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Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Shamefully stolen from the RSF Republican Primary thread:



From here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3680205&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post450957932

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Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Torrannor posted:

Link for context?

I originally posted it. My students took some 1st year physics data of waves moving on a string and were asked: "Now you have to fit that data to a model. Graph the 4 data points in your favorite program for such (or Excel) and determine if a line is a good fit or what else will look better."

No idea how a musical conductor's 4/4 wave came from that.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007



It took me a bit of time to understand just how terrible the scaling was on this.

I mean, you'd expect a crypto-graph from a crypto-currency.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Carbon dioxide posted:

From an European point of view, Sanders is center/center-left, the Democratic party as a whole is center-right/far-right, the Republican party as a whole is extreme right, and Trump is an idiot that can't even be categorized in any kind of political scale. America has no real leftist politicians and they have no clue what a socialist actually is.

Also, red has always been the colour of socialism/the left, and in graphs in Europe, rightist parties are often shown as blue (because it's a clear 'opposite' to red).

Of course, in American we don't elect weird nationalists like Front Nationale and UKIP

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007



Surprisingly accurate.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Platystemon posted:

Wolfram|Alpha reminds me that one joule = one newton across a distance of one metre , so joules per metre = newtons

We should be measuring fuel economy in units of force.

In the steady state, you could imagine this as the sum of all the retarding forces on the vehicle (air drag, rolling resistance, transmission losses, &c.), or, equivalently, the force the engine must produce to counteract them.

We already have Torque / second not equaling the power of the car, let's not make it worse.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Fathis Munk posted:

Also the last one is the projected budget for just the first year of his presidency. It's a bit disingenuous to compare that to the actual average spending over the whole presidency of his predecessors.

How else would/should one present this data if not the graph shown? I feel it's fair.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Does VEP count registered voters or just 18+ citizens without felonies?

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


lifg posted:

Ah, the Austrian economist.

Most economists are Monday night quarterbacks. Austrian economists are Monday night quarterbacks who didn't even watch the game.

The phrase is Monday Morning Quarterback. Monday Night is when the last game of the week is played.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Strudel Man posted:

I don't think that makes a lot of sense, since 'monday morning quarterback' has the connotation of someone making judgements which are easy with the benefit of hindsight.

Exactly that, also with the connotation of someone who doesn't play the game themselves.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


https://mediamatters.org/research/2012/10/01/a-history-of-dishonest-fox-charts/190225

A good breakdown on some of Fox News' bad charts.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Carbon dioxide posted:

So, the proud (?) tradition of most philosophy students being insufferable assholes already started with the ancient Greeks. I suppose that's good to know.

We no longer execute them for being insufferable. So that could be a positive or negative depending on how you view it.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


vyelkin posted:

Agreed, soup in a bread bowl is a sandwich

Correction, the BEST sandwich.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Bill Dance's hat is a fish :aaa:

And by the principles of Synedoche, so is the entire University of Tennessee.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


mobby_6kl posted:

How do you even gently caress up a business where you're just skimming money off other people's work. They're failing capitalism.

A lot of people saw this business model and decided to pay the company a lot of money to get in on sharing the profits of said company. These people (apparently mostly paypal) now want their investments to pay off more than they previously did, so they have to take a few risks.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Soricidus posted:

why anti-clockwise. I realise that’s not the worst thing about this but why.

You say anti-clockwise, I say positive in theta.

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


90s Cringe Rock posted:

Christmas is his job, who the gently caress is pro their job?

The retard masturbator who gets to work from home, presumably.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Phlegmish posted:

80% of the time I have no idea what you guys are talking about but I just take my cue from other goons and add a 'lol' or 'lmao what a bad graph', hoping that no one will notice that I don't understand statistics

Ah, so which college are you employed as a Dean in?

Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


The choice of this wikipedia table to have Wargs but not Elves, Dwarves, or Dragons is extremely weird to me. Are all 'good' races assumed to have souls, even though the article is contentious on if elves have souls?

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Maxwells Demon
Jan 15, 2007


Phosphine posted:

Doesn't a fitted curve have to, like...fit? The data?

Doesn't have to do anything.

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