Expected (Lack Of) Value

The mathematical apocalypse is here! This gem shows the four ways to express the exact same number: 3/4 (fraction), 0.75 (decimal), 75% (percentage), and the fraction again but written differently. It's like meeting your friend in four different disguises at the same party! Math teachers everywhere are nodding vigorously while students wonder why we need so many ways to say the same darn thing. Next time someone asks for three-quarters of your pizza, ask them to specify which horseman they prefer!

This mathematical pun is brilliant! The equal sign (=) is personified as a humble character who understands its place in the mathematical hierarchy. Unlike the greater than (>) or less than (

The circular definition of a tensor might be the most expensive knowledge that physics student ever acquired! $200,000 in tuition to learn "a tensor is something that transforms like a tensor" is peak academic comedy. It's like defining water as "the wet stuff that makes things wet." The duck analogy is brilliant though—sometimes in mathematics and physics, we define things by their properties rather than what they intrinsically are. Next time someone asks me to explain eigenvalues, I'll just say "they're the values that eigen." That'll be $50,000, please.

Every mathematician just cringed collectively. This mapping between letters is the kind of chaotic relationship my grad students try to pass off as "valid functions" on their problem sets. The red lines connecting letters from "STRANGER DANGER" to "TRANSGENDER" create a many-to-many relationship that would make set theory professors weep into their coffee. In proper math, each input should map to exactly one output for a function, and for a bijection, it should be one-to-one AND onto. This disaster? It's like watching someone solve equations by throwing darts at a number line. Next time you want to make connections, please consult a discrete mathematics textbook first.

Physics grad students have this uncanny ability to overcomplicate the simplest requests. Just say "waves" and they'll vomit an entire semester of quantum mechanics at you. The equation here is literally just describing a standard plane wave solution to the Schrödinger equation – something physicists regurgitate so often they forget normal humans don't communicate this way. Next time your barber asks what you want, maybe just point to a picture instead of deriving the mathematical foundation of reality.

Finally, visual proof of why the rest of the world thinks Americans are ridiculous. The metric system? Clean, logical, buff as hell. The imperial system? Just the same confused guy in different lighting trying to remember how many feet are in a mile while doing mental gymnastics that would qualify as an Olympic sport. Nothing says "we refuse to evolve" like clinging to a measurement system where 1 gallon = 0.1605 cubic feet, because apparently making sense was too mainstream. Meanwhile, scientists worldwide silently judge while converting everything to metric before doing actual work.