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Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by j-bos »

comice wrote: post #83
JoBrad wrote: post #57

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I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others? Nile Red Nick Zentner Practical Engineering Real Engineering Ivan Miranda Joe Makes Tom Stanton Veritasium Numberphile Deep Sky Videos Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great) 3Blue1Br…

This thunderf00t video made me avoid "Undecided by Matt Ferrell": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDXqOfC61U

Thanks, another sign removing the dislike button was terrible for mankind.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by Dylan16807 »

jfengel wrote: post #55
chubot wrote: post #30

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This is a great video! I’ve been writing about UTF-8 on my blog and I noticed that many programmers don’t understand it, after 10 or 20 years The main impediment seems to be that languages like Java, JavaScript, and Python treat UTF-8 as just another encoding, but really it’s the most fundamental encoding. The language abstractions get in the way and distort the way people think about text Newer languages like Go and…

What's not to understand about UTF8? It's a way of coding up points in the Unicode space. You decode the bits and it yields a number that corresponds to a glyph, possibly with some decorations. The only thing special about UTF8 is that it happens to write ASCII as ASCII, which is nice as long as you realize that there is much outside that. Either that, or I'm completely off base and part of the vast horde who don't g…

Variable width encodings are inherently harder to understand.

And while UTF-8 tries very hard to be simple whenever possible, it does have some nonobvious constraints that make it significantly more complex than the actual simplest variable-width encoding (a continuation bit and then 7 data bits).

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by graypegg »

DanielHB wrote: post #85
Waterluvian wrote: post #31

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I agree! But the thing is— I’ve got about fifty Tom Scotts in my subscription list. I’m perplexed by doomsaysers’ laments about the state of online educational media. I’ve got far more high quality content for a huge variety of topics than I’ve ever had before. My theory is this: your favourite hobby store expands and adds one more aisle of fantastic products and five aisles of garbage. You’ll likely perceive quality…

Educational youtube is modern age what Discovery Channel documentaries used to be And they are better, way better

Part of me misses watching Daily Planet after school. Mythbusters on weekends. How It’s Made too! There’s some gems from that channel in the 00s that got me excited about engineering. I definitely wouldn’t sell them short either.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by kurthr »

JoBrad wrote: post #57
Waterluvian wrote: post #31

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I agree! But the thing is— I’ve got about fifty Tom Scotts in my subscription list. I’m perplexed by doomsaysers’ laments about the state of online educational media. I’ve got far more high quality content for a huge variety of topics than I’ve ever had before. My theory is this: your favourite hobby store expands and adds one more aisle of fantastic products and five aisles of garbage. You’ll likely perceive quality…

I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others? Nile Red Nick Zentner Practical Engineering Real Engineering Ivan Miranda Joe Makes Tom Stanton Veritasium Numberphile Deep Sky Videos Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great) 3Blue1Br…

Thanks for these!

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by nayuki »

jfengel wrote: post #55
chubot wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great video! I’ve been writing about UTF-8 on my blog and I noticed that many programmers don’t understand it, after 10 or 20 years The main impediment seems to be that languages like Java, JavaScript, and Python treat UTF-8 as just another encoding, but really it’s the most fundamental encoding. The language abstractions get in the way and distort the way people think about text Newer languages like Go and…

What's not to understand about UTF8? It's a way of coding up points in the Unicode space. You decode the bits and it yields a number that corresponds to a glyph, possibly with some decorations. The only thing special about UTF8 is that it happens to write ASCII as ASCII, which is nice as long as you realize that there is much outside that. Either that, or I'm completely off base and part of the vast horde who don't g…

More properties of UTF-8: It is self-synchronizing. It has the same lexicographical sort order as UTF-32. It allows substring matches without false positives. It is compatible with null-terminated strings.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by graypegg »

treyd wrote: post #88
graypegg wrote: post #72

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Answer in Progress - a bit of everything, personal favourite right now! Simone Giertz - engineering EEVBlog - engineering ElectroBoom - engineering Technology Connections - stories about technology Cathode Ray Dude - stories about technology, watch if you like technology connections!! Socratica - math, science, programming explainers VWestLife - retro consumer tech TechMoan - retro consumer tech AvE - Canadian in a w…

To continue with the transit/urbanism channels... * Not Just Bikes * City Beautiful * Alan Fisher * donoteat01 (not really uploading anymore since he has a podcast that takes all his time) * Eco Gecko (also doesn't really upload anymore) * Adam Something And also others... * Folding Ideas (popular topics video essays) * hbomberguy (popular topics video essays) * Epoch Philosophy (drier more academic video essays) * B…

YouTube has been trying to constantly recommend me BobbyBroccoli for a while! I’ll give it a go on your recommendation, thanks!

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by Waterluvian »

treyd wrote: post #88
graypegg wrote: post #72

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Answer in Progress - a bit of everything, personal favourite right now! Simone Giertz - engineering EEVBlog - engineering ElectroBoom - engineering Technology Connections - stories about technology Cathode Ray Dude - stories about technology, watch if you like technology connections!! Socratica - math, science, programming explainers VWestLife - retro consumer tech TechMoan - retro consumer tech AvE - Canadian in a w…

To continue with the transit/urbanism channels... * Not Just Bikes * City Beautiful * Alan Fisher * donoteat01 (not really uploading anymore since he has a podcast that takes all his time) * Eco Gecko (also doesn't really upload anymore) * Adam Something And also others... * Folding Ideas (popular topics video essays) * hbomberguy (popular topics video essays) * Epoch Philosophy (drier more academic video essays) * B…

If there isn’t a curated “Awesome Educational Channels” list, this should be the beginning of it.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by Dylan16807 »

withinboredom wrote: post #67
danwaterfield wrote: post #32

On the latest cortex, CGP Grey made the point that what's happening in youtube education-adjacent videos is much the same as what's happening for entertainment in those spaces: the law of the excluded middle. You either do long infrequent videos e.g., like MrBeast, or frequent short videos. Both CGP Grey and Tom Scott did frequent mid-length content, which gets squeezed out.

I assume cortex is a channel or something you watch, not brain matter?

If you assumed that, was there a need to post that you assumed it?

I mean, if you search that name and that word it fills up the results. It doesn't help for you to go "hint hint".

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by CooCooCaCha »

withinboredom wrote: post #65
CooCooCaCha wrote: post #42

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I'm not sure I buy his reasoning there. He said that he uploads a video every week which is a brisk pace. Why not a video every month? Every quarter? Perhaps he really just wants a break and this explanation sounded the most reasonable. But I hope he didn't get burned out because he was afraid of switching things up.

I don’t think it matters what you buy. He just doesn’t want a schedule, I think he explained it pretty well.

Sometimes we don't really understand why we do things until later. No need to be passive aggressive.

Re: Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

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Post by graypegg »

Waterluvian wrote: post #97
treyd wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To continue with the transit/urbanism channels... * Not Just Bikes * City Beautiful * Alan Fisher * donoteat01 (not really uploading anymore since he has a podcast that takes all his time) * Eco Gecko (also doesn't really upload anymore) * Adam Something And also others... * Folding Ideas (popular topics video essays) * hbomberguy (popular topics video essays) * Epoch Philosophy (drier more academic video essays) * B…

If there isn’t a curated “Awesome Educational Channels” list, this should be the beginning of it.

I would love a monthly “Where cool things are” post on here. Kind of like the Who’s Hiring post, but simply for listing channels, blogs, people etc. No specific works that would be better served by a regular post, but a comment with [name] and [what they do].
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