"On a lonely friday evening I spend 14 hours setting up different simulations" Yeah, thats an engineering student right here

@johnie102

3 жыл бұрын

This is the way

@crazyt1483

3 жыл бұрын

More of a general stem student factor then just engineering student but as a computer science student I totally agree and normally do so on a Saturday or Sunday evening as they are the days I don’t need to be up before mid day the next.

@HotelPapa100

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a joke with a talking frog...

@play005517

3 жыл бұрын

"On a lonely friday evening my supervisor assigned me 14 hours-worth work and expect me to give a report in the meeting on monday morning." Yeah, this's a normal working person.

@TISJA-qh4bh

3 жыл бұрын

hes so adorable i cant

You have a Tom Scott level of quality in your videos, but with much more sciency topics, love it.

@naverilllang

3 жыл бұрын

Now I can hear Tom Scott "I'm at a big hole in Australia!"

@tashkiira7838

3 жыл бұрын

Appropriately, he filled in for Tom on Tom's 2021 vacation for a video.

@gonzalopineiro9147

3 жыл бұрын

@@tashkiira7838 Yes! I discovered this channel because of Tom.

@gramursowanfaborden5820

3 жыл бұрын

i wouldn't necessarily say that was a compliment though, although the topics are interesting, this style of production is quite dated, the rhythm of his speech makes it feel like a BBC documentary from 1992.

@hazeltree7738

3 жыл бұрын

@@gramursowanfaborden5820 I really like that speech rhythm to be honest, it makes me more interested for some reason

About time I took a look at what 'real' Aussie engineers get up to!

@viewvestr4066

3 жыл бұрын

I would suggest you look at the Kennecott pit failure if you want to see something really spectacular

@AtomicFrontier

2 жыл бұрын

@@viewvestr4066 I think you're going to like this weekend's episode....

@lmMuel

2 жыл бұрын

@@AtomicFrontier Take a look at IDS georadar, used to work for them. Interferometric synthetic aperture radar, interesting stuff, they're on all major mine sites.

While I enjoy the engineering discussed here--I particularly love this video because my WA wife has done nothing but make fun of me for trying to pronounce "Kalgoorlie" in my incomprehensibly American accent. So it's real nice to finally have a low-key proper pronunciation guide.

@emceeboogieboots1608

3 жыл бұрын

It's just Kal... But my grandma would say "We are from Boulder!"

@chrisbraid2907

3 жыл бұрын

@@emceeboogieboots1608 only problem there for an American is the confusion with Boulder Colorado and not being in Washington State (W.A.) but Western Australia (also W.A.) ... P.S. I’m from Boulder Too !

@jimcambron1328

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, the magic that is Australian landmark nomenclature... The first thing a tourist visiting Australia should do is to learn the Australian pronunciation of major city names. This will impress your Aussie hosts to no end!

@glenbuyer8738

2 жыл бұрын

It’s pronounced Kal-gool-ee.

Video: "some simple matrix math" Me: *F#&@!*

@SeagullAustralis

3 жыл бұрын

*maths

@DaimyoD0

3 жыл бұрын

I specifically remember when we skipped matrices in one of my high school precalculus classes, I guess on some strange assumption we wouldn't need it. Now nearly a decade later I continuously run into matrix calculations with computer programming and I feel like I need to just set out a couple days to intensively teach myself how to do them properly.

@danielhale1

3 жыл бұрын

@@DaimyoD0 Both my programming classes and my math classes covered matrix math in detail, but I only vaguely remember it. I apparently blocked it out as a coping mechanism. :P However, unless I'm programming my own graphics or object transformation math, it usually isn't something I need to deal with directly; there's usually a library or something already handling it. So my passing familiarity is enough for me to skirt by and feed my systemic laziness, just as nature intended.

@justins8802

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielhale1 That’s the way of the software world. Every problem just needs to be solved once globally, and everyone else can copy pasta their way though from then on, while their superiors think they are geniuses.

