It's just converting the work into other work that you like more. In this case he could just suck it up and write them out, or he could make a machine to do, that he not only is much more suited too, but also enjoys it's and allows him to hone his craft.
Ok, one major tip: natural hand writing is in fact a 3D action not just 2D, meaning that the writer exerts higher and lower pressure vertical to the paper surface as they write, which results in the pen line becoming thinner and thicker at different sections of a letter! Next try to build the Y-axis movement into that robot!!
just a tip when using neural networks. In the video, I noticed after every bug you fixed, the editing at least made it look like you spent ~50 hours training the RNN again. Usually, you can use smaller datasets to train the networks and see if the output is slightly acceptable before spending the 2 days training the network with the full dataset.
I also notice he didn't plot his training loss / validation loss. It's very important to be able to know if both are decreasing, otherwise you might just be overfitting to noise or something. 😆
I have to say, one of the most helpful parts of your video was when you gave up and used code off the internet. It's nice to see others realize that some other people just do things better sometimes and you don't have to re-invent the wheel every single project. Buying a plotter, borrowing code. This is how things move forward. Good luck in your new shop!
Anyone have tips on how to do this more? I often feel like I'm spending just as much time figuring out how to integrate or implement their code into mine. I suppose that's just down to the quality of the documentation?
yeah, I started writing a custom library for playing audio files in vanilla JS, and then I thought "wtf am I doing - just find an open source one". And lo and behold, there are like 5 of them.
@@EmersonPeters Be sure of what you need. Once you know what goes in and what goes out you can use other works as a black box. GPT can also help with code integration nowadays.
Trained as a mechanical engineer 40 years ago - despite afterwards working in another field your videos resonate with the engineer's heart that still beats within. Thank you!
I love the field of Computer Science. Spending 4 months to create something to do a 3 hour task for me just gives such a huge feeling of accomplishment.
There's two reasons why investing a lot of time to gain small benefits: - If you repeat the task, there will come one point where your work amortizes itself - You probably invest all the time (i.e. 12 hours for 10 minutes faster tasks) at a point where you have it available and you also have fun with it. I've done the same for my collagues with some forms - they may only save a couple of minutes but we all get done faster and have less repetitive tasks since they're done automatically.
in my junior year of hs i had an obsession with writing code to basically make specialized calculators for whatever we were doing in math. definitely spent more time on making those programs than time i would've spent actually doing the work, but it was fun lol
I would like to thank you on behalf of all criminals for giving us starting point of forgery and also explaining us how we might get busted so we could fix this before we go live.
I wanted to start a youtube channel where disgruntled industry experts explain how people could hack/cheat/bypass safeguards, if they even exist. It would be called "*IF* I Did It"
It's a cool trap of reverse psychollogy. Yo get so smart and skillful making a machine like this to try to do something illegal, that you end up pursuing a better career in science instead of being a criminal
Probably not the most notable thing, especially if you consider if they were actually sent out you’d only see 1 and would have no comparison for the pen pressure, And repetition is much more noticeable to the brain
You would be able to see lots of different pressures between each letter. When handwriting, you have to lift up your hand for each letter so you wouldn't be able to use the same pressure on every one
Absolutely love how succinctly you managed to sum up the experience of learning machine learning: write code; wait hours/days; find out you made a really dumb mistake; repeat steps until you eventually either ragequit or swallow your pride and decide to see if someone way smarter than you already figured it out (SPOILER ALERT: they did). Actually I suppose this goes for a lot of things!
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate" ~ Carl Jung
You wife has the greatest sense of humor ever. I love when you bring her along for the adventure in videos. Y'all are seriously the most perfect match of personalities of all time.
@@evanroberts2771 and you got opinions of a hater , cmon Bruh she’s obviously speaking monotone which is why it’s funny She’s spoken regular before and she sounds like an average woman lol
4.21 million subscribers definitely help. Hell, people with 75k subscribers are quitting their jobs and doing UA-cam full time. Shane has it made and we’re all here for it!
I program similar robots for CNC production. One that that made me curious was to the paper getting picked up problem. He built those platforms with the springs which is near but those robots have the ability to compensate for those sorts of things. We have pallets that we place parts on and we can teach the first point on the pallet and the robot auto compensates and grabs each part and moves up and down the pallets automatically.
@@specialsause949 Same here, programming for cnc tending. The function I used was called servo float or soft servo. And the end effector would stop with a programmed force.
I love that you show the failures too. ❤ After the UA-cam algorithm inserted one of your videos into my feed, I'm hooked. Binge watching the catalog as I write this... 🤠
The shot @9:37 has me holding my sides. A $35k robot arm, TWO computers, a big power cabinet, an air compressor, a shop-vac... "But that would be over-engineered!" 😆
I've worked on a ton of machine learning projects over the years and seeing him go through the same process of training a model for a stupid amount of hours, having it not work and then finding one small mistake in the code each time is insanely relatable
i feel you haha, I’m very new to machine learning and have to create a model for my uni work and not being able to find the bugs is driving me insane lol
@@fincottle5534 yea, with ordinary programming you can usually tell almost immediately when something is wrong, but in machine learning you cant really tell until you've given the algorithm enough time to learn
It is really not difficult to know why people like your work: The experiments, the projects, the failures, the tips, the video and sound quality, and a lot of other reasons, makes them likeable. New sub here.
I kept all my school documents. And that is a lot of hand writing. I wanted to scan it all, and use OCR with a temporal variable. That way I can see handwriting improve over time. And also train a model to write whole words, not just single letters. But scanning two full boxes of documents takes over a week. And I don't have any scanner. I feel like a vector sequence model instead of a pixel model would generalize better. Thanks for sharing your work! You are experiencing the machine learning researcher: "press the run all button!"
I've been following you for a couple years now (since automatic hoop V1) and I'm ashamed I've never commented before. But I genuinely think your projects are the coolest I've ever seen. Every one is completely unique to anything else out there and so far beyond what I would even think is possible. Your explanations, editing and humor are on point. And I don't even mind the indeterminate wait between vids because you always deliver. But I do basically drop everything as soon as I see you've posted. All this fanboying to say, you really are an inspiration in a lot of ways and I hope to see your projects for many more years.
