14: It's Just Math

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4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week we dip our toes into the wild world of ray tracing, from the physical basics to emerging APIs, a brief history of GPU design, what the ray tracing solutions might look like in the new consoles, and a DIY tech demo you can do at your kitchen table! Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	wait for the bell to stop.
0:01.1	Yeah.
0:01.7	We got a minute.
0:03.4	I think somebody actually pulls the thing.
0:05.0	I don't know.
0:06.2	It's very timely.
0:07.1	It's every hour.
0:07.9	Have you ever done that?
0:08.9	Have you ever gotten to pull a bell tower?
0:10.5	No.
0:11.2	When I was at the Washington Cathedral as a kid, as like a 12-year-old, they would let the kids jump on the bell ropes and pull them.
0:18.4	Do you have to literally jump on it and follow your weight? It's like, it's like a rope.
0:24.1	You know those velvet ropes that are like barricading entrances to things?
0:27.7	It's like one of those.
0:28.8	Why is it?
0:29.3	Because you have to grab onto it with both hands and like friction and jump up and your whole body weight.
0:35.7	So I like I watched all the little kids mess up.
0:38.7	And then when I said, anybody else want to try?
0:39.6	I was like, raised my hand.
0:41.4	And I took a, you know, I was like six feet tall at the time, 12 years old.
0:45.6	I jumped as high as I could, grabbed it and yanked with my arms.
0:49.4	And the woman giving the torch is flinched.
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