#xkcd 356

[yesterdays-xkcd]

I first saw this problem on the Google Labs Aptitude Test. A professor and I filled a blackboard without getting anywhere. Have fun.

Nerd Sniping [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Black Hat is sitting on a chair, Cueball is standing next to him. Across the street, another Guy is coming from a building walking towards the pedestrian crossing across from Black Hat.] Black Hat: There's a certain type of brain that's easily disabled. Black Hat: If you show it an interesting problem, it involuntarily drops everything else to work on it.

[The Guy across the street is about to enter a crosswalk, which is seen from right behind Black Hat in his chair, holding onto the sign, which is still pointing down. Cueball is looking on.] Black Hat: This has led me to invent a new sport: Nerd Sniping. Black Hat: See that physicist crossing the road?

[Black Hat lifts up the sign when the physicist is in the middle of the street, halfway across the pedestrian crossing.] Black Hat: Hey!

[A close-up of Black Hat's sign is shown in a frameless panel. There is text above and below an image of a four-by-five grid of nodes with resistors (shown as wiggly lines) between every node and also continuing away from the 16 outer nodes. A total of 5 columns with 5 and 4 rows with 6 resistors for a total of 20 nodes and 49 resistors. Two nodes, a knight's move apart, are marked with red circles in the 3rd row 2nd column and the 2nd row 4th column.] Sign: On this infinite grid of ideal one-ohm resistors, Sign: what's the equivalent resistance between the two marked nodes?

[The Physicist has stopped pondering the questions, a hand to his chin.] Physicist: It's... Hmm. Interesting. Maybe if you start with... No, wait. Hmm... You could—

[In another frameless panel, a ten-wheeled truck is zooming past from the right, apparently going through the spot where the physicist just stood.] Truck: Foooom

[Cueball looks down on Black Hat, who looks back up from his chair at the curb, again holding the sign down. He lifts one hand up while replying.] Cueball: I will have no part in this. Black Hat: C'mon, make a sign. It's fun! Physicists are two points, mathematicians three.

[fluid-vixen]

so many other weird magic science things that could be added, but these are a great choice

Cherenkov radiation is one the I love on a personal level, both do to it overlapping with my favorite color (sky blue) and what causes it. Shown in the bottom right image. Effectively a sonic boom with light! The charged particles traveling through the medium faster than light normally would. Energy from that is converted to a light, from magic a polarizable medium being excited then returned to the ground state. (like i said...magic) edit: correction to my post, cause science actual thing in the bottom left image is a "mercury vapour rectifier" time to learn more magic science.

[kaythaney]

The next time someone asks me how Wikipedia works, I'll just give them this: xkcd 356 + xkcd 386 = ✨ Wikipedia ✨ pic.twitter.com/VOkj0Rg2qN

— Guillaume Paumier (@gpaumier) February 12, 2020

[cotton-flower-s]

I downloaded the demo and now my head is hurts. no more thoughts left only minesweeper. xkcd 356. bye gonna solve more problems but my brain is gloop

hey everyone go play Bombe now!

it is a simple little Fully Automated Generalized Gay Space Minesweeper game

just look at all the numbers!!

there's a free demo on steam with like 6 hours worth of playable content!