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There are several things that UNC might stand for, but to me none of them suggests a rating scale. Open to suggestions, of course. [[User:JohnB|JohnB]] ([[User talk:JohnB|talk]]) 00:10, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
: I think the most likely candidate from {{w|UNC|w:UNC}} is the numismatic code for an {{w|uncirculated coin}}. —[[User:Scs|Scs]] ([[User talk:Scs|talk]]) 00:49, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Unified National Coarse is the name of a scale (not a rating on it) for thread sizes (for screws, nuts, bolts, etc.)[[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.187|172.69.68.187]] 02:12, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
: What popped into my head when I saw UNC was the University of North Carolina. But that wouldn't be right, without other schools on the list. [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 04:07, 12 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I don’t think A/AA/AAA are battery sizes, but rather [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating credit rating]. That is also consistent with their positions in the upper half of the scale.--[[Special:Contributions/172.69.235.142|172.69.235.142]] 00:37, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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A+ reminded me of {{w|European Union energy label}} ratings - but it is also in the credit rating list -- [[User:Bmwiedemann|Bmwiedemann]] ([[User talk:Bmwiedemann|talk]]) 01:31, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Does anyone know what "S" is a rating for? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.206|172.69.34.206]] 01:35, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Satisfactory, top marks on USA elementary school report cards (or at least it was in the 1980s) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.124|162.158.63.124]] 02:40, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I think the faces are supposed to correspond to a face-based pain scale, which is supported by the fact that they occur at similar places to the pain scale and that the frowny face looks more like the frowny face from one of these charts than any traditional sad face emoji. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.250.44|172.69.250.44]] 02:45, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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This listed F as standing for Fine under the coin grading scale. However, the coin grading scale runs from 0-70, and ordered Poor (P, or About Good, AG, depending on personal preference), Good (G), Very Good (VG), Fine (F), Very Fine (VF), Etremely Fine (XF), About Uncirculated (AU), and Uncirculated (UNC or MS, for Mint State, depending on personal preference). Because Fine is better than Good and Very Good on the coin grading scale, but F is worse than G and VG on Randall's Universal Rating Scale, F probably refers to the letter grade for schoolwork, rather than the coin grade of Fine, so I removed F from the coin grade section. The G might also stand for a movie rating, but whether it is a movie rating or a coin grade, it's position would remain the same, so it's a moot point which it is. [[User:NErDysprosium|NErDysprosium]] ([[User talk:NErDysprosium|talk]]) 05:48, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I know some video games and fantasy stories contain things that have a letter rating, typically starting a few letters into the alphabet and increasing as it gets closer to A, often with an S above that, but sometimes another rating above S labeled "EX" for "extra". These scales sometimes have additional ratings with a + or - attached, or increasing by repeating the letter 2 or 3 times in a row before going up to the next letter. Thus the same system might have both "AAA" and "S", but normally unlike this chart the S would be higher. In some cases it might end up topping out with something like "SSS+". This sort of thing is particularly common in stories originating in Japan which involve some sort of other world that contain some sort of features similar to a video game with some sort of "Adventurer's Guild" which would often have such a system. In particular there are quite a lot of Japanese novels that are like this, many of which containing strange or unique twists on otherwise common formulaic settings. Some of these both have official English translations or were later adapted into manga or anime, or oddly enough in quite a few cases were a self published thing posted online as a hobbyist before later being picked up by a publisher and being somewhat changed and re-written as a proper book. Many also have people making and posting online fan translations of them.--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.35|162.158.74.35]] 06:40, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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9 was possibly omitted, because 7 8 9 (seven ate nine) --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.111.11|162.158.111.11]] 08:11, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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: I'd say you are making up your own jokes - however - :-) Robert Carnegie rja.carnegie@gmail.com [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.71|162.158.154.71]] 14:06, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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: neglected again https://xkcd.com/1103/ [[User:Norgaladir|Norgaladir]] ([[User talk:Norgaladir|talk]]) 16:15, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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: I would point to ''[[Thing Explainer]]'' instead. The number after eight is not one of the ten hundred words people use the most. