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Re:PBS SpaceTime by woojoo666 on Friday May 20, 2022 @08:47AM (#31446651)

It's really sad that PBS ended their sister series on math, Infinite Series[1]. Those videos were just as deep, informative, and accessible as PBS Spacetime. Some of my favorites are the one on the mathematical "hydra"[2] and the ones on voting systems [3][4]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWwUpEY4c8o

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoAnYQZrNrQ

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhVR7gFMKNg

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by joadha on Friday May 20, 2022 @09:58AM (#31447464)

I had never even heard of this, and I've watched dozens and dozens of episodes of Spacetime!

I'm shocked YouTube didn't steer me to this sister channel. Thank you!

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by dylan604 on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:31AM (#31447951)

Are you suggesting that the YT recommendation algorithm is some how flawed? I hope you're doing that on a throwaway account ;P

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by frogpelt on Friday May 20, 2022 @12:39PM (#31449765)

Is it possible that it doesn’t serve YTs interests to have a recommendation engine that works best for the end user?

I honestly think they just experiment with it a lot. The variety of videos that are recommended for me don’t seem to follow a pattern.

Maybe they know my brain better than I do.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by dylan604 on Friday May 20, 2022 @01:43PM (#31450486)

>Is it possible that it doesn’t serve YTs interests to have a recommendation engine that works best for the end user?

100% absolutely it is similar to Goog's search

>I honestly think they just experiment with it a lot. The variety of videos that are recommended for me don’t seem to follow a pattern.

Possibly, but I'd posit that it's not a good system if the experiment is causing a lack of consistency. I'm sure there's a lot of people that would opt-in for a exeperimental reco system if just asked.

> Maybe they know my brain better than I do.

Now you're just being silly.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by bowsamic on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:21PM (#31450832)

Is this a jab at dang?

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by dylan604 on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:11PM (#31451380)

dang was not a thought in my mind when I replied, so if there's any inference to dang by you in my comment, it is solely within your reading of the comment.

however, out of curiosity, what in my comment makes you think that?

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by bowsamic on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:30PM (#31451563)

You were criticising the moderation of this site

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by dylan604 on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:40PM (#31451664)

I see. No, that was more so of the swarming vs staff management, but I can see how it wasn't so out of left field now.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by shepardrtc on Friday May 20, 2022 @04:43PM (#31452271)

They said YT, not YC.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by dylan604 on Friday May 20, 2022 @05:09PM (#31452538)

This makes even more sense at the confusion.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by joshbaptiste on Friday May 20, 2022 @05:34PM (#31452785)

It's not recommended because it hasn't been updated in years.. the algorithm promotes channels with updated content higher

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by TechSquidTV on Friday May 20, 2022 @01:42PM (#31450473)

I watch an _absurd_ amount of PBS content on YouTube and other science channels. Not as many math channels but certainly a few. I am so angry this was never recommended to me earlier, and full of joy that my weekend is set!

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by PartiallyTyped on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:38PM (#31451645)

It is astounding that so many people (me included) have this complain. I also watch numberphile, computerphile, 3B1B and the likes and yet I had never heard of the channel before.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by wrycoder on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:00AM (#31455135)

Same for me.

I find the YouTube algorithm pretty useless. I have lots of subscriptions, but it only links narrowly to channels I’ve recently watched. It also keeps stupidly linking to particular vids I’ve already watched.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by dskloet on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:32AM (#31447963)

It was good with Kelsey, but after she had to leave and was replaced, it somehow became really bad.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by jjcon on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:27AM (#31448771)

I'll second that, it died only because the new host couldn't fill her shoes. Conversely Matt on SpaceTime has done a great job taking over from Gabe.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by TheDesolate0 on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:36AM (#31448015)

Numberphile fills the void.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by ugh123 on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:03PM (#31450672)

They did some great vids with Cliff Stoll, including this one about his Klein Bottles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by system2 on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:23AM (#31448726)

Gets too mainstream though.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by gorkish on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:55AM (#31449153)

Try Mathologer instead

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by lvncelot on Friday May 20, 2022 @01:04PM (#31450095)

3blue1brown is also excellent

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by thawaya3113 on Friday May 20, 2022 @12:04PM (#31449293)

Numberphile lost me with their doubling down on their “sum of natural numbers is -1/12” video.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by dvt on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:06PM (#31450701)

The analytic continuation of the Riemann zeta function that gets you to -1/12 is such nuanced mathematical trickery, I'm not even sure why so many people incessantly argue it one way or another.

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Re:PBS SpaceTime by runarberg on Friday May 20, 2022 @12:13PM (#31449429)

Me to, however I forgave them after a great response video by Mathologer.

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