{"id":9730,"date":"2019-10-11T00:10:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T04:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9730"},"modified":"2019-10-11T00:10:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T04:10:16","slug":"nerd-sniping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9730","title":{"rendered":"Nerd sniping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across this XKCD comic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/356\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9731\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nerd_sniping.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nerd_sniping.png 740w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nerd_sniping-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though I can happily report that so far, I managed to avoid getting hit by a truck, it is a life situation in which I found myself quite a number of times in my life.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, ever since I&#8217;ve seen this comic an hour or so ago, I&#8217;ve been wondering about the resistor network. Thankfully, in the era of the Internet and Google, puzzles like this won&#8217;t keep you awake at night; well-reasoned solutions are <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.stackexchange.com\/questions\/2072\/on-this-infinite-grid-of-resistors-whats-the-equivalent-resistance\">readily available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, just in case anyone wonders, the answer is 4\/\u03c0 \u2212 1\/2 ohms.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9730' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across this XKCD comic. Though I can happily report that so far, I managed to avoid getting hit by a truck, it is a life situation in which I found myself quite a number of times in my life. In fact, ever since I&#8217;ve seen this comic an hour or so ago, <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9730' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-physics","category-59-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9732,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}