XKCD, getting the landscape of 2026 right in 2017

a single-panel XKCD comic, featuring one stick figure standing a top a large pile of matrices, and another standing to the side. the figure to the side says "this is your machine learning system?" to which the one atop the pile replies "yup! you pour the data into this big pile of linear algebra, then collect the answers on the other side." the first figure responds "what if the answers are wrong?" and the pile figure quips "just stir the pile until they start looking right."
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a single-panel XKCD comic, featuring one stick figure standing a top a large pile of matrices, and another standing to the side.

the figure to the side says "this is your machine learning system?" to which the one atop the pile replies "yup! you pour the data into this big pile of linear algebra, then collect the answers on the other side." the first figure responds "what if the answers are wrong?" and the pile figure quips "just stir the pile until they start looking right."
somewhere in the cesspool of linkedin, where everyone is wetting their pants to the latest claude code, i was surprised to see someone post this old chestnut. i cackled.

image's original mouse-over alt text:
"The pile gets soaked with data and starts to get mushy over time, so it's technically recurrent."

source: https://xkcd.com/1838/

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