Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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

I find the 'X in 100 seconds' series great for keeping an eye on CS topics outside of my everyday work, like the history of gzip compression or the advantages of a new CSS Post-Processor.

Curiosity Show - the channel uploads content from an old (70s and 80s mostly) australian kids show where the hosts perform table top experiments, or simply explain something in a way interesting to kids. The fact that a brazilian guy aproaching his forties can still be kept entertained is a testament to the quality of the show. Presented by a pair of utterly enjoayable guys, both holding phds.

Seconded, his videos are mind bending. Why is the milk gone is my personal favorite

- https://www.youtube.com/c/SimonsInstituteTOC simons institute (UC Berkeley): advanced academic math, cs, and other interdisciplinary seminars, streamed live

- https://www.youtube.com/user/IPAMUCLA (UC LA): institute for pure and applied mathematics: more advanced academic math and cs seminars

- https://www.youtube.com/user/NaSESYNC national socio-environmental synthesis center: interdisciplinary science seminars

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcr5vuAH5TPlYox-QLj4ySw alan turing institute: variety of advanced cs

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENpdhwYoF5g Schwartz Reisman Institute: inter-agent friendliness/game theory

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCcrR0XBH0aWbdffktUBEdw mutual information: visual explanation of ML fundamentals

- https://www.youtube.com/user/JimBobJenkins game theory and international relations

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLB7AzTwc6VFZrBsO2ucBMg robert miles: "ai safety"-crowd ai safety videos. don't let this be your only perspective on ai safety, the ai safety people are great but their whole community has a shared anxiety disorder. heed their warnings but don't have the meltdowns they accidentally encourage; just imagine yourself petting the ai safety researchers on the head and going "there there, the ais will be friendly because of your work, thanks for getting me up to speed" and listen thoughtfully. emotional tone warning aside, I do like this channel. just not as much as the simons institute's videos on ai bias, alignment, safety, objectives, etc etc etc.

- https://www.youtube.com/user/PaulHBeckwith large scale climate science dude who I think isn't crazy but I'm not sure

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFXBh2WNhGDXFNafOrOwZEQ/vid... oxford vgg continues to be an impressive vision group

- https://www.youtube.com/c/NormalizedNerd/featured same kind of stuff as mutual information

- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbg3ZX2pWlgKV8K6bFJr5... art of the problem makes very good visual explanations of middling to advanced cs topics

- https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalInstitution popsci talks that typically get fairly advanced. better ted talks, in a sense.

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8aRaZ6_0weiS50pvCmo0pw institute for advanced study is not messing around with their name

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwG9512Wm7jSS6Iqshz4Dpg ACM SIGPLAN: formal methods, formal verification, formal languages, etc

- https://www.youtube.com/c/Cirm-mathFr another advanced math channel I watch too little to remember details about. browse it yourself if you want

- https://www.youtube.com/c/RationalAnimations animations about the future and stuff

- https://www.youtube.com/c/Sevish exceptionally weird music

- https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanHarrod ai and ml stuff

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX3XfA9qjWjymue2I_hcW1A formal verification and stuff

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUBpU4mSYdIn-QzhORFHcHQ more formal verification stuff

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9infsKo33_2LUoiqXGgQWg society analysis and stuff

- https://www.youtube.com/c/DanWorrall really good audio dude

- https://www.youtube.com/c/12voltvids small electronics channel I don't see mentioned here yet

- https://www.youtube.com/c/THUNKShow STEM video essays and explainers

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrCTC5_t-HaVJ025DbYITiw alice cappelle: video essays I guess idk

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw zoe bee: how to talk to angry strangers on the internet and stuff like that

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4V_jMdRbbTrmBVJB6FDzgw unlearning economics: a dissenting perspective on economics; don't skip the other economics channels just because you watch this one, but it combines well with the others imo

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_7FDEMkBBWWcol7QPzToaw one dude's commentary on native history; don't skip other commentaries on native history just cuz you watch this one, but again, combines well imo

there, some channels. there are a ton of channels already mentioned here; it's great having an index of them, but remember to browse them yourself and skim some videos.

Yeaah! I stumbled upon his channel not very long ago and was so hooked I just watched like 15 videos in a row .^.

Like you said, it's a wonderful mix of comic thought provoking rides.