You know, this comment is good, and yet it reads like one of those machine learning generated comments. Like the "Justin Y bot" by CodeParade. I don't know what this says about our society, or anything, but i bet it does say something.
So I love the realness of this video. As a fellow scientist I understand when you say “I have no idea what I’m doing” and it’s so true. None of us do we all rely so much on each other to solve our problems and the past achievements of others to move forward. That being said pls upload more even if it’s just updates about current projects or anything else you find interesting.
@@tillthiemann6448 Of course it’s going to feel that way. You wouldn’t learn much if you just kept repeating stuff you knew. Math degrees are not earned by repeating “1+1=2” for 50-60 hours a week for four years. Malcolm Gladwell suggests 10,000 hours to master a skill: practice, feedback, learn new stuff just outside your comfort zone.
I just love the relationship you have with your wife. I know how much time these projects take. You don't give us videos often, but they content is amazing and for her to be a part of your skits and give you the time to do these is nice. I'm sure you both do things together, but its just great knowing she seems to appreciate these and smiles. You can genuinely tell you 2 have a healthy relationship.
One of my family member is graphologist. She told me that the pressure you put on each letter with your pen is also examined (showing how much emotion you put on some words) So if you're only looking at the 2D-shape of your letters, you're missing something.
The interesting part about that he can implement that into the machine with the suction function. By adding the amount of suction to each specific word or letter at least 50% of the words wouldn't have the same pressure due to the change of suction for each words and since the care isn't rigid there would be tiny (I assume only noticeable under investigation) changes. It's a crazy thing he has built
@@bryang2280 Honestly I think you could just have the writing machine itself do it. It already can lift and push down the pen (since that's how it works lol) so I don't see why you couldn't just have it push down when writing certain lines more than others
This was my biggest “tell” of real vs fake. Hard to copy the random pressures and pen scratches made by pens when handwriting something. Like the little tail left behind when finishing a word and lifting the pen at the same time.
this reminds me of a cartoon from the 2000s called lazy lucy about a girl who hates doing tasks so she comes up with incredibly comedically complicated schemes to make them 'easier'
I agree. For anybody reading this, what he was describing is what you may have heard referred to as "gradient descent". That visualization is probably the cleanest way I've heard it explained.
@@nohmers18if that's how you feel about it, then maybe it wasn't for you. I also think kindergarten is shallow and pedantic, but I'm not going to a school just to complain about how they educate 5 year olds.
@@nohmers18 that's because it's not for an audience of specialists so obviously to make it accessible to everyone, you will dumb it down and if you don't like it well... I don't think you should expect that of this channel because it's not the main goal to go in depth about the smallest things.
I think that 2 possible differences from the normal handwriting are pressure variations and speed variations these 2 can be especially seen with fountain pens. In this case even the angle at which the pen is held changes as the word progresses and this changes line geometry
@@EngineerMikeF yeah, it could be even implemented as controlling the pen force instead of controlling pen height, made as a weird closed loop system. Or simply move the pen up and down and have it spring loaded, the force of typical spring should be roughly proportional to the amount it was compressed / extended
Maybe the pen could be connected to a spring so as it moved there would be a slight wobble and / or a random offset could be applied each point making up a letter. Would also like to see some deliberate spelling/ writing mistakes to be more human like
@@Electric999999 he also handed the robot a pen haha. Seriously though he did engineer the trays to hold the cards, the system for picking them up and dropping them, the system for holding the cards for the writing bot and integrated those 2 robots together with the code etc. so it's not quite as easy but yeah. Giving up and using an existing code base is actually very typical of engineers in other jobs too lol.
Every time Shane turns off the lights for the robots to work overnight, I think to myself, "But how can they see what they're doing?" 😂 Those googly eyes really do the trick!!
@@tomhappeningou bots are pretty sly but it would probably work better on another channel, not one where most viewers are college educated engineers. Wait what am i doing, giving bots advice?
As someone who is currently struggling through their own first machine learning project from scratch, it was super super validating to watch you struggle through it hahah. And your explanation of machine learning was really good, I will use that to explain when people ask me what I'm doing hahah
personally, i think the idea of you putting all of this work into a cool personalized project that can automatically write cards for people is more endearing than just writing a bunch of cards, because like anyone can do that. you put your own personal touch on the idea and that makes it special.
Ya he has the humor of Linus Tech Tips where Linus is doing the experiments on such things such as SSD speed and will do experiments that he doesn't care about the result so that the answer is the same across all the setpieces.
the most educational part of this is when he says, "on the first try, too! that never happens!" I always got discouraged as a kid when I didn't get things on the first try and i gave up. i didn't have any confidence to try again because i always tried my hardest the first time. If my best try wasn't good enough, no further tries seemed like they'd fare any better, so i, being a very reasonable and smart kiddo, concluded i just wasn't very good at that thing.
That's a good field, especially if you're willing to get your hands dirty. As time goes on automation will only increase, and therefore the number of people needed to babysit, clean, repair, and program those machines will increase. Fun fact about new technology: It ain't reliable, and is in constant need of refinement and maintenance.
@@isthatbraised I'm talking about living in a 9-5 slave lifestyle, compared to being financially free doing what you want, when you want, with who you want
This guy is a literal genius. I have yet to find anyone with the creative AND practical means to have such an amazing end product. Congratulations, you're a badass.
My favorite part of this channel is how you show yourself making mistakes, finding the error, and trying again. Over and over and over. You're inspiring.
I work at a print company, all these designs are super similar to tons of the machines i work with as a folder and booklet maker. The feeder on my Horizon buckle folder has a similar suction cup design to pick up sheets quickly. You did your homework, and built a sweet machine. Props to you brother
I will never get over how hilarious you two are when youre both on screen. You seem just perfect for each other, its like when the deadpan delivery comes from you both the sum is greater than the parts and its 100 times funnier.