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.174.80|172.68.174.80]] 22:32, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Some comics seems like Randall makes them purely for this website, or in general to make people guess what each of the things mean. [[User:Fabian42|Fabian42]] ([[User talk:Fabian42|talk]]) 09:27, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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When I saw "Category 5" I thought he meant {{w|Category_5_cable}}... [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.105|162.158.158.105]] 15:46, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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The explanation had A+ listed as a credit rating, but it's in the wrong spot to be the A+ credit rating, and likely refers to the A+ grade instead. Should I remove it from the credit rating section? Credit scores aren't exactly my area of expertise, unlike coins. [[User:NErDysprosium|NErDysprosium]] ([[User talk:NErDysprosium|talk]]) 16:23, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Can someone please explain what the "curve" in the title text is? [[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.211|141.101.69.211]] 17:17, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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: That's how in some school courses they "grade on a curve" where if no one can get a perfect score on a test, they change the score so the highest existing score is changed to 100, and all the other people who took the test also have the same amount added to their score (or at least that's the way I'm most familiar with, it might be possible to do so with a somewhat different method). Thus they can have an unreasonably difficult test without causing abnormally low scores that will cause tons of students to get failing grades.--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.134|162.158.75.134]] 17:25, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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:The "curve" technically refers to a bell curve; that is adjusting the letter grades by organizing the students into bins based on that distribution (the ~68% of students nearest the average grade get a C, then the 14% just above that get a B and the top 2% get an A, and the same pattern going down for D and F). However most instructors who say they "grade on a curve" don't do that since grades rarely fit that curve, and this often unfairly punishes students who performed well but weren't the top score. EG if the scores are all between 90% and 100% correct then the student(s) who got 90% correct will receive an F. Most of my experience with "grading on a curve" has been that the instructor sets the highest score achieved to represent 100%, but I have also had professors who adjust the grading bands so most students get a B or better. The latter method avoids forcing a failing mark on students who just happened to get the lowest score, but unlike adjusting the 100% level down it provides no benefit to someone who did significantly worse than their peers.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.78.10|162.158.78.10]] 13:12, 8 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I rate this comic perfect 5/7. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.159|141.101.69.159]] 19:08, 7 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I thought that the F was a reference to "pay respects", indicating embarrassing failure<br />
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I thought that 9 was omitted because Windows skipped version 9 when doing their version releases (mostly due to the fact that there was Windows 95 and Windows 98 which began with 9).<br />
: I thought the reason was that Windows 8 was widely disliked, so they wanted to distance the new version from it.--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.112|108.162.216.112]] 19:05, 11 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Am I the only one who would like to see "Safe", "Neutralized", "Esoteric", "Thaumiel", "Euclid", and "Keter", added to this scale?<br />
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It seems cut off at the end.. Missing "Douce Point!".<br />
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I thought "tall" being just below 2 suggested that people who are close to 2m in height are considered tall people.<br />
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You know, the F grade oughta fit in between 5 and 6. At least on the American scale, any score below 60% is considered an F. A 'D' would be between 6 and 7, 'C' between 7 and 8, 'B' between 8 and 9, and an 'A' between 9 and 10.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.50.78|172.69.50.78]] 00:38, 21 July 2020 (UTC)</div>172.69.50.78https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2326:_Five_Word_Jargon&diff=194474Talk:2326: Five Word Jargon2020-07-08T23:16:32Z<p>172.69.50.78: </p>
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Approximate nonnegative matrix factorization algorithms <br />
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That's all. -[[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.119|162.158.62.119]] 22:04, 29 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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super cali fragilistic expiali docious<br />
[[User:Bo Lindbergh|Bo Lindbergh]] ([[User talk:Bo Lindbergh|talk]]) 22:26, 29 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Over at [https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/ Language Log] they have fun documenting bewildering "noun piles". In the post '''[https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3341 noun pile blog post madness]''' for example<br />
: '''data bound control table row action links'''<br />
:: is a header in this page from Microsoft: '''[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.dynamicdata.dynamichyperlink?view=netframework-4.8 DynamicHyperLink Class]'''<br />
[[User:JohnB|JohnB]] ([[User talk:JohnB|talk]]) 23:59, 29 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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All cyanobacteria are unicellular. That word is just an imposition. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 02:25, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Cyanobacteria come in various types, such as unicellular, filamentous or colonial. Or even part of a composite organism such as lichen. Plastids, which are intracellular endosymbiotic organelles are technically acellular cyanobacteria. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.165.8|162.158.165.8]] 04:31, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
::Plastids are still unicellular. Living as endosymbionts doesn't make them multicellular, it makes them endosymbionts. Colonial unicellular organisms are still unicellular. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.188|108.162.219.188]]<br />
