Matt Varian
Links
- https://www.cartalk.com/content/staff-credits Starting this one off with a humors read, some of you may remember Car Talk but it was an NPR show hosted by a couple of MIT grads with thick boston accents who did nothing but solve callers car troubles, it was hilarious and at the end they would read a list of pun credits, this link is a long list of ever credit name they used in the 3.5 decades of their show.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGliD4KjxAo This is an awesome project that uses legos to replicate the 1936 turning machine which can be seen as the grandfather of a the modern day CPU.
- https://theshamblog.com/can-spacex-land-a-rocket-with-1-2-cm-accuracy/ This is a cool writeup of the catching of the starship booster that happened a few weeks ago, it was a serious feat of engineering being able to land something so large with such a level of accuracy.
- https://youtu.be/6Js8erWbsDQ?si=tsh_0_-59sXsHUzw This is a neat project log of Chris Borge who made a lath using 3d printed parts filled with concrete, while the lathe itself is not too different from most lathes it’s size the use of concreate is a cool way to bring rigidity to a normally not so ridged material(plastic 3d prints)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YHqVbvfMYI This is a really cool video talking about a different way to sync time on computers, most computers use NTP to sync time which is good to within milliseconds, this video talks about PTP which i’d not heard of before but it can sync computes to within nanoseconds. In the video there’s a description of the difference in that gap which is a bit mind blowing. 1 Million seconds is ~12days, 1 Billion seconds is ~32Years, and so it’s a gap of that order of magnitude between the ways to sync computers.
- https://youtu.be/z2EUPDSabY0?si=bKNObzcN01jblDVt This is a super interesting/complex map, in his video he talks about the date of the map and uses This cool XKCD comic to go about figuring out when the map was created.
Book of the month
- 10 Bullets by Tom Sachs. Tom Sachs is an artist out of NYC who wrote this book for the employees of his studio, it is a small booklet of the 10 rules for the studio and has some great guidelines that can be applied to other areas in life. If you’d like to read it feel free to grab it from my bookshelf, or there’s also a video that explains it all here.
Cool historical fact