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Beautiful (in an educational sense and in a visual sense) CGP Grey video on metric paper: https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI
by hazn 4y ago
Beautiful (in an educational sense and in a visual sense) CGP Grey video on metric paper: https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI
- jcynix 4y agoCool animation, as almost always by CGP Grey. Reminds me of the book "Powers of Ten" by Philip and Phylis Morrison, published in 1982 ("Scientific American Books")
- mkl 4y agoPowers of Ten was also a 1977 short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 (Duplicating my own comment from a few months ago.)
- anonymfus 4y agoIn the Director's Commentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lyN6Qg8VQ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lyN6Qg8VQ4 ) CGP Grey said that it was directly inspired by the video version of "Powers of Ten".
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- Orthanc 4y agoGlad you liked it!
- user_7832 4y agoAre you really CGP Grey? If so, thank you for your high quality videos! (Science) educators like you make YouTube and the internet a better place :) (Ooh, I had a quick question if you don't mind - how did you get into animating the videos in the beginning? I'm also hoping to make sciencey/educational/technical videos on YouTube but I don't have any animation/software experience. Right now I'm just planning to draw static images/diagrams on my iPad and use that for the video, like a slideshow.)
- jorl17 4y agoJust taking a second to appreciate you and your work. I have one of the first ever Theme System Journals. While I've grown older and now no longer watch your videos as religiously as before, I do still follow along Cortex. I was a patron for Hello Internet. Though I doubt it will, I hope you guys can one day bring it back. So many fond memories :) Thank you for your hard work and almost-always insightful remarks!
- leshenka 4y agoWhat happened to HI though? They seemingly stopped doing it without any reason and I really liked it. Thankfully Cortex is a lot like HI and I enjoy it a lot.
- spiffytech 4y agoThis question is raised every time Grey or Brady pop up anywhere. Although it's understandable (Hello Internet was great!), I've become a lot more sympathetic after watching a Patrick Rothfuss video about how it dehumanizing it feels to constantly be asked nothing besides when Famous Thing is coming back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtlYvNB6PZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtlYvNB6PZE
- porkbrain 4y agoI wish HN had a feature to follow or anotate users. Not the first time I meet someone interesting I know from another space here on HN. However, without such feature, I shall forget the username.
- scott_s 4y agoCreate a bookmark category for HN users you want to follow, and bookmark their comment pages.
- yoyojojofosho 4y agoYou can use Hacker News RSS [0] and subscribe to a user's feed [1] via https://hnrss.org/user?id=USERNAME https://hnrss.org/user?id=USERNAME [0]: https://hnrss.github.io/ https://hnrss.github.io/ [1]: https://hnrss.github.io/#user-feeds https://hnrss.github.io/#user-feeds
- dskloet 4y agoI figured since for Reddit this functionality is provided by RES, for HN it should be HNES so I searched "hacker news enhancement suite" and found this [1] which does list "Ability to tag users" among its features. [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhancement-s/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
- burlesona 4y agoThat went a very different direction than I expected. Thanks for sharing :)
- vxNsr 4y agoThat video kinda lost the thread of what it was supposed to be about, it went from a cool video about paper (which admittedly is no easy task) to a generic “things are small but also things are big”
- julianbuse 4y agoI dont think the video is really about the paper, it's just a hook.