Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Veritasium" channel.

I'm sure a lot of people have known of this material for a good long while, but that NASA is going to use it for the tires of the rover is new information to me and is quite exciting. My first thought for durable tires that flex was giant springs with wavy plates attached to the ends that contact the ground and then wires to thread through holes connecting contiguous plates so the wouldn't get too out of sync as the tires rotate. I did an experiment and had tubes inside the springs to keep them from bottoming out and it worked fairly well, but they were beyond heavy. This looks like a better idea.
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@moodiblues2 These days, there are far too many douchebag judges and prosecutors. Far too many people are prosecuted who are innocent and far too many guilty are allowed to get away with it. It may not be all, and I'm hoping that it's not even most, but it should be none and the number is excessively high. It's quite possible that the majority of people speaking out against lawyers have a valid reason to hate them. My own experience with lawyers have been that only 1 in 10 are any good as human beings, but I'm assuming that's an outlier, despite talking with an overwhelming amount of people that have had similar experiences. The worst judges and prosecutors are in the public eye a lot, and I'm assuming that that flavors peoples perceptions, but both assumptions may be overly generous. If you really were a good one and only sent the guilty away, then you should've retired later.
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It's odd that he thinks we can't make gecko tape as complex as a gecko's structures. All one needs to consider is that we could modify genes of skin cells and coerce them to grow the gecko structures. Of course, there might be an inorganic method involving carbon nanotubes as well.
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@TheVoidSinger Indeed, which brings its own bias. As a programmer, I instantly understood and thought of it as a circular linked list stored in an array with a random sort applied. Which would be a really easy way to automate testing it with a low memory foot print. However, I wouldn't expect someone who had no technical background to understand it without effort.
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@haverjamarosi680 Exactly, to truly test intelligence they should get rid of all the knowledge based components of the tests.
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That's just testing knowledge though, not intelligence. It would be pretty difficult to comprehensively test for all forms of knowledge that exist in the world anyway, but that's not a true measure of intelligence, only memory.
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No one will see this, but I'll say it anyway. This is why statistics is one of the dumbest fields of study that exists. They're right just enough times to think that their methods are sound when in fact they're just playing at fancy guesswork.
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You'd be surprised. So many on the left are completely anti-science, believing that a human being can change their gender by chopping off their genitals and injecting hormones, or that someone's gender preferences are something they're born with, or that a baby in the womb is undeserving of life if its mother doesn't want it. Those on the left tend to be complete morons who lack all empathy and logic.
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If you want to pocket cabled headphones, you need to use a post through the whole loop. You can quickly simulate such a thing by using two twist-ties at opposite sides with one wrapped tightly around the loose plug end and the other around the less loose end. If you practice it enough you can always ensure that the ends wind up opposite each other by adjusting the size of the loop by tightening successive windings until they match 180° apart. If you have two hands you should be able to do it with ease and speed, no matter how large or small the coils as long as you can hold the coil using the dimensions of your own body, whether by the fingers or wrist to elbow or whatever.
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You are entertaining, but I wish you'd apply some critical thinking to everything you report on and especially anything regarding climatology. To phrase it the way someone more eloquent than I phrased it, I'm not a climate change denier, I'm a climate change meh'er. It's changing, but not due to human activity and it won't kill us or destroy the planet. It's certainly not changing fast enough to lead anyone with a brain to think that, but what's worse is the climate data we have is only a few hundred years old and all the rest of what we have are assumptions based on cores that can't be proven with the conclusions that climatologist have drawn. However, the "meh" theories have more credence here and they just get ignored for lack of sensationalism and money.
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@Throefly Yep, people often confuse knowledge for intelligence.
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@Throefly Memorization of facts is useless without the ability to apply them to something. While the speed with which someone attains and retains new information can be an indicator of intelligence, it's not one that any test currently accounts for and instead focuses on raw knowledge itself.
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This is a nice complement to the Thoughty2 video.
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It's kind of funny, but one of my favorite algorithms is FFT and my favorite game is FFT. Kind of a good thing that Gauss didn't publish it, though, because then it would be the GT, DGT and FGT. All of which would be ugly acronyms, and harder to say.
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I feel like modern mathematicians over-complicate things because they have no experience with the real world. I say modern because I haven't known any of the mathematicians in the past and absent time travel never will. What you're describing here is basically just arbitrary precision with a different base number system. It's super simple to understand if you describe it correctly, which you have definitely not done here. This is why I prefer using either base 2 or a power of 2 base because it makes calculations a lot simpler and very much faster with a computer. What you're "discovering" here is that numbers will look like something else if you convert the base you're using for them, whoop-de-doo. I've "discovered" that I can represent my birthday with a simple integer converted to a floating point value and viewed as a hexadecimal value, and that's worth the same as these mathematicians.
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I'm surprised by the low amount of a certain type of comment. Unless you're filtering them, I would've expected the comment section to be rife with them.
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I had to zoom out the video extra for this one. This is awful. I haven't been able to look at such things since 1990.
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@JohnDoe-bd5sz Why would we use it for car or airplane tires on Earth? That would be kind of wasteful, both monetarily and materially. The only reason it's even needed is for extraterrestrial exploration in adverse or non-existent atmospheres. Also, you can't rubberize metal.
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@JohnDoe-bd5sz I must've missed that in the video, but if so that's a really silly thing to do. Instead of paying $400 for a new set of tires we'd wind up paying $400,000. No, thank you, to that.
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If only that were the case and people cooperated. Instead, wars persist and vast quantities get wiped out and whoever is left succeeds.
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Personally, I think IQ tests are completely worthless, but not for any of the reasons stated. Rather, I think they're worthless because they don't accurately measure anyone's intelligence. A lot of the content of those tests is testing your knowledge, i.e. your memory, if you've even learned the things it's testing you on. While memory is very useful, it's not a true determinant in your intelligence. Although, even if they only tested your intelligence and not your memory, they still would have a very limited use and eventually might lead to another holocaust. So it might be better for society at large if we could get rid of such sorting methods entirely.
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I'd suggest a combination of techniques for the best approach. For the military, active illumination should always be a last resort if it's ever used at all, but the current amplification tech coupled with IR as a backup would be the best. I'd love to see more development on IR tech to speed up the processing of the image so there's less delay.
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