[HN Gopher] SoME1 results
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SoME1 results
Author : signa11
Score : 273 points
Date : 2021-11-01 06:29 UTC (16 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.3blue1brown.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.3blue1brown.com)
| nmaleki wrote:
| https://youtu.be/u1MUrVBQTyE is my submission to this exposition.
| I had an absolute blast making this.
|
| Thank you to all the volunteers for setting this up, mathematics
| and education is a better place today than it was yesterday
| because of you.
|
| Much of this competition was coordinated by Dr. James Schloss,
| thank you. Check out his YouTube channel,
| https://youtu.be/EbanExb75mc
| Intermernet wrote:
| I love the last section of "Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The
| Physics Of Magic Windows"[0]
|
| >I know what you're thinking. What about the hologram?!
|
| >Does the math above imply that a hologram will always be
| created, or is this one cat hologram just an incredible
| coincidence?
|
| >Well you see, I've discovered a truly marvelous proof of this,
| which this website's margin is unfortunately too narrow to
| contain :)
|
| [0]: https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering
| anuvrat1 wrote:
| YouTube playlist[1] is a treasure trove
|
| [1]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQX-
| jgAF5pTkwtUuVpqS5tuW...
| HotHotLava wrote:
| I don't envy the judges, the shortlist is full of absurdly high-
| quality videos that didn't make it into the top 5.
|
| My personal favorite was this one about the topology of rotation
| groups and spin 1/2 particles:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACZC_XEyg9U&list=PLnQX-jgAF5...
| dan-robertson wrote:
| I liked the brief analogy that that explanation made for a
| homotopy being like a "movie" of one path changing into
| another.
| blagie wrote:
| I don't envy the contestants. I think 1,200 entries is so many
| that the organizers can't even glance at most of them; there
| had to be a peer review process.
|
| There were 5 winners. Your odds of winning were less than half
| a percent.
|
| When submitting to a contest, you have no idea how many
| submissions there will be. With this many, and the processes
| around it, your submission WILL most likely be lost in the
| noise.
|
| Indeed, many, many very good submissions will be lost in the
| noise.
|
| At the same time, these kinds of videos take obscene amounts of
| time to prepare.
|
| It's depressing to throw weeks of your heart and soul into
| something, only to have no one look at it.
| jedimastert wrote:
| 3B1B said at the beginning (and emphasises is the results
| video) that the purpose of the "contest" was _not_ to win,
| but just to give that little nudge to more people who were
| thinking about making math explainers to start.
| sizzzzlerz wrote:
| According to his website, there was a peer review process. As
| Grant states, to be eligible for the final review, each
| entrant needed to contribute one hour to the review process.
| Gehinnn wrote:
| I don't think winning the contest should be the primary
| motivation for making such a high quality education video.
| blagie wrote:
| ... not, the primary motivation is to help people and to
| share content. 3B1B might give a very tall soapbox.
|
| If you spend this much time, for three dozen views (which
| is not uncommon for videos further down -- and a view
| doesn't necessarily mean a person watched it all the way
| through), you've probably wasted a lot of time.
|
| I don't know what the solution here is, and I'm not
| faulting anyone (I don't think anyone expected 1200
| submissions), but the amount of dissipated effort makes me
| sad.
|
| I _almost_ made an explainer for the contest, and I 'm glad
| I didn't. I think I would have made a good one, but I think
| for the expected number of views, I'm better off tutoring
| people 1:1.
| marai2 wrote:
| A few days ago I was trying to understand the State Monad
| in Haskell because the book I was reading didn't explain
| it well. So I Googled it and the the first couple of
| links also didn't satisfy, including the Haskell wiki
| book that many articles link to. However further down the
| search results list I found an blog post that seamed like
| somebody had written directly to what was confusing me.
| The author had obviously put a bunch of effort into
| making a clear and understandable exposition. I was so
| impressed by the article that I had to write to the
| author letting them know how much I appreciated the
| effort they had put into the article. But when I looked
| at the blog post date it was from 2012!! Which in
| internet time seems like ages ago!
|
| My point with this long winded reply is that I think the
| primary motivation should be to help people. Obviously if
| you're spending a whole lot of effort to make an
| explainer for the contest and Grant changes the format
| next year then there is little utility to that effort.
| But for these contestants and their submissions I plan to
| bookmark this page and this will be my daily breakfast
| viewing for many days to come! (I was so excited to see
| such a long list of submissions for my consumption!) I
| think the effort people put into their submissions over
| time will be significantly greater (if not absolutely
| greater) than what 1:1 tutoring might achieve.
