Hacker News with Generative AI: Webcomics

Adjusting Microwave Cook Times with OR: Inspired by an Xkcd Comic (2012) (wordpress.com)
I’m a big fan of xkcd.com, a webcomic written by Randall Munroe. Last Monday’s comic, entitled “Nine”, became the inspiration for this post. Here it is:
Every Scientific Field (xkcd.com)
Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today (simonwillison.net)
XKCD 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today (via) One of the all-time great XKCDs. It's amazing that "check whether the photo is of a bird" has gone from PhD-level to trivially easy to solve (with a vision LLM, or CLIP, or ResNet+ImageNet among others).
Xkcd: CrowdStrike (xkcd.com)
Spring Forth, My Creation (wondermark.com)