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Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by kriro »

Not so much channels but interesting series:

Playlist of all Susskind Physics lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyX8kQ-JzHI&list=PL6i60qoDQh...

Sanderson Writing class (fantasy but applies to all genres): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cf-qdZ7GbA&list=PLSH_xM-KC3...

Channels:

Andreas Spiess aka Guy With the Swiss Accent for embedded / microcontrollers: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasSpiess

Hoopers Beta for a scienctific/medical POV about climbing: https://www.youtube.com/c/HoopersBeta

IppSec for HackTheBox to learn security: https://www.youtube.com/c/ippsec

LiveOverflow for security: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiveOverflow

Yannic Kilcher for ML news / overviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/YannicKilcher

French Guy Cooking: https://www.youtube.com/c/FrenchGuyCooking

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by xmonkee »

dskrobak wrote: post #78
BeefWellington wrote: post #20

- Technology Connections for general household "how stuff works" - DIY Perks, which is on the project/creation end of things - Xyla Foxlin for a variety of projects - Veritasium for well basically anything and everything science - Simone Giertz does a lot of projects to solve problems in both ridiculous and entertaining ways - Element14 Presents, if you're interested in building your own electronics - Hugh Jeffreys f…

Nice list I would just add few more: -Climate Town https://youtube.com/c/ClimateTown -Advoko makes https://youtube.com/c/Advoko -AdamSomething https://youtube.com/c/AdamSomething -AppliedSience https://youtube.com/c/AppliedScience -Carykh https://youtube.com/user/carykh -Wendover Production https://youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions -StuffMadeHere https://youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere -SteveMould https://youtube.com/c/S…

StuffMadeHere and DIYPerks are two very different kinds of builder, but both utterly awe inspiring

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by russellbeattie »

hnu0847 wrote: post #71
russellbeattie wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The amusing thing about Computerphile is it makes me wonder how inaccurate or inexact Numberphile is, as I'm very knowledgeable about the former and clueless about the latter. Computerphile is unwatchable to me, they'll just say stuff that is flat out wrong, but I eagerly await each new Numberphile vid. There's a term for this, I can't remember. You read a newspaper article about a subject you know, and can't believe…

Gell-Mann Amnesia Out of curiosity, can you give a recent example of a video from Computerphile that was incorrect?

That's it! Thanks!

Recent videos? I haven't watched it in a while. But looking now, I immediately found an example, because the problems are always with the history. In the video below [1], the guy absolutely mangles the story of the byte and why it's 8 bits long. He turns what was a fuckup in the launch of the System/360, into some urban legend of IBM's technical superiority and vision.

"IBM said, 'Let's be brave! 8 bit characters!'"

FFS, no. IBM said (in summary), "Crap, we really wanted to use 7 bit ASCII - an evolution of the 6 bit teleprinter code, since we're on the federal standards committee, but ASCII peripherals won't be ready in time for the System/360 launch, so uh, let's use this 8 bit extension to our old 6 bit punch cards instead and wing it." It turned out to be a massive blunder. [2]

The System/360 still succeeded and its success meant a bunch of software was written for it, which all assumed an 8 bit byte, competitors copied IBM, and the rest of the market followed, but it took a decade or so. There's lots of fun stuff in the actual story - including the rich history of today's character standards which goes all the way back to the telegraph - to summarize without making things up.

1. https://youtu.be/ixJCo0cyAuA

2. https://web.archive.org/web/20180513204153/http://www.bobbem...

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by kyleee »

jraph wrote: post #93

In English, absent in these comments at this time: - Tantacrul - Music and software design, he is now involved in Audacity and MuseScore I follow a number of really good French channels as well, if anyone is interested I can post them.

Please do

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by kriro »

ianai wrote: post #22

Asianometry -semis John Michael Godier/Event Horizon astrophysics interviews with speculative science mixed in BilliSpeaks cat with word buttons. Loves the mad button. William Spaniel-geopolitics/game theory Ian builder complete off the wall “experiments“ but mostly chaos Quinns ideas-sci-fi/fantasy The Royal Institution Yoga with Adrienne the yoga GOAT Scott Galloway Econ/decent rage interpreter

For Yoga I like https://www.youtube.com/c/MadyMorrison especially the no talk videos. 10 second showing of posture, time to hold posture, on to the next all with audio cues. Perfectly boiled down to the minimum.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by joseluis »

Apart from many good and very well known channels already shared:

- math videos https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMathSorcerer

- math videos https://www.youtube.com/c/brightsideofmaths

- math videos https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths

- mainly physics, plus chemistry, astronomy, math, and mechanical engineering videos https://www.youtube.com/c/MichelvanBiezen

- chemistry & physics https://www.youtube.com/c/AdvancedTinkering

- machine learning papers https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyZsolnai

- painting & composition https://www.youtube.com/c/IanRobertsMasteringComposition

- medicine https://www.youtube.com/c/NinjaNerdScience

- medicine https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFPvnkCZbHfBvV8ApBBE0vA

- therapy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbWvYupGqq3aMJ6LsG4q-Yg

- perspectives on physics and cosmology https://www.youtube.com/c/SeethePattern

- analysis of materials impacted by high energy phenomena https://www.youtube.com/c/MartinFleischmannMemorialProject

- perspectives on physics https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMachian/

- anatomy https://www.youtube.com/c/InstituteofHumanAnatomy

- signal processing https://www.youtube.com/user/allsignalprocessing

- solving complex sudoku-derived puzzles https://www.youtube.com/c/CrackingTheCryptic

- the art of listening: music albums gems https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7shUDSkHjuQNegPhGdANQQ

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by ben__bradley »

defanor wrote: post #54

I happen to have a list of channels I found fun and/or interesting at hand ( https://defanor.uberspace.net/links.xhtml#Videos >), so here's a rather long one: Cody's Lab, How To Make Everything, Isaac Arthur, Linus Tech Tips, Numberphile, Stand-up Maths, Computerphile, Veritasium, SmarterEveryDay, Adam Savage's Tested, The 8-Bit Guy, Primitive Technology, StanfordUniversity, Geek & Sundry, Viva La Dirt League, Sixty…

"Origins of Precision" Best video from Machine Thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by jonnytran »

hnu0847 wrote: post #71
russellbeattie wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The amusing thing about Computerphile is it makes me wonder how inaccurate or inexact Numberphile is, as I'm very knowledgeable about the former and clueless about the latter. Computerphile is unwatchable to me, they'll just say stuff that is flat out wrong, but I eagerly await each new Numberphile vid. There's a term for this, I can't remember. You read a newspaper article about a subject you know, and can't believe…

Gell-Mann Amnesia Out of curiosity, can you give a recent example of a video from Computerphile that was incorrect?

I know you're asking about Computerphile, but this video explains how one of the Numberphile videos is wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuIIjLr6vUA
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