Post the names of youtubers and other internet microcelebs you love with a burning passion based on more than vibes. Very preferably not large.
A good example is Cathode Ray Dude, who makes long videos on older technology. He doesn’t seem to have done anything reactionary, he’s got a personality far beyond “the algorithm”, and he doesn’t associate with any terrible people. And I enjoy his videos.
3Blue1Brown
The current goat of youtube math education. I don’t know what he is like on some of his streams (because I don’t care about those). However, his mainline videos really helped me understand a lot of math concepts.
Agree. Some smaller also good ones:
Thomas Kern Really good at making some advanced/less mainstream topics accessible, careful to build up lots of necessary background and thoroughly explain details, so a bit like 3B1B except 0 fancy animations and slightly more rigorous. Covers a variety of topics but with a focus on automata and theory of computation.
Sheafification of G The opposite of Thomas Kern, designed for people with extreme ADHD. No slowing down, very little explanation, borderline silliness, you learn by osmosis. Half of the videos are him trying to incept category theory into your head. I still haven’t learned category theory, but I’m old and my brain is starting to calcify, I did learn some stuff though and it’s always entertaining.
Going to sheaffication of G sometimes feels like I’m getting whatever the opposite of education is lol.
Indeed, but if I could somehow revert to infant level neuroplasticity while retaining all my current knowledge it would be super useful
Numberphile is very good too!