So i decided to make a script that automatically creates markdown for a comic. The fastest modern daytona racers take about 3 hours to finish the 200 laps. Fedex has a fleet of 654 aircraft with a lift capacity of 26. Im so meta, even this acronym full shot of man and woman again. Minor encoding issue with xkcd alt texts in chat meta. While physical media themselves such as books, or hard drives and information stored by analog means may degrade as the universe continues, digital information as expressed by specific values, such as combinations of binary zeros and ones, does not. If limited to 4 gs, our driver will finish the course in a little under an hour and 45 minutes. I just made an xkcd comic markdownifier for stack exchange. The comic im looking for is a ui software hardware dev who is explaining to an executive how to use one single buttonknob to navigate around the applicationis of the device. Munroe states on the comics website that the name of the comic is not an initialism, but just a word with no phonetic pronunciation.
According to the tour, this question should be closed, since it is a question that has too many. Try it out by typing in a description of a comic you are looking for and wait for it to appear before your very eyes. But avoid asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers. Both python 2 and python 3 are supported, and there are no dependencies beyond the python standard library, so xkcds footprint should be very light. The latest xkcd comic on voting machine software is wrong, profoundly so. Download the meta text inside each xkcd and store it. Relevant xkcd pulls information from the title and content each image to compare against your request. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. If youre not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages. Metadata is a set of data that describes and gives information about other data. Stores each xkcd in a separate file named as the title of the xkcd at your home directory. A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language by. It is a fairly wellknown albeit undocumented feature of so chat that xkcd links onebox, and they even preserve the alt text. This is a great feature which cant be said about oneboxing github gists.
This means youre free to copy and share these comics but not to sell them. There is support for accessing specific comics, the latest comic, or a random comic. At 10 gswell past human tolerabilityit would still take an hour. A little humor can help to keep an audience engaged. Metadata business intelligence metadata in bi examples research big data conclusions metadata jose luis lopez pino 3 4. Top 5 xkcd comics which can illustrate programming questions with 6 comments as many of you know, i actively participate on stack overflow, the leading qa website for software developers. Xkcd is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language created by randall munroe this package tries to give a satisfactory answer to the question how can we make xkcd style graphs in rthe xkcd package provides a set of functions for plotting data in a xkcd style using ggplot2 some examples of scatterplots and bar charts. And recently, ive been browsing around for a downloader, and have found one written in perl that works great.
We suggest writing longer sentences gives our algorithm more data to work with. Xkcd supplies the relevant opengraph meta data, as you can see when you use e. That xkcd on voting machine software is wrong it security. Top 5 xkcd comics which can illustrate programming questions. This work is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercial 2. This package tries to give a satisfactory answer to the question how can we make xkcd style graphs in r the xkcd package provides a set of functions for plotting data in a xkcd style using ggplot2.
In this capacity, hes also known for being one of the most ardent and outspoken. I love mathematica, but as a softwaredevelopment platform, the lack of deployment options makes it pretty much useless. Im no physicist, but im told that the event sun goes nova happens rather often just not so much around here so this. And so, i present, for your reading enjoyment, the definitive collection of.
Cisco estimates that total internet traffic currently averages 167 terabits per second. However it seems to me that his reasoning is actually correct in the sense that it follows the standard frequentist methodology. Aug 09, 2018 the latest xkcd comic on voting machine software is wrong, profoundly so. Bayesians makes fun of a frequentist statistician who derives an obviously wrong result. As drv mentioned, the linewidth is set to zero, so we need to explicitly specified in the call to grid. Sample machine learning solutions with r feb 2, 2015. While physical media themselves such as books, or hard drives and information stored by analog means may degrade as the universe continues, digital information as expressed by specific values, such as combinations of binary zeros and ones, does not decay over time and can.
