So every profession has "insider" jokes that no one outside the profession understands or finds funny. For example, for computer science guys ( generally excluding techs and admins etc ) you will find ridiculous jokes like:
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Haha get it?
Or how about this one?
Two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, "So what'll it be?"
The first string says, "I think I'll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy~~owmc63^Dz x.xvcu"
"Please excuse my friend," the second string says, "He isn't null-terminated."
Ok, so these are lame but they are funny to guys like me. On the other hand, working with physicists yields even worse zingers. Today I over heard the following headache inducing physics jokes ...
Two molecules walk into a bar. The first molecule says, "Hey I think I lost an electron." The second molecules says, "Are you sure?" The first molecule responds, "I'm positive."
Groan ...
Have you heard that entropy isn't what it used to be?
Oof ...
I can't wait for the signal processing guys start telling jokes ... I mean really, I'm soooo excited.
Ross
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
i am not very smart..the only one of the jokes i got was the one about him being "positive". i thought it was kind of funny but i guess not....
Well that's the point of the jokes though. The only people who "get" them are the people who work in that field. That's what makes it so nerdy.
Here's a rundown on what they mean though if you're curious.
In the first joke is about binary number systems. There is a difference between the number and the symbol used to represent that number. So the number five and the symbol 5 are two different things. In binary, numbers are represented using only 0 and 1.
00 = 0
01 = 1
10 = 2
11 = 3
So if there are "10" kinds of people,that can be read there are two kinds of people rather than ten. Those are the ones who get the joke, and the ones who don't.
The next joke about strings is even more boring. A string is a series of characters. This sentence is a string. The problem is that a computer can't tell where a string ends. It only knows where it begins. So one trick we use is to just say ok, strings end with a 0 ( read null ). There are no printable characters that can be interpreted as null so that's almost reasonable. So when the string orders a drink, he has no null terminator and the computer just prints out a bunch of junk until it finds one by chance. If that doesn't make sense don't worry too much, turns out most programmers don't understand it either. You can thank Java for that :(
Hm you got the one about the electron so the thing about entropy is that it measures just how disorganized something is. Well really it measures it's ability to do work but anyway. The rule is, the more time that passes without putting in new energy, the more disorganized something becomes. So over time, the level of entropy in a system changes.
For extra bonus points, try to figure out why mathematicians always confuse Christmas and Halloween.
Ross,
you should become a professor and teach concepts through jokes. it would be so fun!
Post a Comment