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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1658<br />
| date = March 21, 2016<br />
| title = Estimating Time<br />
| image = estimating_time.png<br />
| titletext = Corollary to Hofstadter's Law: Every minute you spend thinking about Hofstadter's Law is a minute you're NOT WORKING AND WILL NEVER FINISH! PAAAAAANIIIIIIC!<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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As for the title text:<br />
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Hofstadters Law is a non-scientific law that states: "Things will always take longer than you think, even when taking into account Hofstadters Law."<br />
==Transcript==<br />
[Ponytail is sitting at a computer, having presumably just paused work on a project.]<br />
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Ponytail: AAAA! I'm so bad at estimating how long projects take.<br />
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[Danish enters from offscreen]<br />
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Danish: Don't panic-there's a simple trick for that. Take your most realistic estimate and double it.<br />
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Ponytail: Okay, but-<br />
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Danish: Now double it again. Add five minutes. Double it a third time.<br />
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Ponytail: Okay...<br />
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Danish: 30 seconds have gone by and you've done nothing but double imaginary numbers! You're making no progress and will never finish!<br />
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Ponytail: AAAAAA!<br />
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Danish: PAAANIIIC!<br />
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[Danish raises her arms in mock hysteria. Ponytail runs away from her desk screaming.]<br />
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Ponytail: AAAAAAA!<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>141.101.104.22https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:941:_Depth_Perception&diff=83029Talk:941: Depth Perception2015-01-19T21:11:22Z<p>141.101.104.22: Fixed formatting</p>
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<div>Somebody needs to try this. Couldn't be that hard.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/71.178.11.180|71.178.11.180]] 21:27, 22 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Those must have been some tall goalposts if his point of view is above the clouds! -- mwburden [[Special:Contributions/70.91.188.49|70.91.188.49]] 13:16, 10 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Also, the cameras should be mounted on servos so that when the phone is moved or tilted the cameras can follow, so your viewpoint isn't fixed in one direction. -- mwburden [[Special:Contributions/70.91.188.49|70.91.188.49]] 13:18, 10 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:That wouldn't work. The entire football field would have to swivel, or else he'd get some wicked image shearing... [[Special:Contributions/108.28.72.186|108.28.72.186]] 01:42, 7 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::actually, it might be possible to correct for that, using bipolar geometry. Essentially, you can derive a 3d model from 2 images from different view points. [http://danielwedge.com/fmatrix/ Here] is a (very geeky) demontration of what can be done. Watch the end, where they construct a fly-around video from two images of the opera house in sidney. -- [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.22|141.101.104.22]] 21:10, 19 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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An updated solution would be to put the two stabilised cameras on quadracopters which are coded to remain a set distance apart. When you want to look left/right it would take a while for the pair of drones to rotate around their centre point but not too long..... Then you could also get a perspective from the height of a giant (drones can go to any height) and with their degree of parallax (from whatever value of height and eye spacing you choose). {{unsigned ip|108.162.250.225}}<br />
:This is a very cool project indeed! Some hardcore image stabilizing software would be required too, since you would get nauseous if the two images weren't perfectly aligned at all times. But this setup is the only one I could think of that would enable you to perceive the view from the last frame. [[User:Mumiemonstret|Mumiemonstret]] ([[User talk:Mumiemonstret|talk]]) 08:44, 17 December 2014 (UTC)</div>141.101.104.22https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:941:_Depth_Perception&diff=83028Talk:941: Depth Perception2015-01-19T21:10:21Z<p>141.101.104.22: ~~~~ Added comment on bipolar geometry</p>
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<div>Somebody needs to try this. Couldn't be that hard.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/71.178.11.180|71.178.11.180]] 21:27, 22 October 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Those must have been some tall goalposts if his point of view is above the clouds! -- mwburden [[Special:Contributions/70.91.188.49|70.91.188.49]] 13:16, 10 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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Also, the cameras should be mounted on servos so that when the phone is moved or tilted the cameras can follow, so your viewpoint isn't fixed in one direction. -- mwburden [[Special:Contributions/70.91.188.49|70.91.188.49]] 13:18, 10 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
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:That wouldn't work. The entire football field would have to swivel, or else he'd get some wicked image shearing... [[Special:Contributions/108.28.72.186|108.28.72.186]] 01:42, 7 August 2013 (UTC)<br />
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::actually, it might be possible to correct for that, using bipolar geometry. Essentially, you can derive a 3d model from 2 images from different view points.<br />
[http://danielwedge.com/fmatrix/ Here] is a (very geeky) demontration of what can be done. Watch the end, where they construct a fly-around video from two images of the opera house in sidney. -- [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.22|141.101.104.22]] 21:10, 19 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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An updated solution would be to put the two stabilised cameras on quadracopters which are coded to remain a set distance apart. When you want to look left/right it would take a while for the pair of drones to rotate around their centre point but not too long..... Then you could also get a perspective from the height of a giant (drones can go to any height) and with their degree of parallax (from whatever value of height and eye spacing you choose). {{unsigned ip|108.162.250.225}}<br />
:This is a very cool project indeed! Some hardcore image stabilizing software would be required too, since you would get nauseous if the two images weren't perfectly aligned at all times. But this setup is the only one I could think of that would enable you to perceive the view from the last frame. [[User:Mumiemonstret|Mumiemonstret]] ([[User talk:Mumiemonstret|talk]]) 08:44, 17 December 2014 (UTC)</div>141.101.104.22https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1471:_Gut_Fauna&diff=82519Talk:1471: Gut Fauna2015-01-12T10:44:46Z<p>141.101.104.22: </p>
