So this happenedhttps://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/spheres-part-1

[zachweinersmith@mastodon.social]

So this happened
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/spheres-part-1

#smbc #comics #math

[jexner@tooting.ch]

@ZachWeinersmith a work of utter beauty!

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@ZachWeinersmith … so that's what Hamming distance is

[waltman@hachyderm.io]

@ZachWeinersmith Brilliant! And if I can put on my radiology department hat for a second — MRI machines are claustrophobic, expensive, and a limited resource, so anything that can speed them up even a little bit is a big deal.

[krono@toot.berlin]

@ZachWeinersmith Incredible.

[wizardofdocs@wandering.shop]

@ZachWeinersmith "only true of Claude Shannon" lol

[nab26@planetearth.social]

@ZachWeinersmith The last panel ! (Obscure Terry Pratchet ref.)

[skyr@chaos.social]

@ZachWeinersmith so much love for this comic series

[bosak@flx.masto.host]

@ZachWeinersmith More like this, please. Are you planning a book?

[zachweinersmith@mastodon.social]

@bosak No such plans, right now

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ZachWeinersmith Small niggle - it wasn't clear that the narrator was a specific person (Mr. Tao) rather than an abstract character. I only realised at the end and had to go back to find their name.

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@MHowell @WizardOfDocs @ZachWeinersmith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVjkE87FDY

[glocq@mathstodon.xyz]

@ZachWeinersmith How come you had an imaginary Erdös number?

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@TomF @ZachWeinersmith
(for me, it was clear from the name pair in the title panel, FWIW)

[stylus@social.afront.org]

@ZachWeinersmith How do you tile a hexagon with polyominos?

[wizardofdocs@wandering.shop]

@MHowell @ZachWeinersmith it occurs to me that a class action lawsuit of people named Claude against Anthropic would not go amiss

seeing this in my mentions and not remembering what I'd said, the first thing I think of for "Claude" is not Shannon, or any other human for that matter

[aliengasmask@mas.to]

@ZachWeinersmith i hope to see thompson and jenkins return, probably in a prequel so they still have that story driving conflict.

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@ZachWeinersmith ::clap clap clap clap clap::

[nom@mk.spook.social]

@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social I read all comics with trombones in them.