Its good to watch youtube tech channels. But nothing replaces books in my experience. Get in to the habbit of reading books and watch videos only occasionally.
Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
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Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
#252Not Just Bikes. The Dutch solved a lot of urban problems that most other countries still haven. This is a guy from Canada living in Holland, talking about urbanism, mobility and all the rest.
To give some adjacent channels:
- Adam Something (https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamSomething) - urban planning and eviscerations of transportation grifts with a leftist bent
- Oh The Urbanity! (https://www.youtube.com/c/OhTheUrbanity) - urban planning with a focus on biking in Ottawa, CA
- Alan Fisher (https://www.youtube.com/c/AlanFisher1337) - urban planning with a focus on trains and Philadelphia
- Eco Gecko (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJZV6sai-juDs4zAbAMVhfA) - particularly his "The Suburban Wasteland" series - video essays about the negative impacts of suburbanization (video "essay" as in it's much closer to academic essays read aloud)
- RMTransit (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf4iKXL_SJQ5d0qsKkboRRQ) - Public transportation - primarily Canadian rail
- WorldwideRailfan (https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldwideRailfan) - An incredible repository of information about primarily American trains
Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
#253Less techy stuff: - Kirsten Dirksen, for videos about self-sufficiency and architecture https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen - Hainbach, music-making using test equipment and esoteric synthesizers https://www.youtube.com/c/Hainbach - Linus Boman, graphic design https://www.youtube.com/c/LinusBoman/videos - Sebastian Lague, game programming 'coding adventures' https://www.youtube.com/c/SebastianLague - Great Ar…
Great Art Explained!! So good. I've really been loving that channel recently.
Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are right. And I do understand why he does it. I can see his side. But I sit on the other side. I hate it and will tell everyone how much I hate it. --- Edit: Or, if you prefer, in market terms: Because I am not alone, there is a market for non-clickbaity titles, non-exaggerated thumbs, and there are channels that cater to this market.
I think the overwhelming majority of people on HN (and possibly elsewhere) would prefer if they could just have a homepage that was just reverse chronological ordered videos from their subscriptions, with a separate "Discover" tab, with no interference from their algorithm. This thread might prove an excellent case study for YouTube. I was subscribed to all of the channels I listed and a few more along the same lines…
I like the home page as it is, but I understand why it frustrates both video creators and people who don't mesh with the algorithm.
Absent action from YouTube, this appears to be what you're looking for on a different page: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions?flow=2
Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
#255Art: Nerdwriter https://youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1 Engineering: Practical Engineering https://youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel Philosophy: School of Life https://youtube.com/c/theschooloflifetv Math: 3Blue1Brown https://youtube.com/c/3blue1brown
have you seen this critique video of school of life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlkJJygIoVU
Looking through it, but isn’t this the channel that critiques other channels for the sake of critique? I mean, I don’t think School of Life or any other channel is perfect, but a YouTuber building strawmen and attacking them for views isn’t really my thing.
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
Familiar to a greater or lesser degree with most, but not all of those. I'd take exception to a couple inclusions. - Undecided w/Matt Ferrel This one is probably the most questionable. I was always a bit leery due to the titles being a bit too accepting of anything you might find on r/Futurology, and then happened on a Thunderf00t Busted (not a regular viewer there either) about some of his videos and yeah. I think i…
Matt Ferrell's Undecided is great. Yeah he just explains interesting press releases, he isn't shy about that either. Why would he want/need to be critical about them? Unless he's reading press releases of companies that don't actually exist I don't see how this could be a bad thing. Disliking Veritasium because of some ads is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. If he manages to sneak in an ad without me noticin…
The issue at hand is that Undecided presents press releases as fact, without adding any fact checking or caveats that come along with them. One of his most recent videos about hydrogen storage disks basically highlights this more directly, since he presents this technology as if it's a solved problem when in actuality it's more so a barely formed idea with many many caveats.
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#257Scrolling through my subscriptions and posting the ones I haven't seen mentioned yet:
* Epimetheus - Ancient history https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp9ZtilfKJds0iWytR_pnOQ
* Everyday Astronaut - Rocket engineering breakdowns and other space stuff https://www.youtube.com/c/EverydayAstronaut
* Forgotten Weapons - Discussions of interesting and often obscure firearms, usually by disassembling working examples. https://www.youtube.com/c/ForgottenWeapons
* Have History Will Travel - US Civil War history https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhl9yTKO6685Ssam0hXTCw
* Historia Civilis - In depth history, with ongoing series about Rome, the English Civil War, and the post-Napoleonic era. Uploads infrequently but worth waiting for. https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoriaCivilis
* Illinois EnergyProf - Energy, with some focus on nuclear. Uploads infrequently. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKH_iLhhkTyt8Dk4dmeCQ9w
* NativLang - Linguistics throughout the world https://www.youtube.com/user/NativLang
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#258Math: - 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown - Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile CS: - Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile Physics: - PBS Spacetime: https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime Philosophy and Pop Culture: - Philosophy Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thephilosophytube - Folding Ideas: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas - ContraPoints: https://www.yout…
For Film Theory, I think Big Joel is a good if weird addition. I don't agree with him on everything, but he certainly has interesting and (usually) well-founded opinions. Most of the videos are on really niche topics that maybe apply more broadly to cultural trends.
Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious
#259Here's a curated collection of youtube channels that try sciency things, where I'm reasonably certain they aren't faking results.
NileRed
Sample video: making a superconductor from scratch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS7gyZJg5nc&t=93s
ExplosionsAndFire:
Sample video: concentrating hydrogen peroxide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhEYaovWxl4
Primitive Technology:
Sample video: making cast iron using nothing but gathered natural materials (seriously)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhW4XFGQB4o&t=606s
Игорь Негода
Sample video: making and flying an extremely elegant turbine engine in the garage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYFYZ-g7fzA
Bobby McBoost
Sample video: making and exploding an extremely half-assed turbine engine in a field.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2jHC_91ge8&t=52s
Brick experiment channel
Sample video: measuring the thrust to weight ratio of a bunch of combinations of lego motors, gearings, and propellors. In the next video he is able to achieve flight by overvolting lego motors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTui3shLRPk
Styropyro
Sample video: huge homemade ruby laser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwYuHqCwXFI
Robert Cowan
Sample video: improving the drive system of his 250 lb battlebot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcl7WYLccIs
How Not to Highline
Sample video: Testing if climbing equipment that has been left in a cave for years is still safe by breaking it
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#260USCSB - US Chemical Safety Board channel with animated videos reviewing disasters at chemical plant/other industrial facilities
Lesics - engineering/tech videos
Defunctland - history of extinct theme parks, entertainment
Chinese Cooking Demystified - how to cook authentic Chinese food