Voyager error. It’s a gif of Star Trek, I think.

How does that work? Colored e-ink?

Of course it still matters, you just take the best case for n as n→∞, instead of the worst or average case.

Really annoys me that this is actually O(n log n) because for large enough n the merge sort will take longer than n*1e6 second. Randall should know better!

I totally agree, which is why to make the game more interesting I propose to add a new rule: the king can’t move behind his starting row.

I give it a week before someone makes a playable version

I assume this is two statements: one without the parentheses, and one where each parenthesized word replaces the word before it. This is a compact, but borderline unreadable way to write two statements with the same structure. I hate it.

Edit: it makes a lot more sense in a live lecture, where the lecturer writes down the first sentence, then says aloud the second sentence while only replacing the necessary words on the board.

In the tree of life, flounders are a sub-sub-…-sub-species of bilaterally symmetrical animals: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Holozoa=5246131?otthome=%40_ozid%3D1&highlight=path%3A%40Apionichthys_finis%3D3640785&highlight=path%3A%40Bilateria%3D117569#x2913,y-2310,w8.2796

Edit: let me preemptively be a pedant to myself and say that “sub-…-species” is wrong because “bilaterally symmetrical animals” is not a species. Flounder is itself a species AFAIK, not a sub-species of anything. It is a descendant of the common ancestor of all bilaterally symmetrical animals. There, now surely no one will find anything to be pedantic about :D

Sure, but what about Trick IMPLIES Treat?

There are exceptions to every rule. Sometimes it ends up being “between five and 15” which is psychotic.

Sooner or later they’re going to become meander scars or oxbow lakes, when the river reconnects with itself.

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist.

Thanks, Wikipedia.

It looks like a super genetic stock image, and I always assumed that’s what it is.

I am beginning to think this community is not for me, as I need every other joke explained. But I haven’t given up yet… What is the joke here?

Reality is so unoriginal

I didn’t sit through any of those and I don’t get the joke. Do I upvote anyway, trusting that it’s funny? Or just based on the conversation below? Such a dilemma…

I am not an explosives expert, but I’ve seen enough YouTube videos about explosives to know that not all explosives explode in fire. Some are incredibly stable at extreme conditions right up until deliberately triggered. It all depends on the type of explosives.

There may still be ways to detect them, but it’s not necessarily going to be that simple.

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Wherever is reading this, this article is worth looking at. Just trust me.

Usually when that happens there’s a way to tie it back to circles, but it’s not always easy to find