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Cueball could be Randall copying down the phrase into his collection. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.131|173.245.54.131]] 03:10, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Yea that is clear from it being one of my hobby. Have changed the explanation. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:32, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I was expecting these would in fact all mean something incredibly simple. I'm a little disappointed :( [[Special:Contributions/198.41.238.108|198.41.238.108]] 04:03, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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My undergraduate research was on fluxional behavior in zwitterionic isoindoline complexes, so this struck close to home.[[User:Eärendil|Eärendil]] ([[User talk:Eärendil|talk]]) 04:17, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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The phrase from the caption '''really satisfying-sounding five-word technical phrases''' also meets (almost) every criteria it states (except maybe 'technical') - having read many of Randall's comics, I can't imagine this to be a coincidence... [[Special:Contributions/172.68.50.54|172.68.50.54]] 07:39, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Before reading this explanation, I was convinced these were nonsensical phrases that Randall had made up![[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.168|162.158.155.168]] 08:18, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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anomalous electroweak sphaleron transition baryogenesis - roughly translates out of Jargon as Weird Forces Slippery change creation [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.228|162.158.155.228]] 11:33, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I really want to dive into the word relationships within these 'semantically multityped divaricatedly polyconstructed descriptors' and see how much or little they obey the 'rules' for {{w|Branching_(linguistics)|word order}} of component {{w|Adjective#Order|adjectives}}, etc. Maybe when I get a piece of paper and pencil and a bit of time to tease them apart. ;) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.240|162.158.155.240]] 13:02, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Horrifically enough, Pachelbel's Canon uses five chords: I-V-vi-iii-IV-I-IV-V . (It's deeply hated by us musicians who have to play it at weddings and whatnot). Beethoven's 6th: AllegroMaNonTroppo; AndanteMoltoMosso; Allegro; Allegro; Allegretto. Mahler's Fifth: in short terminology, Pan&Bacchus; Flowers; Animals;Man,Angels; Love . [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 13:06, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I don't believe Cueball is looking up the phrase when he types A-N-O-M... I think he's just typing the phrase into the file where he collects the 5-word phrases, as it's listed as the last of his favorites in the bottom section of the panel. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 13:11, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Yea that is clear from it being one of his hobbies to collect them. Have changed the explanation. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:32, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I had a foundling dog diagnosed with "Juvenile Canine Psychogenic Polydipsia - Polyurea. He also had five different kinds of parasites. [[User:Pwydde|Pwydde]] ([[User talk:Pwydde|talk]]) 21:37, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I've noticed that Epson loves five word names for its inkjet papers, such as "Ultra Premium Presentation Paper Matte" [[User:Tanana|Tanana]] ([[User talk:Tanana|talk]]) 23:37, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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“Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery.” Might be one best not to know about.<br />
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"Stationary ergodic Gaussian random processes" were the central part of a university project I did just a month ago ! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.159|141.101.69.159]] 19:56, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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My new favourite is Dynamic Organic Anthropomorphically Engineered Entropy.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.66|162.158.159.66]] 21:59, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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"and then proceed to type the phrase into his phone to add to his list of favorite Five Word Jargon" - That's not how I understand the comic. I thought he was typing it to look up the term on Google. That is also supported by this discussion about the previous comic #2325 on the XKCD sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/hhcgej/randalls_done_it_again/fwh1vl6/ [[Special:Contributions/172.68.215.166|172.68.215.166]] 04:04, 4 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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An intermediate phase Type-II superconducting plate suspended in a gradually increasing strong uniform applied magnetic field will have its core penetrated by individual cylindrical magnetic flux quanta together forming an induced quantum supercurrent vortex lattice with a minimized field energy spacing parameter that exhibits quasi-bifurcating meta-stable equilibrium state trajectories that form a transitory phyllotactic fluxon lattice spiral before reaching critical field flux density limits. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.50.78|172.69.50.78]] 23:16, 8 July 2020 (UTC)</div>172.69.50.78https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2326:_Five_Word_Jargon&diff=194473Talk:2326: Five Word Jargon2020-07-08T23:15:46Z<p>172.69.50.78: </p>
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Approximate nonnegative matrix factorization algorithms <br />
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That's all. -[[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.119|162.158.62.119]] 22:04, 29 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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super cali fragilistic expiali docious<br />
[[User:Bo Lindbergh|Bo Lindbergh]] ([[User talk:Bo Lindbergh|talk]]) 22:26, 29 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Over at [https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/ Language Log] they have fun documenting bewildering "noun piles". In the post '''[https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3341 noun pile blog post madness]''' for example<br />
: '''data bound control table row action links'''<br />
