[2274] Stargazing 3

Title Text:If we can destroy enough of the lights in our region, we may see more comets, but that’s a risk we’ll have to take. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2274/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2274:_Stargazing_3 观星 3 如果我们能够摧毁我们地区足够多的灯,我们可能会看到更多彗星,但那是我们不得不承担的风险。 脚注: [1]星等:为天文学术语,是指星体在天空中的相对亮度。一般而言,这也指“视星等”,即为从地球上所见星体的亮度。在地球上看起来越明亮的星体,其视星等数值就越低。 http://xkcd.in/co… Read more

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[2273] Truck Proximity

Title Text:See also: Farm animals and dinosaurs. I am so confident that there exists children’s media that involves dinosaurs driving trucks on a farm that I’m writing this without even Googling to check. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2273/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2273:_Truck_Proximity 卡车接触程度 另见:农场动物和恐龙。我很确信,已经有恐龙在农场开卡车题材的的儿童片问世,我甚至都不用去谷歌一下来确认。 http://xkcd.in/… Read more

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[2272] Ringtone Timeline

Title Text:No one likes my novelty ringtone, an audio recording of a phone on vibrate sitting on a hard surface. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2272/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2272:_Ringtone_Timeline 电话铃声时间轴 没人会喜欢我的新铃声:这是一段手机放在坚硬的平面上振动的录音。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2272 后电话被发明,需要说明当一个呼叫来了通过的方式。通过线路发送的特殊电压用于激活另一端的物理响铃,从而导致我们认为是电话铃声,并且即使在检测和产生铃声的新方法出现时,这种产生… Read more

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[2271] Grandpa Jason and Grandpa Chad

  Title Text:The AARP puts the average age of a first-time grandparent close to 50, and the CDC has some data. But I don’t have first-parent age distributions for specific names, or generational first-child age correlations, so the dotted line…

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[2270] Picking Bad Stocks

Title Text:On the news a few days later: “Buzz is building around the so-called ‘camping Roomba’ after a big investment. Preorders have spiked, and…” Origin:https://xkcd.com/2270/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2270:_Picking_Bad_Stocks 专选差股 几天后的新闻:在收到一笔巨大投资后,“野营用扫地机器人”收到越来越多的关注,预定量激增,而且…. http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2270 Cu… Read more

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[2269] Phylogenetic Tree

Title Text:And I was kicked out of my March Madness pool because I wouldn’t shut up about the evidence for NBA/ABA endosymbiosis. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2269/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2269:_Phylogenetic_Tree 系统进化树 之后我不断证明ABA(美国篮球协会)其实是NBA(美国职业篮球联赛)的内共生体,又被“疯狂三月”联盟劝退了。 脚注: [1]疯狂三月:因为NCAA锦标赛的大部分比赛都在3月进行,实行单场淘汰制,所以被称为疯狂三月。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&… Read more

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[2268] Further Research is Needed

Title Text:Further research is needed to fully understand how we managed to do such a good job. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2268/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2268:_Further_Research_is_Needed 需要进一步研究 我们仍需进一步研究:究竟是如何完美解决所有问题的。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2268 研究论文通常以对这个主题进一步研究将有用的建议作为结尾。研究人员倾向于相信他们研究的任何话题都需要更多的研究……而且更重要的是,他们希望能够确保未来的资金投入,例如以续集的设置来结束电影。然而,… Read more

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[2267] Blockchain

Title Text:Blockchains are like grappling hooks, in that it’s extremely cool when you encounter a problem for which they’re the right solution, but it happens way too rarely in real life. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2267/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2267:_Blockchain 区块链 区块链就像抓钩,如果碰巧你可以用它来解决遇到的问题那是非常酷的,但在现实生活中这概率太低了。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2267 该漫画是流程… Read more

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[2266] Leap Smearing

Title Text:Some people suspect that it started as a “No, I didn’t forget Valentine’s Day” excuse that got out of hand. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2266/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2266:_Leap_Smearing 闰秒弥补 一些人怀疑这最初只是个“我没忘记情人节”的借口,结果玩大了。 脚注: [1]凌晨3点:实际上当时的时间是2月10日上午10:51,之所以是凌晨3:02是因为多出来的一天(闰日2月29日)平摊到28天内,也就是说28天包含696小时(28*24+24),那么比正常时间慢了… Read more

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[2265] Tax AI

Title Text:I ended up getting my tax return prepared at a local place by a really friendly pretrained neural net named Greg. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2265/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2265:_Tax_AI 人工智能报税 最后,我通过当地预先经过良好神经网络训练的Greg帮忙,完成了纳税申报单。 脚注: {使用标准扣税法并详细列举指定信息,你可以指定多达1040位受益人减免2022财年的国家与地方所得税额。} http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2265 在美国提交纳税申报表的截止日期是4月15日,因此在此… Read more

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