logic-gates
Original: logic-gates on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title caption (above the panel): THIS IS WHAT LEARNING LOGIC GATES FEELS LIKE
Panel 1:
Narration / explainer text at top: "See, you just connect this 12 input reverse flip-flop to the controlled two-thirds adder, which resets the latches in the not-nand relay array, then loop back to odd-number inputs and reverse all your switches!"
A person with curly dark hair and round glasses (holding a circuit diagram) is explaining to a person with long red hair (seen from behind).
Red-haired person: "And what's that do?"
Glasses-wearing person: "Subtraction."
Votey:
The glasses-wearing person continues: "Well, the first part of subtraction. For small numbers."
The red-haired person leans in skeptically, looking at the diagram.
Panel 1:
Narration / explainer text at top: "See, you just connect this 12 input reverse flip-flop to the controlled two-thirds adder, which resets the latches in the not-nand relay array, then loop back to odd-number inputs and reverse all your switches!"
A person with curly dark hair and round glasses (holding a circuit diagram) is explaining to a person with long red hair (seen from behind).
Red-haired person: "And what's that do?"
Glasses-wearing person: "Subtraction."
Votey:
The glasses-wearing person continues: "Well, the first part of subtraction. For small numbers."
The red-haired person leans in skeptically, looking at the diagram.
Alt text
A caption above the comic reads "This is what learning logic gates feels like." In the panel, a person with curly dark hair and round white-lensed glasses holds up a complicated circuit diagram and rattles off an overwhelming explanation: "See, you just connect this 12 input reverse flip-flop to the controlled two-thirds adder, which resets the latches in the not-nand relay array, then loop back to odd-number inputs and reverse all your switches!" A red-haired person, seen from behind, asks, "And what's that do?" The glasses-wearing person answers simply, "Subtraction." In the votey aftercomic, a close-up of the glasses-wearing person walks it back: "Well, the first part of subtraction. For small numbers," as the red-haired person leans in skeptically toward the diagram. The joke: an absurdly elaborate circuit accomplishes only a tiny fragment of a basic arithmetic operation.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.