Tag: just for fun
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Game Difficulties for AIs
from XKCD a chart on the difficulty of games for computers: And remember folks, the score is still Q to 12. A free Get Out of the Boomerang Zone card if you get the reference.
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12 Days of Christmas (Corporate-ified)
Guess what? It’s Christmas season. I am taking two weeks holiday starting tomorrow and so posting here shall be rather light until early January. In business world, people like PowerPoint presentations with charts that show the flow of synergy. Scales of efficiency. Action item prioritisation. The kinds of things that the rest of us don’t…
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What Your Favourite Map Says About You…
Do you have a favourite map? Because just like how we can determine your true character from your beards, attire, drink preferences, &c. we now can see who you are based on your map preference, courtesy XKCD:
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What’s In a Name?
Gadhafi is dead. Sorry, I meant Kadhafi. Again, apologies, Qadaffy. For so many years we have tried to spell the now deceased dictators name. It’s been in Saturday Night Live (sadly I cannot find a clip online). It’s been in the West Wing. So how can it be done? The problem is that his name…
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Updating Minard
Yesterday, Chartporn posted a link to an OkCupid post about sex, specifically charts of sex. And yes, they are quite interesting and worth checking out. But, I enjoyed the humour at the outset, where they noted the brilliance of the pie chart as a modern chart form that can replace the classic Minard chart about…
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The End of the World As We Know It (And How It Goes Round and Round and Round)
The future of the world according to Google. As prophesied by xkcd.