gold's favorite video essays/similar :>
ignore the fact that some of these videos are less than 10 minutes long i couldn't think of a better title lol video count: 60
music
- Notation Must Die: The Battle For How We Read Music (1h 16m 21s) by Tantacrul
- subtitles (english, spanish)
- standard music notation. its history, why it's bad, other proposed systems and how they compare.
- Music on Reality TV is Insanely Manipulative (28m 41s) by Tantacrul
- subtitles (english, spanish)
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- Musical Elitism is Everywhere (1h 2m 9s) by Tantacrul
- subtitles (english, german, spanish)
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math / science
- Metric Paper (8m 43s) by CGP Grey
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- how paper can be divided in half to the same shape half its size, and the same in the reverse. diving down and down and down to cells to atoms to quantum particles and the pixels of reality, and zooming out and out and out to our planet to our galaxy to our universe and all we'll ever know.
computer science
- how floating point works (17m 47s) by jan Misali
- subtitles (english)
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- the floating point number format, what it is, how it works, and why it's the way that it is.
- But what are Hamming codes? The origin of error correction (20m 4s) by 3Blue1Brown
- subtitles (english, arabic, bangla, chinese, french, german, hebrew, hindi, indoneisan, italian, japanese, korean, marathi, persian, portuguese, spanish, tamil, telugu, thai, turkish, ukranian, urdu, vietnamese)
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- a simple explanation of a simple error correction algorithm using binary searching
artificial intelligence
- Why AI is Doomed to Fail the Musical Turing Test (26m 49s) by Adam Neely
- subtitles (english)
- what would it take for a machine to jam? why what generative AI does is not music, and why the idea that it is is a category error. how music is about the process, not just the output.
- The AI Revolution is Rotten to the Core (1h 18m 38s) by Jimmy McGee
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color
- A perceptual color space in Minecraft (Oklab) (15m 37s) by Gneiss Name
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- computer does color in a very computer-y way. our eyes do it differently. how do they differ, and how do we compromise?
- How to average color (7m 45s) by Gneiss Name
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- computers tend to average color wrong. how do you do it right?
bases
- a better way to count (18m 1s) by jan Misali
- subtitles (english)
dozenal (base twelve)seximal (base six), and why it's better than decimal (base ten).
- seximal responses (16m 59s) by jan Misali
- subtitles (english)
- recommended first: a better way to count
- talking about counterpoints people made on a better way to count
- the best way to count (1h 12m 1s) by Lucilla, kepe, and Addy Lovestar
- subtitles (english)
- recommended first: a better way to count, seximal responses
- binary (base two), and why it's better than decimal, seximal, and all other bases, actually
- a base-neutral system for naming numbering systems (17m 44s) by jan Misali
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- you can represent numbers in different ways, and the names of those ways chose one as the best. what if we just didn't do that
measurement
- a defense of the imperial measurement system (18m 33s) by jan Misali
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- the imperial measurement system is bad, but it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be
geometry
- there are 48 regular polyhedra (28m 46s) by jan Misali
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- there's 5 platonic solids, but they're not actually the only regular polyhedra (if you make some assumptions)
- Non-Euclidean Geometry Explained - Hyperbolica Devlog #1 (10m 53s) by CodeParade
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- geometry can get a lot weirder if you change the rules a bit
- Spherical Geometry Is Stranger Than Hyperbolic - Hyperbolica Devlog #2 (4m) by CodeParade
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- spherical geometry looks really weird
- Hexagons are the Bestagons (9m 26s) by CGP Grey
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- six is a good number. hexagons are good polygons
curves
- The Beauty of Bézier Curves (24m 25s) by Freya Holmér
- subtitles (english, french)
- what bézier curves are, how they're used, how they're calculated, and how they work.
- The Continuity of Splines (1h 13m 50s) by Freya Holmér
- subtitles (english)
- recommended first: The Beauty of Bézier Curves
- what splines are, how they're used, how they're constructed, and their continuity - what continuity means, why it's important, and how to maintain it.
