~xkcd | Bookmarks (49)
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Bursa of Fabricius
If an anatomical structure is named for a person, it means they were the only person...
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K-Means Clustering
According to my especially unsupervised K-means clustering algorithm, there are currently about 8 billion types of...
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Code Lifespan
Surely (no one/everyone) will (recognize how flexible and useful this architecture is/spend a huge amount of...
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Lane Change Highway
I just think lane markers should follow the local magnetic declination.
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Methodology Trial
If you think THAT'S unethical, you should see the stuff we approved via our Placebo IRB.
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Sunspot Cycle
Who can forget the early 2010s memes? 'You know you're a 90s kid if you remember...
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Washing Machine Settings
I guess the engineers who built my dishwasher MIGHT have some insight into how to load...
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Outdated Periodic Table
Researchers claim to have synthesized six additional elements in the second row, temporarily named 'pentium' through...
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Etymonline
NOTE TO FUTURE ETYMONLINGUISTS: Our best guess is that 'blimp' is onomatopoeia. The 'B-Limp' thing is...
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Euler Diagrams
Things Leonhard Euler created ( most of math ( overlapping circle diagrams ) a cricket bowling...
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Biology vs Robotics
Sorry, I've just always had these random things I don't like--like olives, or robots drilling holes...
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Hydrogen Isotopes
Oops, All Neutrons is also known as Neutral Quadrium, Nydnonen, and Goth Tritium.
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New Year's Eve Party
[Earlier, at the eye doctor] 'No, for the last time, the numerals on the paper aren't...
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L6 Lagrange Point
It's difficult to orbit L6 stably due to gravitational perturbation from Akron and Toledo.
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Game Night Ordering
One good trick, if you get called on a fake service, is to build a working...
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Cold Complaints
Our investigation into whining-based remedies became the first study to be halted by the IRB on...
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Data Point
In general you should only include your single best data point in the paper. The rest...
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Optimal Bowling
If you want to bowl a strike, the optimal place is almost certainly inside a bowling...
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Solar System Model
The Earth is, on average, located in the habitable zone, but at any given time it...