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Skew-T Log-P (xkcd) (xkcd.com)
submitted 2 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 2 days ago (2 children)

https://explainxkcd.com/3032/

Posting this link so I can tap on it.

[–] Voroxpete 11 points 2 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 2 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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 2 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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)"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 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?

[–] ERPAdvocate 5 points 2 days ago

Finally something I can apply my expensive ChemE degree on :')

These diagrams were always the worst to use, far too busy and usually printed on cheap paper making it impossible to distinguish one line from the other.

Basically its a diagram is relating the energy required to change the state of something (usually water) and while in theory is amazing and clean in allowing you to determining enthalpy necessary for a state at a constant pressure.

In practice though can get really messy especially with more variables in play, as shown with the temperature decreasing as the balloon altitude increases.