{"id":2970,"date":"2009-09-03T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2009-09-02T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T13:07:55","slug":"i-love-xkcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2970","title":{"rendered":"I Love xkcd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/urinalmath-300x178.png\" alt=\"Urinal Math\" title=\"Urinal Math\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2971\" srcset=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/urinalmath-300x178.png 300w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/urinalmath-150x89.png 150w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/urinalmath.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Randall has tackled the age-old <a href=\"http:\/\/blag.xkcd.com\/2009\/09\/02\/urinal-protocol-vulnerability\/\">Urinal Protocol<\/a> problem by expressing it as an equation that will allow men* to efficiently choose the least awkward urinal.<\/p>\n<p>The comments are even better, in that readers consider different permutations of the problem (for a large number of urinals, for instance, urinal choice is most likely a Gaussian probability distribution centered around the optimal urinal).<\/p>\n<p>I also wholeheartedly agree with one commenter&#8217;s suggestion that we need a LaTeX font that renders the math environment in Randall\u2019s handwriting.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*And, I guess, adventuresome women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randall has tackled the age-old Urinal Protocol problem by expressing it as an equation that will allow men* to efficiently choose the least awkward urinal. The comments are even better, in that readers consider different permutations of the problem (for a large number of urinals, for instance, urinal choice is most likely a Gaussian probability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}