Comments by "" (@DanielSMatthews) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. One of the most impressive pieces of astronomy work I have ever seen, to actually come up with a testable hypothesis and have it confirmed is science of the highest quality.
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  2. The claim about conditions determining the symmetry of the complex crystals is just a hypothesis that needs to be proven by deliberately creating a microclimate that allows an asymmetrical snowflake to be reliably formed with the level of control that a symmetrical one can. Until that is done the alternative hypothesis that there is an electron resonance distributed across the entire crystal is just as valid, in fact both may be operating at the same time in which case good luck designing an experiment to separate the influence of each. To be clear when I say asymetrical I do not mean with one side less developed I mean developed with different a branching sequence. Imagine it as if you took two flakes and cut them in half and joined the different parts.🤓❄
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  3. Google "Golly the program" and enjoy...
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  4. Yep, he destroyed his credibility with this one video. Having the equivalent of a small tactical nuke hanging over an adversary's capital is a very effective deterrent because you can't move real estate assets worth 100s of billions of dollars out of its way so you had better not get into a fight with its owner. The time it takes to hit the target hardly matters either, again for the above reasons.
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  5. Video opens with a reference to what Hawking thought was the greatest risk, then ends with a video about the opinion of Dom. At the risk of putting forward an appeal to authority fallacy, why should we care what Dom thinks if he doesn't agree with Hawking?
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  6. Optical computing is even better, specifically the diffractive deep neural network (D2NN). See "All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks" 1804.08711
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  7. Thanks for producing such an elegant and approachable explanation of this topic, it will be a resource that I point people toward a lot, because most people's intuition is that everything is knowable and this leads many to always accept without question the claims made by experts when they tell them that some systems behaviour is predictable and what those predictions are.
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  8. 99% of humanity's problems are caused by the 1% of humanity who are not 100% humane, the psychopaths, particularly those in positions of power or with great influence due to their wealth.
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  9. The moral dilemmas are not the problem so much as the fact that if you hard code solutions into car software people can then exploit those scenarios reliably to murder people. e.g. If I want to kill the driver of car [A] I just have to wait at a point I know they routinely pass and then roll an empty pram into the path of oncoming car [B] such that it swerves into the path of car [A] rather than kill a baby that does not have the protection of a car around it. Do it on a bridge or near a steep drop-off and the destruction is potentially even greater. It is the predictability of the autonomous cars that will be the problem, a very practical exploit and not a question of philosophy etc.
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  10.  @shinji906  Yep, but how much of "science" is really science then? See now why I am impressed?
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  11.  @thearchetype9829  I'd rather see a video about this idea and what possibilities it opens up, https://dsmatthews.blogspot.com/2020/04/covid-19-solution-changing-rules-of.html
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  12. This is why you can't always predict the weather, or the climate, and why people that insist otherwise but have the training to know otherwise should be treated as liars until proven otherwise. See the mention of fluid dynamics in the video for a hint. This isn't the only aspect of mathematics that proves that we can't predict the future either. Look up the "three body problem" and chaos, then imagine the complexity and beauty in a natural system that has both phenomena interacting.
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