Category Archives: Computer

“Come to think of it, they’d make a really good superhero team.”

Veritasium: The Real Reason Robots Shouldn’t Look Like Humans | Compilation. (YouTube, 1 hour 27 minutes)

Includes the following videos that were released separately:

  • This Unstoppable Robot Could Save Your Life
  • World’s Highest Jumping Robot
  • The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition on Earth
  • Why Machines That Bend Are Better
  • Why Robots That Bend Are Better

The Ships that Repair Undersea Cables

The Verge: The Cloud under the Sea by Josh Dzieza.

“The internet is carried around the world by hundreds of thousands of miles of slender cables that sit at the bottom of the ocean. These fragile wires are constantly breaking – a precarious system on which everything from banks to governments to TikTok depends. But thanks to a secretive global network of ships on standby, every broken cable is quickly fixed. This is the story of the people who repair the world’s most important infrastructure.”

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“Das Ziel sind fließende Übergänge zwischen etablierten analogen Materialien und Methoden sowie den neuen digitalen Ansätzen im Unterricht.”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Interview mit Patrick Bronner: ChatGPT wird die Lernkultur grundlegend verändern. “In den MINT-Fächern kann ChatGPT den Lehrer nicht ersetzen, aber Schüler neu motivieren, sagt der Pädagoge Patrick Bronner. Auf den richtigen Methodenmix komme es an.” Von Uwe Ebbinghaus.

Patrick Bronner ist Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik und in der Lehrerausbildung tätig. Er betreibt eine Website mit Informationen zu einem zukunftsfähigen Medienkonzept sowie zu Unterricht in Tabletklassen und wurde 2016 mit dem Deutschen Lehrerpreis ausgezeichnet.

What does Gauß have to do with the nuclear arms race?

Veritasium: How An Algorithm Could Have Stopped The Nuclear Arms Race. (YouTube, 26:32min)

“The Fast Fourier Transform is used everywhere but it has a fascinating origin story that could have ended the nuclear arms race. […]
Thanks to Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown for his helpful feedback on the script. His great video on the Fourier Transform is here”

3Blue1Brown: But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction. (YouTube, 21min)

It blew my mind that Carl Friedrich Gauß found the discrete Fourier transform – 150 years earlier that Fourier.