Collection of Science Jokes P2

[fresh_42]

Not sure if this link to an image on reddRe will work. If not then I'll try uploading.

Ok I'll try imgur.
https://i.imgur.com/KNARJop.png

If it only wasn't so true! That basically describes what happens between school and university!

 

[scottdave]

If it only wasn't so true! That basically describes what happens between school and university!

I am taking a Python for analytics MicroMasters course through edX and Georgia Tech. The cartoon is an obvious exaggeration, but there are times when I'm watching the lessons, thinking "This is simple". Then I get the homework and ... "Whoa! Where did this come from?"

 

[BillTre]

Popper's falsification approach applied to biographies:

 

[Ibix]

You could do similar for Bayes. "My a posteriori confidence that Bayes was born in 1701 is around 30%."

 

[fresh_42]

I'm not sure Schrödinger was born, and I'm very uncertain about Heisenberg's birthday.

 

[Ibix]

I'm not sure Schrödinger was born

...but to calculate the probability you just apply the Born Rule.

 

[mfb]

The identity uncertainty: EVERYONE ALIVE WAS BORN[/size] (sorry, only works in caps)

 

[fresh_42]

The identity uncertainty: EVERYONE ALIVE WAS BORN (sorry, only works in caps)

The Alexandroff compactification of quantum field theories?

 

[Ibix]

The identity uncertainty: EVERYONE ALIVE WAS BORN (sorry, only works in caps)

I was thinking "Schrodinger was not Born at all"

 

[fresh_42]

I was thinking "Schrodinger was not Born at all"

And I could have sworn the Bells had been heard not only locally.

 

[Keith_McClary]

A Glut of Math Jokes
with Bad Drawings.

 

[davenn]

A Glut of Math Jokes
with Bad Drawings.

the first one on that page ....

usually has an engineers' view
"The glass is obviously double the size that it needs to be"

sometimes a "drinker" view

"Whatever, there's clearly room for more beer"

 

[BillTre]

Another from xkcd, asto-tourist ratings:

 

[DennisN]

 

[collinsmark]

Today's SMBC:

(Source: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/staging)

 

[fresh_42]

Engineers!

 

[DaveC426913]

Engineers!

I see nothing untoward here.

 

[Keith_McClary]

https://bizarro.com/daily-comic/?fd=2018-12-09

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Klystron]

Trouble at the Infinity Bar:

A recursive function walks into a bar;
...A recursive function walks into a bar;
...A recursive function walks into a bar;
...A recursive function walks into a bar;
...A recursive function walks into a bar;
...never to return!
...return;
...return;
...return
...return;
return.

 

[davenn]

how long will it take you to spot it ? ...

 

[Ibix]

how long will it take you to spot it ? ...

Spoiler

The photographer's shadow, distorted by the wide-angle lens, looks like a normal human except four or five meters tall. Clearly an alien.

 

[Klystron]

Spoiler

The photographer's shadow, distorted by the wide-angle lens, looks like a normal human except four or five meters tall. Clearly an alien.

And the alien's shadow compared to the lander's definitely proves there ARE multiple dimensions!

 

[mfb]

No, it proves the Moon landing was flat.
Did I get that right?

 

[Ibix]

No, it proves the Moon landing was flat.
Did I get that right?

You missed out how evolution was faked on a Hollywood sound stage.

 

[Klystron]

No, it proves the Moon landing was flat.
Did I get that right?

Beyond a "shadow of a doubt"!

 

[Keith_McClary]

Clearly

 

[Keith_McClary]

https://xkcd.com/2085/

 

[collinsmark]

I put this in the "science jokes" forum, but it could just as well apply to mathematics or even engineering.

(Source: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/proof)

 

[andrew s 1905]

A fencing instructor named Fisk
Had an action incredibly brisk
So fast was his action
The Fitzgerald contraction
Foreshortened his foil to a disc