Randall Munroe: Comics that ask "what if?"
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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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folosind matematica, ştiinţele exacte
să loveşti o minge de baseball
din viteza luminii?
s-ar deplasa atât de repede
valuri de fuziune termonucleară
într-un aflux de raze X
centrată pe movila aruncătorului,
e suficient de departe
pregătindu-se să arunce
începe să se dezintegreze.
also starts to disintegrate.
(Râsete)
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6.02 şi 5.09,
lovit de aruncător
de a ascunde un cadavru?
ar fi stocate pe cartele perforate,
were stored on punch cards,
cu activităţile lor,
about their operations,
câte date deţine Google,
how many data centers Google has,
aren't revealing anything.
dar nu dezvăluie nimic.
cât cheltuie, în total,
costă o anumită sumă de bani.
a certain amount of money.
drive market are they taking up,
cade câte un hard drive
many of these centers they have.
câte asemenea centre au.
ca serverele să funcţioneze,
of electricity to run the servers,
dintre aceste informaţii.
then you could figure out
with a lot of different quantities,
capacitatea totală de depozitare,
the total amount of storage,
numărul de hard drive-uri / server,
number of drives per server,
number you're trying to get.
pe care încerci să-l afli.
nu le-am luat în considerare.
their hardware that way.
despre hardware-urile lor.
doar livrările de pizza la ei.
look at pizza delivery drivers.
the Google data centers are,
don't know what's going on there,
cam 2.000 de cartele,
pe care l-am găsit.
de la Google,
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there are a bunch of holes,
şi am început să le citesc,
inside that is another code,
la articolul meu:
around on a piece of paper,
pe o coală de hârtie,
şi ar putea zbura,
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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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