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I'm really impressed with the level of quality of some of the educational videos on youtube. The author here clearly spent hours preparing each of these diagrams and animations, and he's not unique among the popular youtube educators for doing so. I'm envious of the resources today's youth have in the classroom.

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If I recall correctly 3blue1brown is actually a team of people, and it's founder created a python library which helps generate the animations.

This makes it no less impressive, IMO

That was a temporary experiment to see if more people enabled Grant to produce more videos, but the Mythical Man-Month rang true again. It's just Grant now, like it was when it started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks's_law

I didn't realize that happened. Kind of a shame. But he did get that interactive page for visualizing quaternions built with a collaborator.

He's still experimenting with different approaches, trying to find the optimal flow like any startup would. His approach as of late has been to collaborate more with other channels, like he did on the Feynman video and the interative quaternion page you referenced above.

I remember when Wikipedia came online. I worried that future generations would be so smart that I would be quickly surpassed. Now I’m worried I won’t be.

To me, this a strange take. I'll never have the genius of Newton, Copernicus, Euler, etc. However I know and have access to so much more than them, just because of when I was born. So while I may be envious of their brilliance and insight, they would be envious of so much of what I take for granted.

So you not being surpassed may not be as inherently negative as you think. Apologies if inferred incorrectly.

I think his point was that the initial expectation was that improved access to knowledge via the internet would unleash the potential for a higher average level of education. The correlation appears to the OP instead to be moving in the opposite direction.

Yup, that is what I was getting at. In many ways I lamented my late access to computers but it was probably better for me in the long run.

The availability of fantastic material like this will take the the rare lone geniuses of the world and multiply their results and possibly help them find like minded people to work with and learn from.

But the vast majority of students still need a teacher they actually know to inspire them to work hard.

It would be nice if education could experiment with different approaches and see what produces the most area under the curve in terms education achievement plotted across all students. Unfortunately contributors like 3b1b dont get rewarded enough.

Current education model keeps spending more money without any results(1).

1- https://fee.org/articles/government-spending-on-education-is...

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