tom scott
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This Is Probably The Weirdest Bridge In The World
I haven’t seen every singe bridge in the world, so I’m not happy calling this bridge-ferry-gondola hybrid the weirdest. But it’s definitely top five, and makes me question (once again) the sanity of Wales.
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How The Hell Are These Crazy Continuous Lifts Still A Thing?
I religiously maintain a list of ‘dangerous machinery that wants to eat my limbs’, and having watched this video, Paternoster lifts — that is, lifts with continuously moving carriages that you jump in and out of — just went straight to the top.
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Why Google Translate Will (Probably) Always Suck
If it seems like Google Translate and Skype Translator have solved the language barrier, you’d be right, in the same sense that smoke signals solved long-distance communication. Machine translation much difficult still translate long way go to, as YouTuber Tom Scott explains.
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Green Screens Were Way More Clever Before Computers
In the digital age, it’s pretty simple to understand how green screens work: anything of a certain colour in the image is replaced with the background. But green screens were around for decades before digital photography, and the old technology was impressively crafty.