How To Make a Quantum Bit
Sunday, 23 November 2014
Can You Solve This?
Posted by info on 08:23
How do you investigate hypotheses? Do you seek to confirm your theory -
looking for white swans? Or do you try to find black swans? I was
startled at how hard it was for people to investigate number sets that
didn't follow their hypotheses, even when their method wasn't getting
them anywhere.
In the video I say "when people came to
Australia..." by which I meant, "when Europeans who believed all swans
were white came to Australia..." I did not mean any offence to
Indigenous Australians who were already in Australia at that time.
Please accept my apologies for the poor phrasing if you were offended by
it.
This video was inspired by The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb and filmed by my mum. Thanks mum!
Partly
my motivation came from responses to my Facebook videos - social media
marketers saying 'Facebook ads have worked for me so there can't be fake
likes.' Just because you have only seen white swans, doesn't mean there
are no black ones. And in fact marketers are only looking for white
swans. They think it was invalid of me to make the fake Virtual Cat
page: 'well of course if it's a low quality page you're going to get low
quality likes.' But my point is this is black swan bait, something they
would never make because their theory is confident in the exclusive
existence of white swans.
Anti-Gravity Wheel?
Posted by info on 08:18
Huge thanks to A/Prof Emeritus Rod Cross, Helen Georgiou for filming,
Alex Yeung, and Chris Stewart, the University of Sydney Mechanical
Engineering shop, Duncan and co. Ralph and the School of Physics.
In this video I attempt to lift a 19kg (42 lbs) wheel over my head one-handed while it's spinning at a few thousand RPM. This replicates an earlier experiment by Professor Eric Laithwaite. He claimed the wheel was 'light as a feather' and could not be explained by Newton's Laws. I wanted to find out for myself what I really felt like.
In this video I attempt to lift a 19kg (42 lbs) wheel over my head one-handed while it's spinning at a few thousand RPM. This replicates an earlier experiment by Professor Eric Laithwaite. He claimed the wheel was 'light as a feather' and could not be explained by Newton's Laws. I wanted to find out for myself what I really felt like.
Can Silence Actually Drive You Crazy?
Posted by info on 08:16
Many stories have circulated claiming the longest anyone has stayed in
an ultra-quiet anechoic chamber is 45 minutes, the reason being any
longer would drive you insane. To me this sounded like unsubstantiated
rubbish, like the claim the Great Wall is the only manmade structure
visible from space. So I put my own psyche on the line, subjecting
myself to over an hour of the most intense quiet on Earth. No, this was
not THE quietest room on Earth (-9dB) but it is one of the quietest, and
the truth is once you put a person inside, they are by far the loudest
thing in there so the sound rating of the room is irrelevant.
I was not surprised to find that I could stay in there for as long as I liked and feel perfectly fine. What was surprising is that my heartbeat was audible. You can hear it on the sound recording. Now I wasn't consciously aware of the sound of my heart while in the room, but I was more aware of the feeling of it beating.
Huge thank you to everyone at BYU: Duane Merrell, Spencer Perry, Cameron Vongsawad, Jazz Myers, Ann Clawson, and Robert Willes.
I was not surprised to find that I could stay in there for as long as I liked and feel perfectly fine. What was surprising is that my heartbeat was audible. You can hear it on the sound recording. Now I wasn't consciously aware of the sound of my heart while in the room, but I was more aware of the feeling of it beating.
Huge thank you to everyone at BYU: Duane Merrell, Spencer Perry, Cameron Vongsawad, Jazz Myers, Ann Clawson, and Robert Willes.
How High Can We Build?
Posted by info on 08:03
What's the tallest THING we've ever built? How tall will we EVER be able to build?
5 Experiments that Could have Destroyed the World
Posted by info on 08:01
We're better off with the knowledge gained from experiments like the
Large Hadron Collider and the Trinity and Starfish Prime atomic bomb
explosions, but what if they had gone wrong?
DC SHOES: KEN BLOCK'S GYMKHANA FIVE: ULTIMATE URBAN PLAYGROUND; SAN FRANCISCO
Posted by info on 07:50
DC and Ken Block present Gymkhana FIVE: Ultimate Urban Playground; San Francisco.
Shot on the actual streets of San Francisco, California, GYM5 features a focus on fast, raw and precise driving action. Filmed over four days, director Ben Conrad and his team are back to work on their second Gymkhana production and delivered the entire city of San Francisco as Ken Block's personal gymkhana playground. DC Shoes also provided fellow DC athlete and longtime Ken Block friend, Travis Pastrana, to make a cameo appearance on his dirtbike, and S.F. resident Jake Phelps of Thrasher Magazine fame also makes a cameo as Block hoons S.F. in his most incredible Gymkhana yet.
Shot on the actual streets of San Francisco, California, GYM5 features a focus on fast, raw and precise driving action. Filmed over four days, director Ben Conrad and his team are back to work on their second Gymkhana production and delivered the entire city of San Francisco as Ken Block's personal gymkhana playground. DC Shoes also provided fellow DC athlete and longtime Ken Block friend, Travis Pastrana, to make a cameo appearance on his dirtbike, and S.F. resident Jake Phelps of Thrasher Magazine fame also makes a cameo as Block hoons S.F. in his most incredible Gymkhana yet.
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Posted by info on 07:48
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MotivaciĆ³n para Corredores
Posted by info on 06:50
Una excelente carta de un deportista al "trabajo duro".
IncreĆble video con espectaculares imĆ”genes para motivar e inspirar a corredores.
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The Steepest Running Race in Europe - Red Bull 400
Posted by info on 06:47
Runners from around the world came to Harrachov, Czech Republic to put
their calves, quads, and endurance to the test in one of the steepest
races across all of Europe. From bottom to top, it's 400 meters in
distance and close to 200 meters in altitude: a pure uphill sprint to
the top of an olympic ski
Extreme Enduro POV Race Through the City
Posted by info on 06:45
Extreme Enduro POV Race Through the City
Watch the best action from Extreme XL de Lagares: http://win.gs/1sRfPIJ
Follow along from Ben Hemingway's point of view as he goes head-to-head with Andreas Lettenbichler for the city portion of Extreme XL de Lagares, the hard enduro race through the city of Portugal.
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Dirtbike Backflips over Aerobatic Plane
Posted by info on 06:43
Dirtbike Backflips over Aerobatic Plane
On a sunny, windless, fall morning, Glen Dell took off from a remote airstrip in the North West bushveld to perform a stunt with FMX rider Nick de Wit. He was to fly his Extra 300 aerobatics aircraft low enough for Nick to backflip his dirtbike over it.Under Over was the culmination of two years of detailed planning, and would ultimately become the final building block in an aviation legacy that spans 30 years and over 25,000 hours on over 250 different types of aircraft. 5 weeks after completing this project, Glen was fatally injured while performing at an air show in Secunda, South Africa. This video is in memory of Glen's unbelievable aviation legacy. RIP Glen.
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