Mine Captcha
This data is actually going into improving our self-driving car project, so hurry up--it's almost at...
Flawed Data
We trained it to produce data that looked convincing, and we have to admit the results...
Dual USB-C
Small devices use two-prong USB-AC, but there's also a three-prong version with a USB-B plug as...
Commonly Mispronounced Equations
"Epsihootamoo doopsiquorps" --the Schrödinger equation for the hydrogen atom
Immune Factory
In the final vote, the doubters were won over by the strength of the name IMMUNION.
Pre-Pandemic Ketchup
I wonder what year I'll discard the last weird food item that I bought online in...
Bad Map Projection: The Greenland Special
The projection for those who think the Mercator projection gives people a distorted idea of how...
Board Game Argument: Legacy
Listen, you need to get over your reluctance to permanently alter a game. Now roll 2d6...
Board Game Party Schedule
Several of the guests are secretly playing Meta Board Game Party. Every minute of parallel debate...
Nightmare Code
Charsets even used to be known as 'alpha-bets' before that word's obvious negative associations caused it...
Linked List Interview Problem
I'd traverse it myself, but it's singly linked, so I'm worried that I won't be able...
Indoor Socializing
The problem with learning about biology is that everyone you meet is it.
Houseguests
You can come on in, we're all fully vaccinated. Except the spare room off the living...
Alien Visitors 2
"Although fresh juice DOES sound--" "NO! For humanity to survive we must learn from the mistakes...
Alien Visitors
Stay right there, we'll be back in a minute. We've just gotta brainstorm some new wonders....
Health Drink
You'd need to keep track of so many people! Would you use, like, Excel or something?...
Product Launch
"Okay, that was weird, but the product reveal was normal. I think the danger is pas--"...
Fuzzy Blob
If there's no dome, how do you explain the irregularities the board discovered in the zoning...
Hippo Attacks
It's cool how, when there's a number lots of people are curious about, but which isn't...
Next Slide Please
"I have nothing to offer but blood--next slide, please--toil--next slide, please--tears, and--next slide, please--sweat."
Astronomy Status Board
Junior astronomers hate getting put on board update duty, but someone's gotta make sure that stuff...
Inheritance
People ask me whether I feel any moral qualms about the source of the points, but...
Wikipedia Caltrops
Oh no, they set up a roadblock which is just a sign with the entire 'Czech...
Muller's Ratchet
Who knew you could learn so much about sexual reproduction from looking at pictures on the...
Astrophotography
[One hill over, a competing astrophotographer does a backflip over a commercial airliner while throwing a...
NASA Award
The key to discovering life on Mars is to find someone who built a camera and...
90's Kid Space Program
NASA may not want to admit it, but at this point they ARE the 90's Kid...
Vaccinated
I built a model that combines local case rates and vaccination stats to estimate when it's...
After the Pandemic
I'm looking forward to having to worry a lot less about covid, but wouldn't mind if...
Types of Scientific Paper
Others include "We've incrementally improved the estimate of this coefficient," "Maybe all these categories are wrong,"...
Virus Consulting
All our teams make an effort to stay optimistic, but I will say that once our...
Fully Vaccinated
"You still can't walk into someone's house without being invited!" "What/ Oh, I see your confusion....
Excel Lambda
Extremely rude how Turing's later formulations of the halting problem called me out by name specifically.
Aviation Firsts
Mile High Club membership [✓] [ ] Discovery of parts of Amelia Earhart's skeleton [ ]...
AI Methodology
We've learned that weird spacing and diacritics in the methodology description are apparently the key to...
ISS Vaccine
Because they orbit the Earth every 90 minutes, some astronauts should try to argue that, due...
