'll fancy doing it as a userscript. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.89.225|141.101.89.225]] 12:23, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I made a version that the user can rotate themselves. It only loads a single image. http://c0la.s3.amazonaws.com/xkcd1335.html {{unsigned ip|173.245.53.182}}<br />
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The gif image is very good to understand this comic. However it would be very nice if it rotated a little slower. Instead of one turn every ten seconds it could be one every minute. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.50.84|173.245.50.84]] 14:37, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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: When I look a little off-centre, it always seems that South America is about to catch up with Antarctica, but it never does! —[[User:TobyBartels|TobyBartels]] ([[User talk:TobyBartels|talk]]) 18:14, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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He used an Azimuthal equidistant projection?!?!? ;_; [[User:Swhouseworth|Swhouseworth]] ([[User talk:Swhouseworth|talk]]) 16:20, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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: Yeah, should have been equal area! —[[User:TobyBartels|TobyBartels]] ([[User talk:TobyBartels|talk]]) 18:14, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Question: If there are 24 Hours in a day, why in the description does it go from hour 0 to hour 21? That's only 22 hours. Where are the other 2 hours? Even if it isn't listed on the comic (I think it's the time zones in the Atlantic between Eastern Brazil and the UK - basically UTC-1hr and UTC-2hr), shouldn't there be spaces in the charts showing those hours? I don't think any of the islands in that region use those time zones (opting instead to use GMT - like Iceland for example), but I think those hours should still be included since they ''are'' on the static part of the map. Also, it makes sense to me that the center of the words ''NOON'' and ''MIDNIGHT'' are edges of segments themselves, making 24 segments in total. Randall just couldn't draw those discrete segments and also easily have the words written for our convenience. --[[User:Dangerkeith3000|Dangerkeith3000]] ([[User talk:Dangerkeith3000|talk]]) 16:46, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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: Every time zone is used somewhere in international waters (well, every one that's a whole number of hours off of Universal Time), so they certainly should all be included. —[[User:TobyBartels|TobyBartels]] ([[User talk:TobyBartels|talk]]) 18:14, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
: Added South Georgia as UTC-2 and Cape Verde as UTC-1. According to Wikipedia, coastal Brazil and Greenland are both UTC-2 during the summer, but Brazil just ended summer time last Sunday (Feb. 23), and Greenland won't start until late March. There are approximately no permanently inhabited places that use UTC-2 all year, so I just went with South Georgia because it's historically significant. [[User:Fryhole|Fryhole]] ([[User talk:Fryhole|talk]]) 20:20, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Randall's continent naming scheme is interesting. The most commonly taught model in the U.S. has seven continents, but the purple continent is Australia rather than Oceania. The name Oceania is common in Spanish-speaking countries, but those places generally have a six-continent model with the Americas merged. Is Randall's model standard anywhere? [[User:Fryhole|Fryhole]] ([[User talk:Fryhole|talk]]) 20:00, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Kamchatka is probably a reference to 850: https://xkcd.com/850/ [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.48|108.162.216.48]] 20:22, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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Hey, I'd just like to note that GIMP "Optimize for GIF" reduced the GIF size to 7.1MiB from current 9.3MiB. If I reduced the colours to 32, which still looked "good enough" in my opinion, the GIF was only 3.5MiB.<br />
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It might be worth replacing to improve load times.<br />
You might want to make your own since I didn't check frame times or anything, I just ran "index" and "optimize" and then exported{{unsigned ip|108.162.219.77}}<br />
:You are right, but that picture should be less then 1MB. I will do some tests, and if it does work I will talk about this. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 23:51, 26 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
::m'k - well. Using 20 colours and scaling it down 50% resulted in 1.1MiB... http://m8y.org/tmp/temp3.gif<br />
:::I'm now at the time frame at "Rude to call", but nevertheless the PNG files have to be optimized to a GIF, after that an animated GIF should be much smaller. --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 01:03, 27 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
::::I'm guessing an indexed APNG could be smaller (due to more efficient compression) than a GIF, but unfortunately I don't thing apngasm is as efficient as GIMP's optimize for gif feature.<br />
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Does anybody know what clock Randall is using? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.75|199.27.128.75]]EvanJM42<br />
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Randall no doubt knows about the Time Zone Database (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database) so he may well have coded this page to incorporate seasonal time changes from that database. We'll have to watch what happens.<br />
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<div>So is there an answer to the puzzle? [[User:Clwhisk|Clwhisk]] ([[User talk:Clwhisk|talk]]) 19:06, 6 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Black thinks he's playing Go and white thinks he's playing chess. Although a 7 x 7 board is a bit small for go, it is not unusual for a beginner to play on such a board {{unsigned|hax}}<br />
