Mindboggingly complex song from Sesame Street analyzed. Fun if you're interested in rhythms and chords! :)

posted by Zawash 1 year 5 months ago • 380 views • 16:42

The multiverse hypothesis or theory holds that a group of multiple universes (possibly infinite universes) comprise everything that exists: The entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and... continue reading

posted by BSR 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 143 views • 10:03

YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 70 views • 2:46

Using foundational computer science theories, Colin Morris focuses on understanding trends in popular music. Borrowing from the areas of bioinformatics and compression algorithms, he shows that the lyrics... continue reading

posted by notarobot 6 years ago • 140 views • 14:23

YouTube description: Technical details about what we're doing: We're working on a time-series problem called a Sequence Classification. Recurrent Neural Networks called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 weeks ago • 566 views • 10:41

Dialect coach Erik Singer once again analyzes the accents of some of Hollywood's biggest names. How accurate were their accents, really? I find this stuff fascinating.

posted by ChaosEngine 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 145 views • 24:22

YouTube description: Epicurious challenged cheese expert and noted author Liz Thorpe to guess which one of two cheeses was more expensive. Liz breaks down cheap vs expensive parmesan cheese, goat cheese,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,451 views • 11:20

"... Deconstructed". "Deep sea creatures look so..... odd? But why? ..."

posted by ant 7 years 6 months ago • 26 views • 6:37

Dialect coach Erik Singer takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. To best break down this concept, Erik analyzes some actors playing real people. Just how close... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 429 views • 29:11

YouTube description: The average American consumes more than 3,600 calories daily – a 24% increase from 1961, when the average was just 2,880 calories. Americans haven't increased their consumption... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 697 views • 1:37

Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes some of the most famous "constructed languages" in movie and television history. Which real-life languages inspired "conlangs" like Klingon and Dothraki? Check out... continue reading

posted by Mekanikal 7 years 11 months ago • 306 views • 20:33

YouTube description: Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes the accents of some of Hollywood's biggest names. How accurate were they really? Check out more from Erik here: http://www.eriksinger.com/ ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 805 views • 16:41

YouTube description: Bill reveals the stunning engineering underlying the design of a diaper. He describes the five layers of a diaper, including the superabsorbent polymer in the diaper's core. He... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 9 months ago • 337 views • 6:34

A good friend of mine, who works for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research analyzing fecal matter, was telling me about this the other day. TMI?

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 11 months 2 weeks ago • 340 views • 3:15

A bug in Google Chrome allows malicious websites to turn users’ computers into clandestine listening devices, a programmer discovered. Tal Atler, a web developer in Israel, discovered that once you... continue reading

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