Trinkets of thoughts - pg 3

continued on:..
https://sanyamsjournal.blogspot.com/2020/10/trinkets-of-thoughts-pg-4.html

1.

Triplets !!

Triple star system.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200929.html

The simulation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ictZttw3c98

2.
Using APOD in the class room !!
Like the night of APOD presentation :)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apodclass.html

3. 
An they danced the eternal celestial dance of gravity, till they were became one, sending out waves into the universe.
I could be astronomer Gulzar :
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200908.html

4.

Apple flying cam 
https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/1309308240996503559?s=20

- This is just a security hazard waiting to happen

5.
Canabinoids 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ1zU3hXJNA

- ganja

- bhang

- charas

- proven to affect long term cognitive ability in teenagers.

6.

MIT XPro must be minting money:

- these are great courses

https://xpro.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:xPRO+LASERx1/

- $850

https://xpro.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:xPRO+LASERxE1/

- $1,150

https://www.greatlearning.in/design-thinking-course
- $3,500

https://xpro.mit.edu/programs/program-v1:xPRO+SysEngx/

- $3,775

Model based systems engineering
(ok this is actually 4 courses)
- Architecture of Complex Systems
- Models in Engineering
- Model Based Systems Engineering

- Quantitative Methods in Systems Engineering

7. 
I really like to watch turbines :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBAfFnggaKE


8. 
AI writing an article:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3

9.

Cool simulation:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200916.html

Sim video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G526VAj0X2c

#Bennu - 500m rotating rock sprinkling asteroid :D

10.
Puthukottai Race:

People prep for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUPc4r7wZIc

It is a busy local event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guzNUAbtrb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfbid6J8rv4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjndXBR0A4Q

11.

Why do rivers curve / meander ?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3r-cG8Wic

12.
I think the first TED talk I saw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4

How great leaders inspire action

13.
B2 Bomber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=godifMGvf6c

14.

Muzzle Brakes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5x0Jlxl9uU

- I like the memoir part

- and you realise how powerful tanks are 

15.

No more Harrier jump jet :(

and F35 killed it ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6aHyuuthns

16.
Sedna:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040316.html

http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/

17.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPCL9kj7_bU

- mast years

- how do acorns coordinate mast year

- how do they hide it from squirrels ?

- even trees are smart ?!?

- trees know population growth theory

18.

Battle of the X-planes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_WPLeDmU6o

Watched this documentary for our aircraft design course, nostalgic.

19.
What happens to a whale's body when they die:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUFKzP8ql_A

- amount of carbon tied up in a whale carcass is roughly equivalent to the amount of carbon that falls to ten square kilometres of seabed in a hundred and fifty years and this drastic change in available food means a small ecosystem forms around the whale body on the ocean floor

20.
I want to do this course:
https://xpro.mit.edu/programs/program-v1:xPRO+SysEngx/
Video promo:
I think the start could have been less dumb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPiP-gjpds&t=138s
                    

Is essentially a bunch of courses:
C1:
https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4994459/Systems%20Engineering/SysEng%20C1_Schedule.pdf

C2:

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4994459/Systems%20Engineering/SysEng%20C2_Schedule.pdf 

C3:

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4994459/Systems%20Engineering/SysEng%20C3_Schedule.pdf

C4:

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4994459/Systems%20Engineering/SysEng%20C4_Schedule.pdf
Video promo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQJIQPcP07E

I am sure all others have a video promo.. 
will find them if I get time :)

21.
Motor starter - centrifugal switch:    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-jOBxn1w1I

    

22.
This is interesting:
Education system in Finland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHFGo161Os

23.
This is a nice business during a lockdown :)
https://www.playgroundsessions.com/store/keyboard-bundles

24.

