The Talk

Oct 29, 2019 9:59 AM

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Most Viral Edit: Not my comic but I really enjoyed this one. Send bewbs, booties, doggos, kitties. Thanks.

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Yeah, I got lost about 6 panels in. I’ll just be in the corner with my cone hat.

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Education through comics. I like it.

5 years ago | Likes 114 Dislikes 3

SMBC and XKCD are great comics, give them a read of you haven't

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

If you like smart with your Dick jokes you'll love saturday morning breakfast cereal

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

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I love this. Especially because the term "quantum" is summarily thrown about with as little grasp of the implications as you can't imagine.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'd love to know the statistics of people who gave up half way through this and just hit like anyway so they didn't feel stupid. I was close

5 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 1

I read the whole thing... Isn't anyone else fascinated by this stuff? :(

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Sure it is... eventhough is the one thing that still eludes my understanding. Like, damn.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well it's not really about the probability that someone did that, it's more like an amplitude...

5 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

This is a brilliant piece of writing.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

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5 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

But the internet said google was already the quantum master, so there's nothing to explore anymore.

5 years ago | Likes 228 Dislikes 2

Google lied.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

It didn't say that at all

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 9

Well they absolutely did lie about achieving Quantum supremacy. Quantum advantage isn't the same, but they pretended it was for better PR.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Someone can be better than every other human at something and still not be a master.

5 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 2

There is always a new island or continent with new Pokémon to explore.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Everybody wants to be a master. Everybody wants to show their skills.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Google lied. They achieved quantum advantage not supremacy. Still awesome, but not they doomed it like "new cure for Cancer" articles.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Google went to the quantum realm

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

TLDR It's not the size that matters, it's the rotation thru complex vector space.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

made me wiki hilbert space. then simple wiki it, then give up

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I got lost before I made it halfway. Saving for sometime when it's not morning.

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Evening over here. I might try in the morning.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Properly good - but to long and complex for a toilet break...

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

That mom interferes.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This comic has a well-earned bonus text (when you click on the red button) of "Out-nerd me *now*, Randall!"

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I clicked the link just to see it. Can’t wait to see XKCD’s response.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure the comic is a couple years old (I'd seen it before), so you'd have to dig through some archives.

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v

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Does he like grape soda?

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

v

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Perfect!

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Love this. My friend wants to know what show is this.

5 years ago | Likes 100 Dislikes 0

Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order!?

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Good burger

5 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 0

It’s Kenan and Kel in Good Burger

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Calm down, person from my work.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"If there's no zero or one... maybe there's a two!" "You know twos don't exist!" *slaps*

5 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 2

Amen, brother

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This is great ! Thanks

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But will it play Crysis?

5 years ago | Likes 204 Dislikes 4

17 frames at 480p take or leave it

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Only on the MultiVac

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

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It will run Crysis in a quantum superposition of either max graphics or high framerate, you won't know which until you try to screen capture

5 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 0

Forget Crysis! What about Minecraft???

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Can we get Minecraft to run on CryEngine?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Run" sounds a bit too optimistic... stutter through years of lags in good times

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No.

5 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 0

And doom

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

*can it run

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

...and I said, “That’s not a negative hydroxyl ion, that’s my wife!”

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What is this from?

5 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 0

It's a movie called Idiocracy. And you're welcome. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Idiocracy

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Idiocracy (2006)

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

In case you still don't know, it's from a movie called idiocracy.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Some say the future, others say a movie from like 15 years ago. You decide.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I'd guess Idiocracy. Great movie but it's been a while since I've seen it

5 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 0

Fantastic movie! Hilarious and terrifying at the same time.

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Yeah, but what is it from?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 6

Idiocracy. The movie turning to a documentary

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Idiocracy. Or possibly the 2020 election.

5 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 1

Ouch

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Jesus Christ this is pretty accurate, the comic just exposed the most common misconception about quantum mechanics and elegantly simplistic.

5 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Did it? I couldn't tell.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

If you know enough about the problem to massage probability amplitudes, couldn't you have solved it already the traditional way?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You find the solution to a set of problems, and the system can complete to process faster than other computers.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No, that's the short answer, the long answer might require advanced mathematics.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Deepak Chopra is a moron and a jackass.

5 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 3

But is he a complex linear combination of a moron and a jackass? Yes, he is that too.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Posting as is tradition: http://www.wisdomofchopra.com/

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

How is he related??

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The last line of the comic is basically what Chopra says in his lectures.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

He... contributed significantly with regards to the confusion surrounding what one should perceive consciousness to be like.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Contributing to the confusion, for sure :)

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

P.S.: In simpler English than the earlier comment: he has added a lot of issues to what people think they know about the mind.,

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

he pretends to be knowledgeable yet speaks in word-salad, throwing science phrases together in a mash of undecipherable nonsense.

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"Classical events have probabilities and quantum events have amplitudes."

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Probability!

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

MVfuckingP

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is this why German has huge combo words?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Quantenmechanikmissverständnissaufklärungsgespräch (It's a German word because the English don't allow you to do this)

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Ahh yes, the German grammar rule of runons don’t exist and technically any word can be combined without consequence...

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

and how do you pronounce it?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This word follows the standard rules of pronunciation.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

What does this unholy compound word mean?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"The talk to clear up the misconceptions regarding Quantum mechanics" - exactly what the comic is about.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Quantum Mechanic Discussion, almost the entirety of the second half means the word Discussion or Enlightenment

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0