for context -- to reboot an MRI can cost about $200K in direct costs, but this does not include scan-time loss for patients and rescheduling costs.
I've been wanting to make a video just nerding out about MRIs for years now :/ they are so cool
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for context -- to reboot an MRI can cost about $200K in direct costs, but this does not include scan-time loss for patients and rescheduling costs.
I've been wanting to make a video just nerding out about MRIs for years now :/ they are so cool
Today I learned that because MRIs are superconducting, they are cheap to keep going but *very* expensive to turn off/on. They are only ever turned off in a life-threatening emergency and can take a week to bring back online.
This means the MRI scene in the newest final destination makes no sense.
holy moly what a line up
03.02.2026 02:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Marienplatz is a beautiful mess :')
01.02.2026 01:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Giving a presentation on the research that I did for next video in a group meeting on Monday. Very happy with how its coming along :)
01.02.2026 00:29 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Now you got me waiting for an animation of one of Willie's famous outros.
24.01.2026 01:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Playing around with some ways to render the next video topic. This may or may not end up in the video but I liked how it looked.
22.01.2026 16:36 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Diagram of field LED perturbations of fireflies, showing entrainment patterns and a phase response curve linking phase delay/advance to relative timing.
β¨ New preprint from the lab on firefly synchronization, led by Owen Martin (freshly Dr. Martin!), with Nataliya Nechyporenko and Kaushik Jayaram.
Our measured firefly phase-response curves reveal excitatory and inhibitory timing rules that facilitate population synchrony β¨
doi.org/10.64898/202...
yesterday I was on my way to work and I saw two trains pass going my direction. I probably could have made the second one but thought I'm in no rush and I have a book with me and at least I know the trains are moving. That was the last train for an hour because of an accident downtown -_-
21.01.2026 21:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0For anyone looking for a happy/carefree album to get through *the times*. This is my favourite track which is maybe a bit more melancholy but the whole album is a genuine treat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=21XC...
For me its less the sound of my voice and more the realization of the variety of aweful slurpy/clicky/generally unpleasant sounds the human mouth makes that you normally don't hear but the mic absolutely LOVES to pick up.
15.01.2026 21:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The painting sound thing might just be one of the most beautiful things I've seen on youtube, this was such an amazing video.
07.01.2026 05:24 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New coding adventure -- experimenting with the short-time fourier transform
youtu.be/08mmKNLQVHU?...
English was the third I learned growning up and my first two were both gendered languages. Even still, I don't know if this is a hot take but in my opinion its the one of the few things English has going for it.
31.12.2025 02:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Multiple choice question of guessing the German article (masculine, femanine, neutral) for the word "capitalism".
I can't help but feel my language app has made art.
29.12.2025 20:47 β π 16 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you! I am looking forward to it too... whenever it happens...
29.12.2025 00:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For the US CDC's it was shoes off (its in the video). I'm 90% certain for the metric folks it was also shoes off, but I don't remember that one as well and it wasn't from a single source. Given these are often taken to monitor population health I hope they are doing it shoes off.
29.12.2025 00:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I did have a dataset of basketball players but it was... wierd. I can't remember how, its been so long now, but it made me switch to a hockey dataset I had instead
22.12.2025 23:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0thank you! I went through quite a few itterations of these. Drawing one histogram is fine but when you have to have like 6 of them on the screen at the same time I had to be a bit more creative about it.
22.12.2025 23:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0valid, I've really been enjoying the calmer vibes over on Nebula haha
22.12.2025 23:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I cut a section talking hockey player heights. They are wildly tall y'all
22.12.2025 18:15 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0sadly at this point its more like ... oilers vs a candle -_-
22.12.2025 17:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0screenshot showing subscriber count going down after publishing a new video to youtube
My favourite part of uploading a new video is the first thing that happens is you lose subscribers haha
21.12.2025 18:55 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Are Men Lying About Their Heights on Dating Apps is now up on YouTube!
youtu.be/eipZ4hVV1R4
Thank you! You're the first one to give feedback haha glad you enjoyed it :)
Thats what I thought too. Someone suggested its because marking events on the line makes rulings like off-side ambiguous. So there's a bias against it marking on the line, which also makes sense.
Oh hey, that's me! New video live on Nebula!
19.12.2025 16:10 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0amazing!
16.12.2025 16:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0pour one out for my mac book for rendering all this nonsense
16.12.2025 14:58 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ceave is so talented holy. I'm not a big gamer, but using Mario to frame prime factorization is so good. Like math? Its a good video. No interest in math? That's fine, it's just a video about Mario. And it'll certainly reach someone who thought they hated math www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBe...
12.12.2025 18:37 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Kate: Frankly, what I imagine is one of us will die from stress, and the life insurance will pay things off.
Tom: Yeah, we have good life insurance. Weβre better off dead.
Kate: Right. [Laughter.]"
I don't know if I've ever felt so much pain imbued into text as I did when reading "[Laughter.]"