On: Xkcd: Travelling Salesman Problem

[pchristensen]

So I looked through the last 10-15 or so of the xkcd comics, and maybe 3-4 of them were what I considered HN material (Feynman, this one, etc) and a bunch that were not (tripping band kids, punch buggy, tapping, etc). The appropriate ones (like this) have a lot of upvotes, the others don't. I'm happy to announce that the system is working, the good ones are rising and the bad ones are getting ignored.

Remember, commenting to complain about the bad ones makes them rise to the top of the front page!

[schleyfox → pchristensen]

"A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language."

Notice how only one of those is math. I think it is by design that only ~1/3 of them are HN material.

[pchristensen → schleyfox]

Don't get me wrong, lots of those other ones were funny, just not HN material. I'm a faithful subscriber to their RSS feed.

[brent → pchristensen]

In the last 16 I saw 10 I would expect to be of interest to at least a handful of readers here:

The Drake Equation (funny math)

How it works (stereotypes & math)

Advanced Technology (von neumann machines)

Fuck Grapefruit (scatter plot about perception)

Nightmares (creative subconscious, what's not to love?)

Ultimate Game (D&D is not for me, but I think it fits the crowd)

Kilobyte

Morning (dead pixels)

Zombie Feynman

TSP