:: is a header in this page from Microsoft: '''[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.dynamicdata.dynamichyperlink?view=netframework-4.8 DynamicHyperLink Class]'''<br />
[[User:JohnB|JohnB]] ([[User talk:JohnB|talk]]) 23:59, 29 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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All cyanobacteria are unicellular. That word is just an imposition. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 02:25, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Cyanobacteria come in various types, such as unicellular, filamentous or colonial. Or even part of a composite organism such as lichen. Plastids, which are intracellular endosymbiotic organelles are technically acellular cyanobacteria. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.165.8|162.158.165.8]] 04:31, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
::Plastids are still unicellular. Living as endosymbionts doesn't make them multicellular, it makes them endosymbionts. Colonial unicellular organisms are still unicellular. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.188|108.162.219.188]]<br />
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Cueball could be Randall copying down the phrase into his collection. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.131|173.245.54.131]] 03:10, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Yea that is clear from it being one of my hobby. Have changed the explanation. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:32, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I was expecting these would in fact all mean something incredibly simple. I'm a little disappointed :( [[Special:Contributions/198.41.238.108|198.41.238.108]] 04:03, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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My undergraduate research was on fluxional behavior in zwitterionic isoindoline complexes, so this struck close to home.[[User:Eärendil|Eärendil]] ([[User talk:Eärendil|talk]]) 04:17, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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The phrase from the caption '''really satisfying-sounding five-word technical phrases''' also meets (almost) every criteria it states (except maybe 'technical') - having read many of Randall's comics, I can't imagine this to be a coincidence... [[Special:Contributions/172.68.50.54|172.68.50.54]] 07:39, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Before reading this explanation, I was convinced these were nonsensical phrases that Randall had made up![[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.168|162.158.155.168]] 08:18, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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anomalous electroweak sphaleron transition baryogenesis - roughly translates out of Jargon as Weird Forces Slippery change creation [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.228|162.158.155.228]] 11:33, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I really want to dive into the word relationships within these 'semantically multityped divaricatedly polyconstructed descriptors' and see how much or little they obey the 'rules' for {{w|Branching_(linguistics)|word order}} of component {{w|Adjective#Order|adjectives}}, etc. Maybe when I get a piece of paper and pencil and a bit of time to tease them apart. ;) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.240|162.158.155.240]] 13:02, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Horrifically enough, Pachelbel's Canon uses five chords: I-V-vi-iii-IV-I-IV-V . (It's deeply hated by us musicians who have to play it at weddings and whatnot). Beethoven's 6th: AllegroMaNonTroppo; AndanteMoltoMosso; Allegro; Allegro; Allegretto. Mahler's Fifth: in short terminology, Pan&Bacchus; Flowers; Animals;Man,Angels; Love . [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 13:06, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I don't believe Cueball is looking up the phrase when he types A-N-O-M... I think he's just typing the phrase into the file where he collects the 5-word phrases, as it's listed as the last of his favorites in the bottom section of the panel. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 13:11, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Yea that is clear from it being one of his hobbies to collect them. Have changed the explanation. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:32, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I had a foundling dog diagnosed with "Juvenile Canine Psychogenic Polydipsia - Polyurea. He also had five different kinds of parasites. [[User:Pwydde|Pwydde]] ([[User talk:Pwydde|talk]]) 21:37, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I've noticed that Epson loves five word names for its inkjet papers, such as "Ultra Premium Presentation Paper Matte" [[User:Tanana|Tanana]] ([[User talk:Tanana|talk]]) 23:37, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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“Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery.” Might be one best not to know about.<br />
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"Stationary ergodic Gaussian random processes" were the central part of a university project I did just a month ago ! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.159|141.101.69.159]] 19:56, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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My new favourite is Dynamic Organic Anthropomorphically Engineered Entropy.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.66|162.158.159.66]] 21:59, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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"and then proceed to type the phrase into his phone to add to his list of favorite Five Word Jargon" - That's not how I understand the comic. I thought he was typing it to look up the term on Google. That is also supported by this discussion about the previous comic #2325 on the XKCD sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/hhcgej/randalls_done_it_again/fwh1vl6/ [[Special:Contributions/172.68.215.166|172.68.215.166]] 04:04, 4 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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An intermediate phase Type-II superconducting plate suspended in a gradually increasing strong uniform applied magnetic field will have its core penetrated by individual cylindrical magnetic flux quanta together forming an induced quantum supercurrent vortex lattice with a minimized field energy spacing parameter that exhibits quasi-bifurcating meta-stable equilibrium state trajectories that form a transitory phyllotactic fluxon lattice spiral before reaching critical field flux density limits.</div>172.69.50.78https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2288:_Collector%27s_Edition&diff=1898782288: Collector's Edition2020-04-03T16:13:52Z<p>172.69.50.78: /* Hints */</p>
