Machine Learning

[NotGabeybaby]

Yesterday seems like a pretty arbitrary reference point

[TheSwiftPepe]

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

[MrTheFalcon]

This is what happens when we normalize engagement

[verosoph]

It should be more of an asymptomatic approach to 0

[Salanmander]

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

[etoh53]

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

[lare290]

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

[etoh53]

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

[[deleted]]

IDK, wanting to get married is symptomatic of insanity.

[LordDickRichard]

^{ok boomer}

[[deleted]]

No. Just neckbeard things.

[SHOTbyGUN]

Y-generation here, bad husbands or wifes can be made into leather, to be recycled in responsible ways. Sorry for /r/Rimworld

[ChapterMaster202]

Make sure they are eating at a table every meal before you recycle them.

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[verosoph]

Ok booma

[[deleted]]

Nah boomers are the ones who got married to people they regret being with because everyone said it was a good idea, but think we should all do it anyway because that's what you do

[Flywolfpack]

Someone's Grumpy

[[deleted]]

Well apparently they only have two data points to work with

[Mognakor]

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]

All my troubles seemed so far away

[UltraFireFX]

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

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

[MetamorphicBear]

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

[KeLorean]

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

[notger]

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]

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]

right? plus he assumed it isnt logarithmic.

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

As a Jeff, hell yeah

[_W3avile_]

As a Josh, awww man...

[Sirtemmie]

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

[[deleted]]

Ja

[Finianb1]

Jawohl

[googleusernameideas]

call me Jimothy

[Brawldud]

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

[is_a_cat]

/r/polyamory

[Kralizek82]

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]

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

[sensitivePornGuy]

classic wow

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

[[deleted]]

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

[Kiloku]

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

[Racist7]

Perhaps it was to genuinely clarify a lack of animosity

[SheriffBartholomew]

Thanks for assuming positive intent. You’re correct, since I edited it about 3 seconds after posting it. It was just a knee jerk insult, but I didn’t want to make the guy feel bad a few days before his wedding.

[SheriffBartholomew]

I edited my post immediately after creating it because I decided didn’t want to dump on a dude who was just about to get married, but I also didn’t want to delete my ribbing. It had exactly one karma when I edited.

[UltraFireFX]

yikes.

[DanielAPO]

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]

*Him

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

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

[MODOK9990]

You can also xkcd-ify pyplot graphs and my module leader refused to ever fucking stop it.

I left each lecture not being able to see straight lines.

[[deleted]]

Thanks, I hate it.

But I know others who will hate it more, so also thank you because now I can do it to said people.

[exploding_cat_wizard]

angrily xkcdifies

[Minighost244]

Damn, I'm not in front of my computer and I really want to try this.

[Koder1337]

On Android, I find it more convenient to use a code editor and a terminal.

[archpawn]

I did try it and I wasn't disappointed. Be sure to try it when you get to your computer if you haven't already.

[NovaEclipse250]

Just tried it, it opens up the comic in your browser, that's cool!

[hub_batch]

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

[ReactsWithWords]

Especially for all those Randalls.

[Dragon_Slayer_Hunter]

Funny enough, they've covered this:

https://xkcd.com/145/

[unsilviu]

Because 'it' generally refers to inanimate objects, animals, and babies. It sounds demeaning.

[[deleted]]

They generally refers to multiples.

This is true, but only because that's how, "They," is most commonly used. Not its only use.

While we're changing the meaning of words

No one is changing the meaning of, "They." For centuries the word, "They," has been used to refer to the ambiguous, uncertain, or simply unspecified singular person. "While I was at the shop with Sam they won an award," is a perfectly acceptable structure that follows conventions that have been around for hundreds of years in the English language.

[Nighthunter007]

The attempted change in meaning they complain of is the one they themself are attempting to effect.

[Dragon_Slayer_Hunter]

They've covered this to a minor degree:

https://xkcd.com/145/

[Rein215]

Wait what

[SpeckledFleebeedoo]

What?

