Favorite YouTube videos

MST3K now streams 24/7 on YT

I put this in the makes me smile thread but thought it belonged here instead:

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Here’s an interesting video about an ancillary event to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
(English subtitles)

Watch Charles Schulz draw Peanuts cartoons … oddly satisfying with good Peanuts music to accompany

Contains language that some viewers may find objectionable.

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Should have made the punchline $20,002,000, amirite?

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You folks who grew up in the 80s will appreciate this one:

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Monster Sizes from a first person view:

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I’m often amazed that there was a time when certain things that are so obvious about mathematics (like zero & negative numbers & multiplication for crying out loud) weren’t yet well understood:

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YouTube has been feeding me videos from Reason lately. enjoyed this gem today:

:rofl: :rofl:

I think my favorite is the puppets.

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I ran into a fascinating YouTube series on imaginary numbers. The guy wrote a book about imaginary numbers and is about to come out with a second edition. I’ve always found complex numbers a fascinating topic, so I’ve been enjoying watching these videos.

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If you like the (mostly) “classical” guitar…Göran Söllscher is amazing

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Newest Mersenne Prime # found: M136279841

The discoverer gives 0 F’s on the thing on his nose.

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holy crap. The guy spent at least $2M on computer resources & then stopped keeping track.
He works or used to work for Nvidia.
One commenter thinks the nose thing is " anti-facial-rec anti-ai-training makeup" :man_shrugging:

There’s a marketing opportunity - anti-facial recognition schnozzle attachments or nasal adornments.

I thought they did a pretty good job on this one -

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I have a vague recollection that I’ve stumbled across Simone Giertz before…but one of her videos just popped up via the algorithm & now I’m hooked.

“A step backwards is still a step, and my fitness tracker still counted it towards my daily goal”
“If you get your ass handed to you, just give it right back.”

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I binged her channel a while back, enjoying all the old stupid inventions. But then near the end of the binge I hit her “I’ve got brain cancer” video. It was like a punch in the stomach, even though I knew she had to have survived surgery, as that video was not recent.

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The truth about the SHU ratings on Hot Ones

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Peking to Paris - a race using old cars.

2007 race: 10 episodes

1997 race: 16 episodes

Videos are usually 20-30 minutes.