- Hilbert's Curve: Is infinite math useful? (18m 17s) by 3Blue1Brown
- subtitles (english, hungarian, polish, brazillian portuguese, thai)
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- mapping 2d planes to 1d lines, infinite curves, how to draw a line through all of infinite space, and how to (theoretically) see with sound.
epidemiology
- Simulating an epidemic (23m 11s) by 3Blue1Brown
- subtitles (english, albanian, arabic, bulgarian, chinese, hong kong chinese, taiwanese chinese, croatian, czech, dutch, estonian, french, georgian, german, greek, hebrew, hindi, hungarian, indonesian, italian, japanese, korean, lithuanian, marathi, persian, polish, portuguese, romanian, russian, spanish, latin american spanish, united states spanish, tamil, telugu, thai, turkish, ukranian, urdu, vietnamese)
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- epidemics, how infections spread, what happens if you isolate, social distance, or restrict travel, and how central hubs affect things.
- Epidemic, Endemic, and Eradication Simulations (12m 50s) by Primer
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- epidemics, how infection duration and population size affect things, and how vaccines can help.
biology
- Simulating the Evolution of Sacrificing for Family (20m 48s) by Primer
- subtitles (english, chinese, french, hindi, italian, japanese, korean, portuguese, russian, spanish)
- gambling in evolution, cowardice and altruism, hamilton's rule, and how not to get eaten by tree monsters when foraging.
- Simulating the Evolution of Agression (13m 16s) by Primer
- subtitles (english, chinese, french, hindi, italian, japanese, korean, portuguese, russian, spanish, german)
- game theory, prisoner's dilemma, how natural selection doesn't necessarily act for the good of the species, and how acting in everyone's interest can be better than acting only in your own.
- Simulating Natural Selection (10m) by Primer
- subtitles (english, arabic, catalan, chinese, taiwanese chinese, dutch, french, german, hebrew, hindi, italian, japanese, korean, polish, portuguese russian, spanish, latin american spanish, turkish, ukranian, vietnamese)
- natural selection, and how environment, population size, and traits affect each other.
linguistics
- Emojis Are Weird (Linguistically Speaking) (8m 40s) by K Klein
- subtitles (english, catalan, dutch, french, spanish)
- emojis are pictograms. kinda. maybe? ideograms?? punctuation???? a whole other language???????
- Why Are the English so Bad At Languages? (Statistically Speaking) (9m 3s) by K Klein
- subtitles (english, dutch, french)
- why native english speakers are so painfully monolingual, and how to change that
- Why YOU Should Learn a Language, Explained in 4 Minutes (5m 2s) by K Klein
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- why you should learn a language: communication, social connection, personal development, the economy, culture, and your biology
- Chinese Isn't (Really) A Language... (6m 34s) by K Klein
- subtitles (english, dutch, brazillian portuguese, romanian, russian, spanish, turkish)
- chinese isn't really a language, language in china is really confusing actually
- English is Harder Than You Think (7m 53s) by K Klein
- subtitles (english, simplified chinese, traditional taiwanese mandarin, dutch, french, german, indonesian, italian, polish, spanish, ukranian)
- english is really weird and difficult
- Let's Talk About Singular They. (8m 15s) by K Klein
- subtitles (english, arabic, basque, cantonese, simplified chinese, czech, dutch, finnish, french, hungarian, indonesian, italian, japanese, korean, brazillian portuguese, slovenian, latin american spanish, turkish)
- english pronouns, epicenity, singular they, where it came from, what it means, its history, and why it's important
- In Defence of Grammatical Gender (12m 44s) by K Klein
- subtitles (english, dutch, french, italian)
- grammatical gender, what it actually is, and the purpose it serves. also, trans people
for fun
- Stuck in a World of Twin Languages and 600 Pronouns (CCC3) (21m 51s) by ZeWei
- subtitles (english)
- the (fictional) dimension 78H and its extremely cursed language, O'eaiā (really fun video about a conlang intended to be cursed; framed as a vlog in which the main character travels to a dimension with the goal to study its language, and. ends up getting held hostage. a little.)