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This is an April 1st comic. It is a large image, of which only part is visible, but it can be dragged around. The space acts as a virtual common sandbox where viewers can interact. "Items" (small, often humorous images) can be 'collected' from other comics and then placed in this image by viewers. The collection then updates for all viewers in real time. Multiples of the same item are often seen. <br />
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There is a "backpack" at the bottom, similar to "backpacks" in video games containing items collected by the player. Items can be found by visiting different XKCD comics/pages. Randomly, some pages will have a treasure chest which will contain the sticker related to the page. It is believed that the hint represents what page currently has a chest.<br />
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The sticker images can be seen at https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot_XXX.png, where XXX is a number from 001-253. Additionally, some images can be found at custom urls, for example the periodic elements can be found at https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/element-XX.png, where XX is the element, and text loot at https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot-words-X.png, where X is the sentence.<br />
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|Cooler than electric scooters||[[409: Electric Skateboard (Double Comic)]]||An electric scooter|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|Take it from the top||[[1: Barrel - Part 1]] ||I am a turtle || loot_095.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|I accept the yucca gnocchi, this meal is a success!||[[1713: 50 ccs]] ||Scientist carrying Cs || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Catch up on the news|| [[1699: Local News]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Participation trophy|| [[2288: Collectors Edition]] || Server rack || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Find an opportunity for a sojourn||[[1504: Opportunity]] ||Opportunity Mars rover || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Tastier than tau day||[[179: e to the pi times i]] ||First annual award for excellence in being very smart || ||<br />
|-<br />
|418 I'm a teapot||[[1866: Russell's Teapot]] ||S.S. NASA: Space is Hard || ||<br />
|-<br />
|26th September, 1983||[[2052: Stanislav Petrov Day]] ||White dove || ||<br />
|-<br />
|There are 4241 as of Apr 1, 2020|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|asableiK|| [[645: RPS]] || A reverse Polish hotdog || || "Kielbasa" backwards, which is "sausage" in Polish<br />
|-<br />
|Critical mass elements|| [[235: Kite]] || || loot_203.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Some Februarys are more equal than others|| [[390: Nightmares]]? || Cueball wheelie from [[272: Linux User at Best Buy]] || || Comic-hint connection largely conjectural; 390 was the first comic published on a leap day.<br />
|-<br />
|Five spice||[[1554: Spice Girls]]|| Rock guitarist || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Call the plumber|| [[290: Fucking Blue Shells]] || || loot_058.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Was it a rat I saw?|| [[1632: Palindrome]] || Cueball with a large sack, pulling a wagon || || or [[1503: Squirrel Plan]] for cueball holding a balloon caught in a ceiling fan.<br />
|-<br />
|Churchill's gonna have to seriously rehydrate||[[1148: Nothing to Offer]]|| Bottle of soda || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Keep coming back|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|A new model released each year|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Tea Time||[[581: The Race: Part 5]] ||Floor tea ||loot_232.png|| Also [[479: Tones]] ? Also [[578: The Race: Part 2]] ?<br />
|-<br />
|Try pattern-matching! Look for comic 'bout alphabet?||[[1045: Constraints]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Where's Hilbert?||[[195: Map of the Internet]] ||maze || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Science fiction fetish|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|The first one was funnier||[[11: Barrel - Part 2]]||Falling feather || ||<br />
|-<br />
|It's up to over 260 million cycles!|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Sleeping Beauty is the same everywhere though||[[2233: Aurora Meaning]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|On the internet, nobody knows you're an arachnid|| [[1530: Keyboard Mash]] || Cobwebbed frame || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Did James Cameron pay for the rice cooker too?||[[1598: Salvage]] ||Rice bowl || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Never going to give you up||[[351: Trolling]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|If red touches yellow, that's 24 ohms||[[1604: Snakes]]|| Yoda with an mp3 player from What If || ||<br />
|-<br />
|An enthusiastic but questionable business opportunity||[[1533: Antique Factory]] or [[1021: Business Plan]]|| Beret guy with a goat on leash || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Read the fine manual|| [[1343: Manuals]] or [[293: RTFM]] || "Configure the network" window with a prompt for hostname || ||<br />
|-<br />
|That thing's undecimodal!||[[1347: t Distribution]] || Floating tentacled alien || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Actually, it's Myanmar-Shave now||[[491: Twitter]]||Expensive bottle || ||<br />
|-<br />
|You don't have to find all 99|| [[121: Balloon]] ||Balloon copter || loot_002.png || Or [[51: Malaria]] ?<br />
|-<br />
|Going in circles|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Couldn't you try knitting, or maybe stamp collecting?||[[2123: Meta Collecting]]||Phishing License sign|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|It's the ciiiiircle of HONK||[[537: Ducklings]] ||DUCKLOOP'D? || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Fool me twice|| [[1350: Lorenz]] || Raptor Attack || ||<br />
