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Genetic Algorithms
- demallien 18y agoOk, very funny. I just wish that I could actually share xkcd with someone. Even most of my programmer colleagues aren't able to understand the jokes... And this one was particularly bad - I mean, geez, all you need to know is what a Python program looks like, how genetic algorithms work, and what SkyNet is. I guess it's all just all part of a hacker's curse - we find this stuff funny, and the rest of the world just thinks it's gibberish.
- SapphireSun 18y agoA lot of people at university (at least at engineering/science schools) read it, although some read it because it's fashionable, not because they actually get it. More's the company I guess.
- robertk 18y agoWeird. I was just thinking that XKCD has become much too conservative in its geek humor; often, I sigh when reading XKCD because it's become so close to speaking to "laypeople" (abstruse goose does a slightly better job). Then again, the only people I associate with at the moment are academics, as I'm in grad school.