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SoME1 results

286 points by signa11 5y ago

anuvrat1 5y ago
YouTube playlist[1] is a treasure trove [1]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQX-jgAF5pTkwtUuVpqS5tuWmJ-6ZM-Z https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQX-jgAF5pTkwtUuVpqS5tuW...
wodenokoto 5y ago
Did any established math youtubers, like numberphile, standup math, veritasium or singing banana enter?
- Tomte 5y ago
  Probably not. The idea was to encourage "nobodies" to create math teaching material. People who thought they might want to do that, but never got started. The exposition contest was designed to give them a little push and get eyeballs on their content, so they've got an actual chance to be noticed, no matter if they win. An established YouTuber entering it would have taken attention away from those new people.
- Youden 5y ago
  Per the contest announcement [0], the intent was "[...] to encourage people who've never put stuff online before" and "[...] to offer a little bit of activation energy to anyone who has thought about doing something like this, but just never got around to it". So the spirit of the contest excludes those YouTubers. [0]: https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some1 https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some1
- progbits 5y ago
  Probably "The Beauty of Bézier Curves" [1], one of the choices by 3B1B, comes closest. It is already a relatively large channel although usually focused on game dev tutorials rather than math explanations. This video bridges those two areas and is absolutely beautiful. [1] https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw
  - wodenokoto 5y ago
    Didn’t that one go viral between submission and contest results?
    - TOMDM 5y ago
      It certainly deserved to, it's gorgeous.
  - tantony 5y ago
    Its creator was one of the devs of the "Budget Cuts" VR game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/400940/Budget_Cuts/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/400940/Budget_Cuts/
  - alteriority 5y ago
    Interesting--I recognized that animation style immediately, because she's also the creator of a Unity asset library called Shapes[1], (a "...real-time vector graphics library with high-quality line drawing and infinite resolution shapes, rendered with advanced anti-aliasing techniques"), which seems to have been used to create the video. [1] https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/shapes-173167 https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effect...
truly 5y ago
For anyone wondering what 3Blue1Brown is, it's a top Youtube channel with very nicely made explanatory videos for math. The videos on linear algebra in particular are worth it, especially if you do any sort of machine learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs. The author of the channel is Grant Sanderson. He has recently given a talk at SIGGRAPH 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvck7ssg9dE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvck7ssg9dE. As part of developing his Youtube channel, he has written and open-sourced manim, a library for programatically generating animations written in Python: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/ https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/.
- LeonM 5y ago
  And for anyone wondering where the name 3blue1brown comes from: Grant Sanderson has a condition called heterochromia, his right eye is 3 parts blue, and 1 part brown, like his logo. You can see it for example in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bc9EWhmDZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bc9EWhmDZg
  - morjom 5y ago
    Isn't heterochromia where both eyes are a different colour?
    - LeonM 5y ago
      According to Wikipedia [0]: Heterochromia of the eye is called heterochromia iridum or heterochromia iridis. It can be complete or sectoral. In complete heterochromia, one iris is a different color from the other. In sectoral heterochromia, part of one iris is a different color from its remainder. In central heterochromia, there is a ring around the pupil or possibly spikes of different colors radiating from the pupil. So, in case of Grant Sanderson, it would be sectoral heterochromia. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia_iridum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia_iridum
  - kzrdude 5y ago
    I wonder how this is resolved for places that ask for eye color (various people identification registries). If the information could be accurate and understandable (from a short database column entry), it's a quite unique identifier.
HotHotLava 5y ago
I don't envy the judges, the shortlist is full of absurdly high-quality videos that didn't make it into the top 5. My personal favorite was this one about the topology of rotation groups and spin 1/2 particles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACZC_XEyg9U&list=PLnQX-jgAF5pTkwtUuVpqS5tuWmJ-6ZM-Z&index=9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACZC_XEyg9U&list=PLnQX-jgAF5...
- blagie 5y ago
  I don't envy the contestants. I think 1,200 entries is so many that the organizers can't even glance at most of them; there had to be a peer review process. There were 5 winners. Your odds of winning were less than half a percent. When submitting to a contest, you have no idea how many submissions there will be. With this many, and the processes around it, your submission WILL most likely be lost in the noise. Indeed, many, many very good submissions will be lost in the noise. At the same time, these kinds of videos take obscene amounts of time to prepare. It's depressing to throw weeks of your heart and soul into something, only to have no one look at it.
  - Gehinnn 5y ago
    I don't think winning the contest should be the primary motivation for making such a high quality education video.
    - blagie 5y ago
      ... not, the primary motivation is to help people and to share content. 3B1B might give a very tall soapbox. If you spend this much time, for three dozen views (which is not uncommon for videos further down -- and a view doesn't necessarily mean a person watched it all the way through), you've probably wasted a lot of time. I don't know what the solution here is, and I'm not faulting anyone (I don't think anyone expected 1200 submissions), but the amount of dissipated effort makes me sad. I almost made an explainer for the contest, and I'm glad I didn't. I think I would have made a good one, but I think for the expected number of views, I'm better off tutoring people 1:1.
DreamFlasher 5y ago
Where can we find the top 100 list?
Intermernet 5y ago
I love the last section of "Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows"[0] >I know what you're thinking. What about the hologram?! >Does the math above imply that a hologram will always be created, or is this one cat hologram just an incredible coincidence? >Well you see, I've discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this website's margin is unfortunately too narrow to contain :) [0]: https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering
nmaleki 5y ago
https://youtu.be/u1MUrVBQTyE https://youtu.be/u1MUrVBQTyE is my submission to this exposition. I had an absolute blast making this. Thank you to all the volunteers for setting this up, mathematics and education is a better place today than it was yesterday because of you. Much of this competition was coordinated by Dr. James Schloss, thank you. Check out his YouTube channel, https://youtu.be/EbanExb75mc https://youtu.be/EbanExb75mc

