Radiolab - There and Back Again
One of those stand-out "huh!" Radiolab episodes about animal migration.
Paul Graham: The Lesson to Unlearn
A unified theory of sorts.
Gallery of ggridges examples
Useful chart style, seasonal temperature chart is cool. The "Evolution of movie lengths over time" examples is fascinating too.
Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme
Useful page to split a secret into n parts such that k are required to reconstruct the original using the Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K54ildEW9-Q
Finding HIGH POWER 240V in a 120V Country
Another amusing Electroboom video.
Grandpa Amu - wooden arch bridge
Genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYkgEf3eWqA
BBC 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: Sewing machine
A much more nuanced history than you may expect.
Generating Fractals… With SQL Queries!!!
A bit like wingsuit flying or longboard downhill runs: Impressive achievement, but not something that should be copied!
Training AI Without Writing A Reward Function, with Reward Modelling
Good explanation of an interesting approach.
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability
A really good example of Cory's current shtick.
Police Squad - No, I only shot once
So many jokes in such a short clip!
Clean Architectures in Python
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wwrv490rK4
Faster apps with JSON.parse (Chrome Dev Summit 2019)
This is good to know.
A Mile an Hour - Running a different kind of marathon
This is a fun little film.
Intro to Hardware Reversing: Finding a UART and getting a shell
This is pretty interesting. I like the idea of searching the FCC approval database...
NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS
This is an epic April Fools project!
The Pac Tom Project: Rules
Pretty interesting project to run every street of Pittsburgh.
Comicgen: Comic Creator
Create comics for your website or app with a JavaScript library. Choose a character, angle, emotion and pose. Size the image. Embed in your page.
Designing a Star Wars Pop-Up Book!
Matthew Reinhart makes amazing popup book creations. Incredible that so 4-dimensions can be folded flat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JFYMJMQZ0
Sketchviz
Nice interactive tool to create hand-drawn style graphviz diagrams.
BPS.space: Falcon Heavy Model - Flight 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff5245EBfis
BPS.space: Propulsive landing a scale model rocket
Going to be impressed when the 3 Falcon Heavy core models land!
Life after Earth ... for capitalists
Economic growth is very surprisingly limited by the speed of light! Einstein wasn't wrong (again) to have called compound interest "the most powerful force in the universe".
The FaceTime Bug and the Dangers of Implicit State Machines
Randall Munroe: Simplicity In Complexity
That stupid light in Las Vegas is the brightest spotlight in the world?!