Randall Munroe: Comics that ask "what if?"
רנדל מונרו: קומיקס ששואל "מה אם?"
Randall Munroe sketches elegant and illuminating explanations of the weird science and math questions that keep geeks awake at night. Full bio
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שימוש במתמטיקה, מדע
שלושים ננו שניות מההתחלה,
also starts to disintegrate.
were stored on punch cards,
היה מאוכסן על כרטיסיות ניקוב,
about their operations,
how many data centers Google has,
כמה מרכזי מידע יש לגוגל,
aren't revealing anything.
a certain amount of money.
עולה כמות מסויימת של כסף.
drive market are they taking up,
בעולם הם לוקחים,
many of these centers they have.
של כמה יש מהמרכזים האלה.
of electricity to run the servers,
של חשמל כדי להריץ שרתים,
then you could figure out
אז אתם יכולים לחשב
with a lot of different quantities,
עם הרבה משתנים שונים,
the total amount of storage,
לנחש על כמות האכסון,
number of drives per server,
number you're trying to get.
שאתם מנסים להגיע אליו.
their hardware that way.
על החומרה שלהם ככה.
look at pizza delivery drivers.
להביט בנהגי משלוחי פיצה.
the Google data centers are,
כל מרכזי המידע של גוגל נמצאים,
don't know what's going on there,
אנחנו לא יודעים מה קורה שם,
שיכולתי להגיע אליה.
there are a bunch of holes,
inside that is another code,
around on a piece of paper,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Randall Munroe - CartoonistRandall Munroe sketches elegant and illuminating explanations of the weird science and math questions that keep geeks awake at night.
Why you should listen
One of a small group of professional web cartoonists, math obsessive and chronic explainer Randall Munroe dazzles the online world (and racks up millions of monthly page views) with the meaninglessly-named (and occasionally heartbreaking) webcomic xkcd.
Munroe’s blog What If? specializes in cunning answers to, as the Atlantic put it, "the kinds of of wonderful and fanciful hypotheticals that might arise when the nerdily inclined get together in bars," like “How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live?” or “What would happen if a hair dryer with continuous power was turned on and put in an airtight 1x1x1 meter box?” As he told Math Horizons, I really enjoy solving these kinds of things, and it’s a bonus if I realize that I can put boxes around it and make it a comic."
He is also the author of the book Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words.
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