May video poll
Vote as many times as you like. I break a tie. If there is something specific within a topic leave a comment.
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Comments (9)
I know they didn‘t win, but if you can find the time I‘d still love videos on the three body problem, as well as a science adjacent book!
Seeing the Stellar Anatomy video: In Andy Weir's newest book "Project: Hail Mary" (no spoiler) the sun plays a tangential role. And even though it's pretty "sci-fi", it goes down very easily (like The Martian).
Btw, I know "science adjacent book" is losing. But if you're ever looking for weird "weirdly physics themed media" like the inspiration for this, there exists a Broadway musical called "the theory of relativity".
Science Trek: TNG. Very much on my mind as a dad and a disillusioned developer who hate-dabbles with AI.
"Hate-dabbles" - I like that. I do the same thing wasting time trying to distill LLMs into something small, visualizable and useful that can run locally, by treating them as compression algorithms that converge on calculations that will reproduce its training data. In the "space elevator" video, Angela describes how she now dreads any technological advancement, because in our hell world it will be used to exploit us and degrade and demean our lives in new and horrible ways. For now, for an individual programmer, there are still remnants of non-commodified spaces through Linux and the open source projects that its built on that anyone can freely study and build on. Programming is still a way to personally explore universes. But its hard to communicate this to the general public in a world where we are forced to adapt to a stream of new technological horrors being unleashed without constraint by the tech company fiefdoms that have laid illegitimate claim to all our communal spaces. Long story short, I also dread technological advancement in this capitalist hell world.
I'll suggest a different option: what makes academe so miserable?
I accidentally deleted my good comment. Thank you for being an amazingly funny person, one of the funniest people I've ever heard. I promise you I'm not exaggerating. I hope people get your jokes. You're funny and you layer them and you throw them out so fast. I miss some of them and watch parts of your video over and over. Unlike some male long blonde bleached hair YouTubers who are science communicators, the you are Bar None, the funniest. And the balance of humor and education is some of the most well done on YouTube. I don't care if you don't have a green screen, I like your graphics. Some of them make me laugh just as hard as the stuff you say when you are being satirical or farcical Or speaking in hyperbole and so on. Among the science communicators, on... The tube.... You are one of if not the best that I have come across. Thank you for all of the laughter. It helps heal. In my accidentally deleted post, I mentioned that I have a disability, and I appreciate your speaking about difficult topics such as discrimination. It happens to me too. I can't tell you how many people think I'm stupid because I can't walk well. It's absurd the discrimination I have experienced... Being talked down to by interns while working on a storage phosphor (stimulated emissions) plate for medical imaging is just... Hr has become my friend everywhere. I work except for my last position where the owner actually said one of my disabilities doesn't exist. He knows because he's a vet. 🙄. He's also quite stupid for saying what he said. And he said it more than once, encouraged others to talk down to me, and so on. Probably my worst employer ever Put me on the second floor, no elevator. Refused reasonable accommodations etc, And then let me go after failing to perform the required actions as stated by the FDA after I posted them. I am waiting for some time before I blow the whistle, they should not be providing anything to anyone for people. They're going to kill someone. But regarding the poll, I made three choices, I really hope the third one isn't the one that will win, though I think it will
Man I'd love to hear your take on the ceremonial stuff. It feels like for all the modernity, the culture of academia is stuck 2 centuries behind. (Though I might completely be misinterpreting what the point of the video would be)
Dark Energy! Much Dark, so Energy, wow.