|-<br />
|oOOOoooo|| || || || https://xkcd.com/316/ ? or https://xkcd.com/1393/ ?<br />
|-<br />
|Maybe we can ask for new wishes||[[879: Lamp]] ||Genie and his bottle ||loot_004.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|HACK THE PLANET||[[1337: Hack]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Monetization haute couteur||[[20: Ferret]]|| ||loot_162.png||<br />
|-<br />
|Maybe writing a script would help||[[1319: Automation]]|| || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Go big to go small|| [[1365: Inflation]] || || loot_245.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Are you projecting||[[850: World According to Americans]] or [[977: Map Projections]]||Squirrel on a gun||loot_237.png||<br />
|-<br />
|Do spiders really have six legs||[[8: Red spiders]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Istanbul or Constantinople or St. Trimble's Island?||[[1688: Map Age Guide]] ||Cephalopod || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Another rulebook?||[[393: Ultimate Game]]||Wizard in a chair || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Moooooon|| [[1300: Galilean Moons]] || MOOOOOON || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Take a flight from LOL to FFS|| [[1937: IATA Airport Abbreviations]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Everyone deserves a second chnace|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Community contribution|| [[826: Guest Week: Zach Weiner (SMBC)]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|On the other side of the wardrobe|| [[969: Delta-P]] ||Authentic Reindeer pulling sled || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Today's your lucky day|| [[1053: Ten Thousand]] || Ms. Frizzle || loot_105.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|[This hint has been redacted due to a copyright claim]|| [[1005: SOPA]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Try a different approach|| [[55: Useless]] || || loot_times.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|The cake is a lie!|| [[606: Cutting Edge]] || Cake || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Joanna, fire.||[[322: Pix Plz]] || Joanna with EMP cannon || loot_026.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Everything changes from time to time when the fire nation attacks|| [[965: Elements]] || Symposium || ||<br />
|-<br />
|90KG x 300M|| [[382: Trebuchet]] || Trebuchet || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Copyright Enforcement Brigade|| [[344: 1337: Part 4]] || || loot_046.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Where Cape Town meets Chukotka||[[1500: Upside-Down Map]] || || ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* This comic is the 2020 April Fools comic, and was supposed to be released April 1st. However, the below message was displayed on the top of the page until early Friday (April 3rd) morning, when the comic finally went live. It remains to be seen if Friday's intended comic will be published later.<br />
<blockquote><br />
Note: For technical reasons Wednesday's comic will be posted Thursday instead. Apologies for the delay!<br />
</blockquote><br />
* Placement is limited to 10,000 units from origin. Users will receive no messages if they try placing something outside the boundary.<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
:[Cueball stands to the left of a vibrating box.]<br />
:[The words "Collector's Edition" are written above him and boxed.]<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}</div>172.69.50.78https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2288:_Collector%27s_Edition&diff=1898772288: Collector's Edition2020-04-03T16:13:33Z<p>172.69.50.78: /* Hints */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2288<br />
| date = April 3, 2020<br />
| title = Collectors Edition<br />
| image = collectors_edition.png<br />
| titletext = I'm sure you can find some suitable worldbuilding material if you scavenge through the archives.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
This is an April 1st comic. It is a large image, of which only part is visible, but it can be dragged around. The space acts as a virtual common sandbox where viewers can interact. "Items" (small, often humorous images) can be 'collected' from other comics and then placed in this image by viewers. The collection then updates for all viewers in real time. Multiples of the same item are often seen. <br />
<br />
There is a "backpack" at the bottom, similar to "backpacks" in video games containing items collected by the player. Items can be found by visiting different XKCD comics/pages. Randomly, some pages will have a treasure chest which will contain the sticker related to the page. It is believed that the hint represents what page currently has a chest.<br />
<br />
The sticker images can be seen at https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot_XXX.png, where XXX is a number from 001-253. Additionally, some images can be found at custom urls, for example the periodic elements can be found at https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/element-XX.png, where XX is the element, and text loot at https://xkcd.com/2288/collectors/static/loot/loot-words-X.png, where X is the sentence.<br />
<br />
===Hints===<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
!Hint<br />
!Comic<br />
!Unlocked item<br />
!Item image<br />
!Notes<br />
|-<br />
|Doctors in a row||[[1529: Bracket]] ||Cory Doctorow || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Get out the (US) vote|| [[2224: Software Updates]] || Statue of liberty || loot_246.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Find a box of nice stuff on a picture with words like these|| [[1133: Up Goer Five]] || Signpost || loot_126.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Plug in or find another power source||[[1373: Screenshot]] || || loot_228.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Sweet dreams, kitty||[[729: Laser Pointer]] || Cat licking laser point || ||<br />
|-<br />
|What is this hint pointing to? Hell if I know.||[[28: Elefino]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Somebody set up us the bomb||[[286: All Your Base]] ||Exploding rock || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Cowabunga||[[1412: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] ||Women Science Fiction Authors || loot_175.png || [[197: Ninja Turtles]] also works<br />
|-<br />
