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Could having students create their own videos using A Manim explaining aspects of maths be a good way to teach maths? Or would it be more cumbersome and the tools be a distraction or impediment to understanding?
Could having students create their own videos using A Manim explaining aspects of maths be a good way to teach maths? Or would it be more cumbersome and the tools be a distraction or impediment to understanding?
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I feel like quite a few of the content creators I watch are starting to “show their face”, though the big one that comes to mind is the Real Engineering guy. A few of his newest videos have had him acting a bit like a host, interviewer and narrator. It’s also weird when some of these creators swap with somebody else, like veratasium has had his producer do some of the videos instead. The big reveal would be AvE.
I used to like AvE till COVID. Then he became an anti-masker conspiratorial nutjob.
I absolutely love his voice. Its so calm and soothing that I can have his video running on the side while I am doing my chores and can still learn stuff. Content creators like this deserve the recognition
Lately I often think about 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium and Kahn Academy, how much good they are doing to this world. Imagine having close to an unlimited amount of money at your disposal and a media platform which is capable of reaching close to every person on this planet. To give people a voice in a community, if they dare to or if they feel the need to. The only thing you then lack is a platform for organizing communi…
It's funny how, after years of hearing his voice and not seeing his face, seeing his face puts me in smack in the middle of the uncanny valley.
I love that people like this exist.
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I mean he was 100% right about all of that; history will not look fondly upon societys hysterical reaction to Covid, so… I think he took a lot of shit for “coming out of the closet” in that regard and he’s never been the same. There was (and apparently still are) a lot of incredibly sanctimonious busy body’s out there who absolutely loved the power trip Covid gave them and they were more than happy to harass, threate…
What scares me so much about the Covid debacle is that despite all the information that's been coming out about how most of the restrictions placed on people -- like hindering people from gathering _outside in the sun_ -- and effectiveness of both pharmaceuticals and PPE's -- of which I won't name any because then I'll be booted out of here quite quickly I imagine -- despite all of this data, government hearings arou…
If Covid were to wipe out 10% of the population, all the draconian measures make a lot more sense. Slow it down as much as possible, reduce pressure on hospitals and give scientists time to make a vaccine.
But it turns out the death rate from Covid wasn’t that bad - and Americans would, in hindsight, largely prefer a 1% (or whatever) mortality rate over the inconveniences of masks, staying at home, and so on. But a lot of things weren’t obvious early on like they are now. We didn’t know that.
If there’s another pandemic in our lifetime, there’s almost no chance society takes those preventative measures a second time. Let’s hope we don’t get something a lot more deadly.
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> What the Covid “side” did was abhorrent and history will not look fondly on them at all. History will look on this the same way as it did on Spanish Flu: Barely at all, even when it has valuable lessons for the next pandemic. The former told me that people would stop wearing masks very very quickly.
I’ll never understand the people that want their offense at being labeled a “Typhoid Mary” to be taken as seriously as their anti-social, Typhoid Mary behavior.
Humans are social animals, I find a lot of things makes a lot more sense through that lens — shooting the messenger included.
Lately I often think about 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium and Kahn Academy, how much good they are doing to this world. Imagine having close to an unlimited amount of money at your disposal and a media platform which is capable of reaching close to every person on this planet. To give people a voice in a community, if they dare to or if they feel the need to. The only thing you then lack is a platform for organizing communi…