Talk:3180: Apples - Revision history

73.222.207.213 at 06:40, 3 January 2026

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82.13.184.33 at 09:26, 17 December 2025

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78.144.255.82: doh!

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doh!

78.144.255.82: Friday's what? NVM, just signed it for you.

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Friday's what? NVM, just signed it for you.

Gopher: Paid Weekends Away

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Paid Weekends Away

Sturmovik at 14:10, 16 December 2025

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Elektrizikekswerk at 08:53, 16 December 2025

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Kynde at 07:41, 16 December 2025

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Kynde at 07:37, 16 December 2025

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Lordpishky at 00:42, 16 December 2025

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	I think the experimental math department has been taking trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm on Friday's to have weekend getaways using their experimental budget. {{unsigned\|Gopher\|17:10, 16 December 2025}}		I think the experimental math department has been taking trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm on Friday's to have weekend getaways using their experimental budget. {{unsigned\|Gopher\|17:10, 16 December 2025}}
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		+	Closer observations reveal that the total number of apples is in fact 11.999999999999999999999998. [[Special:Contributions/73.222.207.213\|73.222.207.213]] 06:40, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

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 :::Within the last year I have been noticing long explanations with a distinct writing style have been appearing after a fairly short period of time. They provide details about the elements of the comics, without a focus on explaining why the joke is funny. It's almost like someome is writing a description of the comic as a LLM prompt and the LLM is returning paragraphs of description of what those elements are. IE the explanation of a "why did the chicken cross the road joke" does not usually involve chickens or roads. In fact, the first paragraph of the original explanation, which I largely kept, reads like the thing that was fed into an LLM with "explain this" taked on in front. Occam's razor, someome is using auto gen to get explanations out quickly.[[User:Sturmovik|Sturmovik]] ([[User talk:Sturmovik|talk]]) 14:10, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
 :::I agree this explanation is way tooo long. I even added this to the incomplete reason, but that has been removed. I still think we at this moment would be better of with the original explanation mentioned in the top post 5+7=12! --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:41, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
 And then there's the disappearing leprechaun [https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/131ah.1.03w/leprechaun.htm][[User:Lordpishky|Lordpishky]] ([[User talk:Lordpishky|talk]]) 20:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
 I think the experimental math department has been taking trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm on Friday's to have weekend getaways using their experimental budget. {{unsigned|Gopher|17:10, 16 December 2025}}

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	And then there's the disappearing leprechaun [https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/131ah.1.03w/leprechaun.htm][[User:Lordpishky\|Lordpishky]] ([[User talk:Lordpishky\|talk]]) 20:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)		And then there's the disappearing leprechaun [https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/131ah.1.03w/leprechaun.htm][[User:Lordpishky\|Lordpishky]] ([[User talk:Lordpishky\|talk]]) 20:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

−	I think the experimental math department has been taking trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm on Friday's to have weekend getaways using their experimental budget. {unsigned\|Gopher\|17:10, 16 December 2025}}	+	I think the experimental math department has been taking trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm on Friday's to have weekend getaways using their experimental budget. {{unsigned\|Gopher\|17:10, 16 December 2025}}

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	And then there's the disappearing leprechaun [https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/131ah.1.03w/leprechaun.htm][[User:Lordpishky\|Lordpishky]] ([[User talk:Lordpishky\|talk]]) 20:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)		And then there's the disappearing leprechaun [https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/131ah.1.03w/leprechaun.htm][[User:Lordpishky\|Lordpishky]] ([[User talk:Lordpishky\|talk]]) 20:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

−	I think the experimental math department has been taking trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm on Friday's to have weekend getaways using their experimental budget.	+	I think the experimental math department has been taking trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm on Friday's to have weekend getaways using their experimental budget. {unsigned\|Gopher\|17:10, 16 December 2025}}

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	And then there's the disappearing leprechaun [https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/131ah.1.03w/leprechaun.htm][[User:Lordpishky\|Lordpishky]] ([[User talk:Lordpishky\|talk]]) 20:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)		And then there's the disappearing leprechaun [https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/131ah.1.03w/leprechaun.htm][[User:Lordpishky\|Lordpishky]] ([[User talk:Lordpishky\|talk]]) 20:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
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		+	I think the experimental math department has been taking trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm on Friday's to have weekend getaways using their experimental budget.

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 :what the... what makes you think you are smarter than everyone???--[[User:Trimutius|Trimutius]] ([[User talk:Trimutius|talk]]) 17:29, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
 ::I don't know about any other edits, most of which actually just looked like honest hand-crafted attempts to me but I must admit that sometimes I feel that maybe [[3126: Disclaimer]] needs applying to some of mine. (I know that my rushed "rejig", aiming to shave things down again, ended up with some typos. Though you'd be excused for thinking they were AI 'double-bluff' remnants, I suppose.) [[Special:Contributions/78.144.255.82|78.144.255.82]] 17:37, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
 :::I agree this explanation is way tooo long. I even added this to the incomplete reason, but that has been removed. I still think we at this moment would be better of with the original explanation mentioned in the top post 5+7=12! --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:41, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
 And then there's the disappearing leprechaun [https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/131ah.1.03w/leprechaun.htm][[User:Lordpishky|Lordpishky]] ([[User talk:Lordpishky|talk]]) 20:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

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 :I wasnt going to ruin it, when I saw it like that. But now it's been expanded, I've added in my own thoughts on the subject. Namely elemental number-theory, i.e. the possibility of counting any item just like you count any other item, plus what's going on with the title text, including a slightly kludgy call-back to the fact that (''to have a budget'', that must have people succesfully counting expenditures and purchased values) the Exp. Maths Dept. has clearly trained people in the use of numbers enough for them to now be awkwardly snapping at the heels of the EMD querying the justifiability of at least one of their ongoing studies. (Not sure how long my thoughts will actually last, though, in the light of further editing. But I hope at least some of what I'm getting at will be successfully distilled into any more succinct version.) [[Special:Contributions/78.144.255.82|78.144.255.82]] 01:05, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
 ::I guess [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=3180:_Apples&oldid=401411 this was the explanation] at the time of this comment!? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 19:43, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
 Twelve apples! &lt;*thunder rolls*&gt; Ha! Ha! Ha! [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 04:36, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

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	:I don't know about any other edits, most of which actually just looked like honest hand-crafted attempts to me but I must admit that sometimes I feel that maybe [[3126: Disclaimer]] needs applying to some of mine. (I know that my rushed "rejig", aiming to shave things down again, ended up with some typos. Though you'd be excused for thinking they were AI 'double-bluff' remnants, I suppose.) [[Special:Contributions/78.144.255.82\|78.144.255.82]] 17:37, 15 December 2025 (UTC)		:I don't know about any other edits, most of which actually just looked like honest hand-crafted attempts to me but I must admit that sometimes I feel that maybe [[3126: Disclaimer]] needs applying to some of mine. (I know that my rushed "rejig", aiming to shave things down again, ended up with some typos. Though you'd be excused for thinking they were AI 'double-bluff' remnants, I suppose.) [[Special:Contributions/78.144.255.82\|78.144.255.82]] 17:37, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

−	And [https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/131ah.1.03w/leprechaun.htm][[User:Lordpishky\|Lordpishky]] ([[User talk:Lordpishky\|talk]]) 20:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)	+	And then there's the disappearing leprechaun [https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/resource/general/131ah.1.03w/leprechaun.htm][[User:Lordpishky\|Lordpishky]] ([[User talk:Lordpishky\|talk]]) 20:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)