I like statistics and webcomics. If you combine the two, a number of XKCD comics apppear. Here is my top 3 (for the alt text (which you should read!)), goto: xkcd)
Eternal waiting December 10, 2008
I am about two months far in my PhD project, and the waiting time for the script that counts the non-lexical features in my corpus is already so long that the cartoon below is very appropriate (yet not entirely correct, but who cares).
Eternal Waiting
I have 43 features implemented and working (more or less) correctly, but there are still 60+ to go. If the runtime will double, I will have to wait more than an hour to get the counts. After that, the Factor Analysis and factor scores take some time as well.
The eternal waiting for the counts sometimes drives me crazy…