Man I thought you quit making UA-cam, I been a long time sub and have my notifications set too all and I haven’t got a notification for years!! Glad I stumbled across your video. Love the channel
I love that his intuition of what approach is best and his first attempt at each approach has gotten so finely honed. Several intricate contraptions in a row that worked first try
Omg, your segment on debugging machine learning programs was so depressingly accurate. Training something for hours, checking the predictions, and getting complete nonsense. Just to learn that you did something dumb somewhere (like maybe you used a '-' instead of a '+' somewhere). Then train again, and repeat until either you get it working, or you give up on life. Though of note: it is important to monitor NN training. Looking at loss, accuracy, and any other metric while you are training. Also training on smaller datasets first to iron out bugs so that you don't waste as much time.
12:40 The way you explained a loss function for a neural network architecture is just flawless. Great job mate! That is Josh Starmer level explaining right here.
I had a question about what he said though, when you calculate the slope of the error function, it's dimensionality should be based on the 'number of knobs' in the last layer, so when you move in the direction needed to minimize error, aren't you turning all of those knobs simultaneously (and thus, all the previous knobs roughly simultaneously as well since you propogate that change back through the network?)
@@dariusftw3378 At school I had absolutely horrible handwriting when I was joining each letter up so I started to write individually and am now trying to unlearn 10 years of writing that way because it looks kinda unprofessional.
Stuff, I know that you're making these videos available to a wider audience by toning down the science, but I would absolutely love it if you made follow up videos where you really got into explaining all of the theory, programing and math going on here. You seem to skip over a lot of integration hell, but I think that's the most interesting part. All the pieces you wouldn't think would go wrong, and how to fix some of them. Sincerely, the next generation of engineers that loves what you're doing
Yeah it would be great if he had a more technical discussion of the coding for people with some training. It would be a huge teaching/learning resource. As it is his videos have a bit of the "look how clever I am" vibe.
Is anyone really going to talk about how the wife managed to correctly decipher every fake card despite not being completely obvious and apart manage to see the ploptwist of the last 4 letters? If she is not a detective then she is not in the right job
Woah! I was hoping we’d see you again soon! Absolutely love your videos and as long as you keep making them I will wait as long as necessary! So excited!
I'm so happy you posted!! I miss your videos. In the off chance you see this. I'm a CS student and you've really inspired me to go outside of my normal routine and get into hardware/creative projects. Thanks so much SMH
"i knew that she would know, so i did the opposite of that, and thought maybe she would....." wife... stares into space contemplating all her lifes decisions.... absolute chefs kiss perfection.
Hey dude! I wanted to say thanks for what you do. I got into engineering in part because of you. The stuff you do seemed so cool and, yet, impossible. I am officially a Sophomore and just got done with my first project at a Summer internship! It’s a label applicator machine that I designed, did the circuitry and fully 3D printed. It’s most definitely not an unmissable basketball hoop or a puzzle solver, but it’s a start. I’m super thankful for you; the stuff you do is what made me want to become an engineer, and what I aspire to do. Great vid and can’t wait for your next project! I’ll update you on my projects then as well 😂
"... the stuff you do is what made me want to become an engineer". Dude, you already are. You might not have the degree yet but you've already got the mindset to build stuff. Well done.
I feel like, in this case, a forensic handwriting expert being able to make a profile for your handwriting bot is a feature, not a bug. After all, you're *not* trying to make 20,000 unique sets of handwriting, you are trying to make *one* set of handwriting that is consistent across 20,000 use instances. And if he sees enough shared characteristics between the different pieces of writing to work out a profile, that means they are identifiable as having been written by the same person (or, I guess, robot). Which means that you succeeded in creating a unique and consistent handwriting style
I have studied machine learning and neural networks for like 15 years now … so believe me when i say that is an absolutely wonderful way to summarize what machine learning is … good job ❤
Great video. Loving it. Now then, a little grammar help for you. We use "Farther" when talking about a measurement of distance, and "Further" for everything else. What you meant to say at 9:36 was something like "... so the robot would have to reach increasingly farther down as the stack size decreased."
Being a mechanical engineer myself, your videos push me to keep learning more. You throw yourself at mechanical and software engineering problems and although the outcome may not be the best (sometimes) you still do it. I appreciate the drive and it gives me drive so thank you
Man, with the time and effort it takes for you to make a video and thus for us to wait, you could easily make them 2-3 times longer and people will watch, because there's definitely something more to watch.
You can tell it's heartfelt because he put days into making this robot. (And because, speaking from his heart, he writes that the robot wrote the letters)
Welcome back!!! I was worried that you might have left UA-cam. Love your channel, sense of humour and the way you unpack your creations so mere mortals can understand and appreciate them. Can’t wait to see your new shop 👍
Who could ever believe engineer is able to have functional relationship with gorgeous wife who is even more gorgeus after giving life to another big person? This has to be completely fake, right?
I love the idea of you making machines to fool/stump/frustrate the experts. Videos like making the unpickable lock and this one are definitely my favorite
2 things got me to stop collecting sports cards with autographs. 1 was how depressing it looked having an athlete at a table with 1000 cards on their coffee table awaiting autographs. The 2nd was learning about autopen and finding out celebrities and prominent figures have been using the concept for 100 years.
10:27 This is one of *the best* descriptions of machine learning I have seen in years! Superb animations to describe it. And you even gave credit? Great work!
My first time ever on this channel. I just love so much when I see someone doing exactly what they were put on this earth to do. This is as perfect as a UA-cam video gets. Bravo 👏🏼
I cant believe you managed to create machine learning code for doctors handwriting on the first try
thats really a world wide thing.
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Comment of the year.
...but he didn't. He used someone else's code.
What I learned from this channel over the years is that in order to do less work you have to do more work than you originally had to.
because it’s only ever less work for future you never present you
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It's just converting the work into other work that you like more. In this case he could just suck it up and write them out, or he could make a machine to do, that he not only is much more suited too, but also enjoys it's and allows him to hone his craft.