sociology
- What Facebook Has Done To Us (3h 9m 57s) by Tantacrul
- subtitles (english)
- how facebook went from a nice social platform to meta and the mess of a manipulative and exploitative company it is now.
politics
- TikTok Vs Democracy (39m 29s) by Philosophy Tube
- subtitles (english)
- disproving three myths: the problem is fake news, tiktok teens will save the world, and social media holds politicians accountable
- The Right-Wing War on Education (56m 19s) by Zoe Bee
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law
copyright, plagiarism, and ownership
- Plagiarism and You(Tube) (3h 51m 9s) by hbomberguy
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- creativity, plagiarism, what it is, how often and blatantly it happens, and how people get away with it. and also james somerton.
- Plagiarism and the Death of the Video Essay (59m 24s) by Zoe Bee
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- recommended first: Plagiarism and You(Tube)
- plagiarism, why it happens, academic honesty, and how everything is built on trust.
- ROBLOX_OOF.mp3 (1h 55m 4s) by hbomberguy
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- attribution, ownership of creativity, and how easy it is to lie. and also tommy tallarico.
- TomSka's Guide To Plagiarism (45m 48s) by TomSka & Friends
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- creativity and the spectrum of inspiration to plagiarism. from subconscious appropriation to inspiration to reference to derivative to copying to freebooting.
gender
- Gender is NOT the Same as Sex (29m 54s) by K Klein
- auto-generated subtitles (english)
- gender, where it comes from, what it is, and what it means
- I was a transgender child. (48m 22s) by Alexander Avila
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- what growing up transgender is like. the fear of being known.
- Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story | Philosophy Tube ★ (37m 39s) by Philosophy Tube
- subtitles (english, german, brazillian portuguese)
- what it would be like for you to be transgender. to have your identity to disintegrate and come together again as someone new.
- I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In The British Healthcare System (1h 27m 53s) by Philosophy Tube
- subtitles (english, german, brazillian portuguese)
- transphobia, why big institutions fall apart, and why they're so difficult to change.
- Did feminisim FAIL men? (1h 15m 57s) by Alexander Avila
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- how misogyny creates toxic masculinity.
- A Man Plagiarised My Work: Women, Money, and the Nation (1h 3m 10s) by Philosophy Tube
- subtitles (english, german, brazillian portuguese)
- plagiarism and misogyny.
- I Read The Most Misunderstood Philosopher in the World (1h 15m 8s) by Philosophy Tube
- subtitles (english, german, brazillian portuguese)
- gender being performative, how real and concrete the concept of sex actually may be, what the anti-gender movement says about gender ideology, and how some people just aren't listening.
neurodiversity
- TikTok Gave Me Autism: The Politics of Self Diagnosis (1h 8m 59s) by Alexander Avila
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- self diagnosis, what it is, and how okay it is. the advantages and disadvantages of diagnoses, and how difficult they are to obtain.
- Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response (1h 44m 9s) by hbomberguy
- subtitles (english, french, brazillian portuguese, latin american spanish)
- where the thought that vaccines cause autism came from, why that happened, what's happened since, and where it is now.
education
- Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains (52m 2s) by Zoe Bee
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fiction and fandom
omori
- I Played Omori After Losing My Daughter To Suicide (48m 28s) by Love Yourself 4830
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warrior cats
- Bramblestar is Worse (1h 6m 45s) by Moonkitti
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other
- hangman is a weird game (19m 29s) by jan Misali
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- the game hangman, and its game design (it's weird)
- hangman responses (11m 48s) by jan Misali
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- recommended first: hangman is a weird game
- talking about counterpoints people made on hangman is a weird game
- the five kinds of paradox (39m 54s) by jan Misali
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- people use "paradox" to mean a lot of different things. let's categorize them
- Weekend Wednesday (2m 44s) by CGP Grey
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- work weeks are bad, let's fix that
- Spaceship You (10m 58s) by CGP Grey
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- how to stay okay (especially in isolation). mission: return better than you left.
- Why We Can't Build Better Cities (ft.Not Just Bikes) (58m 1s) by Philosophy Tube
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