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How do you build the machines that make advanced computer chips? Veritasium explores ASML and extreme ultraviolet lithography: the technology used to create incredibly small features on silicon. It is a window into the precision engineering behind everyday computing, where light, materials and manufacturing all have to work together.
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Software engineering / Artificial intelligence
What happens inside a language model when it generates text? 3Blue1Brown follows the flow of data through a transformer, using visual explanations to introduce word embeddings and next-token prediction. A useful starting point for connecting the mathematics of deep learning to the AI tools we use, one step at a time.
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Aerospace / Mechanical engineering
The familiar classroom egg-drop challenge gets a high-altitude upgrade. Mark Rober takes on the problem of bringing a fragile egg back to Earth with help from a balloon team. Watch with an engineer’s eye: how do you control a fall, protect the payload and test a design before its biggest trial?
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Mechanical engineering / Design
An infamous escape becomes a lesson in resourcefulness. Mark Rober explores the engineering behind Alcatraz with Cleo Abram, Johnny Harris and help from Adam Savage. The interesting question is how ordinary objects can solve unusual problems: a reminder that engineering starts with understanding your constraints and finding inventive ways to work within them.
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