Got to check out if this true:

-- gamers solved it ?
https://9gag.com/gag/azmPV6Z

25.
A smoke screen !!
https://9gag.com/gag/aBmLmrZ

26.
Great product:
- easily lift heavy objects
- basically add wheels to anything..
https://9gag.com/gag/azmPQGN

27.
How a sewing machine works:
https://9gag.com/gag/aD4nOrd
So cool.

Parachute release system:
https://9gag.com/gag/aD42P0Z/
the comment: Parachutes is 100% safe According to safely landed sky divers.

28.
Amazing game !! Build your own space program:
https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/tutorials/

29.

The Sony Walkman story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F24v79XXQ5w

30.
This is so cool and well presented:
https://geekymedics.com/suture-material/

31.
Miton smart tiffin:
Warms food for meal time :)
https://twitter.com/MiltonHomewares/status/1291084292290777089?s=08

32.
The pale blue dot and the family portrait of earth's siblings: 
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7593

33.
Jupiter has shallow lightening that hides the ammonia by sinking them in mushballs 
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2020-153
mushballs:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/juno/20200805/PIA24042-640.jpg
pop-up clouds
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA24041
- I used to believe that it had volcanoes thanks to Chacha Chowdhari :D

34.
Code a Mars Helicoptor Video Game:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/code-a-mars-helicopter-video-game/

35.
Interesting how the reward circuit of the brain get rewired / is more malleable at two age checkpoints:
- toddler

- teenager
Oh ! by the way.. the talk is about how porn affects human development.
Title: How the Evolution of Porn Changed Adolescence | Megan Maas | TEDxMSU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojw_yMMNPAs


36.
Seed diversity and modernisation:
Apna aalo bazaar bhecha, I am not sure of the quote part, it is in a local dialect
"birhana aloo thubda theja"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svv1Hi-iUSE 

37.
A village where everyone communicates by whistle calls:
https://9gag.com/gag/ayeNDvM

38.
The Red Bull Story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBRNQMolTPw

39.
Voice activated or more like incorrectly activated:
https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/07/14/are-alexa-siri-and-cortana-recording-your-private-conversations/

40.
For all mota-bhai fans:
https://hind.substack.com/p/reliance-origins/
https://hind.substack.com/p/from-oil-to-jio

41.
I like their rigs, they call them wave tanks:
The channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4eMC5ORafQ_5ukT_80KreQ/videos

River flow simulation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ZLyzByj98

Wave simulation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yNoy4H2Z-o

42.
Internet from LEO satellites.. hmmn.. nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAThn0kaixc

43.
What if these were launched as a product ?
https://9gag.com/gag/apG5j9b

Mechanical lock USB:
https://9gag.com/gag/a5WRxYO


44.
Aise bhi APIs hote hain:
https://www.edamam.com/

45.
This got me thinking about game development:
https://www.udemy.com/course/unitycourse2

46.
ML as a service should look like this:


Google's noise cancellation feature for meet:
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-meet-noise-cancellation-feature/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q61B8zdSV0

47.
Power from water collected on the roof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6oNxckjEiE
It is a complete series:
- may be will watch all the videos

48.
Build your own iPhone in China
The ecosystem is just crazy and amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA

49.5
Helmholtz Resonance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz_resonance

Dyson fans using it to dampen noise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2IuzIEJmfM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoEyIJx3uM0

to rotate a pair of bottles:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GJNozc4IfWU

49.
Coanda effect + Helmholtz cavity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUJ-X1rsKV4

conada effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF92B6Gon3M

50.
Repairable glass:
https://9gag.com/gag/aEPxyGx

My life would so much better.. if my phone gets repaired.

51.
Desk pet:
https://9gag.com/gag/a6Ko498

52.
This what it means to really try and not give up:
https://9gag.com/gag/abGMQWr

53.
How strongly do you believe that babies can swim without being taught:
https://9gag.com/gag/aD4x499

54.
Nice product:
https://9gag.com/gag/awBXPQ1

And from the comments I learned that good vodka can be sipped like Scotch ?!

