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Re: Science Communications on YouTube

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Post by griffzhowl » Mon, Dec 15, 2025, 3:49 PM UTC

panopoly wrote: post #40

griffzhowl wrote: post #21

For more in-depth physics, combining mathematical detail with excellent visualizations, the best channels I've found are Richard Behiel, Physics Explained, Dr Jorge Diaz For mathematics, I really appreciate the simpl but effective format of Richard Borcherds (Fields medalist) https://www.youtube.com/@richarde.borcherds7998

> Richard Behiel Behiel is to 3Blue1Brown as a popular children's cartoon is to its late sequel series that aged up with its audience. Excellent work. I especially like his more recent trend of going line by line through famous papers. EPR and Bell's Inequality to date.

Yeah, those are huge... I haven't got round to them yet. I liked the one on electromagnetism as a gauge theory

Re: Science Communications on YouTube

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Post by AuthAuth » Mon, Dec 15, 2025, 6:09 PM UTC

andrewflnr wrote: post #54

AuthAuth wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do not recommend channel doesnt work. It only pauses recommendations for a few weeks. I've selected do not recommend on channels several times and they still sneak back in.

This is weird to me. I've banned a bunch of channels and never seen them again. You're not just doing the "I'm not interested" thing, right? I've heard this from a couple other people, though, which makes me wonder if the alleged "don't recommend channel" button is hooked up to different API calls in different UIs...

I was just doing the "im not interested". How do I fully ban channels?

Re: Science Communications on YouTube

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Post by jocaal » Mon, Dec 15, 2025, 8:31 PM UTC

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #15

mmooss wrote: post #6

Who has time for videos? I know lots watch them, but wow - reading is so much more efficient. I can skip ahead - and skim - or revisit; I can annotate; I can save, transcribe (copy/paste), I read so much faster than even accelerated video can play .... and all so much more easily. By sticking to reading, am I missing out on content? Edit: Not a criticism of watching video, I'm wondering if I'm missing substantial thi…

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” -Confucius [1] For certain concepts such as Linear Algebra, for instance books allow me to "do" and understand. Which is why I read more than I watch videos. 1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2826962/

Funnily enough, linear algebra is a good example of how doing doesn't lead to understanding. Just calculating eigenvalues and eigenvectors don't give you the geometric view of what is happening. Also talk to some engineering students who learned how to do matrix multiplication, but can't tell you what a vector is (it is not just something with magnitude and direction).

Re: Science Communications on YouTube

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Post by andrewflnr » Mon, Dec 15, 2025, 9:52 PM UTC

AuthAuth wrote: post #62

andrewflnr wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is weird to me. I've banned a bunch of channels and never seen them again. You're not just doing the "I'm not interested" thing, right? I've heard this from a couple other people, though, which makes me wonder if the alleged "don't recommend channel" button is hooked up to different API calls in different UIs...

I was just doing the "im not interested". How do I fully ban channels?

At least in the YouTube app on my Android phone, on the main suggestion feed, there's another option on the same 3-dot menu that is specifically labeled "Don't recommend channel". If you don't see it right there, maybe dig around.

Just checked, and I don't see it in the suggestions under a particular video, only on the main feed. I don't know if they're hiding it or what.