Title Text:College Board issues aside, I have fond memories of TI-BASIC, writing in it a 3D graphing engine and a stock market analyzer. With enough patience, I could make anything… but friends. (Although with my chatterbot experiments, I certainly tried.)…
Title Text:Mr. Rogers projected an air of genuine, unwavering, almost saintly pure-hearted decency. But when you look deeper, at the person behind the image… that’s exactly what you find there, too. He’s exactly what he appears to be. Origin:https://xkcd.com/767/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/767:_Temper…
Title Text:The exact cause of the phenomenon is unknown, but it’s thought to be linked to atmospheric refraction and you getting a really cool car. Origin:https://xkcd.com/766/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/766:_Green_Flash 绿光 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/742585034/ 绿色闪光是指在黄昏（黎明初或黄昏）发生的光学现象，在太阳的最边缘可以看到一缕绿光。黑帽试图通过这个事件分散Cueball的注意力，以便他可以用手中的瓶子淘汰Cueball并… Read more
Title Text:Dear editors of Homeopathy Monthly: I have two small corrections for your July issue. One, it’s spelled “echinacea”, and two, homeopathic medicines are no better than placebos and your entire magazine is a sham. Origin:https://xkcd.com/765/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/765:_Dilution 顺势疗法 顺势疗法两大法宝：一曰稀释，二曰震荡…… https://songshuhui.net/archives/4900……
Title Text:Cue letters from anthropology majors complaining that this view of numerolinguistic development perpetuates a widespread myth. They get to write letters like that because when you’re not getting a real science degree you have a lot of free time.…
Title Text:I once worked on a friend’s dad’s computer. He had the hard drive divided into six partitions, C: through J:, with a ‘Documents’ directory tree on each one. Each new file appeared to be saved to a partition at…
Title Text:I just call all of them ‘synecdoche’. Origin:https://xkcd.com/762/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/762:_Analogies 这部漫画围绕着“类比”，“明喻”和“隐喻”（以及“Synecdoche”，“三明治”和“性别”）概念之间的相似性（和差异）。 当梅根站起来问Cueball和他的Cueball式朋友，如果有人想要一个三明治，她非常字面意思是她会在厨房做一个三明治，如果他们希望，她会为他们中的任何一个做一个。 因此，当他问这是一个隐喻时，Cueball是如此厚颜无耻，因为在这种情况下，隐喻将是性三明治的参考，在这种情况下，两个Cueball&#… Read more
Title Text:A breadth-first search makes a lot of sense for dating in general, actually; it suggests dating a bunch of people casually before getting serious, rather than having a series of five-year relationships one after the other. Origin:https://xkcd.com/761/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/761:_DFS 在这个漫画中，毛茸茸准备与马尾辫约会，并刚刚洗完澡，就像他腰间系着毛巾一样。…
Title Text:Someone should really bring them a ladder and remind them to build the Endless Stair *first* next time. Origin:https://xkcd.com/760/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/760:_Moria 这是兰德尔在幻想故事“指环王”中对莫里亚的故事的看法。在最初的矮人中，寻找宝贵的金属秘银挖得如此之深，以至于他们醒来了一个被Morgoth腐蚀的一个balrog-Maiar。甘道夫正在向他旁边的四个霍比特人讲述这个故事。其中一个霍比特人显然已经读过“指环王”，因为他要求“唤醒阴影和火焰的恐怖”，但甘道夫说他们被困在他们的洞里，无法离开。 然而，甘… Read more
Title Text:Handy exam trick: when you know the answer but not the correct derivation, derive blindly forward from the givens and backward from the answer, and join the chains once the equations start looking similar. Sometimes the graders don’t notice…
