[[Man 1 standing near Man 2, who is on the floor near the armchair.]]
Man 2: So the greatest hacker of our era is a cookie-baking mom?
Man 1: Second-greatest.
Man 2: Oh?
Man 1 (Narrating) : Mrs. Roberts had two children. Her son, Bobby, was never much for computers, but her daughter Elaine took to them like a ring in the bell.
Man 1 (Narrating) : When Elaine turned 11, her mother sent her to train under Donald Knuth in his mountain hideaway.
Man 1 (Narrating) : For four years she studied algorithms.
Knuth: Child -
Knuth: Why is A* search wrong in this situation?
<<swish>>
Elaine: Memory usage!
Knuth: What would you use?
Elaine: Dijkstra's algorithm!
Man 1 (Narrating) : Until one day she bested her master
Knuth: So our lower bound here is 0(n log n)
Elaine: Nope. Got it in 0(n log (log n))
Man 1 (Narrating) : And left.
{{Trivia: Elaine is actually her middle name.}}
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus. This is not the algorithm. This is close.