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loquaciousquark ([info]loquaciousquark) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2010-10-12 17:35:00
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Entry tags:elitism, fandom: xkcd, webcomics

Personally, I think it sounds a lot like the clack of lonely keyboards.
If two insult-slinging philosophers wank infinitely over the Banach-Tarski paradox in xkcd_rss, does it make a sound?

(Screencap, since as an RSS feed, the link will eventually become defunct.)
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[info]tofuknight
2010-10-13 01:22 am UTC (link)
Holy Jesus on a stick, that's a lot of argument over something I don't give a flying fuck about. Look at 'em go.

"Isn't a preconceived (but possibly untrue) notion an intuition? That's what I mean by intuition anyway."

Um...

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[info]sushi
2010-10-13 01:34 am UTC (link)
Math wank. Math. Wank.

My week has been made, and it's only Tuesday.

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(no subject) - [info]tunxeh, 2010-10-13 04:05 am UTC

[info]nagaina
2010-10-13 02:27 am UTC (link)
That is so an INTP v. INTP argument.

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(no subject) - [info]blue_penguin, 2010-10-13 12:31 pm UTC
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[info]ketchup
2010-10-13 02:29 am UTC (link)
I just got back from a math midterm and this is practically the first thing I see on the internet.

They're wanking about measure theory. I think they just made my semester.

This is model theory 101 -- have you taken such a course? I doubt it, by the sounds of it.

Dying forever now. This is so amazing.

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[info]quantumreality
2010-10-13 02:30 am UTC (link)
Holy crap. At least obscure quantum mechanics jokes can look like philosophy. O_O

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(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2010-10-13 05:05 am UTC
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[info]crysiana
2010-10-13 03:17 am UTC (link)
I still don't understand whether the axiom of choice is MEANT to be applied to finite physical objects or not.

(I also don't understand the axiom of choice, but that bothers me less.)

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(no subject) - [info]sushi, 2010-10-13 04:09 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]bobgenghiskhan, 2010-10-13 05:21 am UTC

[info]ashes
2010-10-13 03:18 am UTC (link)
I liked the, "There are geeks who aren't mathematicians," thread; I so wanted to reply, "I'm a geek and I can barely balance my checkbook. I can build the fuck out of your computer, though."

I also didn't get today's comic, though soo...

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(no subject) - [info]sokudoningyou, 2010-10-20 05:28 pm UTC
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[info]gmth
2010-10-13 03:23 am UTC (link)
Hee, my favorite part is Theojf's explanation of the Banach-Tarski paradox followed by Djsunkid's "wait, what?"

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(no subject) - [info]kitt_in_socks, 2010-10-13 07:09 pm UTC

[info]obvious_sock
2010-10-13 03:25 am UTC (link)
A bit downthread from the wank, but:

The Banach-Tarski "paradox" is relatively straightforward. Consider a language with two letters and two "antiletters": [wall of text proceeds apace]

I'd hate to see what he calls convoluted.

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[info]schrodingerscat
2010-10-13 03:30 am UTC (link)
Math wank. Dressed up in the snobbery of philosophy wank. This is one of many reasons why I love xkcd. It spawns the best wanks.

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(no subject) - [info]monty, 2010-10-13 05:12 am UTC
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[info]bemysty
2010-10-13 03:33 am UTC (link)
Let me chime in with the "Oh God, math wank".

I think what amuses me the most about XKCD is that despite the fact I'm a total idiot about math and physics, I still get most of jokes just by virtue of being addicted to wikihopping. So basically "Banach-Tarski paradox" doesn't really mean anything to me, but the "cut thing A into pieces and reassemble them in a specific way and you get two A" is still known to me.

Then again, maybe having a Math teacher for a father leaves me a freak of nature anyway, considering I found Noein easy to follow :x

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(no subject) - [info]secondsilk, 2010-10-13 04:16 am UTC
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[info]khym_chanur
2010-10-13 04:21 am UTC (link)
If two insult-slinging philosophers wank infinitely
But which infinity are we talking about here?

