Title Text:Spacetime Soccer, known outside the United States as ‘4D Football’ is a now-defunct sport. Infamous for referee decisions hinging on inconsistent definitions of simultaneity, it is also known for the disappearance of many top players during… [more]
Origin:https://xkcd.com/2705/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2705:_Spacetime_Soccer
Title Text:It’s okay, they can figure out which control positions produce scalding water via a trial-and-error feedback loop with a barely-perceptible 10-second lag.
Origin:https://xkcd.com/2704/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2704:_Faucet
Title Text:CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT: The authors hope these results are correct because we all want to be cool people who are good at science.
Origin:https://xkcd.com/2703/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2703:_Paper_Title
http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2703
许多（如果不是大多数）科学研究论文提出了一个假设和检验该假设的结果。一种普遍的误解是只有那种研究才应被视为“科学”… Read more
Title Text:BABIES OR LITERATURE BUT NOT BOTH: Baby shoes
Origin:https://xkcd.com/2702/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2702:_What_If_2_Gift_Guide
兰德尔再次宣传他的新书，如果？2，并首先解释可能会欣赏它的接收者类型，基本上是任何从事科学或宇宙中任何事物的人……所以基本上是任何人。
然后他还直接和幽默地间接说明如何为他们获取这本书，后一种方法做出了一个诙谐（但并非完全错误）的假设，即几乎所有文本输入小部件都会导致一些相关的搜索引擎结果。整部漫画也链接到如果？漫画中包含的 xkcd 上的第2页。一如既往，点击图片上的任何地方都会带你到那里（包括实际点击链接）… Read more
Title Text:Squinting at a graph is fine for getting a rough idea of the answer, but if you want to pretend to know it exactly, you need statistics.
Origin:https://xkcd.com/2701/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2701:_Change_in_Slope
漫画是检测数据散点图斜率变化的技巧。这是探索性统计中比较一系列趋势的常见要求——找到斜率变化的截止点可能会揭示有关数据的有价值信息。
漫画比较了两种方法。首先，一个新手方法——通过“做一堆统计”——即应用各种统计工具来分析数据并计算出斜率的数量变化。这会产生两个等式，用于表示… Read more
Title Text:My password is just every Unicode codepoint concatenated into a single UTF-8 string.
Origin:https://xkcd.com/2700/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2700:_Account_Problems
http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2700
Cueball请求Ponytail帮助他，因为他无法登录他的帐户。Ponytail 过去曾尝试解决Cueball 的技术问题，但他的回答却是恐惧。Cueball 承诺“这次是正常问题”，Ponytail 同意… Read more
Title Text:Below the Web, and the Dark Web, a shadowy parallel world of Cybiko users trade messages on the Translucent Neon Plastic Web.
Origin:https://xkcd.com/2699/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2699:_Feature_Comparison
注释：Cybiko无官方译名，这里换成国内读者熟悉的“文曲星”。
http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2699
这部漫画比较了不同的远程通信服务，包括比较知… Read more
Title Text:”Even split between us, this will pay way better than the Jumanji sponsorship I came into the date with.”
Origin:https://xkcd.com/2698/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2698:_Bad_Date
http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2698
这部漫画是网络影响者的恶搞。这些人在社交媒体上拥有大量粉丝，他们在视频中提及产品以换取生产这些产品的公司的报酬，作为一种广告形式。
在漫画中，Megan 和 Cu… Read more
Title Text:It’s taken me 20 years, but I’ve finally finished rebuilding all my software to use 33-bit signed ints.
Origin:https://xkcd.com/2697/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2697:_Y2K_and_2038
注释：
(1) 千年虫问题(Y2K bug)是指，早期计算机系统中使用两个数字表示年份, 如1999年表示为99，如此2000年可能会被误读为1900年，导致各类软件出错。
(2) 目前计算机系统中通常使用32位有符号整数 (3
Title Text:’Barack Obama is much less likely than the average cat to jump in and out of cardboard boxes for fun’ is low precision, but I’m not sure about the accuracy.
Origin:https://xkcd.com/2696/
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2696:_Precision_vs_Accuracy
http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2696
这部漫… Read more
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