Initially
one time investment basically
This video is the embodiment of "we do things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were"
and we make necessary concessions when we realize it was a little bit too not-easy
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we thought they were!" - JFK, 2023
@@thenightjackal yea but budget doesn't change 😭😂
lmao 🤣
🎶WE DO WHAT WE MUST BECAUSE WE CAN! 🎶
I love the "wife annoyed to be forced to help her husbands weird projects" character she pulls lmao
i feel there is a degree of authenticity when you ask her to do a test to prove she isnt defective
"character" yeah
i have wondered if there is someone with a gun off screen
@@whatadude4841yes but it’s not a person. It’s a perfectly calibrated auto rig
@notnotme1715 you two are pretty funny
Ok, one major tip: natural hand writing is in fact a 3D action not just 2D, meaning that the writer exerts higher and lower pressure vertical to the paper surface as they write, which results in the pen line becoming thinner and thicker at different sections of a letter! Next try to build the Y-axis movement into that robot!!
Brutal
Or the microscopic human skin flakes and grease we leave on the paper while writing?
Yes I thought the handwriting expert would make this point. Maybe the robot does press more in some places?
I was about to suggest the same haha
Not only the pressure of the pen but angle of the pen too (or rather two angles) and the writing speed.
just a tip when using neural networks. In the video, I noticed after every bug you fixed, the editing at least made it look like you spent ~50 hours training the RNN again. Usually, you can use smaller datasets to train the networks and see if the output is slightly acceptable before spending the 2 days training the network with the full dataset.
Bingo
I also notice he didn't plot his training loss / validation loss. It's very important to be able to know if both are decreasing, otherwise you might just be overfitting to noise or something. 😆
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@@fitybux4664 Also in realtime, to see if it is worth waiting another 50 hours
Or, just invest in better/more GPUs
I have to say, one of the most helpful parts of your video was when you gave up and used code off the internet. It's nice to see others realize that some other people just do things better sometimes and you don't have to re-invent the wheel every single project. Buying a plotter, borrowing code. This is how things move forward. Good luck in your new shop!
That's how science and engineering works. You use what other people have done in the past to create something new.
Anyone have tips on how to do this more? I often feel like I'm spending just as much time figuring out how to integrate or implement their code into mine. I suppose that's just down to the quality of the documentation?
yeah, I started writing a custom library for playing audio files in vanilla JS, and then I thought "wtf am I doing - just find an open source one". And lo and behold, there are like 5 of them.
@@EmersonPeters Be sure of what you need. Once you know what goes in and what goes out you can use other works as a black box. GPT can also help with code integration nowadays.
That is why i share every line of my codes to github... it feels great to see someone uses something you did and turn it into something more useful 😂
I love the chemistry between him and his wife. They have the same sense of humor and banter so well. Ugh.
I predict a divorce eventually based on her sarcasm.
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@@007nadineLur weird
They look like siblings
@@bradysballsack 😭😭😭
Trained as a mechanical engineer 40 years ago - despite afterwards working in another field your videos resonate with the engineer's heart that still beats within. Thank you!
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I love the field of Computer Science.
Spending 4 months to create something to do a 3 hour task for me just gives such a huge feeling of accomplishment.
Until a year later when you need to do the task 10,000 times. Or 1M times.
thats how mostly any machine got made.
There's two reasons why investing a lot of time to gain small benefits:
- If you repeat the task, there will come one point where your work amortizes itself
- You probably invest all the time (i.e. 12 hours for 10 minutes faster tasks) at a point where you have it available and you also have fun with it. I've done the same for my collagues with some forms - they may only save a couple of minutes but we all get done faster and have less repetitive tasks since they're done automatically.
in my junior year of hs i had an obsession with writing code to basically make specialized calculators for whatever we were doing in math. definitely spent more time on making those programs than time i would've spent actually doing the work, but it was fun lol
This really gave me a mood boost as a starter CS student
I would like to thank you on behalf of all criminals for giving us starting point of forgery and also explaining us how we might get busted so we could fix this before we go live.
They don’t need forgeries any more. They just steal it out of your bank account online.
I wanted to start a youtube channel where disgruntled industry experts explain how people could hack/cheat/bypass safeguards, if they even exist. It would be called "*IF* I Did It"
@@Roddy556 I would watch it. Safeguards are anti-consumer.
It's a cool trap of reverse psychollogy. Yo get so smart and skillful making a machine like this to try to do something illegal, that you end up pursuing a better career in science instead of being a criminal
@@Zal1810yeah like that surgeon who m4rd3red ~300 minors before realizing he can be a doctor
Your video and editing skills are coming such a long way.
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The production on this vid was way way ahead of what I remember seeing from him. Agree.
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I'm surprised pen pressure on the paper wasn't more of a problem. Seems like the robots perfect line darkness would stand out more.
My guess is they actually talked about how good they were, and what we saw was what we were allowed to hear.
I came here to say this, but in my heart I knew it had already been said
Probably not the most notable thing, especially if you consider if they were actually sent out you’d only see 1 and would have no comparison for the pen pressure,
And repetition is much more noticeable to the brain
@@BossKnightalso ballpoint pens, especially decent quality ones, tend to have little variation in darkness with pressure.
You would be able to see lots of different pressures between each letter. When handwriting, you have to lift up your hand for each letter so you wouldn't be able to use the same pressure on every one
Thank you Sean Vasquez for all these heartfelt postcards!
Absolutely love how succinctly you managed to sum up the experience of learning machine learning: write code; wait hours/days; find out you made a really dumb mistake; repeat steps until you eventually either ragequit or swallow your pride and decide to see if someone way smarter than you already figured it out (SPOILER ALERT: they did).
Actually I suppose this goes for a lot of things!
Honestly I think that having a postcard written by a project you made is way cooler than having one hand written
He bought the robot online and copy pasted the code for the program, he didn't do anything for the final product.
@@hanswurst666 he made the suction things also combining two things different things to do one thing is harder then it looks
Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote:
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate"
~ Carl Jung
@@hanswurst666 agreed on this one
You wife has the greatest sense of humor ever. I love when you bring her along for the adventure in videos. Y'all are seriously the most perfect match of personalities of all time.