286 points by signa11 5y ago

YouTube playlist[1] is a treasure trove [1]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQX-jgAF5pTkwtUuVpqS5tuWmJ-6ZM-Z https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQX-jgAF5pTkwtUuVpqS5tuW...

wodenokoto 5y ago

Did any established math youtubers, like numberphile, standup math, veritasium or singing banana enter?

Tomte 5y ago
Probably not. The idea was to encourage "nobodies" to create math teaching material. People who thought they might want to do that, but never got started. The exposition contest was designed to give them a little push and get eyeballs on their content, so they've got an actual chance to be noticed, no matter if they win. An established YouTuber entering it would have taken attention away from those new people.
Youden 5y ago
Per the contest announcement [0], the intent was "[...] to encourage people who've never put stuff online before" and "[...] to offer a little bit of activation energy to anyone who has thought about doing something like this, but just never got around to it". So the spirit of the contest excludes those YouTubers. [0]: https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some1 https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some1
progbits 5y ago
Probably "The Beauty of Bézier Curves" [1], one of the choices by 3B1B, comes closest. It is already a relatively large channel although usually focused on game dev tutorials rather than math explanations. This video bridges those two areas and is absolutely beautiful. [1] https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw
- wodenokoto 5y ago
  Didn’t that one go viral between submission and contest results?
  - TOMDM 5y ago
    It certainly deserved to, it's gorgeous.
- tantony 5y ago
  Its creator was one of the devs of the "Budget Cuts" VR game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/400940/Budget_Cuts/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/400940/Budget_Cuts/
- alteriority 5y ago
  Interesting--I recognized that animation style immediately, because she's also the creator of a Unity asset library called Shapes[1], (a "...real-time vector graphics library with high-quality line drawing and infinite resolution shapes, rendered with advanced anti-aliasing techniques"), which seems to have been used to create the video. [1] https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/shapes-173167 https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effect...

truly 5y ago

For anyone wondering what 3Blue1Brown is, it's a top Youtube channel with very nicely made explanatory videos for math. The videos on linear algebra in particular are worth it, especially if you do any sort of machine learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoSs. The author of the channel is Grant Sanderson. He has recently given a talk at SIGGRAPH 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvck7ssg9dE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvck7ssg9dE. As part of developing his Youtube channel, he has written and open-sourced manim, a library for programatically generating animations written in Python: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/ https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/.