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(no subject) - [info]schrodingerscat, 2010-10-13 07:00 am UTC
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[info]jujubee
2010-10-13 04:36 am UTC (link)
Am I the only one who is most amazed/amused by the fact that there are people who didn't know about lmgtfy.com?

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(no subject) - [info]ilinana, 2010-10-13 05:44 am UTC
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[info]brennalarose
2010-10-13 06:13 am UTC (link)
I have no idea how to grok this paradox, but I love how SRS BZNS it is.

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[info]sisterelwood
2010-10-13 06:44 am UTC (link)
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE! This is why I have a degree in law and not math or physics. That being said - LULZ at arguments over a pumpkin and how many times you can cut it.

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(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2010-10-15 01:16 am UTC
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[info]innocentsmith
2010-10-13 07:43 am UTC (link)
This is amazing. I love it.

There are many properties one can notice about finite sets. Some of these properties just can't be extended to arbitrary sets (e.g. no finite set is a strict subset of itself). Some of them can be extended (e.g. the cardinality of a subset is at most the cardinality of its superset). Sometimes the extension yields weird results which conflict with our physical intuitions. The Banach-Tarski construction shows that the axiom of choice is one such extension.

That's all I'm fucking saying, man. That's it. That's all. Nothing else. Nothing about the physical world and the mathematical world and whatever. That's fucking it. Jesus Christ.

WHY IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND, PEOPLE?

But my favorite is the guy who titles his EPIC comment, "Sometimes explaining a joke makes it funnier?"

Sometimes that may be the case, sweetie, but if it takes you that many greek letters? Probably not. (It's pretty adorable that you tried, though.)

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[info]aliaras
2010-10-13 08:31 am UTC (link)
OT, but: I can't help but always think of the Banach-Tarski paradox as "that one that was in that one SGA porn fic".

Also wow, way to not get what "naive" means in the context of math and sciences. It's uh, not a really bad thing.

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(no subject) - [info]catmoran, 2010-10-13 05:16 pm UTC
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[info]librarianmouse
2010-10-13 09:11 am UTC (link)
I...

I don't understand a single thing about this wank. It makes my head hurt.

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(no subject) - [info]ladyofviolets, 2010-10-13 01:07 pm UTC
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janegray
2010-10-13 02:03 pm UTC (link)
The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set theoretic geometry which states that a solid ball in 3-dimensional space can be split into a finite number of non-overlapping pieces, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the original ball.

I thought math was supposed to make sense.

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(no subject) - [info]khym_chanur, 2010-10-13 02:41 pm UTC
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[info]dejla
2010-10-13 05:00 pm UTC (link)
My eyes glazed over about a third of the way down.

Maybe I don't mind so much that I could never understand higher math...

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[info]malleo
2010-10-13 05:56 pm UTC (link)
The Banach-Tarski "paradox" is relatively straightforward. Consider a language with two letters and two "antiletters"—

*throws up hands in surrender* Done.

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(no subject) - [info]sisterelwood, 2010-10-14 12:24 am UTC
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[info]kernelm
2010-10-13 06:15 pm UTC (link)
Holy shit, theojf's comment is one of the best explanations of Banach Tarski I've ever seen.

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[info]lyrangalia
2010-10-13 06:35 pm UTC (link)
I love this wank to pieces.

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[info]rogueunit
2010-10-13 06:43 pm UTC (link)
I don't understand what is going on here. All I can bring to the table is I started thinking about Mathnet and the shows from Square One.

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[info]zumie_ashlen
2010-10-13 07:29 pm UTC (link)
Okay, somebody explain the paradox to a math-idiot here, please. How can you take something, cut it into pieces, and make two identical versions of it? They would be smaller because there's less material to go around, right? And if they're smaller, they can't be identical!

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(no subject) - [info]malleo, 2010-10-13 07:37 pm UTC
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