Achim Klabunde
Jeff AtwoodThis is extraordinarily well done. https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1i02pcx/a_cool_guide_for_crossover_in_principles_chekhovs/
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Rexx Deane 🏳️🌈@codinghorror I do however disagree with Murphy's Razor. It should be "Anything that can be simple will be complicated."
Goaty McGoatFace@codinghorror I guess Pavlov could be added, even though a bit more of a stretch
Head·word /ˈhedˌwɜː(ɹ)d/ n.Pavlov's Gun:
A gun presented in the first act of a play will start to smoke in anticipation of being fired by the third.
Pavlov's Cat:
A cat in a box cannot be determined to be alive or dead, until it hears its food being prepared.
Pavlov's Razor:
The most mouthwatering explanation is probably correct.
Pavlov's Law:
If you can drool on your nice shirt, you will drool on your nice shirt.
Anders Norén@headword
A cat in a box cannot be determined to be alive or dead, until it hears a tin can being opened.
@xfranky @codinghorror
A cat in a box cannot be determined to be alive or dead, until it hears a tin can being opened.
@xfranky @codinghorror
Dec (into the void)@headword @xfranky @codinghorror
Streisand has some too:
https://chattrbx.com/@babyalligator/114857891118005398
Streisand has some too:
https://chattrbx.com/@babyalligator/114857891118005398
an oven mitt (@babyalligator@chattrbx.com)
@falcennial@mastodon.social The Streisand Effect: the attempt to silence or censor information will lead to greater public awareness of that information Streisand’s Gun: The time to put the silencer on the gun is before firing, not after Streisand’s Cat: If you throw your noisy cat out of the house, it will caterwaul all night outside your window Streisand’s Razor: The best singers in the world do not get nose jobs Streisand’s Law: Any unpleasant rumor than can be spread, will be spread
udo m. rader ☕ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🐧@codinghorror I'm only here for the 😺
and yes, any box that can contain a cat, will contain a cat 😂
Chao-c'@codinghorror definitely, people can get hurt by incompetent manipulation with Occam's razor. And in this diagram, maybe even cats...
justin
@nzJayZee @codinghorror Are they co-parenting?
MurariAaryaBysani@codinghorror what is this?
Estarriol, lucozade dragonCaveat to Murphy's Cat, is that the box will contain a cat unless it absolutely must contain a cat, then it will have escaped.
Guitarsophist@Thebratdragon @codinghorror If the cat will fit, the cat will sit, unless you want it to.
Alexander ShendiThere is a small typo in the box at row("Murphy's") and col("Cat"):
The last word should be "rat", not "cat"!
Or maybe "Giant Venomous Spider"?
Kevin Lyda@alexshendi @codinghorror Also, I was thinking "Anything that can be simple, will also have a number of popular complicated alternatives"
quello che perde i pezzi
Resuna@codinghorror Schrodinger's Law should be "You can't know HOW things will go wrong until they do."
espero@codinghorror The simplest way to kill off a character is to shoot them
CheapPontoon@codinghorror
I hate it!
I’m not the guy who goes around correcting bad commas and apostrophes, but the beauty of Shroedinger is that the cat is both dead AND alive, the gun is both loaded and unloaded, the razor solves and does not, and things will go wrong AND not.
Or maybe I AM that guy.
RobLoach@CheapPontoon @codinghorror Came here to say this. The Schrödinger's Cat statement is incorrect.
Sari Mikkonen 🇫🇮🌻🇪🇺@RobLoach hehe was thinking the same. The poor cat is victim of so much misunderstanding
j43147@codinghorror Schrodingers cat experiment... you keep the cat in the box it's entire life, it's dead on the inside.
Laukidh@codinghorror omfg, occams gun cracked me up
Adrian RoselliThe full text as an HTML table (for those looking for a structured alt text):
https://cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/empppMY
a fish named dog 🎗️✡️♾️@codinghorror addendum to murphy's cat: any box that can't contain a cat, will contain a cat anyway
redvelvet awawa@codinghorror schrodinger's gun is just russian roulette
Pippz@codinghorror my son showed me this a few weeks ago. I hurt myself laughing.
U.Lancier@codinghorror I would read a story that contains the full grid but I doubt I could write one.
karamazov1879@codinghorror Time for nitpicking I'm a Russian speaker Checkov I think should be Chekhov. It's a velar continuant not a velar stop.
@karamazov1879 I approve of this kind of nitpicking 👍
Tor Lillqvist@codinghorror @karamazov1879 Then I don't feel bad for pointing out that it is Schrödinger, not Schrodinger. And if you want to write it without diacritics (but why would you, there is no technical reason, in 2025), it would be Schroedinger.
Derrial Book
@karamazov1879 @codinghorror
It is only as I was double-checking the Wikipedia spelling I realized that Chekov from ST is not Chekhov.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Chekov
I assume that might have been the cause of error in the original post.
@DerrialBook @codinghorror Chekh means Czech (apparently a Polish spelling) Чех and Chek Чек simply check or maybe cheque. Чехов Чеков, просто так. I spoke with Koenig in the 80s. Said his grandfather was Ukrainian and pronounced the v like a w. Maybe a Volga-German.
Vile Ox@karamazov1879 @DerrialBook @codinghorror
Russian letter "Х" (pronounced 'huh', sounds like /h/, but with more scratchiness/hiss at the back of the tongue) is traditionally transliterated into English as a digraph "Kh", due to that extra scratchiness/hiss. I personally dislike it, I think that single letter 'H' would be adequate.
Чеков does not exist as a last name in Russian. Curiously, in Russian-language Wikipedia article his name is given as Павел Чехов, the same as Антон Чехов.
Simon ZerafaIt's good but many of them are fundamentally incorrect interpretations 🙂