[2031] Pie Charts

Title Text:If you can’t get your graphing tool to do the shading, just add some clip art of cosmologists discussing the unusual curvature of space in the area. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2031/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2031:_Pie_Charts 饼图 如果你找不到绘图工具来做阴影处理的话,为何不试试添加一些宇宙学家讨论的区域空间的异常曲率的剪贴画呢? https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ixZY_iOj3x2eep9bGIWh7g 饼图图表比例为圆的“切片”,就像切成切片的饼图… Read more

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[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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[2026] Heat Index

Title Text:The heat index is calculated via looking up the “effective temperature” in a table of air temperature and humidity values, and then adding a bunch more degrees because it feels WAY hotter than that. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2026/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2026:_Heat_Index 热指数 热指数的计算方法是,通过在空气温度和湿度值表中查找“有效温度”,然后再加上一些度数,因为实际感觉要更热。 https://www.xkcd.com……

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[2025] Peer Review

Title Text:Your manuscript “Don’t Pay $25 to Access Any of the Articles in this Journal: A Review of Preprint Repositories and Author Willingness to Email PDF Copies for Free” has also been rejected, but nice try. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2025/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2025:_Peer_Review 同行审议 你的手稿“不需要花25美元来访问本杂志的文章:对预印存储库的审查,以及作者愿意免费发送PDF文件的意愿”。也被拒绝了,但是……

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[2024] Light Hacks

Title Text:Life hack: Wait for an advanced civilization to be briefly distracted, then sneak in and construct a slightly smaller Dyson sphere inside theirs. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2024/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2024:_Light_Hacks 生活黑客 生活黑客: 趁一个先进的文明被短暂地分散注意力的时候,偷偷溜进去,在他们的内部建造一个稍小一点的戴森球 https://www.xkcd.com.cn/2024/ “生活黑客”是以新颖的方式使用普通日常用品以增加日常活动的便利性或享受的做法。这个漫画在许… Read more

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[2023] Y-Axis

Title Text:We’ve also developed the semi-semi-log scale, where the Y-axis for the left half of the graph is a log scale but on the right half it isn’t. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2023/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2023:_Y-Axis Y轴 我们还开发了半对数刻度,图左边的y轴是对数刻度,但在右边的一半不是。 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HWZlr6BctSSn6Rzd-9RWww 图表应该是什么样子。 漫画本身对最近的趋势进行了研究,其中给定数据集的y范围被夸大了,因此通… Read more

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[2022] Sports Champions

Title Text:For a long time, people thought maybe Usain Bolt was the one for running, until the 2090s and the incredible dominance of Derek Legs. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2022/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2022:_Sports_Champions 在一个主格决定论的例子中,漫画列出了姓氏与他们参加各种体育运动有关的人。它被呈现为好像它是在遥远的未来创造的,反映了几十年到20世纪80年代的冠军。前三名是真正的运动员,其余的都是未来的想象者。这些名称从真实的,虚构的,但似乎是合理的,到罕见的或非常不寻常的,到完全不可信… Read more

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