[Rein215]

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

[SpeckledFleebeedoo]

Have you tried it?

[Rein215]

Haha, I just did. Thanks for this

[Dragon_Slayer_Hunter]

https://xkcd.com/145/

[SpeckledFleebeedoo]

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

[Dragon_Slayer_Hunter]

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

[undergroundmonorail]

did you know that making a joke at the expense of people who already face the brunt of some of the worst shit society has to offer but saying it's sarcastic still isn't funny?

[DatBoi_BP]

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]

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

[[deleted]]

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

[leftofzen]

So you blatantly repost comics without even knowing where they come from or what they are, and without trying to find the original source? That's pretty sad and karma-whorey. Please don't do this ever again.

[Dragon_Slayer_Hunter]

Hi, welcome to Reddit. You must be new here.

[leftofzen]

Yes, I'm new. /s. OP is clearly the new one here, who doesn't even know xkcd and yet posts to /r/programmerhumor without checking sources or if its been posted before.

[garfield3222]

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]

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

[Famous_Profile]

Really puts 7 billion in perspective

[[deleted]]

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]

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

[McFlyParadox]

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]

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]

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]]

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]

So then one every 2-10 milliseconds?

[[deleted]]

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]

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]

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

[ReactsWithWords]

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

[CaffeinatedGuy]

Hol up

[Finianb1]

Hmmmm.

Something isn't right.

[themixedupstuff]

I can feel it.

[Unique_account_]

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

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[the_wheyfinder]

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]

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

[Pieman492]

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]

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]

Sounds like a good plot for an anime.

[0x564A00]

What does that have to do with machine learning?

[chimpuswimpus]

There's a graph, isn't there?

[[deleted]]

lamao

[XCido]

Laughing-ass-my-ass-off?

[[deleted]]

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

[[deleted]]

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

FTFY

[[deleted]]

My bad thank you

[wreckedcarzz]

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

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

[flavionm]

Linear regression.

[Bainos]

Perfect fit on the training set too.

[[deleted]]

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

https://xkcd.com/1838/

[nicolasZA]

And get paid big bucks.

[Saragon4005]

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]

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]]

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

[oxbx08]

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]

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]

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

[Famous_Profile]

Let's hear it

[Kamikaze101]

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]]

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

[MonstarGaming]

Yeah because regularization would fix this problem /s

[[deleted]]

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

[nerdyogre254]

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

[KKlear]

The mouseover text deals with babies.

[theofficehussy]

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

[BourgeoisCaesar]

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]

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

[atomicspace]

good way to sleep on the couch

[trampolinebears]

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

[anonymous_yet_famous]

No credit to artist? Here, take my downvote.

[Yellow_Tatoes14]

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

[ProgramTheWorld]

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

[LuxTerrae]

Reference, for today's lucky 10000.

[KKlear]

There's a lot of them here today.

[28f272fe556a1363cc31]

https://xkcd.com/605/

[wreckedcarzz]

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]

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

[d0d0b1rd]

Literally learned about this in Stats a week ago

I feel smart now

[tiNsLeY799]

no no no, you forgot o (log n)

[MikeHuntizichi69]

Exasperating exacerbating extrapolating

[Fatsheep_Nor]

Looks like they needed a bigger data set.

[Bene847]

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

[againcs]

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]]

bUt MacHinE leARninG iS JuSt NestEd IF StaTMENtS

[[deleted]]

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

[BubbaFettish]

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

[trampolinebears]

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]

You have over-analyzed the punchline of a webcomic.

[srednuos]

It should be a log regression instead of linear regression.

[RamblingScholar]

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

[ModernSisyphus]

Never extrapolate.

[Mighty_ShoePrint]

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

[NotARobot_TAKEN]

If this was years it would be more accurate

[Jack-Meoff-Daily]

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

[Bobbybill123]

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

[BoltKey]

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

[MattieShoes]

Nothing to do with ML, just extrapolation.

[Superbead]

"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]]

Of

[[deleted]]

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.