62: Valentine - Karnaugh

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Valentine - Karnaugh

Title text: Love and circuit analysis, hand in hand at last.

Explanation

A Karnaugh map is a Boolean algebra tool which is used to simplify expressions. The final picture, the one that looks like a crossword puzzle, is similar to the way that a Karnaugh map is used on a Boolean truth table, to identify areas that can be simplified. This picture shows how the process is used to simplify logic circuits. The lament of the valentine is that feelings don't yield themselves to the same kind of analysis.

Transcript

[Squiggly heart design.]

You make me feel so much

it all runs together

I wish I could tell you

[Crisscrossing heart design.]

So few words

for so many feelings

crisscrossing my heart

[Heart matrix design.]

A matrix of desire

Tangled relations

I can't simplify

[Karnaugh map of hearts.]

I wish I could find

the Karnaugh map

for love.

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Discussion

As of 16.4.2021 the image on xkcd.com is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.

Curious indeed. ISaveXKCDpapers (talk) 06:57, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

It’s always been sideways for me, and I’ve been reading since around 2015. Intara (talk) 04:45, 12 April 2023 (UTC)