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The short, thick finger on the side of your human hand, slightly apart from the other four.

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  • It's worse than the thumb. This is so unfair. Oh, poison scissors. So, I have a flaw.

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  • So, as I bring her to her feet, I slip my thumb in between the two parts of the watchband and I separate the band from the pin.

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  • It's possible for the steal to take place entirely using the thumb with the person's wrist face up.

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  • First, I have to get my thumb and first finger under his collar, but above his jacket.

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  • She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L [music] on her forehead.

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  • She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead.

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  • "Buon giorno." Literally, "buongiorno" means "good day." However, we could also interpret it as "good morning" or "good afternoon." As a rule of thumb, we can use "buongiorno" only during the daytime, from morning until evening.

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  • Let me just say, no, you don't need to buy an overpriced canopy online. You can just make it yourself with old curtains, thumb tacks, and toilet paper. Let me show you. Basically, what you're going to do is take a curtain and pin it onto the ceiling with thumb tacks. We added pins right here so that it formed this pretty box shape. Now we're adding two more curtains at the back.

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  • Oh, would you look at that bread no bigger than my thumb.

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  • mathematically, as we saw earlier on the board. I hope this demonstration just gives a little bit of a physical intuition of what all these components are doing. All right, so now hopefully you've got a good intuitive feel for what all of these terms do, so maybe it might be helpful to just make a little quick table. This is sort of some rules of thumb about how adjusting these parameters are going to affect different parts of your system. If you adjust KP, let's ask about how

    Introduction to PID Control
  • in moderation. You don't want to go overboard because you definitely can drive things unstable with a large KD, but if you keep them small, it's usually pretty reasonable. So again, these are some rules of thumb about how to tune these gains. Because the whole game with the PID controller, we said it's incredibly versatile; it's used all over the place. The only thing you've got to really do is pick these three numbers: KP, KI, and KD, and this will hopefully get you a

    Introduction to PID Control
  • little bit of the way there. But hopefully, there are some warning bells going off in the back of your heads that say, "I don't want to design an engineered system based on a rule-of-thumb table." But this gives us some intuitive feel. What we instead want to do in some of our future discussions is look at mathematically rigorous ways to synthesize a PID controller—AKA pick those gains—using things like root locus or other techniques. So that hopefully sets the

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  • Oh, I'm just girl, living in captivity ♪ ♪ Your rule of thumb makes me worrisome ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm just a girl, what's my destiny? ♪ ♪ What I've succumbed to is making me numb ♪ ♪ Oh, I'm just a girl, my

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  • As a rule of thumb, you should balance out the metals first, then the nonmetals, and hydrogen and oxygen at the end.

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  • And then once you do that, you can just cut your loose end, and you should only have two loose ends on this project unless you were switching colors, so weaving in the loose ends isn't too bad for this project. And there you go, that is how you make your yarn hammock. If you want to hang it on your walls, you can use thumb tacks or Command hooks, and you would just hang these two edges and this one up.

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  • You can hang up your yarn hammock with thumb tacks or Command hooks. I hung up my old one with thumb tacks and it held up 10 lbs in yarn easily, so it's pretty easy to hang up on your wall. Again, let me know if you have any questions or concerns or comments, any recommendations for further videos, and I will see you guys next Wednesday for our next video. Until then, bye, I love you guys so much.

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