... and a guy who does this —
Thanks to my son John for sending me that... after I sent him this...
Both videos are by Doodle Chaos, and there's more Doodle Chaos here.
AND: You can see Doodle Chaos as one of a group of 6 individuals who call themselves The Lemonade Machine at the end of this video which shows an elaborate device which could also be called The Lemonade Machine:
February 8, 2019
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In the first video there's a special bonus for Wisconsin fans — a motion W.
The joys of limitless free time.
I bet the girls who made these gizmos and videos were not very conscientious.
My balls!
If anybody has any questions about why musicians make good programmers, the Beethoven’s Fifth video should settle it for you.
"Doodle Chaos is the Youtube channel of Mark Robbins"
Oh well, I bet the girls who wrote the music and invented the gravity were not very conscientious, as were the girls who wrote "Line Rider":
"Mark, in his free time, enjoys creating videos using Line Rider, an online application that allows you to make videos by drawing lines on which, once the work is done, Bosh, a child on a sleigh, will slip along the path created."
When building Rube Goldberg devices, tracks and gravity are reliable. The glory is in the elements that introduce randomness- wind, bouncy objects where coefficient of restitution comes into play, animals...
One take is a necessity.
Honda did it well.
Well John Roberts is unhappy God didn't allow him children, so he stole a couple, but he is still unhappy his genes are so defective. The theft is bereft.
Either empathy or sympathy with that plight might make one unhappy, so let's do away with both, in order we be happy.
Those were cool, although the degree of difficulty with the first one is much higher than matching doodles to music.
How can we be happy when mostly men made these videos and wrote the music?
If anybody has any questions about why musicians make good programmers, the Beethoven’s Fifth video should settle it for you.
Who knew Beethoven was a coder?
So, is there any real info - IOW, not anecdotes - to show that there's some correlation between music and programming other than 'g' (general intelligence)? This 'wired' writer couldn't seem to find any; this PuffingtonHost article, "Composing Code: Why Musicians Make Great Software Developers" has some 'g'-related anecdotes without using the term 'g', but does celebrate something they hope is bad for white men: "In a welcome twist, these bootcamps have also begun to erode the white male dominance of the coding world."
All I know is that a lot of developers I knew were amateur musicians. I knew two coders who were successful, at one time, professional musicians. One of them told me that he gave up music after opening for the Go Gos and that he realized he was just too old when they trashed his hotel room and he just wanted to sleep. Another one played in a band with a hit song you still hear on the radio from time to time, though they replaced him in the band, and you probably never noticed.
But yeah, it probably has to do with ‘g’ which for Beethoven, was probably off the charts.
Thank God that when some of his drinking buddies said "learn to code", Beethoven was busy staring at the barmaid's ass. He was only staring becuase of the bad eyes thing, so it was not a toxic stare.
Here is Google's tribute to the Lemonade Machine.
If you like that, then I'm guessing you will like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
The creator has a series of videos on how he made the Marble Machine. And it only uses 2000 marble.
Rube Goldberg would be proud.
jvb
"How can you ever be unhappy when you live in a world with music ... and a guy who does this?"
You mean, like, we should be happy with the whitest of white-dude music? And the guyest of guy tricks?
"a group of 6 individuals"
Huh. I could have sworn I saw five men and one woman.
The first video made me wonder if he created and put into motion the entire Rube-Goldberg device that is implied by the video, or whether he created and recorded each sub-piece that is actually shown, and then spliced them together?
I'll take the Fifth, very cool.
> So, is there any real info - IOW, not anecdotes - to show that there's some correlation between music and programming other than 'g'
My impression has been that physics correlates with music and mathematics with languages. I've never seen any studies on that, however.
Thanks for posting that! I only watched the last video, but it was fun. I hope they got the house cleaned up before mom and dad got home!
Driving home on a Sunday night from a wedding in Dallas area, about 400 miles from home I got a call from the middle son. His son, Jacob, had to have a machine that included at least 23 energy transfers and, at the end, would empty a small box of cereal into a bowl. Swell, I says, when is it due? Tuesday morning. Can you come over Monday evening to "help"?
Uhhhhh..... I'll do my best. Mental design occupied those last 400 miles.
I should note I'm a pack rat. Except for a small bag of marbles and a package of bolts everything came out of my junk pile.
Junk pile assembled, parts fitted. Fiddling, testing, fiddling. Trying new things. I got about 12 energy transfers set up Sunday night and 6 more or so drawn up on my board.
Off to the kid's house where three generations got busy. Jacob got to use some power tools he'd never tried and he experienced the joys of trial and error.
After many false starts the final trial began. A reed was pulled back and released. Marbles were propelled down pvc pipe. Flippers flipped, Dominoes fell, pins pulled, weights dropped, other weights swung. Platforms tilted, a counter weight bucket filled with marbles, and ..... cereal poured. [Holy crap, it worked!]
Not that it approached the videos, but Jacob's machine was the only successful one in the class.
Lotta fun. Probably the second time I've impressed that grandson since he became a teen.
This will NOT be my new hobby.
This year's Marbelymics are going to be lit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2AbcCbyJ2U&t
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