XKCD Comes to Dartmouth!
Billed as a “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language,” xkcd is ridiculously popular among scientists and mathematicians. Yet xkcd can appeal to anyone with a sense of whimsy and wonder. XKCD’s creator, Randall Munroe, spoke at Dartmouth during fall 2008. Watch Randall dish about NASA and treehouses, and run from a velociraptor!
xkcd is NOT supposed to be in all caps like it is in the title, upvote to let them now! Do it now, or the raptors will attack!!
Gereko. Throw down. Man
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very nice and funny guy đ
holy craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap
Appartently this is a joke? It just doesn’t seem sooper funny, ya know?
you spelled know wrong
Very interesting take on the Classhole’s origin. IIRC, Scott Adams had a similar process happen with Dogbert: sometimes he wanted to say controversial things, so Dogbert became that mouthpiece. And they both like to wear hats!
Now I want to see Dogbert and the Classhole meet up.
Nerd-sniping? Well done, sir.
Small enough for me.
I thought I was the only person who counted out his paces according to the cracks in the sidewalk! THANK GOODNESS I’M NOT INSANE!
@Romanstandrd clearly the best thing about him!
nice I am Canadian reference
Randall Munroe has wasted hours of my time with his fantastic comic. I should be angry, but I’m really really not.
@Girl who opened for him: Will you marry me?
Should have used a noise canceling microphone as the sound of the audience was loud….
Know not "now"
rocking what you’re rollin
04:15 … oh woah, how small is she?
actually, xkcd IS supposed to be in all caps if it has to be titlecased, just like in this case. see xkcd’s about page
The "[inaudible]" at 1:05:32 is "Reddit".
Aww, she’s adorable
I think White Hat Guy and Black Hat Guy are nods to hacking.
Puffing what you’re passing
Actually, I believe he stated directly that using it in all caps in formal situations (where the first letter of a word is expected to be capitalized), XKCD could be used over xkcd or Xkcd. So, let’s all calm down.
Idea: Print online news articles and webcomics and all the other stuff in the standard newspaper. Title: The Daily Internetional
Thumbs up if you think this comment is moronic.
I like my hat
He totally said sudo wrong… It’s super user do, not super user doe.
TOTALLY USELESS CORRECTIONS!
Never gonna give you up, xD
Holy shit, Randall, you are my role model)
Picking up what you’re putting down
20 minutes in, still waiting for someone to throw a ball they saved for when Randall would least expect it.
Probably. I think i’m smelling what you’re cookin here.
It’s actually pronounced soo-doo. Because it’s short for Super User Do. He should know that.
I believe Randall said "meatspace," not "meet space."
Actually you are wrong this is from the xkcd about page: For those of us pedantic enough to want a rule, here it is: The preferred form is "xkcd", all lower-case. In formal contexts where a lowercase word shouldn’t start a sentence, "XKCD" is an okay alternative. "Xkcd" is frowned upon.
I like how he got more and more confident the longer he was up there.
On an infinite grid of ideal one-ohm resistors, what’s the equivalent resistance between two nodes a knights move away?
She’s soooo cute )
nice
Also, ‘know’ is spelled with a ‘k’, though raptors would attack you either way.
i love that TV shjow XkCd i am waiting for season 2
Nearly 1 and a half hours… I wonder how lond it will take to watch this troughout the advertising breaks of the three episodes "Castle" in succession…?
That’d be three per episodes, each about six minutes long….
That are 18 minutes of watching time per episode and 54 minutes all in all…
That means I can only watch 54 minutes of it!
Somebody tell me when the most important parts are? đ
I’m glad I’ve found this. Old references, those times he wasn’t that famous, he didn’t have any books back then and you say whatever else.. Let’s comment and like around so YouTube will get to recommend this to some wannabe xkcd fans (as it does with some old videos)
"For those of us pedantic enough to want a rule, here it is: The preferred form is ‘xkcd’, all lower-case. In formal contexts where a lowercase word shouldn’t start a sentence, ‘XKCD’ is an okay alternative. ‘Xkcd’ is frowned upon." (Source: xkcd[.]com/about/) đ
Does Randall’s opening remind anyone of molson’s "I am Canadian" speech?Â
Just me? Okay.
Actually it is okay to write it in either full caps or no caps, I.E. "XKCD" "xkcd"
however writing "Xkcd" is absolutely unacceptable.
I tried the 28 hour sleep schedule once, but aborted after about three days or so. Afterwards I discovered that it works way better for me to have shorter days. As long as I sleep for about half as long as I was awake previously, almost everything works.
I once made a 27 hour livestream, so I went to bed extremely early on Monday, got up at about 23:00 on Monday, started streaming shortly after midnight, streamed for 27 hours and then did some miscellaneous things for two hours, so i was awake for 30 hours, until 5:00 on Wednesday, slept for 15 hours until 20:00 on Wednesday, which was a totally messed up schedule, but then managed to get a proper schedule again within just two or three days by just e.g. being awake for 12 hours, sleeping for 6 hours, something like that.
I can also move a portion of my sleep forwards, for example I wake up at 7:00, go to bed at 17:00, sleep for 5 hours, then I’m awake for 6 more hours and then sleep from 4:00 to 7:00 and I’m actually not very tired the next day. This also makes me more productive, because I have many hours when I’m the only one awake, so I’m not constantly interrupted. This also psychologically separates the tasks before and after well, so I can do the same thing (e.g. programming) for 5 hours nonstop during those 6 hours.
The first few minutes make me cringe and I’m not sure why. Anyone else?
he starts at 7:20 ish
import antigravity takes you directly to the xkcd python antigravity comic