Collection of Science Jokes P2

[BillTre]

 

[Wrichik Basu]

 

[Ibix]

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I am unable to get this joke because I do not understand recursion and my mental call stack is only three entries deep.

 

[DaveC426913]

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Seriously though, that's not recursion, is it? Shouldn't it be this*?

* loop counter and exit condition left out for clarity

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Seriously though, that's not recursion, is it? Shouldn't it be this*?

You are showing the code of the recursive function. My picture shows the function call stack in memory.

 

[mfb]

It's tail recursive, you can simplify it and get rid of the call stack.

Doing this might need some understanding of recursion, however, so let's start with the original diagram. Oh wait.

 

[davenn]

 

[DennisN]

A fun article on Uncyclopedia: Quantum Economics.

E.g. the Schrödinger section was hilarious.

A thought experiment was proposed by Erwin Schrödinger: consider a cubicle in which there is no method for an employer to observe the employee contained therein (a so called black box cubicle). An employee is then placed in such a cubicle with access to a corporation's assets. While the actions of the employee are unmonitored, Schrödinger proposed that the employee existed both in a state of having embezzled and in a state of honest work. Only by way of a painful audit can the wavefunction of the employee's innocence collapse to a single classical economic state (a process called a cut collapse).

I have a feeling @Demystifier might enjoy this one.

 

[Jarvis323]

Grammarly didn't like the word curse, so it suggested some alternatives.

Some of my favorites:

The whammy of dimensionality ...
The hex of dimensionality ...
The scourge of dimensionality ...
The nemesis of dimensionality ...
The condemnation of dimensionality ...

 

[Ibix]

I rather like the voodoo of dimensionality. You stick a pin in the fourth dimension and get a stabbing pain in the middle of next week.

 

[DennisN]

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Orodruin]

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Polar coordinates…

 

[DrGreg]

The continent where South Antarctica and Central Antarctica are the same place.

 

[gmax137]

The continent where South Antarctica and Central Antarctica are the same place.

Presumably, "The continent with 24 time zones." I never really thought about that before.

Not so fast! TIL, It's simpler, and more complicated than that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Antarctica

 

[fresh_42]

Presumably, "The continent with 24 time zones." I never really thought about that before.

Not so fast! TIL, It's simpler, and more complicated than that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Antarctica

Psst, don't say it out loud, but you can travel backward in time over there.

 

[Ibix]

I think I've told this story before, but I once went to a lecture about boomerang physics by a guy whose official research involved travel to polar regions. He claimed to have the record for the longest ever boomerang flight at 24 hours and seventeen seconds, a trick he'd pulled by throwing the boomerang around the pole while stepping from one side of the date line to the other. He said the people at the Guiness Book of Records had stopped returning his calls...

 

[Baluncore]

The continent where South Antarctica and Central Antarctica are the same place.

Note that the map is upside down.

 

[Swamp Thing]

Grammarly didn't like the word curse, so it suggested some alternatives.

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Some of my favorites:

The whammy of dimensionality ...
The hex of dimensionality ...
The scourge of dimensionality ...
The nemesis of dimensionality ...
The condemnation of dimensionality ...

How about "the dirty word of dimensionality", courtesy Thesaurus.com?

 

[fresh_42]

And another one who didn't pay attention in his physics class ...

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Tom.G]

Entertaining... with the additional information that either the author or the lab manager is not aware of how a 'one-way mirror' works!

 

[fresh_42]

 

[martinbn]

This reminds me that in number theory the conductor is denoted by $\mathfrak f$. The reason is that it was called the fuhrer as it is still in the fuhrerdiskriminantenproductformel. In the 1930's Germany it was considered inwise to talk in a incomprihansible language about the fuhrer, so it became the conductor.

 

[BillTre]

 

[dextercioby]

 

[phinds]

SO true of some of our newbies and one-timers

 

[phinds]

 

[phinds]

Hm ... apparently several of us here, including me, seem to have misused this common phrase ...

 

[Jarvis323]