Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing - Part 1
Edit: Part 2 of this post can be found here, and part 3 here. Most of the code used in these posts is available here. Disclaimer In this post I refer to lyrics of certain bands as being "Metal". I know some people have strong feelings about how genres are defined, and would probably disagree with me about some of the bands I call metal in this post. I call these band "Metal" here for the sake of b
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Moshpits.js
A JavaScript implementation of the simulations presented in the paper Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts. More details are available at Itai Cohen's group website including videos of mosh pits, full simulations, and a brief description. Play around. The buttoms above set up interesting initial conditions while the sliders allow you to control the parameters of the model. The keys
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A physicist has put forth new ideas in the long-running question of how best to keep dry when moving in the rain. If you run, you are out in the rain for less time, yet you run into more drops - so what is the optimal speed? Franco Bocci, <link> <caption>reporting in the European Journal of Physics</caption> <url href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0143-0807/33/5/1321" platform="highweb"/> </link> , n
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mp3: http://symphonyofscience.com "Ode to the Brain" is the ninth episode in the Symphony of Science music video series. Through the powerful words of scientists Carl Sagan, Robert Winston, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jill Bolte Taylor, Bill Nye, and Oliver Sacks, it covers different aspects the brain including its evolution, neuron networks, folding, and more. The material sampled for this video c
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Synaptic Cleft | SciVee
This parody of Wu-Tang Clan's "Gravel Pit" was made for Human Biology 4A's unit on Neuroscience. The unit is taught by Russ Fernald (who is featured on his bicycle). Lyrics are below, followed by the cast. Video edited by Jake Wachtel. SARAH TONIN (Chorus): Check out the synaptic cleft. where, thanks to vesicular trafficking, a neuronal signal can be transmitted from electrical to... » More Th
Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level
Directed in 1971 by Robert Alan Weiss for the Department of Chemistry of Stanford University and imprinted with the "free love" aura of the period, this short film continues to be shown in biology class today. It has since spawn a series of similar funny attempts at vulgarizing protein synthesis. Narrated by Paul Berg, 1980 Nobel prize for Chemistry.
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