Yeah you can tell when a smile slips through that it’s played up which makes it all the better IMO lol
But she has the voice of a man.... and looks like his sister.
@@evanroberts2771 shes perfect
@@evanroberts2771 and you got opinions of a hater , cmon Bruh she’s obviously speaking monotone which is why it’s funny
She’s spoken regular before and she sounds like an average woman lol
Amen, she's just brilliant in these videos, and it's so sweet seeing how obviously good their relationship is.
The amazing thing is that Shane could get a high level job literally anywhere but he'd rather do his own stuff like this. And that makes him awesome
i think it's a little naive to think this guy doesn't have a job
@@MrDylanHole a little?
@@aonodensetsu I was trying to be nice
4.21 million subscribers definitely help. Hell, people with 75k subscribers are quitting their jobs and doing UA-cam full time. Shane has it made and we’re all here for it!
His job is inventing, " He is an inventor with five patents and 13 pending applications. " -wikipedia
This man just casually gave the best simplified explanation of how machine learning works
I'll likely never get into robotics, but this man's passion is nothing short of inspirational. Cheers to doing what you love Shane!
I program similar robots for CNC production. One that that made me curious was to the paper getting picked up problem. He built those platforms with the springs which is near but those robots have the ability to compensate for those sorts of things.
We have pallets that we place parts on and we can teach the first point on the pallet and the robot auto compensates and grabs each part and moves up and down the pallets automatically.
@@specialsause949 Same here, programming for cnc tending. The function I used was called servo float or soft servo. And the end effector would stop with a programmed force.
“If this thing had a body, I would attack it” spoken like a true coder.
Soo true
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That part made me laugh so hard!
I would be arrested for crimes against humanity if solidworks had a body.
I love that you show the failures too. ❤ After the UA-cam algorithm inserted one of your videos into my feed, I'm hooked. Binge watching the catalog as I write this... 🤠
And yes, of course I subscribed. 😄
The shot @9:37 has me holding my sides. A $35k robot arm, TWO computers, a big power cabinet, an air compressor, a shop-vac... "But that would be over-engineered!" 😆
funny.
Totally missed that, you are definitely correct.
18k arm
The way you show encountering bugs in software development process is hilariously accurate and relatable.
Shouting at the screen: WHYYY!?
23 minutes later: oh! That's why.
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@@plonkster And then it still doesn't work.
@@DarthCiliatus somehow works in part even though that shouldn't be possible
recompile and restart, suddenly it's working
me: !??
I've worked on a ton of machine learning projects over the years and seeing him go through the same process of training a model for a stupid amount of hours, having it not work and then finding one small mistake in the code each time is insanely relatable
i feel you haha, I’m very new to machine learning and have to create a model for my uni work and not being able to find the bugs is driving me insane lol
That is the basic process of all programming.
@@kellymoses8566 with programming you don’t have to wait 3 days to find out if your changes worked?
@@fincottle5534 yea, with ordinary programming you can usually tell almost immediately when something is wrong, but in machine learning you cant really tell until you've given the algorithm enough time to learn
It is really not difficult to know why people like your work: The experiments, the projects, the failures, the tips, the video and sound quality, and a lot of other reasons, makes them likeable. New sub here.
He even has custom animations!!
GREAT stuff.
I wish he could have a deeper level discussion of the code and other aspects for technical types.
That shot when you said "but that would be over engineered" was just 👌
yeah, could have had a micro switch sense when the sucker was on the card.
FINALLY. So glad to see another vid from you! You’re the most committed creator on this platform and I love your story telling / humor.
Bro 21 mins ago?
hey jake
Meme daddy???
let me get a shout out
@@CorruptOcean why
I kept all my school documents. And that is a lot of hand writing. I wanted to scan it all, and use OCR with a temporal variable. That way I can see handwriting improve over time. And also train a model to write whole words, not just single letters.
But scanning two full boxes of documents takes over a week. And I don't have any scanner.
I feel like a vector sequence model instead of a pixel model would generalize better.
Thanks for sharing your work!
You are experiencing the machine learning researcher: "press the run all button!"
You are onto something with the vector graphic. Based on Embroidery machines and sign cutters, I am sure that is the input that the plotter accepts.
I've been following you for a couple years now (since automatic hoop V1) and I'm ashamed I've never commented before. But I genuinely think your projects are the coolest I've ever seen. Every one is completely unique to anything else out there and so far beyond what I would even think is possible. Your explanations, editing and humor are on point. And I don't even mind the indeterminate wait between vids because you always deliver. But I do basically drop everything as soon as I see you've posted. All this fanboying to say, you really are an inspiration in a lot of ways and I hope to see your projects for many more years.
Hey! Glad to see you here!
Dang, this is exactly how I feel about your videos 😂
How awesome would a collab be! Food for thought
I love how the wife is always so unimpressed 🤣🤣🤣 she is honestly one of my favorite parts of this channel.
IMO these videos would not really work nearly as well without her
Some other guys plumage doesn’t impress her.
I was going to say the same, her reactions really make me laugh
His wife is my favorite minor character on UA-cam
Clearly defective😂
I love the stuff you make here. "If you're woundering if this is more work than just writing out the cards.... we don't talk about that around here".
I love how you described how machine learning works for laymen. Brilliant.
13:33 "This system instantly edits videos to make it look like you know what you are talking about"
Very subtle Shane, very subtle
When the world needed him the most , he made a forging robot.
Back and better than ever
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You know, this comment is good, and yet it reads like one of those machine learning generated comments. Like the "Justin Y bot" by CodeParade. I don't know what this says about our society, or anything, but i bet it does say something.
@@SianaGearz I must thank my coder on behalf of you to make me as human like as possible
9:30 the subtle pan out to “that would be over engineered” reminding us of the steps undergone to solve this ‘problem’ is a great punchline.
Brilliant! I can't wait to see a project from you that requires a small team of engineers.
