I wrote this comment for a new ShowHN post with this link, which got flagged and thus uncommentable. So I'll drop it here, fwiw.
The foil-boat coin-loading episode[1] prompted me to again wonder, might there be some way to create connections, from activities like these, to broader context?
For instance, there are videos of foil boats floating on gas, like[2]. Boats that are self righting.[3] Adding foam to your recreational boat so it doesn't sink.[4]
I found it unexpectedly hard to find a basic video on how to load or board your small open boat or dinghy, to avoid tipping over. Canoes seem a bit too linear. Something like[5], but with humans, ideally kids.
From past experience, this is the major bottleneck in exercises like this. I've found current search technology painfully inadequate to find little video clips illustrating particular concepts. It has the old feel of having a question, groveling over a paper card catalog, finding books on shelves (or not), looking at their index and skimming... and failing, failing, failing to find the answer to your question. Maybe someday dialog and scene understanding tooling will hit youtube. Until then, it's a frustrating exercise.
There are no doubt many videos which include a swim raft non-scarily flipping over from people gathering off center. With easily-identified-with kids. Closely relating to the foil boat video. Not as close as a hands on "here's how to arrange hampers and people on your rowboat so it doesn't tip over", but nice. Now try find one of those many videos... I've given up for now.
Science and engineering and math and life, are such a densely interwoven tapestry. Accessible and motivational preK to college. But it seems prohibitively expensive to create content that reflects that at present.
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The foil-boat coin-loading episode[1] prompted me to again wonder, might there be some way to create connections, from activities like these, to broader context?
For instance, there are videos of foil boats floating on gas, like[2]. Boats that are self righting.[3] Adding foam to your recreational boat so it doesn't sink.[4]
I found it unexpectedly hard to find a basic video on how to load or board your small open boat or dinghy, to avoid tipping over. Canoes seem a bit too linear. Something like[5], but with humans, ideally kids.
From past experience, this is the major bottleneck in exercises like this. I've found current search technology painfully inadequate to find little video clips illustrating particular concepts. It has the old feel of having a question, groveling over a paper card catalog, finding books on shelves (or not), looking at their index and skimming... and failing, failing, failing to find the answer to your question. Maybe someday dialog and scene understanding tooling will hit youtube. Until then, it's a frustrating exercise.
There are no doubt many videos which include a swim raft non-scarily flipping over from people gathering off center. With easily-identified-with kids. Closely relating to the foil boat video. Not as close as a hands on "here's how to arrange hampers and people on your rowboat so it doesn't tip over", but nice. Now try find one of those many videos... I've given up for now.
Science and engineering and math and life, are such a densely interwoven tapestry. Accessible and motivational preK to college. But it seems prohibitively expensive to create content that reflects that at present.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teWAPX8WBpw [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckaJs_u2U_A https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=foil+boat+float... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX4mvzve00c [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9fCykxxMvE [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6O6bzQSQ3s&t=16