I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history.
I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.
A real 100% fully functional 11x11 barrel that also happens to be the largest barrel in the world! Bringing this out a little early to avoid it coming out on April fools day. I bet some people would think it was a hoax like Tony Fishers 9x9
My simple method for solving the 1x1x1 that I've developed and refined over the years. I hope this method makes solving this puzzle somewhat easier for you guys :)
Assembling the World's Smallest (old) 8mm Rubik's Cube<br />
This puzzle was 3D printed at Shapeways. The CAD work was done by Evgeniy Grigoriev. It was previously the smallest Rubik's Cube in the world though it was broken by Callum's 6mm cube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pnm8LO7JWs ) and more recently Evgeniy's 5.7mm cube. We have experimented with 5, 4 and 3mm cubes but so far the technology available to us isn't good enough.
In this video I show a bunch of patterns on the 17x17x17 Over the Top World Record Cube.
Spiral pattern was found by David Gilday of https://youtube.com/iassemble
This 17x17x17 is on loan to me from Aaron MacDonald: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLw...
Oskar's Video on the 17x17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihWyz...
Number of discernible positions in a 17x17: 6.69 * 10^1054
In US you would call this: 66.9 quinquagintatrecentillion.
In EU you would call this: 66.9 quinquaseptuagintacentilliard
Here's a link calculating the number of positions of a 17x17: http://bit.ly/17x17Positions
Music: Magic Marker by Silent Partner from the YouTube Audio Library
17x17x17 Over the Top World Record Cube Time-Lapse Solve!!
Music: Sunflower
By: Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
From: YouTube Creator Audio Library
17x17 from Aaron MacDonald: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLwqVm3FKV03Wyags4YJ6Q/videos
Oskar's Video on the 17x17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihWyzvOM9pk
Number of discernible positions in a 17x17: 6.69 * 10^1054
In US you would call this: 66.9 quinquagintatrecentillion.
In EU you would call this: 66.9 quinquaseptuagintacentilliard
Here's a link calculating the number of positions of a 17x17: http://bit.ly/17x17Positions
The coffee world has changed since Starbucks rose to prominence. Not only has the sourcing of beans acquired wine-like precision, but now there are many small, local roasters. How'd this all happen? Episode 4 brings you into the infrastructure underpinning third-wave coffee from a Kenyan coffee auction to a major coffee importer to a secret coffee warehouse in San Leandro with beans from every coffee-growing nation in the world. We’re guided by Aaron Van der Groen, the green coffee buyer for San Francisco’s legendary roaster Ritual Coffee.
Possibly the most interesting episode so far. This one has some specifics which I hadn’t read in The Box or seen in snippets in other places. I was hoping for more specifics like this throughout the series, but have been generally disappointed until now.
You know you’ve always wanted to ride in a tugboat as it pushes around
a huge cargo ship, right? Well, that’s what we do in Episode 3. We go
inside working life on the San Francisco Bay to see how brutal
competition among shipping companies threatens the viability of the
small businesses that ply the waters. Meet a tugboat dispatcher, a
skipper, and the first female captain of an American freighter. It’s a
case study in how globalization works and our first look at the
challenges the port faces.
What is life like as a modern sailor, a tiny person on a huge ship in a vast ocean? Here is your answer. Episode 2 brings you a rare look into the lives of two Filipino sailors, fresh off a trip across the Pacific Ocean. These are regular people doing heroic work to support their families. And without them, the global economic order doesn't work.
We get the story of the Oompa-Loompas and Augustus goes up the pipe. Parables about benign exploitation and colonialization followed by a short tale of gluttony.
Alexis C. Madrigal from Containers
