Episodes
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In episode 19, Shane and Dave explain high performance driving:
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In episode 18, Shane and Dave explain how the internet inventors were able to cram billions ofIP addreses into a much smaller space. And, this is how your home internet connection works too!
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In episode 17, Shane and Dave explain the surprising science of rainbows. Can you touch one? Does everyone else see the same rainbow that you see?
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In episode 16, Shane and Dave explain how GPTs work. GPTs are a type of large language model, and the most famous is ChatGPT.
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In episode 15, Shane and Dave explain the Domain Name Service, which is how your web browserfigures out the IP addresses to use for domain names like google.com
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In episode 14, Shane and Dave explain how Alexa works. Alexa is the most popular householdvoice assistant. Find out how Alexa works on the inside!
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In episode 13, Shane and Dave explain how the internet ensures that data is delivered betweencomputers reliably and in order.
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In episode 12, Shane and Dave continue explaining the saga of telecommunications. Computer networks! How the technologies work that power the internet.
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In episode 11, Shane and Dave continue explaining computers. This is the 2nd part in ato-be-determined-length saga.
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In episode 10, Shane and Dave start to explain how computers work, from the very bottom: transistors, digital logic, binary, math, and much more. This will be the first part of an awesome saga!
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In episode 9, Shane and Dave correct some errors from episode 8 about eclipses, and add even more explaining!
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What makes eclipses happen. Learn about the physics that causes the spectacular phenomena thatturns day into night and the moon into blood.
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Technology advanced from the telegraph, but how did it work? Did you know they tried usingcompasses? What about error correction? Did you know Thomas Edison figured out a way to transmit4 independent telegraph conversations on a single wire? We promise you will be surprised tolearn how the telephone evolved from the telegraph.
In this episode:
Serendipitous user interfaces Deep dive on the electromechanical telegraph Morse code Failure rates and probability Overseas telegraph parties Multiple telegraph conversations on a single wire Frequency division multiplexing Mirrors and threads How Thomas Edison got rich Duplex vs. half duplex vs. simplex The accidental invention of the telephone -
Onward to party lines! After the telephone was invented, the next thing people wanted to dowas talk to their friends. But this was expensive! In this episode, we explain how the telephonegained mass market adoption, including the party line, and finally, the first digital (yes, onesand zeros) telephone transmission.
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We promise you; you don’t know what the telegraph is. You think you know, but did you know thefirst telegraphs had no wires? Did you know they used 30-foot tall towers with people standingon top of them? Did you know that electrical telegraphs were originally discovered thanks toa frog leg?
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Gordon Moore declared that CPUs would get better and better at a very ambitious rate,and it turns out, he has been mostly right for over 50 years! We talk about the technology innovations that have allowed Moore’s amazing law to continue from 1965 tothe present.
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What are cookies on the web? You’ve heard about them. Now go deep on what they are, how they work,and what they let your web browser do.
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Part 2 in the thrilling saga: The surprising physics of sailing!
This is the second episode of Explainercast where Shane and Dave explain sailing!
We covered more physics, optimization strategies, racing, and how to get started in sailing.
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The surprising physics of sailing!
This is the first episode of Explainercast where Shane and Dave explain sailing! This is the 1st episodein a series about sailing.
The main question to answer is whether this will truly be 1 of only 2 total episodeson sailing given Shane’s profound depth of knowledge on this topic.
