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Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by electrondood »

Zenzero wrote: post #151
cruffle_duffle wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We were all told to shut the fuck up and listen to a handful of cherry picked “doomsday experts” who refused to follow their own data, didn’t follow their own science and refused to acknowledge that society has millions of problems beyond one very single, very specific thing. And if we didn’t follow their edict’s or if we were to express any doubt of any kind, we were evil alt-right grandma killers who deserved horri…

> We were all told to shut the fuck up and listen to a handful of cherry picked “doomsday experts” No, you were told to out aside your opinions and allow people educated in epidemiology to guide a rapidly changing situation. It turns out the there were too many people with a chip on their shoulder to make the policy recommendations effective. > if we were to express any doubt of any kind, we were evil alt-right grand…

Thank you. The revisionism in this thread is ridiculous.

There was no oppressive regime forcing you to do anything. There were common sense, effective public health recommendations for mitigating a novel virus that spread faster than anything we'd seen, whose death rate was not known, and for which we had no vaccine or mitigation except for masking/distancing.

No one was forcing you to stay indoors. You were asked to wear a mask around other people, and most private businesses chose to require customers and employees to wear one, as is their right.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

wruza wrote: post #165
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #47

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Disagreement is healthy. What was unhealthy is that it was dangerous to disagree. People who thought we should just ride covid out were, more often than not, simply unaware of the nuances of covid vs a cold or something similar. People who thought we should hide in our homes until it was eradicated were similarly unaware of the implicit harms of that choice. A healthy discourse with people willing to concede and comp…

Somehow? For some internally obvious reason I never expected that. One person is clever, two can talk, a group is clueless and a crowd is an idiot. It is only expected that any non-standard regulation will meet all sorts of resistances and division across axes most of which will make no sense even. Personally I believe that the best way to handle it is not an open information, but total social manipulation into FUD w…

I meant more so from an individual point of view. Any health authority literally did need to use forms of manipulation to get desirable results, but it’s clear from where I was looking that they did it with the express intent of saving lives at first. Eventually they had to work in a strange grey area where protecting lives and the economy was essential, and it often looked dubious because they didn’t clearly comply with their initial missions. At least in the US and Canada, it seems.

I was more disturbed by how individual people handled the situation, even with people they were close with. It was remarkable how rapidly relationships fell apart over covid. And slightly beyond that as well, into the “crowd” category, but like you say… That’s arguably more predictable.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by skhunted »

snake42 wrote: post #179
skhunted wrote: post #142

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Khan Academy uses lectures.

Very different types of lectures. Small chunks of info, lots of graphical representations, etc. These are very different that the type of lectures I had in school.

His lectures are terrible explanations and he doesn’t use professional looking graphics. Khan Academy is not a good product. My opinion refers solely to the math content.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by sbarre »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #176
sbarre wrote: post #87

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I've discovered so much content on YouTube that I would never have found if it was on someone's blog. And on top of that I also find YT content through social media, blogs, forums, etc.. So I hear you, but I guess based on my own experience, I disagree! But that's cool, we can do that. :-)

Why do you think that you would never have found it ? The best blogposts do get shared around, and for worse ones, is it that much of a loss that only few people find them ?

I'm not super active on social media, and I find that all the big/main aggregator sites (like HN and Reddit and others) have become victims of their own success and good stories just fall off the front page very quickly, and so you miss a ton of stuff unless you're checking all the time, and I don't have that kind of time.

Link aggregators aren't good at "long tail"... So your good stories are only really discoverable when they're hot, and get progressively harder to discover over time.

Google search just sucks now, it's all shopping links and SEO trash, even if you search for fairly specific subjects.. You can still find what you want but you have to wade through so much garbage...

Plus there's no discovery. Like pretty much all search engines you can typically only find what you're searching for as opposed to finding new unknown things that are within your topics of interest.

For better or worse I find that YouTube is one of my best resources for surfacing new and interesting things pretty often, and quite regularly from channels big and small that I've never watched before. YT is great at long tail..

So it has become a major source of discovery for me, in many of my areas of interest (which aren't all tech).

Of course some content I don't like consuming as video, so I do sometimes find videos that cover interesting subject matter, which I'll then go search for articles or text-based content on instead.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by phlakaton »

quectophoton wrote: post #150
killthebuddha wrote: post #6

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.

Randall Munroe from xkcd is a stick figure (cueball), and you can't convince me otherwise.

His "What if?" videos have his actual voice, and it sounds nothing like a stick figure. Horrors.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by Zenzero »

electrondood wrote: post #181
Zenzero wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We were all told to shut the fuck up and listen to a handful of cherry picked “doomsday experts” No, you were told to out aside your opinions and allow people educated in epidemiology to guide a rapidly changing situation. It turns out the there were too many people with a chip on their shoulder to make the policy recommendations effective. > if we were to express any doubt of any kind, we were evil alt-right grand…

Thank you. The revisionism in this thread is ridiculous. There was no oppressive regime forcing you to do anything. There were common sense, effective public health recommendations for mitigating a novel virus that spread faster than anything we'd seen, whose death rate was not known, and for which we had no vaccine or mitigation except for masking/distancing. No one was forcing you to stay indoors. You were asked to…

Exactly. It's maddening seeing all of these uneducated people spouting full throated delusions as fact and everyone else allows these people to have room to spread their nonsense.

Im frankly pretty shocked that HN, which usually has a relatively educated user base compared to most other sites, is allowing this kind of drivel from people who have no idea what they are talking about.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by cloogshicer »

dleeftink wrote: post #16
spankalee wrote: post #12

Wow. I really wish this were a JavaScript library so we could play with this in a browser and publish 3D animations to the browser.

Check out Motion Canvas[0] by Jacob from aarthificial, prolific coder and animator [1]. [0]: https://motioncanvas.io/ [1]: https://www.youtube.com/@aarthificial

I second this. The Motion Canvas codebase itself is also fascinating. Extremely well written and documented.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by 3abiton »

mbo wrote: post #117

Anyone know how the Python interactive REPL was working in the bottom-right hand corner? EDIT: Looks like it's completely bespoke workflow: https://github.com/3b1b/videos?tab=readme-ov-file#workflow

He's probably one of the few good creators that didn't totally sellout on youtube (looking at you Mark Rober).

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by sdwr »

skygazer wrote: post #49
leetrout wrote: post #40

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In larger companies this is how arsonist-firefighter engineers look impressive... fixing a bug they are responsible for while in a highly visible position

I was the young "tech guy" inside the business development department at Earthlink in the mid 90s. The bizdev folks would propose ideas and I would think them through and realize there were technical issues, and when I shared my concerns, they would all be disheartened. But, sometime later, I would figure out a way around the "problem". They were perpetually grateful, but after a number of these iterations, I got the…

"Mountain out of a molehill" is better than lots of other possible approach angles. The core behaviour is grappling with the problem and looking for solutions.
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