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Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by blocko »

rudolfwinestock wrote: post #2

Freya Holmér covers the math and programming behind computer graphics: https://www.youtube.com/c/Acegikmo Here are some more mathematics channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/HarveyMuddCollegeEDU https://www.youtube.com/c/Aleph0 https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown Here are some channels on physics: https://www.youtube.com/c/TenMinutePhysics https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPZvrtffxEZ7KZQ9dYCG0xg Here's something…

+1 for Freya Holmér, I had skimmed through some explanations on shaders in the past and never really sustained much interest until finding her series. It's been a while since watching but I think the contextualization/demos really helped me understand the big picture of video game graphics

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by Gustek »

I see many of my favourites already mentioned by others but something not listed yet: https://www.youtube.com/c/InstituteofHumanAnatomy videos with real cadavers explaining how human body works

And already mentioned by others but just to give it another thumbs up:

https://www.youtube.com/c/inanutshell Very nice animations explaining various topics from science, philosophy and politics. The only channel I literally seen all the videos. They sometimes make videos with fun ideas like what would happen if we nuked the moon a bit in the spirit of https://what-if.xkcd.com/ but most videos are on more serious subjects in a very easy to understand format.

https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel mostly covers civil engineering. How we handle sewage in big cities, how roads are built, how power grid works and many more.

https://www.youtube.com/c/EconomicsExplained As the name suggests, explains economics. Makes videos per country about their economy and created his own ranking of countries.

These are my top just to keep it short :)

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by EmilioMartinez »

https://www.youtube.com/c/SamoBurja

Samo Burja is a social theorist with a scientist's soul. He manages a political consulting firm by day, and tries to explain how civilizations work by night. He often touches on geopolitics, technology, institutions, epistemology, societal collapse, etc in one stroke. A lot of his claims seem outlandish for three seconds, but are actually very thought out. The guy's really sharp and did many podcasts throughout the pandemic, which was a treat. Don't be put off by the low view-count, the guy's a rising star and I hope to see more of him

Civilization: Institutions, Knowledge, and the Future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACdYmuFyjWM

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by MichaelMoser123 »

interesting stuff:

Astrophysics/space/Physics

- https://www.youtube.com/c/DrBecky

- https://www.youtube.com/c/whatdamath

- https://www.youtube.com/c/universetodayvids

- https://www.youtube.com/c/astrumspace

- https://www.youtube.com/c/CuriousDroid

- https://www.youtube.com/c/minutephysics

CompSci/tech interviewing/tech news/security

- Martin Kleppman https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClB4KPy5LkJj1t3SgYVtMOQ

- https://www.youtube.com/c/ArxivInsights

- https://www.youtube.com/c/CSDojo

- https://www.youtube.com/c/SuccessinTech

- https://www.youtube.com/c/VivekHaldar

- https://www.youtube.com/c/TechTechPotato

- https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackHatOfficialYT

- https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile

- https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory

Linguistics

- https://www.youtube.com/c/JuLingo

- https://www.youtube.com/c/LinguisticsMarburg

History/History of technology

- https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHistocrat

- Art History with Travis Lee Clark https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD0yYUsx9vpuhu2dkk8_a9w

- https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast

- https://www.youtube.com/extracredits

- https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidIanHowe

- https://www.youtube.com/c/ArchaiaIstoria

- https://www.youtube.com/c/engineerguyvideo

- https://www.youtube.com/c/StefanMilo

- https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOrientalInstitute

- https://www.youtube.com/c/StefanMilo

General

- https://www.youtube.com/c/MNMillennialFarmer

- https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel

- https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEngineering

- https://www.youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by gwd »

hansword wrote: post #178
foerbert wrote: post #119

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…

I want to very much second excluding Veritasium. Whenever he talked about something I was knowledgeable in, he made mistakes. This combined with branding himself as 'the element of truth' and the increasing over-clickbaity titles and thumbs made me stop watching him. It's an entertainment channel, and if you want light science entertainment, and expect to forget everything within a few hours, it's a good channel. If…

> the increasing over-clickbaity titles and thumbs made me stop watching him.

He actually talks about that here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

Apparently an early video of his about a spinning basketball originally had a non-clickbait title; someone else posted it with a clickbait title and got at least an order of magnitude more views. So now, he makes clickbaity titles.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by magarnicle »

tpush wrote: post #222
obscurette wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

About Veritasium. These good stories with dubious claims and with "but I wasn't wrong!" and "at least I made you think" reactions is considered OK by most in the US for example. But in eastern parts of the world it is treated as a pure smartass behavior.

If you're talking about the electricity video, that one was not wrong at all.

No, but he didn't put enough effort into making sure his question was clear, and it felt a bit deceptive ("click-batey"). He asked when the bulb would light up at all, but it seems most people thought he was asking when it would light up fully. He didn't make that clear initially, and then didn't admit later that he had communicated poorly.

That being said, I really like his videos and don't mind most of the issues people bring up with him here.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

magicalhippo wrote: post #198

In no particular order: FarmCraft101 (repairs/restoration, woodworking and useful tips) - https://www.youtube.com/c/FarmCraft101 KYLE.ENGINEERS (aero and car tech) - https://www.youtube.com/c/KYLEDRIVES/ Machine Thinking (history of machining) - https://www.youtube.com/c/machinethinking/ Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles (historical, technical deep dives) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynGrIaI5vsJQgHJAIp9oSg/ Huy…

If you're a ham or interested in radio, w2aew is great!
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