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  • *Riloe

    *Architect of games

    *Nakey Jake

    *Gamer makers toolkit

    *Curious archive

    *Lemino

    *12 tone

    *AI and games

    *Alpha Phoenix

    *Barely sociable

    *Be smart

    *Branch education

    *Brick immortar

    *Bytebytego

    *Cgp grey

    *Coffeezilla

    *Defunctland

    *Eckharts ladder

    *Electroboom

    *Every frame a painting

    *Lessons from the screenplay

    *History of the earth

    *History of the universe

    *Internet Historian

    *Kurzgesagt

    *Lockpickinglawyer

    *Markrober

    *Mustard

    *Cold fusion

    *Polymatter

    *Minute physics

    *No clip documentaries

    *PBS spacetime

    *Pursuit of wonder

    *Real engineering

    *Scishow

    *Secret base

    *Stevemould

    *Technology connections

    *The b1m

    *The history guy

    *The squidd

    *Throttle house

    *Tom Stanton

    *Tom Scott (retired now)

    *Veritasium

    *Vsauce

    *Wendover productions

    Edit: things I forgot or didn’t know about and had suggested to me below

    *Half as interesting

    *Undecided with Matt Farrell

    *3blue1brown

    *Numberphile

    *Mathologer

    *Miniminuteman

    *Sam o’nella

    *Alternate history hub

    *Road guy rob

    *8-bit guy

    *Modern vintage gamer

    *Bobby Broccoli

    *Jenny Nicholson

    *Animagraffs

    *Captain disillusion

    *Driving 4 answers

    *Engineering explained

    *Jeff geerling (raspberry pi type projects)

    *Kings and generals

    *Michael Reeves

    *Noah caldwell-gervais

    *People make games

    *Pointless hub

    *Smarter everyday

    *The engineering mindset

    *The great war

    *The operations room

    *The modern rogue

    *Zack Freedman

    *The backyard scientist

    *Brew

    *I did a thing

    *Neo

    *Stand up maths

    There i think that’s it. That’s a ton of stuff but I really follow more quality YouTube than anything else and I like sharing great YouTube channels. If you enjoy interesting YouTube I would honestly just check a couple of these out and see if the topics fit your interests.

    These channels range from science, space, physics, to history, sports, cars, to tech, movies, games, to makers who build stuff seriously as well as builders who make stuff silly.

    Not everything here is video essay, but it’s high quality content imo



  • DogWater@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzEvery base is base 10
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    4 months ago

    These people are explaining it well, but the things that helps the most to me is consciously de-coupling your internalized knowledge of human Numbers from what they actually represent abstractly. The numbers represent an absolute quantity.

    0 =

    1 = .

    2 = . .

    3 = . . .

    That’s 4 unique characters representing incremental quantities.

    If you notice on the comic, the alien has 4 digits on it’s “hands”. That’s the root cause for their base number system. Ours is that way because we we have 10 digits on our hands (most of the time, some cultures do it different, but for simplicity, that’s what the comic is implying).

    Abstractly, adding another digit represents starting over and keeping track of how many times you’ve done that. So the 1 in ten says you’ve counted through all the digits 1 time. And the 0 means you’re on the first digit of the new sequence. So all they are doing is applying that logic to a base 4 system. So a collection of 4 things is therefore represented by “one zero,” 10, in base 4 because they have to, there are no more characters in that system that could do that by itself.

    The weird part about it that can trip people up is that they are applying some human conventions to the comic like our script for writing numbers, which obviously an alien wouldn’t do, but we have so much inherent ingrained knowledge about what a number means that it’s hard to remember that.