oeis
Original: oeis on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with dark, voluminous hair, wearing round glasses and a gray blazer, holds up a sheet of paper and gestures downward with her other hand, looking exasperated.
Woman: A lot of people here are writing down ACTUAL NUMBERS instead of just indicating whether or not the sequence is listed on O.E.I.S.! This is a waste of YOUR time, this is a waste of MY time.
Caption (below panel): Having professional mathematicians teach kindergarten was a mistake.
Votey:
The same woman (drawn in a rough sketch style) holds a sheet of paper and looks at it skeptically.
Woman: Like this one. Apparently it's something called "the counting numbers."
A woman with dark, voluminous hair, wearing round glasses and a gray blazer, holds up a sheet of paper and gestures downward with her other hand, looking exasperated.
Woman: A lot of people here are writing down ACTUAL NUMBERS instead of just indicating whether or not the sequence is listed on O.E.I.S.! This is a waste of YOUR time, this is a waste of MY time.
Caption (below panel): Having professional mathematicians teach kindergarten was a mistake.
Votey:
The same woman (drawn in a rough sketch style) holds a sheet of paper and looks at it skeptically.
Woman: Like this one. Apparently it's something called "the counting numbers."
Alt text
A webcomic. Main panel: A woman with big dark hair, round glasses, and a gray blazer holds up a sheet of paper and gestures downward, looking annoyed. She says: "A lot of people here are writing down ACTUAL NUMBERS instead of just indicating whether or not the sequence is listed on O.E.I.S.! This is a waste of YOUR time, this is a waste of MY time." A caption beneath reads: "Having professional mathematicians teach kindergarten was a mistake." The joke: O.E.I.S. (a play on the OEIS, the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences) is a real database mathematicians consult, and she is absurdly applying that workflow to kindergarteners just learning to write numbers. Votey (aftercomic, black-and-white sketch): The same woman holds the paper and squints at it skeptically, saying: "Like this one. Apparently it's something called 'the counting numbers.'" — deadpanning the most basic sequence (1, 2, 3, ...) as if it were an obscure submission.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.