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- 12:15, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+84) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: and it were replaced by an euphemisms in those branches. In the Germanic branch, the euphemism may have been like "the brown one" and words for bear derive from words for "brown".)
- 12:13, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+65) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: about [https://www.charlierussellbears.com/LinguisticArchaeology.html the theory])
- 12:12, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+24) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (The Canadian Internet linguist {{w|Gretchen McCulloch}})
- 12:10, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+124) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: - notably the Germanic one - and it were replaced by an euphemism like "the brown one" that lead to the English word "bear".)
- 12:08, 4 November 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+208) . . 2381: The True Name of the Bear (→Explanation: The linguist Gretchen McCulloch [https://twitter.com/gretchenamcc/status/1113195661275611137?lang=ca tweeted] about the theory that the word for bear became taboo in some branches of Indoeuropean languages.)
- 09:48, 25 October 2020 (diff | hist) . . (+173) . . 2376: Curbside (→Explanation: This same kind of recursivity of tracking tracers has been previously explored to find finders and incinerate incinerators.)
- 23:44, 10 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+99) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: On the other hand, algae and cyanobacteria still {{w|Harmful algal bloom|can be locally harmful}}.)
- 00:21, 10 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+402) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: In fact, destroying the evidence, hiding the error and publishing the wrong results as if they were right is what a dishonest scientist would do. This is what a lot of readers would expect a dishonest character as Blackhat to suggest in)
- 18:56, 9 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+119) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: That suggests that algae may be somehow dangerous - although {{w|Cyanobacteria}} are no longer considered {{w|algae}}.)
- 18:54, 9 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+222) . . 2239: Data Error (→Explanation: Mouse-over text is about the {{w|Great Oxidation Event}} when prokaryotic photosynthetic organisms built up oxygen in Earth atmosphere for the first time and most organisms, which weren't adapted to oxygen, went extinct.)
- 22:12, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+549) . . 2236: Is it Christmas? (→Explanation: In fact, in most settings where a single outcome is a lot more common than any other one, predicting always that most common outcome would yield very high accuracy without any usefulness. It isn't hard to find examples even more accurate)
- 22:01, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (line break to avoid a large white gap (as seen in Chrome))
- 21:55, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+215) . . 2236: Is it Christmas? (→Explanation: A reasonably useful prediction, however, should be likely to say "No" when it is not Christmas - as Randall's one does - but it should also be likely to say "Yes" when it's Christmas - which Radall's one doesn't -.)
- 21:51, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+514) . . 2236: Is it Christmas? (→Explanation: Although Randall's claim on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision#In_binary_classification accuracy] is true, accuracy alone doesn't make a predictive device useful. In this case, the page [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F)
- 21:44, 2 December 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+183) . . 2236: Is it Christmas? (→Explanation: Although Randall's claim on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision#In_binary_classification accuracy] is true, accuracy alone doesn't make a predictive device useful.)
- 07:40, 16 September 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . 2202: Earth-Like Exoplanet ({{w|Pit and the Pendulum}})
- 13:25, 28 August 2019 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . m 2194: How to Send a File (→Explanation: if you try)
- 15:15, 26 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+28) . . 2168: Reading in the Original (→Explanation: [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-pedia#English -pedia])
- 15:11, 26 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (-9) . . 2168: Reading in the Original (→Explanation: but that's not because of any purported merger but only a consequence of English being used on the Internet a lot more than Greek and thus allowing to gather a larger community of editors.)
- 15:10, 26 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+292) . . 2168: Reading in the Original (→Explanation: The articles in Greek Wikipedia tend to be shorter than in the English version, but that's not because of any purported merger but only a consequence of the English a lot more being more used than Greek in the Internet and thus allowing)
- 15:05, 26 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+233) . . 2168: Reading in the Original (→Explanation: However, he is not reading the "original" version of Wikipedia articles, but their equivalent in the [https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%B7:%CE%9A%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1 modern Greek language edition of Wikipedia].)
- 15:22, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (-9) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: and which obviously are just the {{w|President of the United States}}.)
- 15:20, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+23) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: Some fiction writers and filmmakers set some of all of their works in a common {{w|fictional universe|universe}}.)
