...nge either. If all of them have the strategy of flirting with the hot girl's friends, and all of them are assuming (incorrectly) that the others won't c
...om/2001/dec/02/magazine/tm-10496 cult-like following] among scientists. He's also (largely due to his book) known as something of a womanizer, thus why
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...s. While the only change to Forecaster 1 is when he's celebrating New Year's Eve, Forecaster 2 is visibly losing it after the appearance of Zeta in late
:[The two still sit back-to-back. The man with hair's fists are clenched.] :10 AM Sun: Morning satellite images indicate that Eps
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The first panel discusses {{w|Gelfond's constant|e<sup>π</sup>}} − π, which is around 19.999099979 — very clo
...n decimal form (exceptions are {{w|integers}} and {{w|terminating decimal}}s). The "floating-point handlers" would be the code performing the e<sup>π</
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This is [[Randall]]'s take on the story of {{w|Moria (Middle-earth)|Moria}} in the fantasy story
...they reflect on the terrible news, lending a much darker tone to the comic's punchline.
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...bly reading a geology book with diagrams and various facts about the Earth's interior, such as the core being subdivided into an {{w|inner core}} and an
...es into reading anything about the Earth's core when I suddenly realize it's ''RIGHT UNDER ME''.
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...s most notable feature is that programs take the same form as the language's primary data structure (the linked list). This blurs the line between code
...he last survivor of a ship that went under the disc says “Oh my God it’s full of elephants.”
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...nding someone like him who appreciates its beauty. But he realizes that it's the very thing that makes this time beautiful to him that makes his imagine
:Hairy (thinking): I love the time just before sunrise. It's quiet; no one is ever just walking about.
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...ng because Pandora's algorithms are terrible. [silence] ... (quietly) That's how you knooooooow...
...producing playlists that the user should find enjoyable based on the user's taste in music. In other words, Pandora plays music you will probably like.
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...hardware." The implication is that modern programmers are coddled by today's tools of the trade, which eschew detailed understanding for simple workflow
...on omniscience. In the final panel, the Emacs programmer claims that there's an Emacs code to do that.
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...[http://xkcd.com/883/info.0.json official transcript] Megan is the patient's friend, and Ponytail is a doctor).
...n a doctor's coat is carrying a clipboard and consulting with Cueball, who's sitting on a high medical table one arm down the other holding on to this a
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...gh the entire history of the {{w|Federal government of the United States|U.S. Federal Government}}. Also notably, Randall makes a number of observations
===U.S. Federal Government===
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...on an island (Tanagra) who work together to defeat a common foe. The alien's intention is that he and Picard work together to defeat a predator as a way
...nces to the franchise which are so dense and obscure that even the program's actors might find them impossible to understand. This tendency is parodied
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...his normal approach also fails him regarding love. Cueball's (and Randall's) normal approach — math — isn't much help in dealing with ''these'' ty
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...ts. Recordings of his lectures are still available and applicable to today's audience.
...ively understand extremely complex mathematical expressions (specifically, S-matrix elements that form transition amplitudes in quantum field theory) wi
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...y conversation I've ever had about Dickens, Treasure Island, The Anarchist's Cookbook, and Our Bodies, Ourselves.
...more unpleasant aspects of its source work. Many people within [[Randall]]'s age group have experienced more literary classics through ''Wishbone'' than
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...rand of marshmallows from the ''{{w|Ghostbusters}}'' movie. (Of course, it's also a reasonable thing to say, since marshmallows are good to eat.){{actua
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First, some basic statistical theory. Let's imagine you are trying to find out if jelly beans cause acne. To do this yo
:Girl with black ponytail: I hear it's only a certain color that causes it.
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:Child: What's this?
:Father: Oh! That's daddy's ''Sports Illustrated'' Swimsuit Issue! It's not appropriate for—
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...ot together and said 'what do we miss most from the internet in 1998? that's right, embedded MIDI!'
...ender sound from a library of MIDI audio samples installed in the computer's operating system — audio samples that were often artificially synthes
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| titletext = There's also a +1 sometimes, which is there to keep everyone on their toes. In the
:[10 boxes for 10 digits of a U.S. phone number. The first three are grouped by parentheses. A hyphen separat
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