Author Topic: Fun for nerds (Read 131211 times)

tpowell1830 · « **Reply #25 on:** April 06, 2019, 06:32:25 pm »

A bit of a mix of electrical, electronic, mechanical, 3d printing, machining and kinematics. This is the latest of a long series, episode #15. James does all sorts of projects, but this project is the most sciencey one IMO.

RoGeorge · « **Reply #26 on:** April 08, 2019, 10:39:19 pm »

Qute Fourier visualization (interactive): http://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/index.html

RoGeorge · « **Reply #27 on:** April 09, 2019, 10:59:17 pm »

"Aluminium has a relatively low melting point (660°C) but its boiling point (2470°C) is very high. The parabolic shape (funicular curvedes) which the wire takes on when it is heated ensures that the oxide shell does not break. When reducing the current, the wire always breaks."

RoGeorge · « **Reply #28 on:** April 14, 2019, 11:01:17 am »

Watch it to the end, full screen (35 seconds)

Woobl !

RoGeorge · « **Reply #29 on:** April 14, 2019, 06:34:57 pm »

This rainbow is on fire!

RoGeorge · « **Reply #30 on:** April 15, 2019, 11:23:15 am »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #31 on:** April 27, 2019, 02:27:58 am »

Solving EQUATIONS by shooting TURTLES with LASERS

RoGeorge · « **Reply #32 on:** April 30, 2019, 07:35:05 am »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #33 on:** May 01, 2019, 06:47:01 am »

A hardware guy writing software:

A software guy doing hardware:

If it didn't work, use SPICE:

RoGeorge · « **Reply #34 on:** May 02, 2019, 02:57:46 pm »

Yet another Marangoni effect

edy · « **Reply #35 on:** May 03, 2019, 07:09:23 pm »

Quote from: RoGeorge on April 27, 2019, 02:27:58 am

Solving EQUATIONS by shooting TURTLES with LASERS

Thanks for sharing that video, this Mathologer guy is now one of my favourite channels to watch! Pretty cool stuff and he's funny for a mathematician! I just watched one where he talked about squaring triangles and how to prove certain square roots are irrational! Mind blown!

apis · « **Reply #36 on:** May 04, 2019, 05:59:26 pm »

Mathologer is my favourite maths channel, no competition.
https://youtu.be/qS4H6PEcCCA

T3sl4co1l · « **Reply #37 on:** May 04, 2019, 10:30:37 pm »

I'd have to place 3blue1brown higher, but it's hardly a competition, they're both well worth watching.

apis · « **Reply #38 on:** May 05, 2019, 01:04:09 pm »

Yeah, 3blue1brown is also quite good, very nice animations... ... if Mathologer is Batman then 3b1b is Robin.

RoGeorge · « **Reply #39 on:** May 07, 2019, 04:39:57 pm »

SurfaceSight: A New Spin on Touch, User, and Object Sensing for IoT Experiences

RoGeorge · « **Reply #40 on:** May 11, 2019, 12:04:47 pm »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #41 on:** May 12, 2019, 07:06:09 pm »

Thank ebastler for this one:

apis · « **Reply #42 on:** May 15, 2019, 06:08:51 pm »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #43 on:** May 19, 2019, 06:15:01 pm »

Q: What's the most comfortable umbrella during rain?
A: A chain armor, of course!

RoGeorge · « **Reply #44 on:** May 21, 2019, 07:24:07 pm »

You are never alone!

RoGeorge · « **Reply #45 on:** May 25, 2019, 07:53:54 am »

soldar · « **Reply #46 on:** May 25, 2019, 03:44:48 pm »

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges writers to write a really bad opening sentence for a novel.

2005 winner:

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As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual. — Dan McKay

2007 winner:

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Gerald began – but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them “permanently” meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash – to pee. — Jim Gleeson, Madison, WI

RoGeorge · « **Reply #47 on:** June 05, 2019, 02:54:05 am »

Quote from: Psi on June 03, 2019, 05:20:53 am

Fun website where guy trained an AI to understand the relationship between 2000 images of cats and their line art equivalents.
You can draw a cat diagram and have the AI turn it into a real cat photo, or at-least try too

https://affinelayer.com/pixsrv/

Note: On some computers the website doesn't work. I think it uses some CPU extensions not found in older processors, or maybe it uses CUDA for all the AI processing.

Go ahead and try to sketch you own cat. Be creative, even unconventional.
See?

RoGeorge · « **Reply #48 on:** June 12, 2019, 04:33:55 pm »

RoGeorge · « **Reply #49 on:** June 13, 2019, 06:21:03 pm »


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