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Sample films we made to show the service, and films made with the same engine for other projects. Every film has captions and a transcript, and says that its narrator is a synthetic voice.
Explain a Paper films
Films we made to show the service: every word on screen is typeset from the script, and every chart is plotted from the paper's own numbers.
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Explain a Paper: your research, explained on film What the service does, from the paper you send to the film you publish.
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Hubble 1929, explained Hubble's six-page paper for a general audience: three ideas, then the result.
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Hubble 1929, explained: the full-frame cut The same film with every scene full-frame, for small screens and social feeds.
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Hubble 1929: the pilot film Our first film: the original printing, the data in Table 1 and the result.
Made with the same engine
The engine that makes our films also makes films for other projects. These were made by Digital Tactics, the company behind Explain a Paper, for GreenCode, a European research project it takes part in, and for its own products.
GreenCode on YouTube GreenCode on TikTok Digital Tactics on YouTube
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GreenCode: Reduced energy use How GreenCode measures, improves and verifies the energy software uses.
GreenCode
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GreenCode: Legacy code modernisation Why old systems are rarely modernised by hand, and a pipeline that helps.
GreenCode
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GreenCode: Mathematics and green AI How better algorithms and smarter scheduling cut the energy AI needs.
GreenCode
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GreenCode: Research software and the energy of a failed job What failed and slow jobs cost on shared research computers.
GreenCode
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GreenCode: the whole story A long-form film: the whole research project in four parts.
GreenCode
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GreenCode Tech Tip #1: Stop the N+1 query A vertical short: one trip to the database instead of one per item.
GreenCode, vertical short
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GreenCode Tech Tip #2: Your cloud servers are mostly idle A vertical short on right-sizing servers that mostly sit idle.
GreenCode, vertical short
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SOSX explained: AI-enabled systems thinking A product film for Digital Tactics' SOSX.
Digital Tactics
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PHP Energy explained: energy monitoring for PHP A product film for Digital Tactics' PHP Energy.
Digital Tactics
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Customer Compass explained: an AI decision agent for Xero A product film for Digital Tactics' Customer Compass.
Digital Tactics
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