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.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 43.8 ms ] threadThere’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.
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'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.
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.