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

Ok I'll try imgur.
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If it only wasn't so true! That basically describes what happens between school and university!
 
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fresh_42 said:
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?"
 
Popper's falsification approach applied to biographies:
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You could do similar for Bayes. "My a posteriori confidence that Bayes was born in 1701 is around 30%."
 
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I'm not sure Schrödinger was born, and I'm very uncertain about Heisenberg's birthday.
 
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mfb said:
The identity uncertainty: EVERYONE ALIVE WAS BORN (sorry, only works in caps)
The Alexandroff compactification of quantum field theories?
 
mfb said:
The identity uncertainty: EVERYONE ALIVE WAS BORN (sorry, only works in caps)
I was thinking "Schrödinger was not Born at all"
 
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Ibix said:
I was thinking "Schrödinger was not Born at all"
And I could have sworn the Bells had been heard not only locally.
 
Keith_McClary said:
A Glut of Math Jokes
with Bad Drawings.
the first one on that page ....

how full is glass.jpg


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"
 

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Another from xkcd, asto-tourist ratings:
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fresh_42 said:
Engineers!
I see nothing untoward here.
 
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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.
 
how long will it take you to spot it ? ...

Curiosity rover on Mars.jpg
 

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davenn said:
how long will it take you to spot it ? ...
The photographer's shadow, distorted by the wide-angle lens, looks like a normal human except four or five meters tall. Clearly an alien.
 
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Ibix said:
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 said:
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.
 
mfb said:
No, it proves the Moon landing was flat.
Did I get that right?

Beyond a "shadow of a doubt"!
 
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A fencing instructor named Fisk
Had an action incredibly brisk
So fast was his action
The Fitzgerald contraction
Foreshortened his foil to a disc
 
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