LeonM 5y ago
And for anyone wondering where the name 3blue1brown comes from: Grant Sanderson has a condition called heterochromia, his right eye is 3 parts blue, and 1 part brown, like his logo. You can see it for example in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bc9EWhmDZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bc9EWhmDZg
- morjom 5y ago
  Isn't heterochromia where both eyes are a different colour?
  - LeonM 5y ago
    According to Wikipedia [0]: Heterochromia of the eye is called heterochromia iridum or heterochromia iridis. It can be complete or sectoral. In complete heterochromia, one iris is a different color from the other. In sectoral heterochromia, part of one iris is a different color from its remainder. In central heterochromia, there is a ring around the pupil or possibly spikes of different colors radiating from the pupil. So, in case of Grant Sanderson, it would be sectoral heterochromia. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia_iridum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia_iridum
- kzrdude 5y ago
  I wonder how this is resolved for places that ask for eye color (various people identification registries). If the information could be accurate and understandable (from a short database column entry), it's a quite unique identifier.

HotHotLava 5y ago

I don't envy the judges, the shortlist is full of absurdly high-quality videos that didn't make it into the top 5. My personal favorite was this one about the topology of rotation groups and spin 1/2 particles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACZC_XEyg9U&list=PLnQX-jgAF5pTkwtUuVpqS5tuWmJ-6ZM-Z&index=9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACZC_XEyg9U&list=PLnQX-jgAF5...

blagie 5y ago
I don't envy the contestants. I think 1,200 entries is so many that the organizers can't even glance at most of them; there had to be a peer review process. There were 5 winners. Your odds of winning were less than half a percent. When submitting to a contest, you have no idea how many submissions there will be. With this many, and the processes around it, your submission WILL most likely be lost in the noise. Indeed, many, many very good submissions will be lost in the noise. At the same time, these kinds of videos take obscene amounts of time to prepare. It's depressing to throw weeks of your heart and soul into something, only to have no one look at it.
- Gehinnn 5y ago
  I don't think winning the contest should be the primary motivation for making such a high quality education video.
  - blagie 5y ago
    ... not, the primary motivation is to help people and to share content. 3B1B might give a very tall soapbox. If you spend this much time, for three dozen views (which is not uncommon for videos further down -- and a view doesn't necessarily mean a person watched it all the way through), you've probably wasted a lot of time. I don't know what the solution here is, and I'm not faulting anyone (I don't think anyone expected 1200 submissions), but the amount of dissipated effort makes me sad. I almost made an explainer for the contest, and I'm glad I didn't. I think I would have made a good one, but I think for the expected number of views, I'm better off tutoring people 1:1.

DreamFlasher 5y ago

Where can we find the top 100 list?

Intermernet 5y ago

I love the last section of "Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows"[0] >I know what you're thinking. What about the hologram?! >Does the math above imply that a hologram will always be created, or is this one cat hologram just an incredible coincidence? >Well you see, I've discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this website's margin is unfortunately too narrow to contain :) [0]: https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering

nmaleki 5y ago

https://youtu.be/u1MUrVBQTyE https://youtu.be/u1MUrVBQTyE is my submission to this exposition. I had an absolute blast making this. Thank you to all the volunteers for setting this up, mathematics and education is a better place today than it was yesterday because of you. Much of this competition was coordinated by Dr. James Schloss, thank you. Check out his YouTube channel, https://youtu.be/EbanExb75mc https://youtu.be/EbanExb75mc