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It is a 9x9 go board! (usually used for learning, as its smaller, less strategic, and quicker to finish game, whereas regular go is played on 19x19 intersections). Olivier. {{unsigned ip|108.162.229.17}}<br />
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::You beat me to it. "Less strategic" also means "more tactical". In my experience, 9x9 boards are rare (mostly, people would just use part of a 19x19 board), but when they do exist, they have 4 handicap intersections marked with dots. [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] ([[User talk:Homunq|talk]]) 08:28, 6 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::: 9x9 boards are great for variety and getting through games, and for beginners of all levels! Go on a 9x9 is about as hard as chess, in terms of playability, state space, and only recently seeing pro strength computers. [[User:Clwhisk|Clwhisk]] ([[User talk:Clwhisk|talk]]) 18:59, 6 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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The picture on xkcd.com is changed. The bishop on e4 is removed and the one on c1 moved to d2. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.93.11|141.101.93.11]] 08:48, 6 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
Could this be another Time Lapse much like the Wait For It comic?--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.31|108.162.221.31]] 02:31, 8 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:It only changed once, to fix a legal error with a move. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|#707|David}}<font color=#070 size=3>y</font></u><font color=#508 size=4>²²</font>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 02:41, 8 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Would it be better to use algebraic notation instead, seeing as FIDE stopped recognizing descriptive notation in 1981? {{unsigned|Banak}}<br />
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::Possibly - I was trying to distinguish between Go moves and Chess moves by using the older Chess notation as a disambiguation, but... eh. I'm ambinotational - I read metric and imperial and barely notice the conversion. :) [[User:SleekWeasel|SleekWeasel]] ([[User talk:SleekWeasel|talk]]) 11:18, 6 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::Then you may have a career at NASA ahead of you... ;) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.214|141.101.98.214]] 14:26, 6 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::: Haha, NASA approached me once about designing a catsuit/pressuresuit, based on my stretchy.org website, thinking that I lived in Cambridge Mass, not Cambridge UK. [[User:SleekWeasel|SleekWeasel]] ([[User talk:SleekWeasel|talk]]) 23:35, 6 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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It would be helpful to give a description - or at least a primer (or a link to one) - of the notation used for chess moves (i.e. Q, N, R ... x, +, #, ... which sides of the board are alphabetic vs. which are numeric). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.228|108.162.221.228]] 16:55, 6 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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Re: black not playing on a handicap positions: it may be that black considers the players evenly matched (or white to be only slightly better), so no handicap. If there was a handicap, black would have 6 stones on the board (I've never heard of a 1 stone handicap). In any case, the upper-right move is a traditional starting move (assuming black is facing the board from the top), as it gives good control over the corner (and in a 9x9, the center).[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.52|108.162.219.52]] 14:28, 7 November 2013 (UTC) -TauCeti<br />
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Also, as a note, it looks like the two players are playing in response to each other. Black is playing in contact with the white pieces as a tactical play to contest that section of the board, while white is carefully positioning their pieces to protect against a player who has somehow taken control over the center of the board (although white is treating the go stones as more valuable than pawns, or the knights wouldn't be there).[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.52|108.162.219.52]] 14:28, 7 November 2013 (UTC) -TauCeti<br />
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::How did that bishop get out? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.195|141.101.98.195]] 17:04, 7 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:::Do you mean the light-squared bishop or the, uh, other light-squared bishop? --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.59|108.162.218.59]] 15:42, 8 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I have to say, Black's position is extremely unusual for Go. The two uppermost stones are on 4-4 and 3-4 (counted from the edge of the board as 1). A 4-4 opening invites a corner invasion, which could be a disaster in a 9x9 game, especially if your opponent has another corner. A one stone handicap is pretty common, as this would just mean playing without komi (the few points white gets to counter black's advantage for going first). Playing on the handicap points (3-3 in 9x9, and 4-4 in 19x19) are usually considered just decent starting points, apart form their use in handicapped games. Of course, there are many different openings, especially in even games, so there's plenty of different moves to play. But 4-4 in 9x9 still seems exceedingly unusual.<br />
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::I figured that the 3-4 move was black's first, and the remaining moves were in response to white (where the 4-4 was to shore up the left side of the board). That said, I generally play on 19x19 and play rather poorly, so I'd trust your judgement over mine. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.15|108.162.219.15]] 18:48, 8 November 2013 (UTC) -TauCeti</div>108.162.219.15