@danielhale1

3 жыл бұрын

@@justins8802 Odd way to put it, as that's not really how it works. Mostly when a problem is already solved, that frees the programmer up to work on a different problem. So instead of reinventing the wheel over and over again, we solve a problem once and focus our efforts on what's left. I'm not, for example, always interested in building a new rendering engine from scratch before I make a new product. That's been done really well in a variety of different engines, and it's not worth spending years reinventing the wheel. If someone has already solved a difficulty geometry problem, spending hours or days or weeks learning the nuances of the field so I can solve it myself is an irresponsible use of time and money. You call it "copy pasta" kinda derisively, like the person learning from others is offering no real value to the company and does no other work. I'm sure there are some hack "programmers" out there who are as you describe but... certainly not in my career. I'm sorry you've never met real programmers, or perhaps have never given them a fair shake.

I'm gonna recommend these videos to my science teacher, they're so good

4:28 "Every triangle is a love triangle ... when you love triangles". 😂

As normal, this seems incredibly interesting!

been working in the super pit as an engineer for 10+ yrs. Interesting to go thru your video, but in reality there are shit tons of factors that a software can never simulate.

You’re the Tom Scott prodigy we dindt knew we need until now

The youtube translation is on top once again. The title "translated" into german says: "Kalgoorlies 150.582.809€ landslide (and how we can avoid the next one)"

@somedude6833

3 жыл бұрын

For me it’s in polish

@RandomGuy-nm6bm

3 жыл бұрын

Wenn youtube ai jetzt eigene clickbait title erfindet.

@bottlekruiser

3 жыл бұрын

Оползень в Калгурли, обошедшийся в 13,8 млрд руб. (и о том, как предотвратить следующий)

@niklasl4180

3 жыл бұрын

What's the original title then?

This is an incredible channel. You're so young! KZread has a good future ahead (as long as long as you keep making videos)

@AtomicFrontier

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Good thing about engineering is that theres an ever increasing supply of cool things to talk about. Next one should be... out of this world!

@thebritishguy7741

3 жыл бұрын

@@AtomicFrontier yo, is this a teaser of some sort??

@WantEpicMusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@thebritishguy7741 I'll take this Opportunity to say that it certainly piqued my Curiosity. I reckon we'll figure it out if we have enough Perseverance

@brandonchan4537

3 жыл бұрын

​@@WantEpicMusic I never had the Opportunity to make a pun, your pun peak my Curiosity on whether i could do the same, but with much Perseverance i have done the same!

@junglefett

3 жыл бұрын

@@brandonchan4537 Come on... that's the same pun. What a missed Opportunity, your Perseverance is just disappointing, even though it did peak my Curiosity as well.

Thanks, Tom Scott. This channel is a Great addition to my subcriptions!

The complexities that come into play on these massive scales astound even if they are just digging a hole.

I cannot wait for you to say "this video was brought to you by Curiosity Stream and Nebula" your content will fit right in!

6:35 holy heck that is a fine walk

"Trucks with $4 million dollars roll past..." - wait what? let me rewind and hear that again "Trucks with $4 million dollars roll past..." - wait, he actually said it, didnt he?! "Trucks with $4 million dollars roll past..." - that doesn't even make sense, why'd there be millions of dollars on a truck in that pit? Does he mean the gold?! "Trucks with $4 million dollars roll past..." - ok, gimme subtitles, something is wrong here. "Trucks worth $4 million dollars roll past..." - ah... aussie. :P

@zapfanzapfan

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, my first thought was "Damn, that is some rich ore" :-)

@alistairryan3950

3 жыл бұрын

@@zapfanzapfan He's English

@RandomGuy-nm6bm

3 жыл бұрын

I understood it the first time. I'm not a native speaker so maybe that's why

@emceeboogieboots1608

3 жыл бұрын

He may have said "worth". Cat 793s would be in that ballpark new probably. The thing is something like 8 or 9 out of 10 of those trucks are carrying waste rock worth nothing. One in 10 has gold ore at maybe 3 or 4 grams per tonne. Probably less. So much rock moved to get to the gold

@FRERABRETZ1

3 ай бұрын

Yep they are expensive, I worked at the super pit for 6 years, I had just left site when the 1,000,000t rockfall happened, I wasn’t working in the pit but on the processing side of the site, it’s a massive mine site.

It's so cool to see an entire series based around Perth! I've lived here my entire life and didn't know like any of this.

@AtomicFrontier

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Its been great finding out about my hometown too! - James

@JackAllpikeMusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@AtomicFrontier Oh you're from Perth too?! I didn't know that, that's awesome!

Very interesting video and pleasant presentation style, especially liked how you use your voice.