So I love the realness of this video. As a fellow scientist I understand when you say “I have no idea what I’m doing” and it’s so true. None of us do we all rely so much on each other to solve our problems and the past achievements of others to move forward. That being said pls upload more even if it’s just updates about current projects or anything else you find interesting.
That is normal? I'm currently doing my bachelors degree and feel like that half of the time.
He's not scientist He's engineer better than a scientist
@@tillthiemann6448 Of course it’s going to feel that way. You wouldn’t learn much if you just kept repeating stuff you knew. Math degrees are not earned by repeating “1+1=2” for 50-60 hours a week for four years.
Malcolm Gladwell suggests 10,000 hours to master a skill: practice, feedback, learn new stuff just outside your comfort zone.
I just love the relationship you have with your wife. I know how much time these projects take. You don't give us videos often, but they content is amazing and for her to be a part of your skits and give you the time to do these is nice. I'm sure you both do things together, but its just great knowing she seems to appreciate these and smiles. You can genuinely tell you 2 have a healthy relationship.
Lowkey seems like he causes her a lot of self esteem issues
@@Keenanleg you're delusional
@@Keenanleg I VERY much doubt that. Not in the slightest.
Actually how, Keenan?
@@Keenanleg - you misinterpret their dry humor - I think they're secretly British.
One of my family member is graphologist. She told me that the pressure you put on each letter with your pen is also examined (showing how much emotion you put on some words)
So if you're only looking at the 2D-shape of your letters, you're missing something.
Oh, I literally just mentioned the same thing before scrolling. 1:11 if you pause and full screen it gives a perfect example of what you are saying.
This definitely could be sorted with a bit of pressure from an actuator on the pen
The interesting part about that he can implement that into the machine with the suction function. By adding the amount of suction to each specific word or letter at least 50% of the words wouldn't have the same pressure due to the change of suction for each words and since the care isn't rigid there would be tiny (I assume only noticeable under investigation) changes. It's a crazy thing he has built
@@bryang2280 Honestly I think you could just have the writing machine itself do it. It already can lift and push down the pen (since that's how it works lol) so I don't see why you couldn't just have it push down when writing certain lines more than others
This was my biggest “tell” of real vs fake. Hard to copy the random pressures and pen scratches made by pens when handwriting something. Like the little tail left behind when finishing a word and lifting the pen at the same time.
this reminds me of a cartoon from the 2000s called lazy lucy about a girl who hates doing tasks so she comes up with incredibly comedically complicated schemes to make them 'easier'
I love how nonplussed she is every time she joins the video, she's fantastic 😂
eh
you should see how nonplussed she is when he drops his drawers
Nerds 😂😂😂
@@nnamdiphilip3011 The true nerds are people like me going THAT'S NOT WHAT NONPLUSSED MEANS
why tho??
I love how he simplified the basic working of neural networks at 12:00
I agree. For anybody reading this, what he was describing is what you may have heard referred to as "gradient descent". That visualization is probably the cleanest way I've heard it explained.
I feel that his simplification of the neural network was shallow and pedantic.
@@nohmers18 you either don’t know what the word “pedantic” means or you’re the least self-aware person in the world lmao
@@nohmers18if that's how you feel about it, then maybe it wasn't for you. I also think kindergarten is shallow and pedantic, but I'm not going to a school just to complain about how they educate 5 year olds.
@@nohmers18 that's because it's not for an audience of specialists so obviously to make it accessible to everyone, you will dumb it down and if you don't like it well... I don't think you should expect that of this channel because it's not the main goal to go in depth about the smallest things.
I think that 2 possible differences from the normal handwriting are pressure variations and speed variations these 2 can be especially seen with fountain pens. In this case even the angle at which the pen is held changes as the word progresses and this changes line geometry
I had the same thoughts
Ditto, the pen needs variability & pressure feedback
@@EngineerMikeF yeah, it could be even implemented as controlling the pen force instead of controlling pen height, made as a weird closed loop system. Or simply move the pen up and down and have it spring loaded, the force of typical spring should be roughly proportional to the amount it was compressed / extended
Maybe the pen could be connected to a spring so as it moved there would be a slight wobble and / or a random offset could be applied each point making up a letter. Would also like to see some deliberate spelling/ writing mistakes to be more human like
Ink smear. Near impossible to have a machine replicate this.
"This system instantly edits your videos to make it look like you know what you're talking about." 13:27
You know you're an engineer when you spend hundreds of hours designing and building a custom solution to do a simple menial task
In fainress he actually ended up just using someone else's code on someone else's robot. All he did was feed it paper with a second robot.
@@Electric999999 he also handed the robot a pen haha. Seriously though he did engineer the trays to hold the cards, the system for picking them up and dropping them, the system for holding the cards for the writing bot and integrated those 2 robots together with the code etc. so it's not quite as easy but yeah.
Giving up and using an existing code base is actually very typical of engineers in other jobs too lol.
@@briondalionif you are old enough to go university, give it a shot. You can't be a certified engineer without an engineering degree.
I'm a software developer and I have a job and that job often makes me do tasks that take hundreds of hours only for no one to use it.
He needs a threadripper CPU.
Every time Shane turns off the lights for the robots to work overnight, I think to myself, "But how can they see what they're doing?" 😂 Those googly eyes really do the trick!!
IR cameras ftw
@@tomhappening You are absolutely correct. I laughed till my sides hurt. Then Subbed!
@@tomhappeningou bots are pretty sly but it would probably work better on another channel, not one where most viewers are college educated engineers. Wait what am i doing, giving bots advice?
@@JaredConnell I'm not 😕
As someone who is currently struggling through their own first machine learning project from scratch, it was super super validating to watch you struggle through it hahah. And your explanation of machine learning was really good, I will use that to explain when people ask me what I'm doing hahah
he actually explained machine learning in a way that even someone like me could understand it
@@PFnove it isn’t that hard to understand tho
@@Bigleyp well someone here clearly thinks they’re Stephen Einstein
YES ME TOO!!! I have written an ml alogirthm from scratch in python for the minst database but i keep having problems. What are you wroking on?
