Probably 100 separate times in my life I have made the decision to click on a Numberphile video.
I see a title that sounds interesting, think "I enjoy math" and click the play button.
Not once, and I mean literally not once have I walked away actually understanding what the topic of the video is and why it was interesting enough to warrant making a video about it.
It isn't "too hard". Or "too abstract". Or "too anything".
I just barely even understand what it is that they are talking about.
If these people were discussing applesauce I would find it equally as easy to process what it is that they are saying.
I am consciously aware of this, and it seems to make no difference whatsoever.
These videos have a miraculous ability to make it impossible to focus on what is being said.
15 minutes pass, and I realize that I was just listening to a video on mathematics in the same way you notice that the air conditioner is running. Just filed away in the back of your head with the stimuli that your brain decides isn't interesting enough to warrant any kind of attention.
The video ends as quickly as it begins, and I leave with a collection of words like "limit, derivative, set and conjecture" said through the filter of weird british accent that sounds like the person had a mouthful of syrup.
It feels like a dream. You remember the feelings and the general direction the siduation was going. You don't remember the little details, and when you do they seem to make no sense in connection to anything else.
I don't have any ill will towards any of these people.
I'm actually not really criticizing their videos at all.
I say this out of fascination. And it is downright fascinating how borderline impossible it is I find it to pull any kind of information out of these videos whatsoever
I see a title that sounds interesting, think "I enjoy math" and click the play button.
Not once, and I mean literally not once have I walked away actually understanding what the topic of the video is and why it was interesting enough to warrant making a video about it.
It isn't "too hard". Or "too abstract". Or "too anything".
I just barely even understand what it is that they are talking about.
If these people were discussing applesauce I would find it equally as easy to process what it is that they are saying.
I am consciously aware of this, and it seems to make no difference whatsoever.
These videos have a miraculous ability to make it impossible to focus on what is being said.
15 minutes pass, and I realize that I was just listening to a video on mathematics in the same way you notice that the air conditioner is running. Just filed away in the back of your head with the stimuli that your brain decides isn't interesting enough to warrant any kind of attention.
The video ends as quickly as it begins, and I leave with a collection of words like "limit, derivative, set and conjecture" said through the filter of weird british accent that sounds like the person had a mouthful of syrup.
It feels like a dream. You remember the feelings and the general direction the siduation was going. You don't remember the little details, and when you do they seem to make no sense in connection to anything else.
I don't have any ill will towards any of these people.
I'm actually not really criticizing their videos at all.
I say this out of fascination. And it is downright fascinating how borderline impossible it is I find it to pull any kind of information out of these videos whatsoever
