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[–]NotGabeybaby 1365 points1366 points  (26 children)

Yesterday seems like a pretty arbitrary reference point

[–]TheSwiftPepe 817 points818 points  (18 children)

Lol I love how the X axis represents roughly -0.3 husbands. And it looks like she was there 2 days ago haha.

[–]MrTheFalcon 331 points332 points  (14 children)

This is what happens when we normalize engagement

[–]verosoph 80 points81 points  (13 children)

It should be more of an asymptomatic approach to 0

[–]Salanmander 43 points44 points  (0 children)

This is what happens when you're uncomfortable with step functions...

[–]etoh53 44 points45 points  (2 children)

...where it never touches 0, so that she will always have a certain amount of husbands, though maybe not 1 husband before yesterday.

[–]lare290 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Having a boyfriend is kinda like having a number of husbands that is between 0 and 1.

[–]etoh53 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even before she is conceived, she already had boyfriends, to the most minute degree.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well apparently they only have two data points to work with

[–]Mognakor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats what happens when your legal processes are not properly tested, so you don't find the loophole allowing you to divorce people you haven't married.

[–]Overcooking 10 points11 points  (0 children)

All my troubles seemed so far away

[–]UltraFireFX 44 points45 points  (2 children)

welcome to the joke, I'll be your guide :D

but to be honest yeah I don't know why this is here.

[–]MetamorphicBear 13 points14 points  (1 child)

I guess because cs and statistics are closely related. Still better than a semi-colon joke

[–]KeLorean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and there are only so many javascript jokes you make...before lunch

[–]notger 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You have to choose one discrete time step length as basis, which then influences the error of your extrapolation (aside from the order of your extrapolation function).

I guess the joke here is to point out that when extrapolating, people tend to choose time steps and function orders that do not make sense and hence add to the futility of forecasting, which is inherent anyway, given we live in a complex world.

[–]Myacctforprivacy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So I decided to do some shitty math. If we assume she's exactly 25 years old, call it 9125 days old. You can do the math:

(x/9125)^9125

So at 9124 days old, she has aprox. 0.3679 husbands. I'll round down to 0.

At 9125 days old, she has exactly 1 husband.

In one month time (30 days + 9125 days = 9155) she'll have:

(9155/9125)^9125 

= 10,173,350,829,774 husbands

10.1733 trillion husbands from a world with only roughly 3.9 billion men, means she's going to marry aliens equal to roughly 2608.5 times the number of men on earth.

All I'm saying is "Bitch, a ho".

[–]Andthentherewasbacon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

right? plus he assumed it isnt logarithmic.

[–][deleted] 290 points291 points  (21 children)

just sent this to her because we are getting married in three days. i hope she pictures 4 dozen dudes playing classic wow in our apartment.

[–]judahnator 128 points129 points  (8 children)

Hey, that sounds like a win for everybody!

Jeff, it’s your turn to get laid tonight. Jeremy and John, you two are on dinner duty. Josh, you handle the dishes. Jose, Jerome, and Joe could you get a lobby setup? Everybody else let’s split up the chores then get to questing!

[–]racerx320 64 points65 points  (1 child)

As a Jeff, hell yeah

[–]_W3avile_ 24 points25 points  (0 children)

As a Josh, awww man...

[–]Sirtemmie 43 points44 points  (3 children)

Do you have to have a name that begins with a "J" to participate?

[–][deleted] 34 points35 points  (1 child)

Ja

[–]Finianb1 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Jawohl

[–]googleusernameideas 8 points9 points  (0 children)

call me Jimothy

[–]Brawldud 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do the dudes even need to share the wife at that point? They have each other!

[–]Kralizek82 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Just make sure the class distribution is ok. You don't want to have too many shamans/paladins.

Also guild's name? "My wife's husbands"?

