June 25, 2007

PhD Comics Makes an Error

Posted by Eric at 9:50 pm | Category: Humor, Links

I see that Jorge Cham has drawn this conclusion:

But clearly, the formula is only true theoretically. In practical terms, the formula is more like Net Effect on Research Productivity N = log(R/P), where R is the Readily Available Information and P is the number of ways to procrastinate. Since P is much greater than R, we have N really, really negative.

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4 Responses to “PhD Comics Makes an Error”

  1. Ben Says:
    June 26th, 2007 at 12:14 am

    Drawn what conclusion?

  2. Eric Says:
    June 26th, 2007 at 8:50 am

    Huh, strange that that didn’t work…. It’s fixed now.

  3. Ben Says:
    June 26th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    So.. negative productivity, are we talking like… increased entropy in knowledge/production/information per time spent?

  4. Eric Says:
    June 27th, 2007 at 11:45 am

    Well, negative in the sense that compared to the situation without internet existing at all, the actual production would be lower.

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