Xkcd: Change in Slope

2026-03-100:20102xkcd.com

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  • By sudb 2026-03-100:56

    there definitely are some areas in software-land where graphing data and/or directly eyeballing it genuinely helps to spot patterns where statistical methods might be cumbersome/tricky/otherwise annoying, like log analysis[1]

    [1] https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/12/07/tips-for-analyzing-logs/

  • By algoth1 2026-03-100:23

    Who even comes up with this stuff

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