55.
Shoemen:
Theoritical Shoes (Pure Shoes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSw3Wqoim5M

Real Shoes:
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm


56.
Game theory for explanation for TRUST and how it evolves:
Play here:
https://ncase.me/trust/

Code:
https://github.com/ncase/trust/#play-it-here-httpncasemetrust

57.
Ultra Intense Lazers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcGgaa2mFc4

Good for lay audiences as well

58.
Nice product:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reekon/m1-caliber-a-better-way-to-measure

- only drawback I guess is un-even / textured surfaces may screw up readings

59.
The buran story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwLx4L5NRU0

I will try to add more about the Buran. It was amazing by design.

60.
Non-compete
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-asks-court-block-former-aws-marketing-vp-working-google-cloud-next-speeches/amp/

also interesting is that it is an amp.

61.
General life-cycle of a fruit:
Blackberry in this case:
https://9gag.com/gag/a7WDMKb

62.
Launch abort systems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MaeHNU2660

63.
The Falcon heavy launch in video and audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImoQqNyRL8Y

64.
Stainless steel spaceship ?!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LogE40_wR9k

- why use stainless steel if carbon composites are available ?
- it bleeds fuel through micro pores
- it is two layered

65.
Shape memory alloy in action:
https://9gag.com/gag/aYyKXgx

66.
Music theory:
Coltrane Changes plotted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tIvfP9A2w

67.
SpaceX booster landing feed cut-off just before landing ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH75bVG7HBo

- good example of design trade-offs in systems engineering.

68.
Formula for a hit pop song ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj6CDicY3NM
- the James bond theme was originally a Sitar piece ?!
- Britany Spears - Toxic was from Eak Duje Ke Liye !!

69.
Movile Cave - Romania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile_Cave
https://www.britannica.com/video/179488/Movile-Cave-ecosystem-Romania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrzExz9ZqSI

Life just finds a way !!


70.
Imaging satellites without electronic communication
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hv2dsVkA38

Ekranoplans are cool !
But satellites ejecting films to be processed on ground !! wow !


71.
Computer facial recognition for interviewing.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RkpTQwx9ajs

Nice product.

72.
Aerofly RC 7 - MiG-29 OVT VECTORED THRUST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSySd3jpv-g

Almost thought it was real.

73.
See through Internal Combustion engine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xflY5uS-nnw

- two stroke engine
- four stroke engine

74.
Accuracy vs Precision - very good visualisation and explanation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRAFPdDppzs

and bit about landing site estimation was awesome.



75.
They stole my idea:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nexfan-ultra-portable-ac-with-powerful-cooling#/

Portable cooler with fan + atomizer

76.
Kinetic Sand Sculptor
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sandsara#/

The Kinetic Sculpture That Draws Infinite Patterns On Sand
interesting product

77.
Lyre Bird - master mimicker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y
https://youtu.be/WA0tP-p7m40

They are just too good !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0ZffIh0-NA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrby8i2nK7o

Other birds picking up sounds from their environment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4ju5Zzv1_0

Ok. Starlings can speak too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XXYcr0S4Ts


78.
This is what I want my basement to look like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGY5BvmgkXA

Not this big tough :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epBIUEZ6Jkg

I love steam engines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU53zRWeUHM
One from Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9s0-HzOsYo

Another one from Germany:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mNhxi_D5kE



79.
The WoW signal :)
http://www.bigear.org/shostak_wow_20021205.htm

80.
Interesting to see conservation efforts in India.
and Ghariyals care for their young !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-AKVEheu4g

81.
Where do Viruses come from ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X31g5TB-MRo

Virus left overs in organism DNA.
The vine theory kind of aligns with my belief that viruses are simple DNA / RNA gone awry.
May be due to natural mutation or influenced mutation (organism environment and/or habit)

82.
SR-71 Blackbird
Is just a crazy airplane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hYSnyVLmGE

83.
SSD internal structure visualised:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mh3o886qpg

It is an awesome visualisation.