|I want to believe||[[2156: Ufo]] ||Ufo || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Bleeped|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|why waste time say few word when lot word do trick||[[1022: So It Has Come To This]] || First Annual Award for Excellence in Being Very Smart || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Cooler than electric scooters||[[409: Electric Skateboard (Double Comic)]]||An electric scooter|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|Take it from the top||[[1: Barrel - Part 1]] ||I am a turtle || loot_095.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|I accept the yucca gnocchi, this meal is a success!||[[1713: 50 ccs]] ||Scientist carrying Cs || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Catch up on the news|| [[1699: Local News]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Participation trophy|| [[2288: Collectors Edition]] || Server rack || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Find an opportunity for a sojourn||[[1504: Opportunity]] ||Opportunity Mars rover || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Tastier than tau day||[[179: e to the pi times i]] ||First annual award for excellence in being very smart || ||<br />
|-<br />
|418 I'm a teapot||[[1866: Russell's Teapot]] ||S.S. NASA: Space is Hard || ||<br />
|-<br />
|26th September, 1983||[[2052: Stanislav Petrov Day]] ||White dove || ||<br />
|-<br />
|There are 4241 as of Apr 1, 2020|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|asableiK|| [[645: RPS]] || A reverse Polish hotdog || || "Kielbasa" backwards, which is "sausage" in Polish<br />
|-<br />
|Critical mass elements|| [[235: Kite]] || || loot_203.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Some Februarys are more equal than others|| [[390: Nightmares]]? || Cueball wheelie from [[272: Linux User at Best Buy]] || || Comic-hint connection largely conjectural; 390 was the first comic published on a leap day.<br />
|-<br />
|Five spice||[[1554: Spice Girls]]|| Rock guitarist || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Call the plumber|| [[290: Fucking Blue Shells]] || || loot_058.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Was it a rat I saw?|| [[1632: Palindrome]] || Cueball with a large sack, pulling a wagon || || or [[1503: Squirrel Plan]] for cueball holding a balloon caught in a ceiling fan.<br />
|-<br />
|Churchill's gonna have to seriously rehydrate||[[1148: Nothing to Offer]]|| Bottle of soda || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Keep coming back|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|A new model released each year|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Tea Time||[[581: The Race: Part 5]] ||Floor tea ||loot_232.png|| Also [[479: Tones]] ? Also [[578: The Race: Part 2]] ?<br />
|-<br />
|Try pattern-matching! Look for comic 'bout alphabet?||[[1045: Constraints]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Where's Hilbert?||[[195: Map of the Internet]] ||maze || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Science fiction fetish|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|The first one was funnier||[[11: Barrel - Part 2]]||Falling feather || ||<br />
|-<br />
|It's up to over 260 million cycles!|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Sleeping Beauty is the same everywhere though||[[2233: Aurora Meaning]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|On the internet, nobody knows you're an arachnid|| [[1530: Keyboard Mash]] || Cobwebbed frame || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Did James Cameron pay for the rice cooker too?||[[1598: Salvage]] ||Rice bowl || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Never going to give you up||[[351: Trolling]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|If red touches yellow, that's 24 ohms||[[1604: Snakes]]|| Yoda with an mp3 player from What If || ||<br />
|-<br />
|An enthusiastic but questionable business opportunity||[[1533: Antique Factory]] or [[1021: Business Plan]]|| Beret guy with a goat on leash || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Read the fine manual|| [[1343: Manuals]] or [[293: RTFM]] || "Configure the network" window with a prompt for hostname || ||<br />
|-<br />
|That thing's undecimodal!||[[1347: t Distribution]] || Floating tentacled alien || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Actually, it's Myanmar-Shave now||[[491: Twitter]]||Expensive bottle || ||<br />
|-<br />
|You don't have to find all 99|| [[121: Balloon]] ||Balloon copter || loot_002.png || Or [[51: Malaria]] ?<br />
|-<br />
|Going in circles|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Couldn't you try knitting, or maybe stamp collecting?||[[2123: Meta Collecting]]||Phishing License sign|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|It's the ciiiiircle of HONK||[[537: Ducklings]] ||DUCKLOOP'D? || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Fool me twice|| [[1350: Umwelt]] || Raptor Attack || ||<br />
|-<br />
|oOOOoooo|| || || || https://xkcd.com/316/ ? or https://xkcd.com/1393/ ?<br />
|-<br />
|Maybe we can ask for new wishes||[[879: Lamp]] ||Genie and his bottle ||loot_004.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|HACK THE PLANET||[[1337: Hack]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Monetization haute couteur||[[20: Ferret]]|| ||loot_162.png||<br />
|-<br />
|Maybe writing a script would help||[[1319: Automation]]|| || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Go big to go small|| [[1365: Inflation]] || || loot_245.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Are you projecting||[[850: World According to Americans]] or [[977: Map Projections]]||Squirrel on a gun||loot_237.png||<br />
|-<br />
|Do spiders really have six legs||[[8: Red spiders]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Istanbul or Constantinople or St. Trimble's Island?||[[1688: Map Age Guide]] ||Cephalopod || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Another rulebook?||[[393: Ultimate Game]]||Wizard in a chair || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Moooooon|| [[1300: Galilean Moons]] || MOOOOOON || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Take a flight from LOL to FFS|| [[1937: IATA Airport Abbreviations]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Everyone deserves a second chnace|| || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Community contribution|| [[826: Guest Week: Zach Weiner (SMBC)]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|On the other side of the wardrobe|| [[969: Delta-P]] ||Authentic Reindeer pulling sled || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Today's your lucky day|| [[1053: Ten Thousand]] || Ms. Frizzle || loot_105.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|[This hint has been redacted due to a copyright claim]|| [[1005: SOPA]] || || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Try a different approach|| [[55: Useless]] || || loot_times.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|The cake is a lie!|| [[606: Cutting Edge]] || Cake || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Joanna, fire.||[[322: Pix Plz]] || Joanna with EMP cannon || loot_026.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Everything changes from time to time when the fire nation attacks|| [[965: Elements]] || Symposium || ||<br />
