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Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Andreas Spiess https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu7_D0o48KbfhpEohoP7YSQ Small electronic projects, tutorials, and reviews for sensors, ESP8266, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32

Adafruit - new stuff they sell, and tutorials that are fun.

TheCrafsman - a puppet learning how to craft, 3d print, mold, etc.

Bitluni's Lab - https://www.youtube.com/user/bitlunislab elaborate and funny tutorial videos about building gadgets.

Branchus Creations - board level repair for older PC's and gadgets https://www.youtube.com/c/BranchusCreations/featured

Choll W. Kim - Laser spine surgery and info https://www.youtube.com/c/ChollKimMDPhDSanDiego/about

David Bull - https://www.youtube.com/user/seseragistudio/ Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker, video presentations of his work, including a number of videos showing the complete process of making his prints.

Devoxx - developer tech events, talks, presentations https://www.youtube.com/c/Devoxx2015

Electronics Repair School - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCooKQlg-HZ0PFAPc4Ymg3RA

Evil Ted - visual effects, prop., modelmaking from a pro.. https://www.youtube.com/user/evilted40

HomoFaciens - maker, elecronics https://www.youtube.com/c/HomoFaciens/videos

Jeremy Fielding - home engineering, learning, motors, robotics, making https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_SLthyNX_ivd-dmsFgmJVg

Just A Printer - behind the scenes, explantation, at a small printing business https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSuSPbvmwLZv9CMdeSsWkFA

Just have a think - Climate and Sustainable Energy, Technology discussion, education https://www.youtube.com/c/JustHaveaThink/videos

Kens Karpentry - garage builder, explains process, business https://www.youtube.com/user/ken311953

NorthRidgeFix - electronics repair. Often fixes without schematics, explains diagnosing and tracing faults. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLaXgfNlVxY149shiA1pykQ

SixtySymbols - cool videos about physics and astronomy https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols

Stock Markets With Bruce

The Signal Path - electronics tear down, analysis, and repair. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSignalPathBlog

Two Minute Papers - video summary of interesting or exciting CompSci papers https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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This question was posted on the math subreddit a few days ago and got a bunch of responses, the most popular of which are already here but a whole bunch that aren't:

https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/w1zyn8/favourite_math...

Of those listed there I would like to highlight this one:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Aleph0/videos

A few others that I've found recently also in math/physics:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PhysicsExplainedVideos/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/SimulatingPhysics/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3L8AcX1xJEhTofnCF2MAaQ/vid...

https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceClicEN/videos

The French version of the above channel has a lot more videos but unfortunately aren't translated to English yet.

Proper lectures by professors of various math/physics topics unfortunately are scattered around YouTube and I'm surprised no one has gathered a big list of them given that during COVID a lot of stuff has been put online. I've only found the following two channels which gather various lectures given however at a graduate/research level so you're unlikely to learn much unless you have a significant background:

https://www.youtube.com/c/GraduateMathematics/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/GraduatePhysics/videos

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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post #40

I recently found out Lex Fridman's podcast and I thoroughly enjoy it. Episodes I listened to are Jack Barsky, Stephen Kotkin, and currently the one with Neal Stephenson. He interviews a broad spectrum of people, about a myriad of topics. I skipped the CEOs though some here may find interview with Zuck or Elon interesting.

The interview with Zuck was really disappointing, he got a lot of flack for his mellow interviews of contentious persons and he's been trying to prod a little deeper on them since then. I think he's great at interviewing interesting people, but Zuck is just a PHP developer with good business accumen, there's not much interesting going on there.

Lex Friedman is imo the best podcast out there, but if he's got an interview with someone you dislike, I'd skip it because he'll not press on where you think he needs to press on to get to the heart of it.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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* My mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/c/mymechanics He repairs old worn down items and shows every step of the way in high details. Very satisfying to both learn the elegant mechanisms of old items, as well as to see something broken become beautiful once more. * Andreas Kling: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling Continuously posts videos on him+his community developing the operative system SerenetyOS (I know he…

I'd recommend avoiding Economics Explained. A lot of his takes aren't very well researched and don't align with "mainstream" econ (not that I'm an expert on the subject). https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/search/?q=economics%20...

You mean the mainstream economists who claimed until a few months back that inflation is transitionary?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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I've tried to trim out the most common duplicates before posting.

making stuff/testing/tearing down

https://www.youtube.com/c/frankhowarth https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcoReps https://www.youtube.com/c/FireballTool https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAnvil https://www.youtube.com/c/arduinoversusevil2025 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

music

https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamNeely https://www.youtube.com/c/12tonevideos https://www.youtube.com/c/8bitMusicTheory

food and drink

https://www.youtube.com/c/JKenjiLopezAlt https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ https://www.youtube.com/c/TheEducatedBarfly

misc/niche

https://www.youtube.com/c/AGADMATOR https://www.youtube.com/c/NickSibicky https://www.youtube.com/c/Drugslab https://www.youtube.com/c/GreatArtExplained

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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post #126

Earlier 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…

Matt also has a followup podcast about each episode where questions are answered. It's on youtube as well, https://www.youtube.com/c/StillTBDPodcast.
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