Re:We're building computers wrong [video]
by lIIIllllIIII on Saturday March 05, 2022 @01:59AM
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I remember seeing that video. It was an insta-click for me because I understand very, very little about circuits and electricity. Something that actually bugs me quite a bit.
I understood even less after watching it I think..
Re:We're building computers wrong [video]
by mannykannot on Friday March 04, 2022 @08:39PM
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You appear to have seen way more of Veritasium's videos than I have, which seems rather odd, given that you dislike them so much.
Re:We're building computers wrong [video]
by LordDragonfang on Saturday March 05, 2022 @01:23PM
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I've been following him for a long time. His videos didn't used to be this bad.
And considering the fact that Derek has a Ph.D. in physics education research [1] that seems like an odd mistake for him to make, unless it was intentional.
As another commenter pointed out [2] Derek's content lately seems to be tailored to the maxim of "Make people believe they're thinking and they'll love you. Make them actually think, and they will hate you." It seems intended to invoke incredulity rather than understanding, presumably because he's decided the former is more marketable - because providing incomplete understanding and phrasing things in a way that's just technically correct enough to invite flame wars boosts engagement and therefore virality.
Yet another commenter [3] invoked https://xkcd.com/169/, which I think is apt.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Muller#Early_life_and_ed...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30558859
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30559815