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

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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

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YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months ago • 422 views • 4:19

YouTube description: What would it be like if our eyes could see more colors? We may never be able to answer that, but we can build devices that can do the work for us. Over the last three weeks we've... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 2 weeks ago • 407 views • 9:29

Clear uptrend

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YouTube description: In which John gets curious about the last time global human population declined and ends up learning about a period of human history called The General Crisis. Thanks to Our World... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 4 months ago • 669 views • 3:59

One ringy dingy [E!] YouTube: Feel like your phone is spying on you? Find out if it's real!

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The network effect is Facebook’s biggest selling point, and the root of many of its problems. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO What happened with Cambridge Analytica highlights this perfectly. ... continue reading

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"... Ever since Macauley Culkin smashed his hands against his face and screamed, audiences have loved the film HOME ALONE. It has become a Christmas classic; played along side other holiday pictures that... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 11 months 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 14:01

YouTube description: This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallacy where seemingly contradictory results are implied by a single set of data depending on how it's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 1 week ago • 1,961 views • 4:40

YouTube: The merging of two neutron stars was detected by gravitational waves and then by telescopes in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is a historic detection as it demonstrates: - the... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 2 years 1 month ago • 1,218 views • 5:26

Last year LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. The science world went a little crazy. Only a few weeks ago a new rumour emerged: that LIGO had, for the... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 2 months ago • 147 views • 15:51

"School may have taught you a wide array of lessons, whether it's things that are actually useful or algebra; but SOME are just straight up not true..."

posted by ant 2 years 2 months ago • 62 views • 4:54

YouTube description: View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-spot-a-misleading-graph-lea-gaslowitz When they’re used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,780 views • 4:10

This video explains the, history, data and Biology behind what really matters to weight gain & The vicious cycle created by a bad diet

posted by Spacey 2 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 17 views • 11:58

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) 2 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 691 views • 1:37

YouTube: Facts and data alone won’t inspire people to take action in the fight against global warming. So what will?

posted by PlayhousePals 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 688 views • 8:15

"Star Wars in Numbers is a fun video pointing out some interesting facts."

posted by ant 2 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 20 views • 2:18

The internet allows us to see videos, photos, and news from anywhere in the world almost instantaneously. But how?! In this video we learn about the hundreds of underwater fiber optic cables that connect... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 11 months ago • 641 views • 7:37