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<div>I think this comic also contains a pun on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobiotic_diet macrobiotics]. Esp. the wording "out of balance" seems to be a reference to esoteric speech. [[User:Knob creek|Knob creek]] ([[User talk:Knob creek|talk]]) 09:13, 9 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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In fairy tales (most notably in little red riding hood), the wolf swallows whole its (human) victims. The comic depics an inversion of roles. Do you think it's worth adding this observation in the explanation? {{unsigned ip|188.114.99.18}}<br />
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:That's what I took it to mean too, the two options being he swallows the wolf or the wolf swallows him. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.159|141.101.98.159]] 12:35, 9 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Another pun might be on the name of a restaurant in Seattle: [[http://www.ethanstowellrestaurants.com/locations/how-to-cook-a-wolf/ How to Cook a Wolf]] [[User:Araucaria|Araucaria]] ([[User talk:Araucaria|talk]]) 15:53, 9 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
:That's so extremely obscure that thinking it intended is difficult. - Equinox [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.117|199.27.128.117]] 16:59, 9 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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;Is a citation really needed?<br />
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I think that requiring a citation for the lethality of administering a wolf via the mouth or rectum may be going just a bit too far? Reference in the [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1471:_Gut_Fauna&diff=82345&oldid=82344 Change history] [[User:Pmw57|Pmw57]] ([[User talk:Pmw57|talk]]) 10:25, 9 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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: I assume that this is a humorous comment, similar to the citation needed tags in the What-if articles. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.237|141.101.98.237]] 12:04, 9 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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::Good point, could be a joking reference to [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=285 xkcd #285] {{unsigned ip|173.245.52.138}}<br />
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I know an old lady who swallowed a... [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.237|108.162.249.237]] 13:45, 9 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiESiO6tLM8 --[[User:RenniePet|RenniePet]] ([[User talk:RenniePet|talk]]) 19:54, 9 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Is Ponytail ''actually'' a Doctor? If you take the lessone from what can be done in [https://xkcd.com/699/ 699 - Trimester], and buy a labcoat... [[User:RedHillian|RedHillian]] ([[User talk:RedHillian|talk]]) 01:55, 10 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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"animals are never found in the human digestive system; all known cases of animals in a human digestive system are causes of disease.)" Technically, couldn't it also be the result of one's choice of food? Admittedly a temporary state of affairs, but there are certainly dishes involving live food. [[User:Squornshellous Beta|Squornshellous Beta]] ([[User talk:Squornshellous Beta|talk]]) 07:55, 10 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
: Or for pleasure? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.191|108.162.238.191]] 17:35, 10 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
:: Point(s) taken. I'll make a minor change to fix [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 00:08, 12 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
:: Actually, I can't get the wording right. Happy to have someone rewrite it to include temporary residence of live organisms in the case of some foods and (apocryphal) tales of gerbilling, etc. [[User:Djbrasier|Djbrasier]] ([[User talk:Djbrasier|talk]]) 00:11, 12 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Poor dog. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.231|108.162.246.231]] 06:25, 10 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I'm having a really, really hard time imagining what kind of discussion Randall was involved in that led to his thought processes ending up producing the result we see here. --[[User:RenniePet|RenniePet]] ([[User talk:RenniePet|talk]]) 02:58, 11 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
: Funny nickname in this context, RenniePet. (btw. Does "inwolved" make any sense here?) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.22|141.101.104.22]] 10:44, 12 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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“However, either way would prove both physically impossible and potentially lethal.” ... Potentially lethal? You mean, there is actually a chance to survive swallowing a wolf? --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.94|108.162.215.94]] 22:42, 11 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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According to the research of the Grimm Brothers, Randall has it all wrong. Wolves do not live in the stomach of people, people live in the stomachs of Wolves. For example, a big bad wolf might told to take two humans and call the doctor in the morning. ((Dan Loeb - 9:24pm ET, 11 January 2015))</div>141.101.104.22https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:873:_FPS_Mod&diff=71075Talk:873: FPS Mod2014-07-07T09:47:49Z<p>141.101.104.22: </p>
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<div>This particular comic is referred to in the game ''Borderlands 2'' with the gun [http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Morningstar Morningstar], referred to in game as an 'ex-K Seedy weapon, custom designed for a murderer like yourself' which is a reward from the mission [http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Hyperion_Contract_873 Hyperion Contract 873]. When fired it talks, saying things similar to this comic, like "Someone is now an orphan and doesn't know it yet!" or "They might have been raised in a broken home" after a kill, or "Murderer!" on a critical hit. --[[Special:Contributions/68.200.188.141|68.200.188.141]] 04:16, 29 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I think you never kill humans in Duke Nukem (or Heretic) and personally I consider it advantage. Alternatively, in Unreal Tournament, everyone respawns just like you do, making it something like game about game. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 09:53, 17 April 2013 (UTC)<br />
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While not technically a FPS, Dishonored did something similar with The Heart. You can aim it at anyone and get a surprisingly similar type of insight into their life. Made the game a lot more interesting in my opinion. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.22|141.101.104.22]] 09:47, 7 July 2014 (UTC)</div>141.101.104.22