The video on half-derivatives (fractional calculus) was captivating, fun to see it all come together so simply, when it looked like a very obscure concept at the start!
Yep; I am not only sharing this here because of the gimmick. The author is a master of pacing mathematical explanations, knows what to say and what to omit.
This video reminds me of when I first went to Japan decades ago. I switched on the TV in my hotel room early in the morning about 6ish or so to be greeted with a very enthusiastic and entertaining teacher with Einstein-like hair teaching calculus in front of a blackboard.
I then thought about what kids would be watching back home at that hour of the morning and I was ashamed to think of the opportunity that we in the West had lost.
Incidentally, whilst there I never missed watching the program. I couldn't understand what he was saying but I sure understood what he was writing on the blackboard.
There’s nothing to the video that takes advantage of the video format except the characters. It’s a series of slides with a voice track over it.
Generally, YouTube math videos (as a genre) have some form of animation or figures but I don’t think this is any more effective than the transcript and equations as a paper unless one finds the characters helpful.
With that said the actual content was well written.
> I don’t think this is any more effective than the transcript and equations as a paper unless one finds the characters helpful.
Possibly, but it's unusual for educational Math books to have dialogues. I think this video uses the dialogue very well here. I have an exceptional high school Physics book that is all dialogues, and I loved that too.
I love the dialogue format too, and have recently been experimenting somewhat successfully with creating my own dialogues with textbooks.
I've previously found it to be so-so with OpenAI plugins/wrappers, but now with Claude's Projects feature, I feel that it's pretty much there. I create a project and upload a book (or a part of a book, given the context limit), as well as any additional notes/code I already created based on it, and this then allows me to have a really productive dialogue with an AI version of the author.
The video on half-derivatives (fractional calculus) was captivating, fun to see it all come together so simply, when it looked like a very obscure concept at the start!
Yep; I am not only sharing this here because of the gimmick. The author is a master of pacing mathematical explanations, knows what to say and what to omit.
This video reminds me of when I first went to Japan decades ago. I switched on the TV in my hotel room early in the morning about 6ish or so to be greeted with a very enthusiastic and entertaining teacher with Einstein-like hair teaching calculus in front of a blackboard.
I then thought about what kids would be watching back home at that hour of the morning and I was ashamed to think of the opportunity that we in the West had lost.
Incidentally, whilst there I never missed watching the program. I couldn't understand what he was saying but I sure understood what he was writing on the blackboard.
This is a wonderful channel — thanks for the share — but also so impressed at how good the Japanese TTS is, easily the best I’ve ever heard!
English subs are available via the captions :)
Yeah it’s interesting.
There’s nothing to the video that takes advantage of the video format except the characters. It’s a series of slides with a voice track over it.
Generally, YouTube math videos (as a genre) have some form of animation or figures but I don’t think this is any more effective than the transcript and equations as a paper unless one finds the characters helpful.
With that said the actual content was well written.
> I don’t think this is any more effective than the transcript and equations as a paper unless one finds the characters helpful.
Possibly, but it's unusual for educational Math books to have dialogues. I think this video uses the dialogue very well here. I have an exceptional high school Physics book that is all dialogues, and I loved that too.
I love the dialogue format too, and have recently been experimenting somewhat successfully with creating my own dialogues with textbooks.
I've previously found it to be so-so with OpenAI plugins/wrappers, but now with Claude's Projects feature, I feel that it's pretty much there. I create a project and upload a book (or a part of a book, given the context limit), as well as any additional notes/code I already created based on it, and this then allows me to have a really productive dialogue with an AI version of the author.
Dialogue is good. I am unconvinced think it’s more effective in a video form.
Except that some people respond better to people talking rather than reading when it comes to math.
People who are talked at think they’ve learnt more. Regardless, for me it was all reading.
e^(\Delta x d/dx) f(x) = f(x + \Delta x)
Thanks! To be totally precise, this is for analytic functions; they can differ for smooth functions. (That restriction may be imposed in the video.)