How To Update Your Beliefs Systematically – Bayes’ Theorem
Here’s a great video that explains Bayes’ theorem with examples and implications for life. I didn’t say it explicitly in the video, but in my view the Bayesian trap is interpreting events that happen repeatedly as events that happen inevitably. They may be inevitable OR they may simply be the outcome of a series of […]
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The Absurd Search For Dark Matter
Here’s another science video to get your week off to a brilliant start. Finding your groove on a Monday may be hard, but just know that finding dark matter is even harder.
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How Electricity Actually Works
Veritasium conducts an experiment to see how electricity actually flows.
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Will Future Computers Will Be Radically Different?
For decades, digital computers have been dominant, but will that continue to be the case in the future? It wasn’t in the past.
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Is Big Data Getting Too Big?
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Exabyte? Petabyte? Yottabyte? What does it all mean? It’s Okay To Be Smart’s Joe Hanson explains in a retro-themed show.
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The Big Misconception About Electricity
Here’s a fascinating riddle of science: do electrons carry energy around a complete conducting loop, transferring their energy to the load or is something else at play?
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How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
Imaginary numbers come up in the most unlikely places. Quite impressive given that they are “impossible.” But how did math go from reflecting and describing reality to the abstract field we tend to think of it today. Veritasium explains.
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This Robot Walks, Flies, Skateboards, and Slacklines
This is a robot that walks, flies, skateboards, slacklines, and might do much more one day.
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Why You Can’t Drive From Boston To Berlin (Yet)
How do you build an underwater tunnel and could we use one to cross between the continents? In this video, explore Boston to take a look at how engineers create these superstructures.
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Is the Universe is Hostile to Computers?
Can tiny particles from distant galaxies trigger glitches that have caused plane accidents, election interference and game glitches.
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