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Skew-T Log-P (xkcd) (xkcd.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I of course understand the joke, but I'll give someone else the pleasure of explaining it...

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

https://explainxkcd.com/3032/

Posting this link so I can tap on it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

It's all kicking off in the discussion!

Created by CHATGPT FOR SOME REASON - This needs an explanation. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.

But I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume this mostly vapid explanation is as good as no explanation, and remove it for now.

So, all the real nerds are still on holiday?

[–] Voroxpete 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

When posting links to helpful websites rather than answering the question yourself, it's a good idea to actually read the answer on the helpful website first.

You know, in case there's a big banner across the top saying "This answer is a useless pile of trash generated by an LLM, please ignore it" (mildly paraphrasing).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

The header on explainxkcd is always something funny, because the volunteers are not yet ready to say thst they habe finished the explanation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The LLM answer was deleted even before I posted the link. As mentioned the header is always a joke, and in this case it's referencing that, but over the next few days I expect that link to become increasingly useful.

[–] Voroxpete 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it wasn't deleted before you posted the link, because I clicked the link and saw it, but I do see that it's been updated now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean the actual text that was LLM generated was deleted. The header had been left mentioning it as a joke. Note the discussion section:

"... But I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume this mostly vapid explanation is as good as no explanation, and remove it for now. 108.162.216.132 05:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)"