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The joke begins at around 04:13. The video is Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone. I think you will agree that, even if you are not sure if the world really needs yet another joke about the sax, this one is pretty ok.

The Czochraski method is used to produce monocrystals for electronics, gem production etc. Jan Czochralski invented the method in 1915 while investigating the crystallization rates of metals. He made this discovery by accident: instead of dipping his pen into his inkwell, he dipped it in...

"It's OK, I'm Amish"

TIL about an analog technique to create amazing fractal-like images. A camera looking at a monitor that is driven from the camera, while you tweak the hue, saturation, brightness, contrast etc.

"There's no point, you're just preaching to the void!"

AI in 2050 : Thanks for holding my beer.

Quick check... ah yes, this is the lame jokes thread.

Also, they know that if they maximize surface area to volume then more of them can feed at a time with less jostling.

In a sense, yes it does. That is, as far as the mechanical models discussed in it go. However, searching for the word "nonlinearity" in the same article will show passages that explain that direct control of a parameter is a more abstract picture, whereas practical implementations often use...

For mechanical examples, I thought it might make sense to use an elongation / compression dependent stiffness. (Rather than commanding the stiffness to change magically by changing a variable called "stiffness" or "K") I will post the model part of the code if I'm not able to fix it in a day...

I was playing with a toy model ( HTML + JS ) involving a mass, spring and damping that lets you vary those parameters using sliders. In the process, I got interested in the idea of varying the stiffness in real time in order to demonstrate parametric amplification. This does work pretty well...

I have found that this channel does a good job of explaining things. I watched this particular video a couple of years ago and it was pretty good.

Crested Phonebill

In the variant at the bottom of page 1, a 2-sphere capacitor drives the current. As a TLDR, does the 'displacement current' in this capacitor contribute anything to the forces on the wire elements?