@@Tempi_ wtf thats not his name. it's alberto rammstein.
cant say what is more interesting, your intelligence or your filmmaking style. Real genius.
personally, i think the idea of you putting all of this work into a cool personalized project that can automatically write cards for people is more endearing than just writing a bunch of cards, because like anyone can do that. you put your own personal touch on the idea and that makes it special.
It's on brand which is why it works
I was constantly laughing at him getting bested by his better half, its so fun to see how well she knows him
Ya he has the humor of Linus Tech Tips where Linus is doing the experiments on such things such as SSD speed and will do experiments that he doesn't care about the result so that the answer is the same across all the setpieces.
She's his other half, not the better half.
@@humanfirst11 its a well known figure of speech, why are you getting mad on his behalf lmao
@@capri_sunnn7935I hooked up with her while he was out of town a couple years ago😂😂
“Building stuff of dubious utility” is the best tag line ever. So happy to see you back!
the most educational part of this is when he says, "on the first try, too! that never happens!" I always got discouraged as a kid when I didn't get things on the first try and i gave up. i didn't have any confidence to try again because i always tried my hardest the first time. If my best try wasn't good enough, no further tries seemed like they'd fare any better, so i, being a very reasonable and smart kiddo, concluded i just wasn't very good at that thing.
I started a robotics degree because of you, thanks for changing my life for the better!
@@test1122lol literally noone asked for your pathetic opinion
Keep going! We need more STEM majors!
That's a good field, especially if you're willing to get your hands dirty. As time goes on automation will only increase, and therefore the number of people needed to babysit, clean, repair, and program those machines will increase.
Fun fact about new technology: It ain't reliable, and is in constant need of refinement and maintenance.
@@test1122lol what
@@isthatbraised I'm talking about living in a 9-5 slave lifestyle, compared to being financially free doing what you want, when you want, with who you want
This guy is a literal genius. I have yet to find anyone with the creative AND practical means to have such an amazing end product. Congratulations, you're a badass.
This guy is the epitome of answering questions nobody asked but wished they did
Facts lol
This would’ve been so useful in elementary school for me with those notice of low scores slips I got
Honestly this makes the notes even more charming. Knowing the story behind the cards makes them that much cooler
My favorite part of this channel is how you show yourself making mistakes, finding the error, and trying again. Over and over and over.
You're inspiring.
As a full time programmer, that "But why!?!?" - "Ooooh..." really made me nod and giggle haha
Lol yea makes me feel fine about my work process 😅
we're not alone 😭
My favourite part is your comment!!!!
Jesus loves you alot trust in His death 4 salvation and be saved from eternal hell
I’d just look at the consistency of the ink, their all at the exact same pressure.
9:32 I love this man 😂
Now do it with calligraphy!
I work at a print company, all these designs are super similar to tons of the machines i work with as a folder and booklet maker. The feeder on my Horizon buckle folder has a similar suction cup design to pick up sheets quickly. You did your homework, and built a sweet machine. Props to you brother
I will never get over how hilarious you two are when youre both on screen. You seem just perfect for each other, its like when the deadpan delivery comes from you both the sum is greater than the parts and its 100 times funnier.
They’re 10000% soul mates the way their chemistry is
I was heartbroken to see the mural of your wife covered up, it was absolutely beautiful. This shop definitely needs another creative tribute.
Where did you see this.
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@@nuravgupta8226 2:46
Man I thought you quit making UA-cam, I been a long time sub and have my notifications set too all and I haven’t got a notification for years!! Glad I stumbled across your video. Love the channel
That TechCrunch article at 13:20 had me dying. Beautifully done. Nice work overall, and what a cool project! Thanks for sharing!
I love those details too !
I love that his intuition of what approach is best and his first attempt at each approach has gotten so finely honed. Several intricate contraptions in a row that worked first try
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Unbelievable amount of work, graphics, editing and more. And your wife’s humor and intuition and support for your passion are all amazing.
I love how he is super smart and his wife is still like snarky and somehow outsmarts him at every turn
Omg, your segment on debugging machine learning programs was so depressingly accurate. Training something for hours, checking the predictions, and getting complete nonsense. Just to learn that you did something dumb somewhere (like maybe you used a '-' instead of a '+' somewhere). Then train again, and repeat until either you get it working, or you give up on life.
Though of note: it is important to monitor NN training. Looking at loss, accuracy, and any other metric while you are training. Also training on smaller datasets first to iron out bugs so that you don't waste as much time.
12:40 The way you explained a loss function for a neural network architecture is just flawless. Great job mate! That is Josh Starmer level explaining right here.
From now on I will always call the loss "garbageosity"!
I like the little camera bit in 13:25 that was left in the final edit
I had a question about what he said though, when you calculate the slope of the error function, it's dimensionality should be based on the 'number of knobs' in the last layer, so when you move in the direction needed to minimize error, aren't you turning all of those knobs simultaneously (and thus, all the previous knobs roughly simultaneously as well since you propogate that change back through the network?)
The third iteration was actually super exciting because there were letters! That means improvement!
I used Onshape with my engineering one students. Was a lot of fun watching them learn basic cad.
You should send these to "handwriting experts" who think they can get insights into a persons personality or backstory from their handwritting.
You'd want to ridicule them?
Anyone writing each letter individually and not joining them up is sure to be a psychopath
@@dariusftw3378 Lol I am the type of person to handwrite everything IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
@@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 must take you forever to get anything done lol
@@dariusftw3378 At school I had absolutely horrible handwriting when I was joining each letter up so I started to write individually and am now trying to unlearn 10 years of writing that way because it looks kinda unprofessional.
Stuff, I know that you're making these videos available to a wider audience by toning down the science, but I would absolutely love it if you made follow up videos where you really got into explaining all of the theory, programing and math going on here. You seem to skip over a lot of integration hell, but I think that's the most interesting part. All the pieces you wouldn't think would go wrong, and how to fix some of them.
