John Wilder Tukey (/ˈtuːki/; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and the box plot.
The comic strip was published on June 18 2025, two days after Tukey's 110th birthday. The last sentence combines a precise but wrong statement (Tukey would be 110,000 years old today) with an imprecise but correct statement (his birthday is some time that week).
Those are better specs than what I used throughout college (an Asus Eee PC running Debian with Xfce and Openbox). Not a powerful machine, but I absolutely loved that thing.
When my cat tries to ambush us, he likes to hide in his cat tunnel with his butt sticking out. You can tell an attack is imminent by his signature wiggle.
Gimme that co-pilot with real intelligence ---> Shows you syntax errors and inconsistent object definitions.
I said real intelligence --->