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) 2 days 13 hours 11 minutes ago • 492 views • 10:41

Eric Bazilian was explaining 4 track recording to a friend, and in the process wrote this song. YouTube description: The story behind the song One Of Us by Joan Osborne, written by Eric Bazilian.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 month ago • 209 views • 6:37

YouTube description: Follow along as Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago works to conserve and restore this icon of Ave Maria. This piece was likely created in a workshop... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 month 1 week ago • 412 views • 11:31

YouTube description: Canned fish has been around for over a century and has been enjoyed around world. Still, no one loves their fish more than Portugal, where old traditions of fishing, canning and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 months 3 weeks ago • 439 views • 3:30

YouTube description: For the past 30 years, Paul Francis has been crafting the perfect sound, honing his skills at a company that has been in the business of making cymbals for 400 years. Making cymbals... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months 3 weeks ago • 824 views • 2:41

YouTube description: The type of sushi you’re probably most familiar with is haya-nare, a quick form of sushi made and consumed within a day using vinegared rice and raw fish. But there’s a second... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 months ago • 553 views • 2:55

YouTube description: Let's find out how they put 3D images into glass objects. Known as a 'Bubblegram', vitrography or sub-surface laser engraving, this technology has been around for a very long time... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 1 week ago • 294 views • 6:28

At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 11 months 3 weeks ago • 192 views • 7:08

From YT: Video highlighting my research on PowerPoint Turing Machines for CMU's SIGBOVIK 2017 From me: So it turns out PowerPoint is Years ago when I discovered you could export PowerPoint files... continue reading

posted by Ickster 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 53 views • 5:34

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) 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,441 views • 11:20

YouTube description: Watch a video showing the conservation of a Michelangelo drawing on loan from Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, in preparation for the exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 455 views • 6:00

This video is about using particle accelerators as part of the solar panel silicon wafer manufacturing process. The accelerators embed protons into the wafer crystals, allowing them to break and separate... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 5 months ago • 568 views • 3:42

Plywood is a simple material made by glueing together thin sheets of wood, known as veneers or plies. These basic elements have remained broadly the same throughout its history. The most significant breakthrough... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 1 year 5 months 1 week ago • 1,941 views • 6:44

Published on May 21, 2017 After four years of living off the grid we've gathered some wisdom we'd like to share with you. Please enjoy...ten MORE things we wish we'd known before we went off grid. ... continue reading

posted by Buck 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,841 views • 10:28

YT: In this video Bill explains some of the engineering principles underlying the design of a DLP (digital light processing) 3D Printer. The printer featured is an Ember printer, manufactured originally... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,037 views • 12:06

"... Getting wet isn’t REALLY what makes wool shrink; it merely exacerbates the friction between the wool fibers, which is stronger in one direction than another, so when agitated in the washer or dryer,... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago • 19 views • 2:08

Let's say you're traveling at 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h) in low earth orbit, your main engines are out of fuel, and it's your job to guide the spaceship through a fiery re-entry without burning... continue reading

posted by Ashenkase 1 year 7 months ago • 109 views • 17:49

Most of us think about erosion on the surface of the earth, but erosion can occur in the subsurface as well. In fact, scientist and engineers have a very creative name for just such a process: internal... continue reading

posted by Mekanikal 1 year 7 months 3 weeks ago • 103 views • 6:41

Watch the detailed process of how plastic drink bottles are recycled and turned into polyester for clothing.

posted by blackfox42 1 year 9 months ago • 831 views • 5:30