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Ugh. This video is an AI hell with distractions and an awful background noise (sorry, it's not music).

There is a much better video by a real human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSHv9Elk1MU

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There is no AI here. You can even audit his mathematics and video rendering code here: https://github.com/2swap

Personally, I think 2swap is the best math education channel to come by since 3blue1brown.

Sorry about mis-AI-ing them. But still, the video was unwatchable for me.

It's understandable to hold different perspectives on the video. However, simply dismissing it as "AI" without any supporting evidence or referring to the audio as "noise" is unproductive and doesn't foster a constructive discussion.

There might as well have been. What an annoying video to watch (and listen to). Did they play music in the math classroom when this guy went to school? No? Well, what's it doing here?

The sound design complements it extremely well. It's a lot like that classic sphere eversion film Outside In produced by The Geometry Center, which uses different sound effects to build up the steps in the explanation, subtly helping the audience not lose track of what's going on.

...Maybe there should be more music in math class?

Except if you don't like that music, then it just ends up being distracting.

What an annoying comment to read.

It will be even more annoying if more and more otherwise-good educational video producers start to add gratuitous, distracting music to everything they release.

We get more of what we tolerate, so let's not tolerate that.

You really picked a wrong target for your ridiculous attacks. 2swap is a mathematical artist, not Khan Academy. There's plenty of boring lectures on youtube already on every topic.

Stand-up maths is also an artist. Just as many other math channels.

What an annoying comment to read about such an incredible video. Both me and my son enjoyed it a lot. It's an educational art piece with beautiful and insightful visualizations.

Seriously, what's incredible about it? I know it's not AI, and I admittedly did not watch the whole thing, but from what I saw, there is absolutely no element of that video that couldn't be auto-generated at this point.

Thank you, much better; the visuals supplement the words rather than try to distract and wow me.

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