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Title Text:More actual results: ‘Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You [are the best. The best thing ever]’, ‘Revenge is a dish best served [by a group of people in my room]’, and ‘They may take our lives, but they’ll…
Title Text:More actual results: ‘Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You [are the best. The best thing ever]’, ‘Revenge is a dish best served [by a group of people in my room]’, and ‘They may take our lives, but they’ll…
Title Text:I tried oxidizing them, but your bank uses some really weird paper and it wouldn’t light.
原作:http://what-if.xkcd.com/113 译者:猪的米 What if 系列:https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问: 走遍美国全部50个州最短需要多长时间? —— 源于Stephen Von Worley在Data Pointed上的一个讨论 回答: 本周的文章和以往的有些不同,我没有回答某个读者的提问,而是将目光转向了别人回答的一个问题,以及在此过程中我脑海里冒出来的新问题。吐槽一句,这其中牵涉到的计算实在是难,我差点就没算出来。 (xkcd.com/356,点击可放大图案) 2012年夏天Twelve Mile Circle这个博客发布了一篇文章,希望能在谷歌地图上找出一条耗时24小时的路线,要求这条路线能经过尽可能多的州。最后他们得出的结论是… Read more
Title Text:In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they’d have the problem solved by the end of the…
Title Text:’Touch!’ ‘Nope, I sighed and stared at you with resignation, so I regained emotional right-of-way.’
Title Text:Later, at home: ‘Dear diary: Still can’t figure out what to write here…’
原作:http://what-if.xkcd.com/112 译者:猪的米 What if 系列:https://songshuhui.net/archives/tag/what-if 提问: 我12岁的女儿有个很有趣的想法,她想在一把椅子上系上许多氦气球,椅子用绳子拴在一辆法拉利跑车上。然后她13岁的小伙伴会开着这辆法拉利到处跑,这样她就能舒舒服服地坐在椅子上俯视脚下的整个美景了。撇开法律和保险事务不谈,我女儿很想知道她的气球速度能够达到多快,以及她需要多少气球才能完成这一壮举? —— Phil Rodgers,剑桥,英国 回答: 首先先谢谢你通过你爸爸提交这个问题!既然他说不需要考虑”法律和保险事务”,那么我应该可以认为他可以摆平这事儿。 警察叔叔注意啦,如果你们最近抓到两个不知谁家的… Read more
Title Text:When it explodes, it will cast off its outer layers, leaving behind nothing but a slowly fading PalmPilot, calculator, or two-way pager.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1422/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1422:_My_Phone_is_Dying 手机的死亡 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=1422 Beret Guy的手机即将“死”。 Cueball假设这只是意味着电池电量耗尽而且需要充电,但是有问题的手机似乎以类似于恒星生死的方式“死亡”:在加热和扩张之前消耗它的… Read more
Title Text:Maybe I haven’t been to Iceland because I’m busy dealing with YOUR crummy code.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1421/ 我之所以沒去冰島搞不好就是因為你寫的爛 code 啦。 https://xkcd.tw/1421 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1421:_Future_Self 这个漫画是一个笑话,关于你过去的人如何被视为一个与你现在不同的实体,以及与你未来行动有关的未来事件的可预测性。 漫画显示评论,代码中留下的不会改变算法的信息笔记,以及前一段时间由Cueball完成的仍在使用和维护的项目。暗示Cueball正在查看这些… Read more
Title Text:Old people used to write obnoxious thinkpieces about how people these days always wear watches and are slaves to the clock, but now they’ve switched to writing thinkpieces about how kids these days don’t appreciate the benefits of an…