Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. Given the way studies work, it's not surprising that people are skeptical and look at the meta. Even with the skin cream, how many studies did the company quietly suppress before the one that gave the results they wanted? If you had presented results that showed the sky was orange, would the people who express doubt it be wrong or are you just asking for an unreasonable level of abstraction?
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  2. This reminds me of an issue I considered with the RNG in Microsoft SQL server. It's (was) a fairly small number of bits and each random number is generated from the previous one. This leads to the potential scenario of a very small loop of random numbers. I meant to test it out but never found the time. The company I worked for had a routine that they designed to try and make it better but it actually didn't improve things at all (had a big argument about that).
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  3.  @acters124  I think Clive actually over-dims his bulbs. I think it would be better to tweak the values to reduce the power use but still maintain most of the brightness.
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  4. The Godel numbers put me in mind of a Turing machine. (Edit: haha. I typed that just before the Turing bit came on).
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  5. Many schemes were tried. Even wired remotes. IR won out so that's all you see these days for TVs. My fan remote is RF though.
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  6. Color has problems with B&W photocopiers and thermal printers tho. Microsoft might feel a bit vindicated though. They were trying to push their own version of qr codes with color on Windows phones when QR codes were getting popular.
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  7.  @legitablelegend  Possibly gambling that people would be to ashamed to take money from a homeless guy. Your friend may not have been but if he's playing the numbers, enough people might that he'd come out ahead.
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  8.  @veritasium  Even if you fully assured them, that doesn't mean the instinct isn't still there. It would be interesting if you tried this with the elderly who tend to be more susceptible to scams. If they are more willing to play, it could be an indication that it's that instinct at play.
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  9. Well, I think we have the sequel for Squid Game sorted.
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  10.  @fatalityin1  That was my concern. It wasn't really used for security but it was used for unique identifiers so they would obviously be not-so-unique.
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  11. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. In the astronaut example, you are actually starting with a pre-selected group where those without either qualification or interest are already excluded. This biases your experiment to make luck look more prominent.
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  12. Gotta say, I wasn't paying attention for a second and thought this was going to be Steve Mould throwing a ball-link chain out of a helicopter, possibly over Mehdi's house..
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  13. I have a degree in physics but the reason I picked B is because I just damn well pay attention. Most people have seen analogous situations dozens of times.
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  14. It gets crazy in the ways it can be applied too. You can split a message into a number of parts and have it so that the code can be recovered when you only have at least (and not less than) a certain fraction of the parts. For instance, you can have a private key, divide it into three parts and require at least two of the parts be available to recover it. And it can get more complex than that too.
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  15.  @briangoldberg4439  Honestly, it came across as someone who had an axe to grind. I don't think it will age well. People should watch it and judge for themselves though.
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  16. Although QR codes are often thought of as black or white or with some artsy embellishments, it's possible to abuse the parameters so much that I was able to hide a QR code in a picture so that it was nearly completely invisible to the human eye (you could still make out the registration marks if you knew what you were looking for - and I think I could have hidden those with a bit more work).
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  17.  @Zuignap  Actually, over time, one person is likely to be up over the other proportional to the square root of the number of coin flips (random walk theory)
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  18.  @Zuignap  True. Just pointing out that it doesn't statistically average back to zero (though it can, of course). A common misconception.
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  19. The bit about hamming distances is reminiscent (hypercube and all) of a bit I just saw in a video about reversing Conway's Game of Life. I wonder if there are correlations there.
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  20.  @The8BitPianist  OK
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  21. Great video but I took a star off for Huygen's clock not beeing one of those moving-eye cat ones.
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  22. We all see the problem with the stylus crack test, right?
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  23. Check out Big Clive's channel and the Dubai lightbulb. Current LEDs are driven hard so it shortens their lifespan.
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  24. Do you want zombies? This is how you get zombies.
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  25. Is this why bread always lands butter side down?
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  26. In facr, the boxes don't even need to be numbered as the prisoners could agree on their own natural numbering scheme. This seems like a variation on the old apparent paradox of "One of my children is a boy, what are the odds I have two boys?" giving a different answer to "My eldest child is a boy, what are the odds I have two boys?"
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  27.  @that1snare  It's quite hard to get computers to generate genuinely random numbers. Usually the best bet is to use other devices (like resistors or lava lamps). Though it depends what you're using the numbers for.
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  28. I'd be forever trying to get him to say "I'm a Derek and Dereks don't run".
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  29. But where's the Ferrero Rocher?
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  30.  @PaulZeroSolis  Feature phones could do QR codes too, no problem.
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  31.  @wellhellothere6347  Indeed you can. The Nokia 2760 Flip for example. You can also get flip smartphones now if that's your thing.
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