[2030] Voting Software

Title Text:There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/2030/…

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[2029] Disaster Movie

Title Text:Really, they’d be rushing around collecting revisions to go into the next scheduled quarterly public data update, not publishing them immediately, but you have to embellish things a little for Hollywood. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2029/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2029:_Disaster_Movie 灾难片 实际上,他们会忙着收集的是修订后的数据,以便进行下一次的季度数据公开——而不是立即发布——他们得先为好莱坞润色一下。 https://… Read more

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[2028] Complex Numbers

Title Text:I’m trying to prove that mathematics forms a meta-abelian group, which would finally confirm my suspicions that algebreic geometry and geometric algebra are the same thing. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2028/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2028:_Complex_Numbers 复数可以被认为是具有加法和乘法规则的实数对。     因此,它们可以被建模为二维向量,具有用于乘法的有趣规则。这个规则的理由是考虑一个复数作为形式的表达式,其中,即i是负1的平方根。应用代数的公共规… Read more

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[2027] Lightning Distance

Title Text:The index of radio refraction does have a lot of variation, which might throw off your calculations, so you can also look at the difference in brightness between the visible flash and more-attenuated UV and x-rays. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2027/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2027:_Lightning_Distance 闪电距离…

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