Title Text:People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren’t too many of them. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2864/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2864:_Compact_Graphs 压缩图表 人们可能会抱怨这种图表的可读性，但即使使用jpeg算法对图表进行压缩，在数据量不大的情况下，对数据进行提取在计算上也是可行的。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&… Read more

Title Text:And over heeee[…]eeeere (i)s Saturn. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2863/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2863:_Space_Typography 太空排版 那边[……]是土星。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2863 这是Randall的另一个小提示，这次是一个空间提示，连续的第一个，共两个，第二个是2864：紧凑图表和设计提示。 Randall创造了一个句子，其特性是，当用Times New Roman字体打印时，“i”字母与第一个字母之间的距离与太阳系内五颗行星轨道的半径成比例。这是句子中唯一带有点的… Read more

Title Text:Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2862/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2862:_Typical_Seating_Chart 经典舱位表 现在，航空公司已经开始在饮料车上安装轮锁，只有不到一半的航班会发生意外从垃圾孔中掉出的事故。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2862 这部漫画展示了一架182座飞机（及其战斗机护航）的座位图，… Read more

Title Text:The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular ‘n=1’ and ‘n=2’ theories. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2861/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2861:_X_Value X的值 n值是多少现在仍不可知，不过新的结果将范围缩小到了8到10^500，可以排除之前流行的“n=1”或者“n=2”这两种理论。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2861 在代数中，变量是任何用于表示尚未… Read more

Title Text:Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2860/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2860:_Decay_Modes 衰变模式 与铁器时代的崩溃不同，青铜时代的崩溃会释放能量，因为在结合能曲线上，铜和锡在峰值处的铁元素后面。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2860 衰变模式是指不稳定原子核转变为更稳定核的不同方式，通常通过发射粒子或辐射来实现。衰变… Read more

Title Text:Shipping times vary. Same-ocean delivery may only take a few years, but delivery from the Weddell Sea in Antarctica may take multiple decades, and molecules meant for inland seas like the Mediterranean may be returned as undeliverable by surface…

Title Text:An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003), and various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for her annual tradition of watching it.…

Title Text:The mainstream dogma sparked a wave of dogmatic revisionism, and this revisionist mainstream dogmatism has now given way to a more rematic mainvisionist dogstream. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2857/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2857:_Rebuttals 反驳 主流 的 教条 导致了一波 修正 主义浪潮，而对 修正 主义的 教条 式坚持者的 主流，又引发了一股更加 修条…

Title Text:If a materials scientist gives you a present, always ask whether regifting will incur any requirements for Federal paperwork. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2856/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2856:_Materials_Scientists 材料科学家 如果一位材料科学家送你礼物，一定要问一下转送是否需要联邦政府的文件允许。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2856 材料科学本质上是对材料的研究，比如钢铁，以及一些非常奇特的材料，如Vantablack和三碘化物。在这里，马尾… Read more

Title Text:The problems started with my resolution next year to reject temporal causality. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2855/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2855:_Empiricism 经验主义 这个问题开始于我明年的新年计划：抵制因果关系。 https://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2855 Cueball 和 Megan 正在讨论新年决议。Cueball 说他今年的决议是拒绝经验主义。Megan 问他这怎么样，Cueball 不屑地回答。 经验主义是基于直接观察和测试来验证假设的实践。笑话在于，由于 Cueball 成功地拒绝了经验主义，他… Read more