{"id":5324,"date":"2015-09-15T11:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2015-09-21T12:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:06:52","slug":"the-counterfactual-gps-hits-xkcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=5324","title":{"rendered":"The counterfactual GPS hits XKCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/travel_ghosts.png\" width=\"485\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2010 we published a post on an idea we had called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/2010\/07\/23\/the-counterfactual-gps\/\">the counterfactual GPS<\/a>. Have a look.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/2010\/07\/23\/the-counterfactual-gps\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1801 aligncenter\" title=\"cgps2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cgps2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cgps2.png 496w, https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cgps2-300x281.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see above, <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1580\/\">today, XKCD had the same idea<\/a>. Did XKCD author Randall Munroe steal it? Probably not. Does it make us feel good that such a clever and creative person as Randall Munroe had the same idea? Oh yes, yes it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, we proposed a counterfactual GPS. Today, XKCD had the same idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[1227,52,1232,115,1230,60,1229,1231,59,1228],"class_list":["post-5324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gossip","category-ideas","tag-counterfactual","tag-decision","tag-ghost","tag-gps","tag-munroe","tag-news","tag-randall","tag-route","tag-science","tag-xkdc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-1nS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}