| zsmi wrote:
| > But when I looked at the blog post date it was from
| 2012!!
|
| Hopefully you wrote the Thank You anyway as they're
| probably still around.
|
| P.S. Do you still have the link to the blog post?
| marai2 wrote:
| The State Monad a Tutorial for the Confused:
|
| http://brandon.si/code/the-state-monad-a-tutorial-for-
| the-co...
|
| And I did!
| zsmi wrote:
| Thanks!
| wodenokoto wrote:
| Did any established math youtubers, like numberphile, standup
| math, veritasium or singing banana enter?
| Tomte wrote:
| Probably not. The idea was to encourage "nobodies" to create
| math teaching material. People who thought they might want to
| do that, but never got started.
|
| The exposition contest was designed to give them a little push
| and get eyeballs on their content, so they've got an actual
| chance to be noticed, no matter if they win.
|
| An established YouTuber entering it would have taken attention
| away from those new people.
| progbits wrote:
| Probably "The Beauty of Bezier Curves" [1], one of the choices
| by 3B1B, comes closest. It is already a relatively large
| channel although usually focused on game dev tutorials rather
| than math explanations. This video bridges those two areas and
| is absolutely beautiful.
|
| [1] https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw
| tantony wrote:
| Its creator was one of the devs of the "Budget Cuts" VR game.
|
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/400940/Budget_Cuts/
| wodenokoto wrote:
| Didn't that one go viral between submission and contest
| results?
| TOMDM wrote:
| It certainly deserved to, it's gorgeous.
| alteriority wrote:
| Interesting--I recognized that animation style immediately,
| because she's also the creator of a Unity asset library
| called Shapes[1], (a "...real-time vector graphics library
| with high-quality line drawing and infinite resolution
| shapes, rendered with advanced anti-aliasing techniques"),
| which seems to have been used to create the video.
|
| [1] https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-
| effect...
| Youden wrote:
| Per the contest announcement [0], the intent was "[...] to
| encourage people who've never put stuff online before" and
| "[...] to offer a little bit of activation energy to anyone who
| has thought about doing something like this, but just never got
| around to it".
|
| So the spirit of the contest excludes those YouTubers.
|
| [0]: https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some1
| DreamFlasher wrote:
| Where can we find the top 100 list?
| truly wrote:
| For anyone wondering what 3Blue1Brown is, it's a top Youtube
| channel with very nicely made explanatory videos for math.
|
| The videos on linear algebra in particular are worth it,
| especially if you do any sort of machine learning:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs.
|
| The author of the channel is Grant Sanderson. He has recently
| given a talk at SIGGRAPH 2021:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvck7ssg9dE.
|
| As part of developing his Youtube channel, he has written and
| open-sourced manim, a library for programatically generating
| animations written in Python:
| https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/.
| memco wrote:
| Grant also co-lectured for an MIT course on computational
| thinking using Julia:
| https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/Fall20/
| LeonM wrote:
| And for anyone wondering where the name 3blue1brown comes from:
| Grant Sanderson has a condition called heterochromia, his right
| eye is 3 parts blue, and 1 part brown, like his logo.
|
| You can see it for example in this video:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bc9EWhmDZg
| [deleted]
| morjom wrote:
| Isn't heterochromia where both eyes are a different colour?
| LeonM wrote:
| According to Wikipedia [0]:
|
| _Heterochromia of the eye is called heterochromia iridum
| or heterochromia iridis. It can be complete or sectoral. In
| complete heterochromia, one iris is a different color from
| the other. In sectoral heterochromia, part of one iris is a
| different color from its remainder. In central
| heterochromia, there is a ring around the pupil or possibly
| spikes of different colors radiating from the pupil._
|
| So, in case of Grant Sanderson, it would be sectoral
| heterochromia.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia_iridum
| kzrdude wrote:
| I wonder how this is resolved for places that ask for eye
| color (various people identification registries). If the
| information could be accurate and understandable (from a
| short database column entry), it's a quite unique identifier.
| apricot wrote:
| 75% blue and 25% brown: "Brue eyes"
|
| Or maybe take a weighted average of RGB values and convert
| to a word, which would give "teal eyes". Radical.
| mushishi wrote:
| He also has started a podcast this year. In each episode he
| discusses mainly math and education related topics with
| different people. I have liked it quite much.
|
| https://www.3blue1brown.com/podcast
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