It was great seeing him on University Challenge last year more than holding his own as team captain on a team of academics and professionals
Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]
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I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others? Nile Red Nick Zentner Practical Engineering Real Engineering Ivan Miranda Joe Makes Tom Stanton Veritasium Numberphile Deep Sky Videos Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great) 3Blue1Br…
Great list and the majority I watch also. But you are missing Technology Connections. You'll probably find them interesting. https://www.youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnections/videos
Love him! I felt my list was getting too long, and left a lot off.
Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]
#203Ouch. Burnout and painting oneself into a permanent corner. Seems a bit drastic. Apart from burnout, one of the worst things is wasted talent.
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His explanation about why subtitles don't match dubbing is not convincing. Basically he says that subtitling and dubbing are done by different teams with different goals. The dubbing crew tries to match lip movement. OK, so why not use the script that the dubbing team produced for the subtitles? Why do the translation twice? His explanation for that: (a) sometimes what's spoken is too long to fit as subtitles on the…
It's been a while since I watch that video, but I'm pretty sure he mentioned the different team working on it reason as well, and the rest of the video was only explaining the intentional differences instead of the inherent differences that comes from different people working on the translations? Where I live, due different dialects being widely in use, it's common for TV and movies to show subtitle in the same langu…
> Unless the difference actually contains significantly different meaning and can lead to misunderstanding, I don't see why that'd an issue
The following are some of the reasons why it's very desirable that audio and subtitles should match:
(1) It's great when you're trying to learn a language or to watch in a language in which you're not fluent. It's extremely frustrating when the audio and subtitles don't match. This point is made by many people in the comments to the video[1].
(2) Even if you're fluent in the language, if you're watching with both audio and subtitles enabled, it's jarring when they don't match.
(3) If you didn't understand something in the audio (because of poor pronunciation, poor sound quality, or whatever), and you turn on subtitles to see what was said, you expect to see exactly what was said, not something "similar in meaning".
(4) A reason quoted directly from the YouTube comments[1] (which I think is a more common a problem that people realize): As someone with sensory processing issues but technically normal hearing - sometimes understanding what i'm hearing comes with a short delay, and accurate subtitles help bridge that gap so I can still keep pace with what i'm watching! If the subtitles don't match, however, it can COMPLETELY throw me off because of the conflict in information and I end up more confused than if i'd only read the subtitles or only listened to the audio. Accurate subtitles are an accessibility feature!
> phrases that are commonly use in speech but strange to see written down
I'm curious to know if you can give an example of that?
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There are so many great channels on there! Here are a few of my recent favorites: Laura Kampf - german maker and problem solver, currently renovating a 120 year old house Jimmy Diresta - maker and designer, also renovating an old house in upstate New York Adam Savage - from MythBusters, interesting builds, and interesting discussion of shop and building techniques Rambling Wild Rosie - former long-distance hiker and…
Paul Sellers is a giant among us mere woodworkers.
Frank Howarth is my guy, but admittedly I watch him to fall asleep (while marveling at how good he is)
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It's been a while since I watch that video, but I'm pretty sure he mentioned the different team working on it reason as well, and the rest of the video was only explaining the intentional differences instead of the inherent differences that comes from different people working on the translations? Where I live, due different dialects being widely in use, it's common for TV and movies to show subtitle in the same langu…
> Unless the difference actually contains significantly different meaning and can lead to misunderstanding, I don't see why that'd an issue The following are some of the reasons why it's very desirable that audio and subtitles should match: (1) It's great when you're trying to learn a language or to watch in a language in which you're not fluent. It's extremely frustrating when the audio and subtitles don't match. Th…
As someone who did work on subtitles in modestly popular videos as well, I believe there should be two subtitles---one for disabled peoples and one for language learners. They serve overlapping but not entirely identical purposes. The point 1 is well said though I think Tom Scott aimed his subtitles mostly to the former, as like television regulations.
The points 2 and 3 are comparably of less concern in my opinion. I don't watch TV nowadays, but when I did I used to watch programmes with on-screen captions (as opposed to optional subtitles, pretty common in East Asian channels), which never faithfully reproduced what has been said, and I was fine. Maybe I was more annoyed if I were able to turn captions off and only occasionally turn them on, but the whole points don't really match my experience.
The point 4 is what I'm most unsure about. I believe this kind of experience can be replicated by who can hear some but not all of foreign words and need subtitles (of the second kind) to connect them. For example, I can hear and speak Japanese but very slowly, so I normally have Japanese subtitles turned on. And I think I often experienced a lack of understanding due to my weak knowledge of Japanese, but never experienced such a conflict in understanding. Maybe the sensory processing issue has a substantially different mechanism to my model then?
> I'm curious to know if you can give an example of that?
Filler words, cut-off words, etc. Faithful transcriptions need to reproduce them (and yes, I also did some transcription works and that was really annoying) but subtitles needn't and shouldn't in most cases.
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I agree! But the thing is— I’ve got about fifty Tom Scotts in my subscription list. I’m perplexed by doomsaysers’ laments about the state of online educational media. I’ve got far more high quality content for a huge variety of topics than I’ve ever had before. My theory is this: your favourite hobby store expands and adds one more aisle of fantastic products and five aisles of garbage. You’ll likely perceive quality…
the problem i have with educational youtube is that it's competence porn. it's quite satisfying to watch lyle peterson, kiwami japan, grandpa amu, nigel braun, grant sanderson, andy george, or xyla foxlin working through the problems involved in creating something, to the point that hours spent getting satisfied that way displace the far more effortful hours required to work through those problems myself. but i don't…
I completely agree with this observation. In fact, you can use this to your advantage to save time. During the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, Blizzard released "Classic" World of Warcraft and I had this huge itch to play the game. I satisfied it by watching YouTube videos on Classic WoW instead.
Did I waste time watching WoW YouTube videos? Yes. Did I save much more time by tricking my brain into thinking I was playing the game when I actually wasn't? Yes!
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This is a great video! I’ve been writing about UTF-8 on my blog and I noticed that many programmers don’t understand it, after 10 or 20 years The main impediment seems to be that languages like Java, JavaScript, and Python treat UTF-8 as just another encoding, but really it’s the most fundamental encoding. The language abstractions get in the way and distort the way people think about text Newer languages like Go and…
It's misleading to describe UTF-8 as "the most fundamental encoding", because of the existence of UTF-32 (essentially just a trivial encoding of "raw" Unicode code points) and UTF-16 (which has certain limitations that later became part of the specification of what code points are valid in any encoding) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#U+D800_to_U+DFFF_(surro... UTF-8 is the most ubiquitous encoding on the web, b…
The word "fundamental" here probably has the same meaning as "elementary" as in elementary mathematics, i.e. something you should absolutely understand first, not something that makes up everything else.
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I assume cortex is a channel or something you watch, not brain matter?
Cortex podcast: https://www.relay.fm/cortex It… isn't my thing. But CGP Grey has a nice voice and is like an excited puppy, so I find myself listening anyway?
Why isn't it your thing? Isn't it similar to his youtube stuff? What it's like?
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#210Tom Scott is one of the great YouTubers. I don't know him personally but he does come across as a genuine down to earth guy who just wants to share knowledge with the world. I also only recently learned that he has a newsletter. He mentions it briefly in some of his videos but I have never seen him ask people to sign up. The only reason I found out about it is because he included one of my articles in it[1]. Definite…
What's even the point of a newsletter in 2023 unless you need to gather people emails for marketing campaigns or other shady stuff? What does it do that RSS doesn't?