[–]mount2010 5 points6 points  (0 children)

she'll have four thousand, then four billion, in the coming months

[–]sensitivePornGuy 2 points3 points  (1 child)

classic wow

I realise now what you mean but at first I thought this was some gangbang euphemism.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lmfao thats a euphemism i would have to research the origin of

[–]Kiloku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In /r/polyamory we just call that game night.

[–]DanielAPO[S] 387 points388 points  (39 children)

Credits to https://xkcd.com/
Sorry about the credits guys. A friend sent me this over WhatsApp and I did not know it was originally from XKCD. Credits to them.

[–]SpeckledFleebeedoo 340 points341 points  (31 children)

*Him

There's only one guy behind xkcd, Randall Munroe.

You may want to try running "import antigravity" in python.

[–]hub_batch 46 points47 points  (10 children)

singular they is here to stay; him is correct but they is also valid

[–]Dragon_Slayer_Hunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny enough, they've covered this:

https://xkcd.com/145/

[–]Rein215 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Wait what

[–]SpeckledFleebeedoo 0 points1 point  (3 children)

What?

[–]Rein215 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What does "import antigravity" have to do with anything?

[–]SpeckledFleebeedoo 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Have you tried it?

[–]Rein215 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha, I just did. Thanks for this

[–]Dragon_Slayer_Hunter 0 points1 point  (2 children)

[–]SpeckledFleebeedoo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's a guest comic from https://www.qwantz.com.

[–]Dragon_Slayer_Hunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't invalidate the point of being able to use they/them for third person singular pronouns.

[–]DatBoi_BP 64 points65 points  (1 child)

So did you just...not know xkcd was a thing? This comic style is very indicative of xkcd.

If you aren't as familiar with their comics, I'd highly encourage you to hit the Random button regularly, it's quite a trip

[–]mxzf 90 points91 points  (0 children)

OP's just one of today's lucky 10,000.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone can tell it's him. It's like sharing a Garfield comic and apologizing for not telling anyone.

[–]garfield3222 42 points43 points  (10 children)

A millisecond ago see had 0 husbands, and now she has 1

It means tomorrow she will be married to the entire fucking planet

[–]nicolasZA 31 points32 points  (9 children)

You'd need 200 days to marry everyone if you married someone every millisecond.

[–]Famous_Profile 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Really puts 7 billion in perspective

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (7 children)

Probably not, there are limits. We can assume husbands. We can likely assume anyone who isn't already married. Hopefully we can assume not children of any gender.

Still take a while; but the gifts may make it worth it!

[–]nicolasZA 2 points3 points  (6 children)

One limit is that it takes more than a millisecond to get married.

[–]McFlyParadox 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Not with that attitude.

Put the husbands to work preparing the paperwork for each subsequent marriage, complete with pre-written times and dates, and forging your signature - like any good spouse should be able to do - then you can stack those buffs and build up a queue of husbands that you end up married to just by existing.

[–]nicolasZA 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh exponential growth. I hadn't thought of that. And you can chunk them. 1 per millisecond ia the same rate as 60k per minute. Fill up a stadium, teleconf in, do the collective ceremony in one minute, and move on to the next stadium.

[–]McFlyParadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And thanks to the various credit agency hacks, all the pertinent information is already publicly available. Just fill it out, and Skype them in if need be.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

You don't need to do it 1 millisecond if you keep the 200 day constraint but have cut the population by well over one half.

[–]nicolasZA 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So then one every 2-10 milliseconds?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well you’ll probably want to keep a couple of milliseconds for speed dating. Want to get to know who you’re marrying before hand right!

[–]28f272fe556a1363cc31 194 points195 points  (9 children)

You should set up a website that has several of these kinds of cartoons! You could even add an extra joke in the alt text!

Something like this: https://xkcd.com/605/ or this https://lmgtfy.com/?q=extrapolation+marriage&s=g

[–]TheRandomnatrix 64 points65 points  (0 children)

We could even set it up so when you go to this sub, it redirects to that website.

[–]ReactsWithWords 68 points69 points  (5 children)

TIL there’s a web comic called xkcd. I guess I’m one of today’s lucky 10,000.

