An Epic Figure Caption

Wow. Just wow.

Clearly, it needs a figure to go with it.

(Tip of the cap to Jesús Cuevas Maraver, who retweeted this tweet.)

Remote Login: "A Lot Like Astral Projection"

I approve!

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— Science Diagrams that Look Like Shitposts (@scienceshitpost) January 26, 2020

(Tip of the cap to Charles W. Clark.)

Tales from the ArXiv: An Epic 1-Panel Figure

Chris Lustri just pointed me to Figure 1 (see below) in this paper. Although it doesn't have 81 panels, it is awesome in its own way.

Tales from the ArXiv: "26 pages and 10 gorgeous figures"

The authors of this paper, in the comments field, advertised their paper as having "26 pages and 10 gorgeous figures".

They’re not bad. I wouldn’t call them gorgeous, though.

"Best". Figure. Ever.

Check out Figure 15b of this new paper on community detection in directed networks.

My Research is Magically Delicious!

One of these years, I am going to have the opportunity to include something like this in one of my papers:

"In Fig. 1, we show plots for parameter values a = 1 (pink hearts), a = 2 (yellow moons), a = 3 (orange stars), a = 4 (green clovers), a = 5 (blue moons), and a = 6 (purple horseshoes)."

And rest assured that I will do this.


(For those of you not in the know, this comes from the cereal Lucky Charms.)

Update: As Rachel Gray points out, I swapped the ordering of orange and yellow. As John Baker points out, the blue marshmallows at the time were diamonds rather than moons. It's good to get things straight now so that the published version is accurate. :)

Recommendation

Do you know what's astoundingly fun?

Spending several hours of one's time customizing colormaps in Matlab and adjusting the figure format in various ways (swapping axes and so on) at the request of a coauthor. (And I needed to rerun all of my numerics because in this case, it wasn't space-efficient to save the matrices but was easier just commenting out appropriate parts of the .m file and running things again.) Grrrrrr.....

Update: And you know what's even more fun? I'll have to do it all over again. (Sigh...) I'll deal with this in a while after I have dealt with various teaching duties. I could write a much longer rant, but it's not worth it. I don't think there's much to be gained by having a conniption (that's one of the words of the day), and I already spazzed out a little while ago (that's another of today's words/expressions) in an IM to Lemming. (But, believe me, my frustration really is justified here.)