Fun fact: You only need 37 digits of Pi to calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 46 billion light years (the visible universe} to an accuracy equal to the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
You're in this Pi calculation attempt? That's cool! One thing I was rather hoping to see is an analysis of how the people were organised and how the papers flowed around the room. It was covered a bit in Matt Parkers video about it but, myself and others noted that what formed looked essentially like some kind of CPU architecture. A deeper analysis of this by TechTechPotato would be really interesting to see and on top of that see if there are any improvements that could be made to the "architecture" for Matt's next attempt (assuming he goes for it again). At the end of Matt's video when they're running out of time some calculations weren't being checked as thoughroughly, but it helped with the processing speed. All very interesting. I might not be any good at it (maths) but this sort of thing does get me up in the morning.
Congratulations on the result >>100 digits goal! Amazing to see a school hall in London used for this, I hope pupils were inspired or were you all just too nerdy? Thanks for the thoughts on what motivates people; team work and problem solving, especially in Electronics, are fun. And important. That’s why your channel is so interesting. Thanks.
17:40 now Matt's talking engineering,... 1.)Optimum no. of people v.s 2.)Length of time for calculation. Kudos for scaling UP to that point. It cannot be easy.
There was also a segment with a „human“ (but with aliens) computer in the three body problem book. It was very low level, with the people representing individual binary gates and using cavalry for transmitting data over a distance. Also, errors were dealt with by executing the people making errors.
@@noergelstein okay, now I’m worried. Because I read the whole Three Body Problem series only 3 years ago and I didn’t (and don’t) remember that. Was that in the first book, part of the VR game?
Also children of time had biological computers/biological everything. Some spoilers: The book shows the ascendance of biologically modified spiders who use ants (which they themselves breed and modify) to perform at first menial labor and later for computation. More spoilers: At the very end, one of the humans, that had previously transferred their consciousness onto a computer via mind upload then transfers onto a biological computer made of ants.
Meanwhile I am calculating in my head how much damage I will do after 13 times stacking an effect on monsters in an genuinely great game catoring to numbers nerds like myself.
There is something I don't like about using the algorithm that was chosen: It requires (at least this is my understanding) pre-existing knowledge of what approximation of the Taylor expansion for the ArcTans (at what point you stop the summation) is required in order to reach a goal in the accuracy of Pi. And I don't see how you would do that without knowing beforehand the results you're trying to reach Please tell me if I'm missing something
@@axiom1650 that is clear. Knowing exactly that the nth element of each arctan affects at most the kth-digit of pi is the easy part, it's less straightforward to me how you can predict beforehand how many digits of accuracy each term of the Taylor series gives you. And I don't see a clear way to predict that
@@salmiakki5638Yeah, for a correct computation you would have to use at least two different methods and then compare them against each other instead of verifying against the computer result.
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Check out Matt's video on the project here! ua-cam.com/video/LIg-6glbLkU/v-deo.html
Its like every person was a separate thread in a cpu 😅
Genuinely spooky. The books relating to this are spooky as well.
we must get together in chiplets to go against the order of instruction.
The Matrix
I watched Matt Parker's video and saw your name in the credits, was like "Oh wow, neat "
Thanks for waiting for the re-upload! Had to fix the audio on the false start
Everyone makes mistakes. Don't make a habit of them.
In broadcast media, it costs thousands for mistakes and the team hears about it.
Is audio supposed to be so "left-channel heavy?"
Didn't know this was a re-upload though had been waiting for the video for quite sometime.
No not calculus please potato man don’t hurt me
Fun fact: You only need 37 digits of Pi to calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 46 billion light years (the visible universe} to an accuracy equal to the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
Did not expect this crossover, but i’m here for it
You're in this Pi calculation attempt? That's cool! One thing I was rather hoping to see is an analysis of how the people were organised and how the papers flowed around the room. It was covered a bit in Matt Parkers video about it but, myself and others noted that what formed looked essentially like some kind of CPU architecture. A deeper analysis of this by TechTechPotato would be really interesting to see and on top of that see if there are any improvements that could be made to the "architecture" for Matt's next attempt (assuming he goes for it again). At the end of Matt's video when they're running out of time some calculations weren't being checked as thoughroughly, but it helped with the processing speed.
All very interesting.
I might not be any good at it (maths) but this sort of thing does get me up in the morning.
11:30: PoV, the transistors in my CPU after calculating 2+2 on my desktop calculator because I am lazy
I am hoping we get the human shader project part 2 for next year's pi day.
Human powered GPU run by shader legend Inigo Quilez.
Mr Parker is a gem!
Thanks for making these Ian, been following you since Anandtech and enjoying every video :)
What a crossover!
Thank you all for the effort ! I enjoyed watching this video !
Editing the result (9:35) must have taken a long time
For real. Cut for every digit.
Congratulations on the result >>100 digits goal!
Amazing to see a school hall in London used for this, I hope pupils were inspired or were you all just too nerdy?
Thanks for the thoughts on what motivates people; team work and problem solving, especially in Electronics, are fun.
And important. That’s why your channel is so interesting. Thanks.
17:40 now Matt's talking engineering,... 1.)Optimum no. of people v.s 2.)Length of time for calculation. Kudos for scaling UP to that point. It cannot be easy.
The beauty of the intangible. That's the journey of an abstractonaut.
This human computer thing is the premise of the ScienceFiction book “Souls in the Great Machine” by Australian author Sean McMullin
There was also a segment with a „human“ (but with aliens) computer in the three body problem book. It was very low level, with the people representing individual binary gates and using cavalry for transmitting data over a distance. Also, errors were dealt with by executing the people making errors.
@@noergelstein okay, now I’m worried. Because I read the whole Three Body Problem series only 3 years ago and I didn’t (and don’t) remember that. Was that in the first book, part of the VR game?
Also children of time had biological computers/biological everything. Some spoilers:
The book shows the ascendance of biologically modified spiders who use ants (which they themselves breed and modify) to perform at first menial labor and later for computation.
More spoilers:
At the very end,
one of the humans, that had previously transferred their consciousness onto a computer via mind upload then transfers onto a biological computer made of ants.
@@MykePaganSince my other comment might be blocked because I added a link, it is supposed to be in chapter 17. It was in the VR game yes.
Meanwhile I am calculating in my head how much damage I will do after 13 times stacking an effect on monsters in an genuinely great game catoring to numbers nerds like myself.
So Ian is a computer now.
Tried to spot Ian in the other vid when it came up, but failed. Still, great result by all.
I think my head was shown for 2 seconds in the previous vid
There is something I don't like about using the algorithm that was chosen:
It requires (at least this is my understanding) pre-existing knowledge of what approximation of the Taylor expansion for the ArcTans (at what point you stop the summation) is required in order to reach a goal in the accuracy of Pi.
And I don't see how you would do that without knowing beforehand the results you're trying to reach
Please tell me if I'm missing something
Every term is further down the precision which is immediately clear.
Going for n digits, you know how far you need to go.
@@axiom1650 that is clear. Knowing exactly that the nth element of each arctan affects at most the kth-digit of pi is the easy part, it's less straightforward to me how you can predict beforehand how many digits of accuracy each term of the Taylor series gives you.
And I don't see a clear way to predict that
@@salmiakki5638Yeah, for a correct computation you would have to use at least two different methods and then compare them against each other instead of verifying against the computer result.
The calculation segment feels like engineering explained
hey! cool channel, subscribing!