XKCD: It's more than a comic

I should save some of those for the next time I will have to review some code.

This one is good. XD

"GO FOR LUNCH. REPEAT. GO FOR LUNCH."

when you wanted someone to be taken out but got take out instead

It's Not Delivery, It's ICBM

#1835: Random Obsessions. Google searches are an unexpectedly powerful tool for gauging social interest in various topics. Randall seems to be postulating that the average lifespan of any given popular trend is slightly under ten years, although he's got way too few data points to make a statistically viable analysis.

... I think I missed the "sandwich thing".

Don't worry, there's still almost a decade to go.

There's a meme going around on Twitter about what constitutes a sandwich and what doesn't.

I'll just echo Giant Bomb about pizza's status here:

edited 10th May '17 10:52:51 AM by ShadowHog

Radical Sandwich Anarchists disagree with you◊

Why does this whole sandwich discussion remind me of this?

#1836: Okeanos. Haven't seen anything from Okeanos, but I did watch a couple things from Nautilus Live. This comic is way truer than it should be.

WHEN I WAS ON A BOAT I DROPPED MY PHONE CAN U LOOK FOR IT

Of course they do, they're anarchists.

That sandwich alignment chart is a bit odd, because I find myself in the camp of the top left three, but not the true neutral middle. Structure neutral ingredient purist/structure purist ingredient neutral, but not structure neutral ingredient neutral.

I'm sort of willing to accept a hot dog as a sandwich, but it's an extreme case either way.

There is no functional difference between a hot dog and an open-face sandwich that any alien not intimately familiar with Earth's cultures would recognize.

So I decided to watch the livestream. It looks like they just discovered a new snail

Rental car

I agree those GPS who insist on having you take a route you don't want to are annoying.

Popular choice, huh.

#1838: Machine Learning

Umm... yeah.

Yeah, I'd have to agree. This one didn't really do it for me.

I actually really liked it. Well, you have to actually try machine learning first, but then you will really appreciate it.

Yeah, that's essentially how the most successful forms of machine learning work. Just you get to stir the most appropriate bit several times a millisecond.

Edit: And Deep Learning just means there's more sand.

Edit 2: So the joke seems to be how hard it is to explain machine learning in lay terms.

edited 17th May '17 12:14:54 PM by Michael

I thought of a different Aesop. My understanding of this comic is that the "stirring" is not the machine modifying its internal weights, but the programmer modifying the parameters by which the machine learns. The former is just that you hit a button and wait. The usual result is that you get something unsatisfactory. Try again, and you still have an unsatisfactory result. Then modify some parameters, and hope for the best. When it doesn't work, modify the parameters more. Now that's the stirring I think the comic is about.