84.
An actual fog-horn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHCmzvzCmhI

Fascinates me because the loud (banned) bike horns that "macho" boys like are based on this.
Often referred to as "suar" (pig) horn in the local parlance of Jabalpur, M.P.

85.
22nd May 2020 - a loud bang was heard

Sukhoi-30MKI - Indian Airforce, Night operations
Full afterburner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k90aCHpu5w

Cobra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxCdS217FpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcLavSl58yQ




84.
Sun Sneeze Gene

My dad has the gene, my brother has it and I don't have it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e69XZJ9DEj0

Photic-Sneeze-Reflex
Autosomal Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst (ACHOO) syndrome

We used to call it "shinker" (a modification of the Marathi word for sneeze by us kids)

85.
Waste to gas, diesel, methanol, ethanol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm0jslIE1kk

Waste sorting robots (computer vision + robotics):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mxaN_xqQh4

Renewable + storage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoTVtB-cSps

I am very interested in this tech.


86.
How to land the space shuttle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb4prVsXkZU

The talk is very nicely done. The number comparisons make it interesting for a layperson.
Reminds me of the work I did to animate the TAEM guidance problem and solution.

87.
From 12V systems to 48V systems in automobiles:
The theoretical impact:
https://www.mouser.it/blog/blog/48v-electrical-systems-shift-into-high-gear

88.
What can a half baked release do to customers:
https://in.c.mi.com/thread-2045432-2-0.html


MI UI 10 messed up ringtone selector

 please uninstall the theme app to original app, like Don't update the theme app. Then change the from settings-notificstion- message app- messages- sound- incoming messages

89.
Self organizing cable:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1813437441/supercalla-charging-cables-redesigned

- I am wondering what the effect of dc current passing through the cable will be on the magnets.

Hmmn.. it seems small fields would not have an effect
https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=42727&t=demagnetizing-neodymium-magnets
https://www.kjmagnetics.com/blog.asp?p=temperature-and-neodymium-magnets

90.
How a glock works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2RDitgCaD0

I love guns.


91.
Singlet oxygen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jb6bA55c-0

Free radicals !!


92.
Metamorphosis is crazy !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFJOkaI80g


93.
Magnificent piece of engineering:
https://www.garmin.co.in/products/wearables/descent-mk1-sea/

94.
https://youtu.be/gdlEPF_6Pd8

The lower ranked members, especially males of meerkat family show more ingenuity and adaptability when looking for food.

The complexity of the tasks may be debatable and learning can be concluded if the when second, third time the meerkat is presented with the same problem, they take the correct approach at once.

Also, the comments on this video:

- "Same as humans. The prominent ones often steal, the low-ranking humans have to innovate and work harder to get their livelihood." - "Just like humans
In the end the male geeks are the survivors"

95.
Indian SME ingenuity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N5sRtHpqKQ
- UV light based disinfectant for things that come from outside during an epidemic like the COVID-19 from the novel corona virus.

96.
Fuel from plants:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080918170827.htm
- I believe this to be THE pathway of the future
- complete the carbon cycle (with respect to fuel emissions)

97.
Electric planes: practical challenges:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41-4BVprL50
- energy density:
- Batteries: 250 Wh/kg
- 800 Wh/kg feasible for flight
- ATF: ~12,000 Wh/kg
- the emission figures for airliners are quiet staggering:
- < 500 miles travel ~ 48-49% of all traffic
- 110 pounds CO2 for 109 miles
-

98.
Chevrolet Suspension (1938)
- testing in those days with no digital data recorders, MEMS sensors !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej7CRAIGXow

99.
What Is the Difference Between a Raven and a Crow

- I have always wondered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9-wTnqIidY

100.
Partnerships types in the animal kingdom:
- resource <--> service
- service <--> service
some that are a mixture of both.

Slightly extra dramatic by Animal Logic standards, but interesting none the less:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjXKnVjs5R4