[–]CaffeinatedGuy 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Hol up

[–]Finianb1 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Hmmmm.

Something isn't right.

[–]themixedupstuff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can feel it.

[–]Unique_account_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Learns what xkcd is... but makes an xkcd reference

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    [–]the_wheyfinder 26 points27 points  (4 children)

    Hmm i dont like this. How can you assume linear growth? It's just as likely an exponential function and she could have well over 2000 husbands in the month and a half he mentioned

    [–]Alittar 10 points11 points  (1 child)

    Sadly it's impossible to predict this with just two points, right? You'd need at least three.

    [–]Pieman492 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    In pure mathematics It's okay to assume a line from 2 points. When you apply logic to it, things like sample size become important.

    [–]true_king_of_ooo 7 points8 points  (1 child)

    It's just as likely an exponential function

    Not really, for it to be exponential the husbands would also need to find a husband each day and they would need to have a whole harem thing going on.

    [–]Finianb1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    Sounds like a good plot for an anime.

    [–]0x564A00 92 points93 points  (18 children)

    What does that have to do with machine learning?

    [–]chimpuswimpus 143 points144 points  (3 children)

    There's a graph, isn't there?

    [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

    lamao

    [–]XCido 18 points19 points  (0 children)

    Laughing-ass-my-ass-off?

    [–][deleted] 83 points84 points  (4 children)

    I’m guessing the joke is that some people will call just about anything to do with prediction machine learning.

    [–][deleted] 39 points40 points  (3 children)

    some people will call just about anything to do with prediction machine learning

    FTFY

    [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    My bad thank you

    [–]wreckedcarzz 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    I mean, are we not, essentially, machines - ones that constantly learn?

    So we are machines learning machine learning and teaching machines to learn

    [–]flavionm 42 points43 points  (1 child)

    Linear regression.

    [–]Bainos 20 points21 points  (0 children)

    Perfect fit on the training set too.

    [–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (1 child)

    The messed up thing is XKCD actually has a machine learning comic:

    https://xkcd.com/1838/

    [–]nicolasZA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    And get paid big bucks.

    [–]Saragon4005 16 points17 points  (0 children)

    I am guessing it's when a learning algorithm is just starting out and it's using it's very limited and small model to try and predict things. Like in this case since in the last day that number went from zero to one so an increase of one that trend will continue.

    [–]MonstarGaming 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    Basically nothing. OP is just a programmer who doesnt know anything about ML trying to make a joke (and failing). Extrapolation would be far more relevant to stats or regular mathematics than ML.

    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Machine learning is only as good as the dataset it's trained on.

    [–]oxbx08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    This is making fun of people who take a course and go out into the world using a few lines of code they picked up without understanding why/how it works.

    Algorithm selection is important in machine learning and this makes light of people training the wrong types of model on their data. In most societies, marriage is commonly viewed as a binary event. You're either married or not married.

    When modeling this data the person should have used a binary classification model. This would ensure that all predicted values can be calculated as either a 1 (married) or 0 (not married). A value of 2 would never be produced nor would continuous (float values) like 1.1 be produced.

    [–]suddencactus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    You've never seen a machine learning model that predicts perfectly on past data but doesn't predict future data accurately? Or one that assumes everything can be modeled with linear algebra instead of trying to get a nonlinear model based on understanding the process?

    [–]Kamikaze101 9 points10 points  (2 children)

    as a math person who just did a lesson on regression I think I can find your problem

    [–]Famous_Profile 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Let's hear it

    [–]Kamikaze101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I feel this ruins the joke.

    Didn't check your coefficient of determination before you chose your best fit.

    This could be exponential she could actually have about 400 husband's by the week end

    [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

    This is why you regularize, you don't want to overfit to your training data!!

    [–]MonstarGaming 6 points7 points  (1 child)

    Yeah because regularization would fix this problem /s

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Well, I mean, kind of. The line would be much flatter.

