Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jun 17 Messi xkcd.com/3260/
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And more importantly, he's now scored more goals in one game than any Norwegian has managed over a whole tournament.
Interesting. I'd like to see a graphic of the number of times Messi quits the national team.
haha it's funny because this is exactly how corporations think sales work and make quotas impossible to reach
The numbers are the numbers #=#
I like this graph. This graph makes me happy (and gives me hope for humanity).
Someone send this to Sid Seixeiro.
In the beginning the Messi goals were spaced out by entire World Cups. Then every three games, then every two. In four days we could be seeing a Messi goal every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes. We could witness a double Messi goal within seven days.
If you do the same for this England-Croatia match, there will be a goal every second by the end.
Now down to 2.5.
Eventually he'll produce more goals than the ecosystem can support, and many of them will die off due to offsides, handballs and other natural, if cruel, causes. Ideally he'll split into several smaller Messis before that happens and each will stake out new territory.
But how will it compare to your weddings
your art style sure does look like xkcd
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Note that this extrapolation model is not a linear regression on the log(goals/match) by year. The log-regression method is much more reasonable and Messi would then be expected to score over 100 goals/match only by 2058.
AI companies talking about their models be like:
Thank you for giving him credit for that quarter goal in 2006.
As the saying goes: The math is brutal.
The singularity is near!
SPCX investors be like.
How many wedding cakes has he produced this far?
Now do a graph about the taxes he tried to avoid paying
Lol ...
Mandatory @magnets.eurosky.social tag as this contains football AND terrible graph analysis.
Let someone else score!
Can’t afford not to invest!!!
And I say that because I DID get the joke. That's why his book is so great.
You should chat with @carlbergstrom.com about adding this to any revisions he does to his awesom book (www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563882...)
The data is a bit Messi but it could just be the atart of a normal distribution
We should witness a double goal within seven days.
What people were saying about ChatGPT's intelligence in 2023
I think your data are Messi
but how is there like .3 of a goal in 2006, i haz to know
Messiah
we can safely* predict in 2040 he'll score 0 goals at the world cup *unless FIFA changes WC frequency
Title text: "Commentators agree that this will probably be the last World Cup in which Messi faces serious competition." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3260#Transcript
Here is that third goal
I'd invest now, but I think I missed the rally and I don't know how to set stop losses. 💸😔