I was born in Kalgoorlie and my dad worked in the pit as an excavator operator in the 80s and 90s. In the video it doesnt look like much but if you are standing on the edge looking down, it's a jaw dropper. Even got to go down to the bottom once with my dad on his 12 hour shift (I was 10 years old) Don't think you could do that now...

Love seeing videos on things in WA, we don't get mentioned much

have to say this is as always, some of the best accessible science content on youtube. Love it! keep it up.

All your videos are so great and engaging James, I love learning all the interesting things you have to share with the world - you’re killing it! It’s so great to see how far you’ve come in your sub count and your video quality, it’s superb! Hope you’re keeping well mang and best of luck to you in future

I’m in geotechnical engineering and we run similar models but we use a probability density function to vary the slope/soil parameters to find a safety probability. Super cool simulation!

I find it fascinating how your videos educate us not only about the science in these massive endeavours, but also on the history behind them. Cheers from Brazil, mate.

Amazing video quality, breathtaking shots, incredible topics, insightful and easy to understand explanation! 10/10 one of the best channels on KZread! Makes me happy watching these fun videos! Keep it up

Your "keep looking up!" send off always reminds me of a short astronomy television show I used to watch growing up on public television. Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler hosted by Jack Horkheimer, executive director, of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. His send off was "and remember, keep looking up!." Coincidence or not, I love it!

You can see the bags under his eyes when he's explaining the model results lul. Impressive commitment to continuity.

Amazing quality, interesting in-depth research, cute presenter, who can ask for more?

Watching you touch the screens directly hurt me. You better have cleaned off those fingerprints afterwards! Joking aside, love the video. Hope you keep up the great work!

@timstump7293

3 жыл бұрын

Great video!

The audio and video quality here is fantastic! This is your smoothest video yet, and it was a pleasure to watch. I think mining is a really interesting industry with a lot of potential for technological innovation.

So you're an engineering univ student _and_ a quality content creator? How do you do all of this? It's insane!

@chestnut4860

Жыл бұрын

Why do you think he drinks so much coffee? Man probably hasn't slept since kindergarden.

love the james acaster reference! well, i love the other bits too. almost as much as i love triangles

Gosh I remember spending hours having to doing these on paper in uni so we understood the basics before they let us loose on the computers

This is awesome, glad to see an Australian scientific channel producing great content

Golden 'Two-Miles' nowadays. The Super Pit is an amazing feat of human engineering, and the more amazing thing is that the owners have been test drilling up to 2-kilometres deep if I'm correct, and suggest they can extract another 9 million ounces and be viable until at least 2035. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for the insight.

And then there are the opal miners who just drill a deep hole straight down and hollow everything out.

I just discovered your channel ! And I'm glad I did .

there is no such thing as an "unhealthy amount of coffee"! coffee is life, coffee is love!

@emceeboogieboots1608

3 жыл бұрын

I went to the School of Mines in Kalgoorlie... I drank an unhealthy amount of alcohol 😵

@chrisbraid2907

3 жыл бұрын

Unless a truckload of coffee is being spilled over you ....

@MrEazyE357

2 жыл бұрын

Jeez dude. Calm down. It's just coffee.

Opening and whole video through, a real David Attenborough. Simple, direct, informative and entertaining

This is one of the best channel for science topics. Keep up the awesome works!

58k subscribers now! Damn! You are just hurtling towards your first 💯 k at this point. Keep up the great work!

I always manage to find your videos early. Btw keep up the good work!

I love the amount of effort you put into your videos they seem like something you would watch on the history channel

@AtomicFrontier

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! In my very first video (back in year 7) I pretended to BE the history channel, so that means a lot.

I immediately got flashbacks to my own lonely nights with Abaqus.

2:06 I love that headline. Oh no! Not the jobs!! (Also they might be crushed by rocks) But the jobs!!!

I'm really looking forward to the content that this guy will have to offer. Keep up the good work James.

Just discovered this channel and you've definitely earned yourself another subscriber. Looking forward to much more, great topic, great quality. Just stay away from the unhealthy amounts of coffee.

One point of critisism; there is not enough audio sound. It sounds like your voice is recorded in a studio, there is absolutely nothing from the environment, making it feel very artificial. I am not sure if this is the microphone or processing, but having your voice be clearly understandable but with any location audio would be much nicer to listen to. Contentwise great!