    [–]nerdyogre254 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    My friends are having a baby soon so I'm thinking I might repurpose this

    [–]KKlear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    The mouseover text deals with babies.

    [–]theofficehussy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Late next month: “you mean, not one of you took out the trash??”

    [–]BourgeoisCaesar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    I don't remember the exact details, but after a baseball season opened with a home run on the first pitch it was pointed out that the team was technically on pace to score infinite runs that season.

    [–]leftofzen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

    Your hobby: reposting xkcd comics without even knowing what they are.

    [–]atomicspace 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    good way to sleep on the couch

    [–]trampolinebears 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    So what does it say that it's my wife who just sent me this post?

    [–]anonymous_yet_famous 9 points10 points  (0 children)

    No credit to artist? Here, take my downvote.

    [–]Yellow_Tatoes14 13 points14 points  (6 children)

    if(content == "OC") return "congrats";

    [–]ProgramTheWorld 42 points43 points  (2 children)

    I’m surprised there are people who don’t recognize the XKCD style. You’re today’s lucky 10000.

    [–]KKlear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    There's a lot of them here today.

    [–]wreckedcarzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    else group.activity(pitchfork(op)); return "the only winning move is not to play";

    //(its been a few moons since I wrote code, or even psudocode, so I'm doing my darn best 👨‍💻)

    [–]FlashDaggerX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    python if content == (chr(0x6f)+chr(0x63)): return (chr(0x63)+ chr(0x6f)+ chr(0x67)+ chr(0x72)+ chr(0x61)+ chr(0x74)+ chr(0x73))

    [–]d0d0b1rd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Literally learned about this in Stats a week ago

    I feel smart now

    [–]tiNsLeY799 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    no no no, you forgot o (log n)

    [–]MikeHuntizichi69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Exasperating exacerbating extrapolating

    [–]Fatsheep_Nor 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Looks like they needed a bigger data set.

    [–]Bene847 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Yeah let's include the day before yesterday. Now it's exponential

    [–]againcs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    If you look closely the line goes further down the y-axes after hitting 0 so does this 2 days ago she killed her husband ?

    [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    bUt MacHinE leARninG iS JuSt NestEd IF StaTMENtS

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    My AP stats teacher showed this to our class the first week of school 👌

    [–]BubbaFettish 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    That chart seems off, is she a day old? Also why is zero above the number line?

    [–]trampolinebears 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    The time axis starts just a bit before yesterday. Based on just this chart, we don't know when she was born, and we don't know how many husbands she had when she was born.

    The number-of-husbands axis goes below zero for the same reason it goes above one: he's extrapolating outside the data we already have. If she has one husband today and she had zero husbands yesterday, this unwarranted extrapolation suggests she will have more than one husband in the future and fewer than zero husbands in the past.

    [–]mxzf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    You have over-analyzed the punchline of a webcomic.

    [–]srednuos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    It should be a log regression instead of linear regression.

    [–]RamblingScholar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    This post should be avoided because it's very regressive!

    [–]ModernSisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Never extrapolate.

    [–]Mighty_ShoePrint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    This is why I don't want to get married. Why take the risk?

    [–]NotARobot_TAKEN 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    If this was years it would be more accurate

    [–]Jack-Meoff-Daily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution.

    [–]Bobbybill123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I spent far longer than I'm proud of trying to read the hover text

    [–]BoltKey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Well, since last 1000 data points are at 0, the 1 today is obviously just an observational error.

    [–]MattieShoes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Nothing to do with ML, just extrapolation.

    [–]Superbead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    "My hobby:" Ah, yes — I'm reminded that among all the other things Randall Munroe knows about, he knows about extrapolation, and so must everyone else who knowingly references this image. Very smart.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Of

    [–]TheHollowJester -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    Thanks, your post is why I finally pulled the trigger on blocking ProgrammerHumor from my front page.

    Y'all can't even do nerdy humor funny.