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Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Manim is incredibly cool, but my biggest takeaway from the video is how insane it is that Python apparently lets you reference a variable in a function that was defined outside the scope of the function.

It's a whole subject in language design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_(computer_science)

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

#73

Manim is incredibly cool, but my biggest takeaway from the video is how insane it is that Python apparently lets you reference a variable in a function that was defined outside the scope of the function.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but isn't that standard for pretty much every C-style language? Define a variable outside a function, parallel to the function, and even though that variable is outside the scope of the function it's still accessible inside the function. Or did you mean something else?

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

#74
post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I mean, kind of sounds like he never really changed, just your opinion of him did.

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 misinformation, changing your opinion isn't really a noteworthy response.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

#75

Manim is incredibly cool, but my biggest takeaway from the video is how insane it is that Python apparently lets you reference a variable in a function that was defined outside the scope of the function.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but isn't that standard for pretty much every C-style language? Define a variable outside a function, parallel to the function, and even though that variable is outside the scope of the function it's still accessible inside the function. Or did you mean something else?

Python has nested functions which does allow access to the nest...er function's variables. The rest does conform to expectations, you get to use parameters, locally declared variables and globals.

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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what's the reason it doesn't work??

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

#77
post #41

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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> 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?

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

#78
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A YouTube video has a URL though. So just like a blog post, you can share it on all the same sites you mentioned with blog posts. Plus you have the built-in audience of YouTube and the algorithm that can help with discovery.. "Build it and they will come" has never been true, for videos or blogs...

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.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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post #74
post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, kind of sounds like he never really changed, just your opinion of him did.

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.

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