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Do I win anything for noting, in a video about hyper-detail orientation, that, when the text on screen says "Is this the most beautiful ____", the voice-over sa

by JadeNB 2y ago

Do I win anything for noting, in a video about hyper-detail orientation, that, when the text on screen says "Is this the most beautiful ____", the voice-over says "This is the most beautiful ____"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc&t=9m07s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc&t=9m07s (I'm not sure if it's also an error, or part of the joke, or if it just parses in a way that I can't accomplish on my own, that the text before the video reads "Way three (recommended) is to sit back and bathe in the 4k, 60Hz flashing lights that are Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version) is the newest installment in the Main Sequence:".)

idle_zealot 2y ago
There are quite a few errors in the presentation that seem intended to annoy detail-oriented people. One that stood out to me was the use of backslashes in his website URL.
- JadeNB 2y ago
  > There are quite a few errors in the presentation that seem intended to annoy detail-oriented people. One that stood out to me was the use of backslashes in his website URL. Yeah, some of those (like the backslashes) were clearly intentional. It didn't look to me like the "Is this" / "This is" was, but I guess anything can be put down to being part of the joke.
- lupire 2y ago
  In the paper, at citation [2] where he talks about mal-formatted URLs and fixing punctuation on Wikipedia, the footnote citation is a broken (and line-broken) link to the Wikipedia page. Also, there is a [1] in the footnotes but not in the main body.
- teo_zero 2y ago
  And the apostrophe is a single left quote.
- kybernetikos 2y ago
  The pdf had absolutely horrible keming (long words were visibly broken into their component parts) on my mobile reader which I thought was a deliberate part of the joke until I opened it on desktop and it looked fine. I assume it was perhaps substituting a different font or something.
TapamN 2y ago
I read the Epsom's Version PDF before the video was released, and the typesetting was absolutely terrible. https://imgur.com/a/wjK5br5 https://imgur.com/a/wjK5br5 After the opening on how he's bothered by minor errors, I thought it had to be part of a joke, and it was a setup for a punchline to be revealed later in the paper. But eventually I realized, no, the PDF must not being displayed the way it was intended. I was reading it in Evince at first, but muPDF gave much better output.
- JadeNB 2y ago
  He does mention in the text above the video: > Be warned that due to "BUG", these seem only to display properly in Chrome. I am working on fixing "BUG" once I get some sleep; I have some leads due to helpful people on the blog.
- lupire 2y ago
  That's how Android Firefox mangles PDF also.
- snet0 2y ago
  It's bizarre to me that different applications display PDFs differently. Isn't one of the primary purposes of PDF to have a consistent typesetting?
  - jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
    PDF is a huge standard and the canonical implementation isn't open source. Still an improvement on postscript by not being as easily turing complete.
layer8 2y ago
The paper has the fifth occurrence of “Wikipedia” in lower case, which greatly irritated me in the Knuth version.

by JadeNB 2y ago

idle_zealot 2y ago

There are quite a few errors in the presentation that seem intended to annoy detail-oriented people. One that stood out to me was the use of backslashes in his website URL.

JadeNB 2y ago
> There are quite a few errors in the presentation that seem intended to annoy detail-oriented people. One that stood out to me was the use of backslashes in his website URL. Yeah, some of those (like the backslashes) were clearly intentional. It didn't look to me like the "Is this" / "This is" was, but I guess anything can be put down to being part of the joke.
lupire 2y ago
In the paper, at citation [2] where he talks about mal-formatted URLs and fixing punctuation on Wikipedia, the footnote citation is a broken (and line-broken) link to the Wikipedia page. Also, there is a [1] in the footnotes but not in the main body.
teo_zero 2y ago
And the apostrophe is a single left quote.
kybernetikos 2y ago
The pdf had absolutely horrible keming (long words were visibly broken into their component parts) on my mobile reader which I thought was a deliberate part of the joke until I opened it on desktop and it looked fine. I assume it was perhaps substituting a different font or something.

TapamN 2y ago

I read the Epsom's Version PDF before the video was released, and the typesetting was absolutely terrible. https://imgur.com/a/wjK5br5 https://imgur.com/a/wjK5br5 After the opening on how he's bothered by minor errors, I thought it had to be part of a joke, and it was a setup for a punchline to be revealed later in the paper. But eventually I realized, no, the PDF must not being displayed the way it was intended. I was reading it in Evince at first, but muPDF gave much better output.

JadeNB 2y ago
He does mention in the text above the video: > Be warned that due to "BUG", these seem only to display properly in Chrome. I am working on fixing "BUG" once I get some sleep; I have some leads due to helpful people on the blog.
lupire 2y ago
That's how Android Firefox mangles PDF also.
snet0 2y ago
It's bizarre to me that different applications display PDFs differently. Isn't one of the primary purposes of PDF to have a consistent typesetting?
- jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
  PDF is a huge standard and the canonical implementation isn't open source. Still an improvement on postscript by not being as easily turing complete.

layer8 2y ago

The paper has the fifth occurrence of “Wikipedia” in lower case, which greatly irritated me in the Knuth version.