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TED: Greta Thunberg - The disarming case to act right now on climate change
Ouch. She has one hell of a point.
TED: Douglas Rushkoff - How to be "Team Human" in the digital future
Join Team Human.
3Blue1Brown: Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work?
This is a very good intro/refresher on how cryptocurrencies/block chains work.
Resin-in-resin: how to make a literal "embedded" device
A Raspberry Pi with a display completely encased in a block of clear epoxy, but still able to be updated and used.
toothpick-like sequence exploration
These are some pretty neat patterns.
via Numberphile
Rusty Deadlocked Vise - Perfect Restoration
More hypnotic slow-tv... not just slow, competent well equipped tv.
The Future of Education - Yuval Noah Harari & Russell Brand - Penguin Talks
These two complement each other well, an interesting session.
Continuous paths across minor junctions
This is a very neat urban design technique.
TED: Alex Honnold - How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff -- without ropes
It's hard not to get sweaty hands every time Alex Honnold is on video...
UpTown Spot
Also has surprisingly good comments for a youtube video...
openDog Dog Robot #9 - Kinematic Model XYZ
It's rather ironic that our brains do inverse kinematics so easily, and kinematics is hard, but it's the reverse when programming a robot...
Fixing an IBM 1401 mainframe from the 1960s
Some pretty hard-core debugging, and certainly plenty of "layers in the call stack" to get your head around, even back then before bloated dependencies.
Writing Fast and Efficient MicroPython by the Creator of MicroPython
Some inside tips on MicroPython optimization.
TED: DK Osseo-Asare - What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation
Very ingenious.
The Curiosity Show: The Magical, Mystical, Mind-boggling Ames Window
This is a fascinating optical illusion, and The Curiosity Show was great!
PyCon 2018: Larry Hastings - Solve Your Problem With Sloppy Python
Stop writing crappy shell scripts—write crappy Python scripts instead! Good stuff :)
What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?
Wow, that's a mouthful!
How Some Words Get Forgetted
This is brilliant. Explains so much.
1986 Cleveland, Ohio Balloon Launch
1.5 million helium balloons - and quite a few unintended (but in hindsight kind of obvious) consequences...
via The Memory Palace ep 129: Uplift
http://www.viralforest.com/never-release-1-million-balloons/
rockstar - The Rockstar programming language specification
FizzBuzz in idiomatic Rockstar is truly crazy!
TED: James Bridle - The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube
This is bizarre stuff (and I see you there Jacinta!) and the implications are pretty concerning...
Solving Pokemon Blue With a Single, Huge Regular Expression
Quite an amusing presentation on a neat hack (and a lucky escape from a large AWS bill...)
Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful — njs blog
I like this - seems like he's hit the nail on the head.
via Talk Python #167
TED: Enric Sala - Let's turn the high seas into the world's largest nature reserve
Yes. Yes, we should.