- 15:18, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+182) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: The pun here is that Clueball is trying to find the common features between Ken Burn's series to set them in a common universe, as a fiction fan would do, "discovering" similarities between series that are just obvious and well known fac)
- 15:16, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+262) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: The pun here is that Clueball is trying to find the common features between Ken Burn's series to set them in a common universe, as a fiction fan would do, "discovering" similarities between series that are just obvious and well known fac)
- 15:14, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+180) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: Therefore all their documentary series are set in a common universe - which is actually the real one, and usually a single part of it: the United States in the last two centuries.)
- 15:12, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+166) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: When it's not obvious that several works from the same author are set in the same fictional universe, some fans may try to find a way to relate them to a common set.)
- 15:10, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+92) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: Some fiction writers and filmmakers are set in a common {{w|fictional universe|universe}}.)
- 15:09, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation)
- 15:09, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+85) . . 2160: Ken Burns Theory (→Explanation: {{w:Ken Burns}} is an American filmmaker renowned for his historical documentaries.)
- 13:50, 22 March 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+335) . . 2126: Google Trends Maps (→Explanation: The contrast is more striking since bungee jumping is a potentially dangerous activity and people practising it might be seen as likely to die young enough not to need a retirement planing. However, bungee jumping is actually a quite sa)
- 21:23, 20 March 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . 2126: Google Trends Maps (wikipedia link)
- 09:42, 25 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . 647: Scary (→Trivia: having to change verbal tense of that scary sentence makes it way more scary)
- 19:58, 11 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+180) . . Talk:2097: Thor Tools (:I agree. That interpretation should be in the explanation instead of the present one.--~~~~)
- 17:13, 24 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . User:Pere prlpz
- 17:11, 24 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+37) . . N User:Pere prlpz (More info in ca:User:Pere prlpz.)
- 16:52, 24 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+45) . . 2063: Carnot Cycle (→Explanation: Galadriel is one of the last elves to leave.)
- 16:51, 24 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+171) . . 2063: Carnot Cycle ({{w|Galadriel}} is a character in Lord of the Rings. Galadriel is one of the leading {{w|Elf (Middle-earth)|elves}}, which is a race that in the time of the book is said t)
- 19:47, 18 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+353) . . Talk:2060: Hygrometer (::The interest of the fact in relation to the comic may be debatable, but even now four out of the first ten Google results linked to pornhub, and yesterday when the comic appeared and it still didn't show on Google, pornhub results made the whole first p)
- 16:52, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+136) . . Talk:2060: Hygrometer (:Thank you. I added it to the description.--~~~~)
- 16:51, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . m 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation)
- 16:50, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+709) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: ===Trivia=== At the moment of the release of this comic, a [https://www.google.es/search?rlz=1C1NHXL_caES708ES708&ei=EEHHW-DWBJ2vgAbZyrSQAw&q=ometerometer&oq=ometerometer&gs_l=psy-ab.3...1876.4215.0.4448.12.10.0.0.0.0.376.1163.0j3j1j1.5)
- 15:48, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+267) . . Talk:2060: Hygrometer (Interestingly, Google search for ometerometer returns porn results. If there is an xkcd comic about rule 34 (if it exists, there is porn about it), it could be linked here.--~~~~)
- 15:44, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+425) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: The word {{w|hypsometer}} can mean [https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hypsometer two unrelated instruments] to measure height. One measures heights of a building or a tree by triangulation. The other measures altitude)
- 15:37, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+211) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: An {{w|Stalagmometric method|stalagmometer}} is an instrument to measure {{w|surface tension}} of fluids by producing a drop and wheighing it - the bigger the drop is, the larger surface tension the fluid has.)
- 15:32, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+261) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: aleurometer. I'm afraid my explanation should be improved by anybody having actually seen an aleurometer.)
- 15:26, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+96) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: A {{w|viscometer}} or viscosimeter is an instrument to measure the {{w|viscosity}} of a fluid.)
- 15:24, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . m 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: grammar)
- 15:23, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+266) . . 2060: Hygrometer (→Explanation: An {{w|sclerometer}} is an instrument to measure {{w|scratch hardness}} of a solid by scratching it under some stardard conditions and measuring the scratch. Instruments used to measure the elastic properties of concret surfaces, like th)
- 15:19, 17 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+159) . . 2060: Hygrometer (An {{w|sclerometer}} is an instrument to measure {{w|scratch hardness}} of a solid by scratching it under some stardard conditions and measuring the scratch.)
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