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Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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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

This guy is a natural born educator. 'Content creator' doesn't begin to describe his value to society.

"Content creator" is like calling a good cook "grub producer". I don't understand why youtubers themselves keep using it. Content is the emptiest word (and we shouldn't use it like that IMO).

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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I used to like AvE till COVID. Then he became an anti-masker conspiratorial nutjob.

From what I've seen about AvE he was mostly against the (batshit insane) reaction from the federal government to the truckers convoy in Ottawa. That's the only video that he made specifically about COVID I think (I don't know if he mentioned something else in other videos though). Not sure if that makes him a nutjob lol

Early on he made fun of people who wore masks. I'd watched almost every video for years before that but as one of many impacted by others not taking covid seriously, I went cold turkey.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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There are surprisingly few venues for video content outside YT, at least not on a scale that would matter on YT! For example, if you want to get to the top of HN, non-video content has much better odds. Many tech- or science-centric subreddits discourage or ban videos too. YT is a fairly closed ecosystem that's both insanely resource-intensive to participate in, and that doesn't give creators too many second chances.…

HN is relatively tiny and HN's allergy to video is not representative of the internet. Just create clips from your video and post them on insta, tiktok, twitter, FB, etc. That's the internet at large. If people are interested, they'll watch the full video.

HN is small as a discussion community, but it is huge in terms of the traffic it generates to top-ranked URLs. There are fairly mainstream publications that optimize for HN, and I have spoken to marketers and PR people who described HN as by far the most significant source of traffic to their sites.

It doesn't necessarily translate to sales or lasting attention, but if you're after brand recognition or SEO, it's great. Spend some time on /newest to see how many organizations are desperate to get a piece of this.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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3B1B is doing god's work. May his tribe increase!! I personally have benefited enormously from so many of his YT videos. I wish this is how Mathematics was taught in high-schools, Engg schools. <3 <3

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Mind elaborating on what that reason is? Otherwise this comment just comes off as a drive-by dismissal…

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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There are surprisingly few venues for video content outside YT, at least not on a scale that would matter on YT! For example, if you want to get to the top of HN, non-video content has much better odds. Many tech- or science-centric subreddits discourage or ban videos too. YT is a fairly closed ecosystem that's both insanely resource-intensive to participate in, and that doesn't give creators too many second chances.…

HN is relatively tiny and HN's allergy to video is not representative of the internet. Just create clips from your video and post them on insta, tiktok, twitter, FB, etc. That's the internet at large. If people are interested, they'll watch the full video.

It's not really that small and I don't know why people say that.

Last time I saw stats, it was five million monthly visitors. It's small as a platform. It's smaller than Reddit or Facebook, but those aren't discussion communities.

There aren't huge numbers of subreddits larger than five million people and last I looked the largest tended to be about trivial BS.

Last I checked, HN is the largest serious tech discussion board on the planet.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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3B1B is doing god's work. May his tribe increase!! I personally have benefited enormously from so many of his YT videos. I wish this is how Mathematics was taught in high-schools, Engg schools. <3 <3

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Strict adherence to old methods due to overly restrictive and risk-averse governing bodies in educational institutions?

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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3B1B is doing god's work. May his tribe increase!! I personally have benefited enormously from so many of his YT videos. I wish this is how Mathematics was taught in high-schools, Engg schools. <3 <3

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The traditional lecture does have a lot of value, however, we are also quite certain that the instructional experience can be improved through the addition of visualizations and simulations. This is especially true for interactive visualizations where the learner can ask, "What if ...", experiment, and see the results of their interactions.

The lecture format is very old and would not have persisted if it didn't provide a good value. At the same time, it's age also implies that there is room for improvement.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Framed differently, it sounds like the youtuber opportunisticially divulged some of their true thoughts on topics slowly over time that would have alienated members of their audience had they known who and what they were initially supporting. Pretty cowardly, but not an uncommon tactic amongst his similar peers. In light of receiving new information that goes against your own tenants against poorly researched misinfo…

> Framed differently Framed in an insane way by someone looking to denigrate someone they don't like. I have no idea who you're targeting but you obviously have a chip on your shoulder.

Duly noted.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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> There’s a reason we teach things the way we do Is it that nobody kwen how to make good videos before? Or do you mean that teaching cannot be improved?

The Gutenberg Method of teaching acknowledges the existence of the printing press and suggests one person standing at the front telling everyone what to write down may be outdated

https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~key/PHY1600/PER%20Papers/Ef...

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