@Coastal0

3 жыл бұрын

There are birds and wind noise though.

@klaxxor

3 жыл бұрын

I think he overdubbed the whole thing to sound more clear and consistent but it does sound a bit artificial.

I like the map at the end so we know where in the world your topics are

Very well presented young feller-me-lad.

Argyle Dimond mine is in the process of shutting down, it would be amazing if you did a history piece on the mine!

4:46 "really basic matrix operations"

Such incredible content. I can’t wait to see what you do next! I cannot watch your content quick enough.

Each video is even more interesting than the previous thanks so much.

This is genuinely really really good content, good luck for the future, you can definitely do really well

Hey, in the beginning opening introduction, while the camera pans backwards, how was it so steady? Gimble or drone?

Great work James. I found your channel through the special you did for Tom Scott.

I was in a even deeper copper mine in chile. Truly recommended to visit these impressive places.

I love your dedication and professionalism in every video, gj!

A thorough Engineering analysis of a hole. Very nice

it took me two videos to sub... this channel looks like a hidden gem in the making!

This is so pleasing and relaxing to watch. Great job!

Our Martha Open pit mine is currently not operating from the pit as the wall collapsed into the pit. They are currently buying up some land nearby the pit so they can dig down from the top again to remove pressure from the wall as well as expanding the mine.

I work as a metallurgist here, this, as well as your copper video, was extremely well made and informative for the layman

Honestly seeing the work you put into this alone got my subscription but on top of that this is a really good knowledgeable video!

Fascinating, and a very nice production mate🖖🏼

This is interesting stuff, and really well presented. I've been to Kalgoorlie a couple of times and you don't realise just how big that superpit is until you stand in awe at the viewing site. It's actually quite scary.

Great video, It was so cool to see the mine shafts that had been dug out!!!

Love the way you talk bro. Very elegant. Your videos are great keep them coming! 🤜🤛🙋

Fantastic production and informative video! Subscribed!

This is really cool. Nice video mate.

Well im glad i found this channel, good stuff mate 👍

The quality of your video is sooooo good

Love what you've done with the place. Pretty much wrecked AF.

Finding out you studied either as a mining engineer or alongside them is cool, and explains why I've been interested in basically all of the videos you've put out. I studied mining eng. at a school in Missouri, US, but I don't work in the industry at the moment.

What a great video. Keep up the good work!

Another great job! I appreciate your depth of reporting and wish you could host an hour long science and engineering show for the general public like me. You are a natural at teaching complex issues to punters like me.

I live a couple of blocks across from the Superpit in Boulder and have been in the city since 2008, your presentation is excellent. Enjoy your engineering, we need good engineers more now than ever .... at 64 I’m impressed....

Brilliant stuff man!

More like this please! Great video

This was very educational thank you Jane’s 👍🏻

Excellent. Bright future for you mate. Good on ya 👏

Thanks James. I'm someone who went to Kal in the late 90s with my family in tow and kicked off a career in mining. Indeed my youngest son was born over there. Back in Qld again these days, but still in mining 👍

Found your channel today. This is educational content gold. Subscribed.

An episode of fine quality!

Very well presented. Thank you.

Great job, keep at it. You will only get better.

Really insightful, thanks!

Great video mate.

Believe it or not, there was a drill rig working at the bottom of that pit that drilled through a very old mine shaft and then got swallowed up in the consequential mineshaft collapse. I was there to see it.

Dude this was awesome..thankyou

Fascinating, thank you.

I live next to a very similar open pit mine! Exciting to learn about something so close to home from so far away!

Fantastic video. Something I've never thought about even though I should have.

"The mine has been turning children digging holes on the beach into engineers for decades" i really expected you to say "mush" not engineers

@tiddlypom2097

3 жыл бұрын

😂 When I heard "mine" and "children" I was expecting something about child labour

@emceeboogieboots1608

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Esperance 400km from Kal on the south coast digging holes on the beach Then went to the West Australian School of Mines in Kal to study Minerals Engineering Then partied heaps... ...So not an engineer And I don't like digging holes

Why has KZread not blasted you off yet, your content is amazing!!!

Great vid mate

Great videos, keep up the good work.

Well presented video, and excellent Engineering Science. I enjoyed the Video very much, especially as I was born in Kalgoorlie before the Super Pit and my Dad worked in the mines.