|-<br />
|90KG x 300M|| [[382: Trebuchet]] || Trebuchet || ||<br />
|-<br />
|Copyright Enforcement Brigade|| [[344: 1337: Part 4]] || || loot_046.png ||<br />
|-<br />
|Where Cape Town meets Chukotka||[[1500: Upside-Down Map]] || || ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Trivia==<br />
* This comic is the 2020 April Fools comic, and was supposed to be released April 1st. However, the below message was displayed on the top of the page until early Friday (April 3rd) morning, when the comic finally went live. It remains to be seen if Friday's intended comic will be published later.<br />
<blockquote><br />
Note: For technical reasons Wednesday's comic will be posted Thursday instead. Apologies for the delay!<br />
</blockquote><br />
* Placement is limited to 10,000 units from origin. Users will receive no messages if they try placing something outside the boundary.<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
:[Cueball stands to the left of a vibrating box.]<br />
:[The words "Collector's Edition" are written above him and boxed.]<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}</div>172.69.50.78https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2236:_Is_it_Christmas%3F&diff=1840682236: Is it Christmas?2019-12-03T11:49:40Z<p>172.69.50.78: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2236<br />
| date = December 2, 2019<br />
| title = Is it Christmas?<br />
| image = is_it_christmas.png<br />
| titletext = We've tested it on 30 different days and it hasn't gotten one wrong yet.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a BOT (99.73% accurate). Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
Here Randall has made a comic which nearly always correctly tells if it is {{w|Christmas}}. Christmas is a holiday celebrated in the Western world on December 25 of each year. This also works for any annual event lasting only one day.<br />
<br />
Randall lists a rounded calculation of 99.73%. If we calculate without leap years, 364/365 shows 99.726027397% accuracy. Calculating with leap years gives 364.2425/365.2425: approximately 99.726209299%. Or running the calculation on just a leap year gives 365/366 (99.7267759562%). Because all three numbers round up to 99.73%, the listed percentage is correct all three ways.<br />
<br />
Although Randall's claim on {{w|Accuracy and precision#In binary classification|accuracy}} is true, accuracy alone doesn't make a predictive device useful. In this case, the page {{w|False positives and false_negatives#false negative rate|miss rate}} or false negative rate, that is, the percent of positive condition days (it's Christmas) that are predicted by the comic not to be Christmas, is 100%. In other words, it misses all actual events of Christmas. <br />
<br />
When building a model for rare events, a common mistake is to ignore the implicit cost function built into the standard prediction accuracy validity statistic for binary events. Prediction accuracy (# correct guesses/total guesses) assumes that false positives and false negatives are equally bad. Given the implicit cost function of this performance statistic, the best-performing model is commonly a persistence forecast model--ie, the optimal prediction model returns the most common value whatever the model inputs are. It's probably a better choice to optimize a model using a performance statistic which relies on a cost function that penalizes missing correct prediction of rare events more than it penalizes missing correct prediction of common events.<br />
<br />
In fact, in most settings where a single outcome is a lot more common than any other one, predicting always that most common outcome would yield very high accuracy without any usefulness. It isn't hard to find examples even more accurate than Randall's:<br />
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* A useless test for AIDS giving always negative results would have an accuracy about 99.95% when applied to a random human, and even more if used in countries with low prevalence of AIDS.<br />
* A website saying "You are not the cartoonist Randall Munroe" would be right for 99.9999999857% of humans.<br />
* A stopped watch is accurate twice a day while a running watch is almost never accurate (and oddly, is more accurate the faster/slower it runs).<br />
<br />
https://isitchristmas.com/ is a website that looks similar to the comic, with a '''NO''' printed if it is not Christmas, and a '''YES''' if it is Christmas. This website does a check on the computer's current date, and updates accordingly if it is indeed Christmas. Randall's comic doesn't do any of this, but as stated, is still correct most of the time. In addition, isitchristmas.com gives the answer in the language of your region (i.e. a visitor from Canada will give the answer in English and French to account for Canada's bilingularity); the strip only gives a fixed answer in English.<br />
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The title text is a "proof" that his service works. He claims to have tested this on 30 different days and confirmed that NO is the correct result. Any date except Christmas would result in a correct result.<br />
<br />
This might be a reference to the phrase [https://knowyourphrase.com/even-a-broken-clock-is-right-twice A broken clock is right twice a day]<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[A large square white panel with one large word in the middle, plus a footnote:]<br />
:'''<big><big><big>No*</big></big></big>'''<br />
:<nowiki>*</nowiki>99.73% accurate<br />
<br />
:[Caption below the panel:]<br />
:xkcd.com presents a new "Is It Christmas" service to compete with isitchristmas.com<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
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