Hearted Youtube comments on Primer (@PrimerBlobs) channel.

  1. As someone who believes CGP Grey's voting videos from 2011 should be shown to everyone, I'm so glad you made this! I feel like every possible political issue arises downstream from the voting system itself. It's hard to overstate how important that is.
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  2. as a geologist, you see these ternary plots literally everywhere in literature
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  3. awesome!
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  4. Just remember kids, simulations are just a fragment of the complexity of reality, there are so many other variables to take into consideration, that it's hard to simulate them all. For example, I am small but I have an easy time eating larger people :)
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  5. When are we getting the sequel with Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock?
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  6. what an interesting way to teach biology gives death stares to education system
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  7. Blue: You want one? Red: spits on both of them.
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  8. I came for smiley goop simulations and found a life lesson
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  9. "There's nothing wrong with understanding something in hindsight, as long as you test that understanding in new situations to make sure it holds up." Thanks for a new quote for my quote wall, and some unsolicited life advice!! :)
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  10. Wow. I always liked the idea of leaving the world a better place than when you found it, but I never though about how that improves the lives of potentially quadrillions of people.
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  11. after three hours of playing the game I've realized you've essentially created a slot machine for Bayesian statisticians
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  12. so theres an epidemic thats turning all the doves into hawks, oh dear.
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  13. I'm so glad I rewatched this and discovered there's a simulation for students to involve themselves with now. I plan on having my class use this to more thoroughly explore natural selection next year!
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  14. This is an incredible series. You do an excellent job of explaining fairly complex concepts, while managing to strike the perfect balance between depth and understandability. These videos are a pleasure to watch because they spell things out, without treating the viewer like an idiot.
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  15. This is such a great summary of something so often misunderstood! Thanks for the shout-out and I’m proud to have played a small role in making it happen. :)
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  16. Made a mistake, corrected mistake and restored honor. Uncle Iroh is proud of you.
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  17. I can tell you there is high Quantity Demanded. Therefore give us a high Quantity of supply
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  18. Ever since I started watching your videos, I always thought that they could (and should!) be used in classrooms everywhere. To the point, illustrative, without sidetracking, curiosity-sparking and ELI5-compatible. Then, 5:30. "What a bunch of d****, right?" - Welp, sorry teachers. You're on your own again.
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  19. Love this video. I teach a graduate-level class on experimental design, but many of the students have forgotten a lot of the basic statistics by the time they take it. I'm bookmarking this as a potential reminder/class aid. Thanks!
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  20. Please upload more frequently! You have no idea how impatiently I waited for this second video!
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  21. Man, when those simulations mapped perfectly onto the exponential prediction I got the chills...maths truly is the language of the universe!
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  22. I'm stealing the "It can sometimes take surprisingly long for random events to even out" excuse next time I'm losing in a game.
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  23. This is valuable feedback, thank you. In the future when I want to be silly/irreverent in these videos, I’ll try to do it in a way that doesn’t make it harder for teachers to use them.
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  24. More like egg ression Ba dum tss Cos they look like eggs no?
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  25. Thank you for this video. We have been using your videos in our homeschooling, and this was a great addition to discuss how we can own up to and learn and grow from our mistakes. I really appreciate this focus on a part of the scientific method that is often overlooked: course correction when new evidence presents itself. (The bits on cognitive biases were great too.) Your candor helps insure our continued watching!
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  26. I feel very educated right now, this was not what I was trying to achieve when going through YouTube but i want more
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  27. 2:10 I was about to go full opposition before you explained how complicated genetics and epigenetics actually are
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  28. I've come here to argue that everything in the video that doesn't fit my preexisting economics ideology is wrong but that the parts that do are brilliantly modeled.
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  29. I love this so much. Human perception of random systems is fundamentally flawed, and I thoroughly expect this "game" to produce a dataset that bears this out. Fischer Yates with a 64-bit Mersenne Twister is the gold standard of pseudorandom number generation for a reason, and is simply as close to truly random as random can get without going quantum with it. 99.9% of the time when someone claims something isn't "random", what they really mean is they "FEEL" it isn't random, that it isn't consistently inconsistent. I don't recall who, but a very smart person once said "if something feels random, it probably isn't." Truly random systems have streaks, and aren't prone to even distributions, especially in such small datasets. Love this. Love, love, love this.
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  30. I dont know why I read all of Dawkins' books when I could have just watched this video.
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  31. 22:27 amazing post production fix
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  32. Maybe for future videos if he gets impatient with correspondence from academics he should send them this video so they know that if they don't talk to him he'll misinform millions of people about their field!
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  33. It's been 50 days! We miss your videos!
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  34. He came back! Millions of Happiness point for all of us
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  35. 4:28 I love the enthusiasm of the blob on the left who keeps on trying to score.
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  36. FUUUUCK what a great way to start explaining this stuff!
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  37. its a good year when Primer uploads
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  38. 15:12 I cheered so loud congrats buddy you did it
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  39.  @PrimerBlobs  I've been sitting there for idk how many hours trying to reverse engineer the web app/apk to see how the data that gets sent is built and that reminded me once again that I'm no real programmer. I made no progress, so I'm probably just too bad to get around whatever you did to stop reverse-engineering, congratulations! Maybe a more competent programmer can crack the game but this is it for me. It's been a fun ride, from using Cetus to edit the games memory (like Cheat engine) to frantically searching for that little python knowledge left in my brain to write the leaderboard "wiper" (by repeatedly sending the same 2 PUT requests with the correct cookie) to failing at everything I throw at the .wasm/.apk to try and decompile it. This is where my story ends, but I'll remember this saturday as one of the best in recent times :)
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  40. I never thought I could have fun with Desmos...
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  41. As a theist i still believe in evolution Yes, it might not make sense to a religious person that something can change to something else, but having something just pop out into existence is equally not making sense I still think evolution is a miraculous work of god. i mean, that's some interesting design how animal could change its physiological structure entirely based on the environment
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  42. Hey bro. Where did you get the content for your video? I want to learn the basics of economics. Colud you recommend a book or any other source?
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  43. I would normally just post my opinion on markets and defend my view, but your video was neutral and calming enough that I've managed to resist that impulse. Well done
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  44. Very elegant outro my man ;)
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  45. "creatures actually don't compete for food by playing rock paper scissors" I think you forgot humans exist. How else would you decide who gets the last cookie.
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  46. Wouldn't the average amount of people infected by an infected person (Ro) change because once people know of the disease they would stay inside and try to avoid getting it. Therefore changing how the curves would look.
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  47. Honestly I find it hard to put my support behind any voting system other than approval - like yes STV and whatever are better than plurality so I would always support them in a binary choice between plurality and an alternative, but of the alternatives none are as good, not even close, as approval voting, as far as I can tell
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  48. sees top comment "If only I said that."
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  49. This is actually a really common misconception—to the extent that it was the first ever evolutionary theory of ageing proposed in the late 1800s! The problem with it is, imagine you did a simulation with a bunch of blobs all of whom altruistically died to get out of their kids’ way and leave plenty of mangos for them. Then, one blob randomly gets a mutation where it doesn’t die, but instead keeps on reproducing. Its kids will also keep on reproducing, and all of them will be profiting from the altruistic blobs’ mangos, meaning they can reproduce even more. It doesn’t take long for the ‘selfish’ blobs to take over the whole population. So alas dying for the sake of your kids is evolutionarily unstable in most cases—and it’s an example of ‘group selection’ which, for broadly similar reasons, only happens very rarely in biology.
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  50. Looking at the graph, I have concluded that the blobs are from Ukraine
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