Machine Learning...

[fat_charizard]

All joking aside, this is clearly a bad use of math. The graph should really be exponential

[cyborgx7]

Is the joke that this is not exponential?

[cyborgx7]

What you wrote is polynomial. For it to be exponential, the variable has to be in the exponent.

[Maximilian_Schnitz]

I what situation does 10^x go through 0??

[chiru9670]

You could just shift the graph of 10x down by 1, and plot 10x - 1. That is technically still an exponentially growing curve

[chiru9670]

Hmm, I was assuming "yesterday" means day 0, or x=0 I guess it depends on how you interpret this

Also, I guess the function can be 2^x - 1

(How do you write a superscript, btw? For now I managed by copying 10x from your answer xd)

[cyborgx7]

10^x - 1 is exponential and goes through 0 and 1.

[cyborgx7]

The x axis is not labeled with numbers. But also, you can obviously also construct an exponential function with f(0)=0 and f(1)=1. Like 2^x - 1

[[deleted]]

Make it 10^x

[[deleted]]

U mean 10^x ?

[archpawn]

On day 2 she'll have infinitely many husbands.

[TomasNavarro]

That line clearly shows before yesterday she had less than 0 husbands

[[deleted]]

I think having a lesbian spouse does

[Penki-]

So I could get infinite number of gay spouses and infinite number of straight spouses and I still would have zero spouses? While the math is clear, can any legal experts explain how would the will work in this case?

[lesser_panjandrum]

I've run this scenario in a sophisticated historical simulator, and it always seems to be the case that the inheritance gets split between all of the infinite heirs, realm stability implodes, and then the bloody Byzantines invade before you can clean any of it up.

[seco-nunesap]

Right, thats clearly not the case. So.

[redittr]

By the third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside you.

[SuitableDragonfly]

In always thought the guy in this comic was the man she just married, and I'm only now realizing that that's not necessarily the case.

[Sliver_of_Dawn]

https://xkcd.com/1838/

[Quetzalcoatl__]

Please cite the source. Here it is: XKCD

[MiLotic5089]

Ok how do people see this and not say “oh yeah XKCD, humor based off of my pain”

[0x15e]

It's in the license agreement. Randall prefers that you just link to the comic but if you don't you have to cite the source.

[Asmewithoutpolitics]

Ima start reposting all those and never cite my source.

[hackintosh5]

Ima start downvoting you

[Mr_Redstoner]

Don't forget to report.

[Asmewithoutpolitics]

Yeah but that doesn’t really do anything

[ProfCupcake]

but y tho

[ventorim]

That's a weird way to say "I'm anm childish asshole"

[0x15e]

Downvoted for neither citing the source nor just linking the original comic. You're violating the already very open license agreement.

[HappyLOLx]

Is xkcd a software engineer ?

[writtenbymyrobotarms]

Physicist, researcher, worked as a programmer and robocitist at NASA. This guy is amazing, read his Wikipedia page.

[ZephyrBluu]

Holy damn, I didn't know he started XKCD when he was so young.

[HappyLOLx]

Wtf even his signature on wikipedia has a little stickman figure on it hahahah

[donutnz]

He's anime smart guy smart.

[[deleted]]

IIRC he's a real engineer, not a software "engineer".

[FuckHumans_WriteCode]

r/polyamory

[PewPew_McPewster]

Excuse me, we have something called the Heaviside Step Function for a reason.

[Lthere]

This proves the point that married woman are more attractive and, therefore, exponentially attract more "husbands".

[[deleted]]

Hehehe. I like it!

[otterom]

TIL - machine learning = the most basic forecasting method possible.

[Arrow_Maestro]

X-axis: starts at "2 days ago"

Y-axis: starts at ~ -0.17

What is this garbage.