Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "SmarterEveryDay" channel.

  1. Fascinating and a little initially depressing to see all these sights swarming with people where they were not so much 100 years ago. I wonder if that is down to population growth of the shrinking globe brought about by cheaper air travel. Then I see your bit about actually experiencing these places in the flesh, and I realise that yes, they may not look as pristine, and spacious, but they were built to be enjoyed in person, not simply seen in photographs, and I realise that even though they are disfigured by the swarms of people, the democratisation of international tourism has enabled these places to be enjoyed as they were designed to be enjoyed.
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  2. ROFL - good one!
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  3. Forgive me contradicting you, but please DON'T buy Ender's Game. Scott Card is a horrible racist, homophobic bigot, and doesn't need any more of your money. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/orson-scott-card-racist-obama_n_3762891.html
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  4. Moral of the story, "We need to improve our light-speed space ship shielding."
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  5. I remember the cost of film and developing massively hindering the photos I could take.
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  6.  @Neil-Aspinall  100% agree.
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  7. Not true. Some versions of Premiere do not use all cores, all consumer versions of windows have a cap on the number of cores that they will access on a single licence and games don't always use all cores. Moreover, more cores can result in data bottlenecks elsewhere so it can be a bit more nuanced than simply buying 10,000 cores! :-) That said, at the business end of things, the Xeons are simply about adding cores, but the higher core systems tend to have very specific applications, such as running simulations. Sometimes it's better to go with a higher clock rate or a better graphics card.
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  8. You get a like just for the way you build your son up around other men. What a fantastic role model.
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  9. Great high speed filming.
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  10. Repetition equals greater neuron connections and lower difficulty. Also the left right and up down transposition of the brain's spatial system is notoriously easy to fool. far easier test - simply change your game mouse setting so that up equals down and vice versa (an option in most games). This doesn't surprise me at all, but I would have found it far more valuable if you had explained precisely what was happening neurologically.
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  11. Wow, what a lot of physics for what is almost certainly the most tedious sport on the planet.
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  12. The man is amazing, but the one thing you failed to mention, was that the two ends of the arrow were barely deflecting at all, and most of the oscillation occured at its mid point. As designs go, a bow is sub optimal for super precision shooting/
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  13. It's obvious that shaking the trees from different angles would be pointless because tree branches are radial not directional.
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  14. I couldn't agree more. He seems like such a genuinely decent person. Wish either of my fathers had been.
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  15. I have to say, your kids are lucky to have a father with such a sense of wonder about the universe. Hopefully they'll grow up to appreciate more than just the latest XBox game.
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  16. Bob needs to work on his abs
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  17. $2500 each for those glass things!
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  18. Wonders why all animals in the area now have glass stuck in their paws...
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  19. No it's not, it's both obvious and common.
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  20. I was impressed by how well you recreated the scenes Mathieu. I particularly appreciated the ones where you even tried to get a moving car in the shot at the same place!
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  21. Amazing the opportunities that 12 million subs opens up for you. That and being a nice guy.
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  22. So if you break a golf ball before firing it at a solid object at 500 miles an hour it breaks more, and if you fire a golf ball 25 years out of date so that it's decayed inside, it also breaks. Gotcha.
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  23. "Computer manufacturers don't commonly ask people what they want to use their computers for." Better be careful not to tell Dell that with their servers or Alienware with their games powerhouses, Armari, Scan and a dozen others who make 3D workstations, or Apple with their consumrer friendly video and photo editing systems. Seriously, what complete nonsense. And the MAJOR flaw in this guy's approach (which I might add has been done by Tom's Hardware for decades) is that building a machine for a specific app is only good until the next software version - then maybe all those cores you DIDN'T buy, or that powerful graphics card you ignored ends up being supported and you're behind the curve again. You could have learned exactly what would be good for you with an hour of internet research. This felt like one big advert with you playing dumb. Meanwhile, your kid is left wishing his dad would spend more time at home and less time going cross state to buy what he could have bought online.
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  24. That farmer was one of the most pleasant, happy people I've seen in a long time. That nut cracking machine was truly a remarkable piec of engineering, but it blows my mind to go to all that effort and machinery and time cost for $20 a bag. That market has clearly been ruined by industrial operations.
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  25. We're living in the last days when privacy will not be made illegal.
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  26. Wouldn't surprise me if the pecan shells were not opening properly due to climate change. An increase in humidity could make them more elastic and less willing to open.
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