Comments by "Abigor Anathema" (@kruksog) on "Veritasium" channel.

  1. Your description of super glue + contacts patient gives me some heart, seeing that you and hopefully many other doctors are aware of what uncomfortable positions your patients are often in. Having been in some gnarly situations in front of doctors, I sometimes have felt like they were heartless, though I've always assumed it was them trying to maintain the calm control of the situation we seem to expect of doctors. Thanks for the awesome comment. Glad to know you do appreciate what your patients experience.
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  2. Linguists have shown that a bit of "umm" and "err" in speech can actually improve the listener's engagement and understanding. Obviously some people do it too much, but there's nothing wrong with a bit of it, even in a professional speaker.
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  3. Lol, have you heard from any school teachers lately? There's panic throughout the community about 5th graders who can't read, highschool seniors who can't do algebra, hell, can't multiply and divide, etc, and on and on. Internet videos are not quality education. Listen, I love veritasium, I love these videos. They are very informative, but they are not a replacement, in any way, shape, or form, for good schooling.
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  4. @Ali well, go into physics. Never have I ever heard a 70% called "great" more than I have in my physics courses.
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  5. Probability is remarkably unintuitive, so it doesn't surprise me that this question is not so simple.
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  6. That's physics bud.
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  7. @Twisted_Code  totally. Like I said, I've been in some pretty nasty situations in front of docs. I have obviously benefitted from their help and expertise. It is just nice for me to know that they probably do appreciate how much suffering I'm going through. Cheers, brother.
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  8. I know anecdote isn't scientific evidence, but I have a friend with a stupid good sense of direction. You could blindfold that kid and drop him off in the middle of a random woods and he'd find his way home (yes, we actually did this once). I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that his brain was particularly sensitive to magnetic fields.
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  9. "Do not attempt" makes the pretty bold assumption that I have a supply of liquid oxygen but, gotta cover your bases I suppose.
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  10. I love Steven Strogatz. I've read all his books. Listened to all his podcasts. Keep talking to that guy whenever you can.
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  11. Love your math videos. So good.
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  12. Love that you're so respectful towards grant sanderson. Struck me right off the batt. Cheers.
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  13. Best layman explanation of Gödel's incompleteness theorem I've ever seen. Also, the unintuitive answers to Hilbert's questions really emphasizes that he was onto something with them.
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  14. The galton board clearly approximates a binomial distribution, not a normal distribution. Yes, by the central limit theorem, those things are closely related, but... Look at it. Its obviously a discrete distribution, not a continuous one. These are the kinds of "little" things I expect you to get right Veritasium. Alright, now that I've had my spaz moment, I'll say, fantastic video as usual.
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  15. You never sound Canadian to me, but the way you say "borrow" in the beginning was distinctly Canadian.
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  16. Great video veritasium. I love your math videos most though. Make more!
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  17. It's funny that this has all gone down in the past year, because over that time frame is when I really came to love and 4egularly watch your channel.
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  18. You should really use a better argument to show that .9 repeating is 1. For example, that if it isn't 1, there exists a real between .9 repeating and 1, by the density of the reals. It's just very easy to fall into circular arguments via the "proof" you used. In your argument, you need to show that 0.9 repeating times 10 is 9.999... That is certainly true, but showing that to be the case reduces to showing that 0.9 repeating is 1. I think you can see how the argument is beginning to get circular. Anyway, nice video.
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  19. As everyone else has said, well put. I think many folks would do well to remember exactly what you've said.
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