Showing posts with label memes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memes. Show all posts
Saturday, September 21, 2019

What Happens When You Finish a PhD in Complex Systems

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No cynicism or snark at all. :P When you finish a PhD in complex systems, they take you to a special room and tell you that people are not ...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Emoji Expression

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I think that I was pretty clever with this one. :) I hope that some of you will be able to figure out the song. Using emoji: Relationshi...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Snarky Mathematics Venn Diagram: Version 1.01

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This is my Version 1.01. I'm sure that it can be improved. (I was, of course, inspired partly by this Venn diagram .) Update: On...
Friday, February 22, 2019

"On Brand" Story from Childhood

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A Topps baseball card had a batting average that was inconsistent with a player's hit and at-bat totals, so I typed (with a typewriter) ...
Monday, July 30, 2018

A Cartoon Depiction of Deep Learning Versus Traditional Machine Learning

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So true. :) great meme pic.twitter.com/d5AW6WliTy — Lex Flagel (@flagelbagel) July 29, 2018 (Tip of the cap to Michael Stumpf .)
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Hiding and Sneaking in Bushes and in Barrels

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It seems that Sean Spicer is trying to take a page out of the book of some video games, as he literally hid amongst bushes and behind a tal...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

We Studied Network Structure, and Then the Murders Began

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This article on The Daily Dot suggests adding the phrase "and then the murders began" to the first sentence of the book that one ...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Fake Gnus

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I am spreading fake gnus. (This had to be done.) I also created this selection of fake gnus, though of course with images drawn from v...
Monday, August 08, 2016

Meme: #firstsevenjobs

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Here is my contribution to the meme #firstsevenjobs: 1. Tech Editor (newspaper editor at university newspaper) 2. Teacher's assistant...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time with a Chainsaw"

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Sometimes, this is what happens when you go with a meme . Here is a link to the Wikipedia entry for the book I just read . At the recommenda...
Friday, March 11, 2016

The "Most Interesting Man in the World" Raises his Glass for the Last Time

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The "Most Interesting Man in the World" has raised his glass for the last time , as the character was sent on a one-way trip to Ma...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

A Few Good Highlights from #OverlyHonestMethods

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I really like the meme #overlyhonestmethods , and here are a few highlights from it . I especially like the third one: "Reagent becam...
Monday, August 03, 2015

Trending Hashtag: #fieldworkfail

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The hashtag #fieldworkfail has been trending lately. (However, the ones in the IFLS article aren't particularly funny.) Because I am ...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

New Meme: #distractinglysexy

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The new meme #distractinglysexy is a fantastic response to Tim Hunt's stupid comments.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Ten Books

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Over the past couple of days, I was seeing a meme over Facebook to name 10 books that have stuck with you for whatever reason. This meme se...
Wednesday, August 06, 2014

It's a Meme: #HunterPenceSigns

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The #HunterPenceSigns meme is pretty damn awesome. Sometimes it's bizarre what becomes a "thing", and this meme is officiall...
Friday, August 23, 2013

But Isn't It Just Homophily?

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I have just created a Batman-Slapping-Robin meme for this one. My computer's autocorrect keeps trying to make me write "homophil...
Saturday, March 09, 2013

Without Loss of Generality...

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New Rule: If you say or write "without loss of generality" when you do lose generality, then I have the right to smack you .
Friday, January 25, 2013

Oxford, Not London!

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I dedicate my version of this meme to everybody who has ever asked me what it's like to live in London. :) Update: It occurs to me t...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Overly Honest Methods

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The Twitter hashtag #overlyhonestmethods is getting really big these days (or, it is "trending", to use Twitter terms). Here is a...