Sincerely, the next generation of engineers that loves what you're doing
I hope he reads this comment
Yeah it would be great if he had a more technical discussion of the coding for people with some training. It would be a huge teaching/learning resource. As it is his videos have a bit of the "look how clever I am" vibe.
@@beestingza I'd say its more just him having fun with nerd stuff, which is pretty cool
@@frandurrieu6477 It is cool, but after you've seen a couple of his videos they start to blend together.
Is anyone really going to talk about how the wife managed to correctly decipher every fake card despite not being completely obvious and apart manage to see the ploptwist of the last 4 letters? If she is not a detective then she is not in the right job
Or what about how much Meth she has been smoking.
Simp. Anyone with half a brain could tell the forgeries.
Glad I wasn’t the only one that had that on their mind. She definitely wife goals
@@Zetta_Z.971 Guess you don't know what acting is.
the wife is a robot he built
Mrs. Stuff Made Here has the *best* deadpan delivery. :D
Woah! I was hoping we’d see you again soon! Absolutely love your videos and as long as you keep making them I will wait as long as necessary! So excited!
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Could i borrow this for a friend?
Oh sweet god, I'm scared now
Only 5 likes and 1 reply, wow
I'm so happy you posted!! I miss your videos. In the off chance you see this. I'm a CS student and you've really inspired me to go outside of my normal routine and get into hardware/creative projects. Thanks so much SMH
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Wow. I somehow never saw that before now. For some reason, I know he purposely named his channel with the abbreviation "smh" in mind
Reading through these comments is truly uplifting. Thank you!
Lets give your wife an award, shes so great on camera an know just how to come at you so that we smile endlessly
She's a cracking addition to the video, fr.
"i knew that she would know, so i did the opposite of that, and thought maybe she would....."
wife... stares into space contemplating all her lifes decisions....
absolute chefs kiss perfection.
That's how wives work
It makes me actually want a wife
Dude she's so smart
Hey dude! I wanted to say thanks for what you do. I got into engineering in part because of you. The stuff you do seemed so cool and, yet, impossible. I am officially a Sophomore and just got done with my first project at a Summer internship! It’s a label applicator machine that I designed, did the circuitry and fully 3D printed. It’s most definitely not an unmissable basketball hoop or a puzzle solver, but it’s a start. I’m super thankful for you; the stuff you do is what made me want to become an engineer, and what I aspire to do. Great vid and can’t wait for your next project! I’ll update you on my projects then as well 😂
"... the stuff you do is what made me want to become an engineer". Dude, you already are. You might not have the degree yet but you've already got the mindset to build stuff. Well done.
17:40 it’s honestly wholesome how well your wife knows you! 😂
Love the chemistry between you two.
I feel like, in this case, a forensic handwriting expert being able to make a profile for your handwriting bot is a feature, not a bug. After all, you're *not* trying to make 20,000 unique sets of handwriting, you are trying to make *one* set of handwriting that is consistent across 20,000 use instances. And if he sees enough shared characteristics between the different pieces of writing to work out a profile, that means they are identifiable as having been written by the same person (or, I guess, robot). Which means that you succeeded in creating a unique and consistent handwriting style
2 million views in under 24 hours. Clearly we value you and your content. Excellent work as usual!
Only because it got put into my feed. I have no clue who this guy is or the channel. Somehow he got put up front so i clicked just like everyone else.
@@BeeRumblin13if you'd watch any of his other videos then you would understand
I have studied machine learning and neural networks for like 15 years now … so believe me when i say that is an absolutely wonderful way to summarize what machine learning is … good job ❤
Great video. Loving it. Now then, a little grammar help for you. We use "Farther" when talking about a measurement of distance, and "Further" for everything else. What you meant to say at 9:36 was something like "... so the robot would have to reach increasingly farther down as the stack size decreased."
Being a mechanical engineer myself, your videos push me to keep learning more. You throw yourself at mechanical and software engineering problems and although the outcome may not be the best (sometimes) you still do it. I appreciate the drive and it gives me drive so thank you
So happy you're back! This is major network television levels of creativity, humor, and production.
Man, with the time and effort it takes for you to make a video and thus for us to wait, you could easily make them 2-3 times longer and people will watch, because there's definitely something more to watch.
You can tell it's heartfelt because he put days into making this robot. (And because, speaking from his heart, he writes that the robot wrote the letters)
Welcome back!!! I was worried that you might have left UA-cam. Love your channel, sense of humour and the way you unpack your creations so mere mortals can understand and appreciate them. Can’t wait to see your new shop 👍
I love that you always show your wife laughing so we know it's just a skit and she's not actually emotionless 😂
what makes you think its not a wife robot doing the smiling scenes ?
@@Insane_Kane 😮
Why would you think it's a skit?
Who could ever believe engineer is able to have functional relationship with gorgeous wife who is even more gorgeus after giving life to another big person? This has to be completely fake, right?
@@efi945 paid actors, all of them
Im glad to support someone whos not afraid to show what he does to get here! New engineers should watch you!
I think that's a good point. It's important to show that engineering should be iterative. Don't try and make the best possible thing the first time.
4 months!!, miss you!!
I love the idea of you making machines to fool/stump/frustrate the experts. Videos like making the unpickable lock and this one are definitely my favorite
Yea but lpl had no problem picking the "unpickable" lock
2 things got me to stop collecting sports cards with autographs. 1 was how depressing it looked having an athlete at a table with 1000 cards on their coffee table awaiting autographs. The 2nd was learning about autopen and finding out celebrities and prominent figures have been using the concept for 100 years.
Longer than that. Thomas Jefferson made extensive use of an early version during his presidency.
@@allangibson8494 dang it, totally meant to have a + after 100 🤦♀️
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ oh nice, an especially culty verse this time
10:27 This is one of *the best* descriptions of machine learning I have seen in years! Superb animations to describe it. And you even gave credit? Great work!
Technically correct is the best kind of correct... Was that a Futurama reference?! Nice
My first time ever on this channel. I just love so much when I see someone doing exactly what they were put on this earth to do. This is as perfect as a UA-cam video gets. Bravo 👏🏼