Is there an interface for automated systems to access comics and metadata. Specifically, he is an outspoken critic of open source, and an outspoken proponent of free software. The only legitimate reason for not liking it is jealousy that you can never be as clever as randall munroe, the genius behind xkcd. Metadata in business intelligence linkedin slideshare. As mentioned in this post, the grid should be set with zorder0 and the plot should have a value greater to 3 zorder3. Assume for a moment that sun goes nova was the candidate event. A solidstate laptop drive weighs about 78 grams and can hold up to a terabyte. Airplanes and elevators are designed to avoid accidental failures.
Digital information has the potential to be copied such that the copy is 100% identical to the original. Aug 11, 2019 via the comic delivery system monikered randall munroe at xkcd. Its the sort of thing that appeals to our prejudices, but mistakes the details. Author ajay ohri posted on february 8, 2012 categories internet tags analysis, blog, chart, charts, data, data visualization, graphs, money, software, visualization, xkcd leave a reply cancel reply enter your comment here. Josh orter takes backofthenapkin math to the next level with stupid calculations, which.
Xkcd is a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language created by randall munroe. Yes, there is a wizards tower on the appalachian trail. The definitive collection of xkcd programmers comics. Embedding angular components into a legacy web app. In the title text, a reference implementation is, broadly, an example of how to implement some feature during the software development process.
This is a great feature which cant be said about oneboxing github gists todays xkcd post revealed a minor encoding issue wherein an em dash in the alt text got mangled in the onebox since i know nothing about encodings this is all i figured out. Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want. May 29, 2017 if you have found my little bits of software of any use to you, you can help me pay my internet bills. On the other hand, the more mature data scientists, software engineers, and web developers that i know were well into their careers by the time xkcd was first gaining traction, and so were able to keep track of its progression. Other thing to take into account is that the grid will appear over the plot, so the zorder need to be specified.
The comic im looking for is a uisoftwarehardware dev who is explaining to an executive how to use one single buttonknob to. Todays xkcd post revealed a minor encoding issue wherein an em dash in the alt text got mangled in the onebox. The post xkcd, geologic time appeared first on security boulevard. I want to create some xkcd plots with a grid in the background. How do we take advantage of the xkcd excitement to build.
Big data influencers, machine learning, paco nathan, time series, xkcd top kdnuggets tweets, jan 26 feb 1. If you can read this, congratulationsathe archive youare using still knows about the mouseover texta. If you want to fetch comics and metadata automatically, you can use the json interface. In this case the feature is a selfreferential joke, and the sentence itself is, correctly, selfreferential.
In classic xkcdfashion, randall munroe timelines the earths temperature, dating back to 20,000 missing 11th of the month statistics calendar, xkcd. Richard stallman, or rms after his handle, is an oldschool hacker known in the late 2000s primarily for establishing the free software foundation fsf and initiating the gnu project in the early 1980s, which produced major portions of what would later be the gnulinux operating system. Actually, when put like that, the tag becomes more of a metamedia tag and thus probably a bad idea. Software developer, research mathematician, data scientist. It makes use of the json interface to randalls site to retrieve comic data. And so, i present, for your reading enjoyment, the definitive collection of the best xkcd comics for programmers. I hacked this up in one night, so its a little messy up there. Mar 11, 20 the only legitimate reason for not liking it is jealousy that you can never be as clever as randall munroe, the genius behind xkcd. That means fedex is capable of transferring 150 exabytes of data per day, or 14 petabits per. Metadata business intelligence metadata in bi examples research big data conclusions what is metadata. Hofstadter has been referenced before, in the title text of 555. But be this my death or yours, free software will carry on. This is a sub that aims at bringing data hoarders together to share their passion with like minded people. You can get comics through the json interface, at urls like.
Richard stallman is famous for beginning the gnu project and is outspoken on the topic of open source software and free software. If thats the measure, then voting machine software is. The comics tagline describes it as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Ive tried looking for this comic various times, and always come up empty handed. If we raise the limit to 6 gs, the time drops to an hour and 20. A simple script to download all xkcd comics including the metadata.
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