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The Psychology of Psychopathy: Understanding the Mind of a Psychopath
Vsauce2
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Psychopathy is a complex psychological condition characterized by a lack of empathy, guilt, and remorse. Psychopaths have a distorted perception of emotions and struggle to form meaningful social conn
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Overcoming Setbacks in Habit Formation: A New Approach
Julia Galef
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Instead of aiming for perfect adherence to a habit, focus on noticing when you've fallen off track and getting back on quickly. This approach reduces discouragement and allows for continuous progress.
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Understanding the Paradox of Medical Tests: Unveiling the Truth
3Blue1Brown
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Despite the high accuracy of medical tests, their predictive value can be unexpectedly low due to conditional probabilities.
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Arithmetic Coding: Finite Precision Algorithm
mathematicalmonk
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Learn how to implement arithmetic coding with finite precision to achieve good compression performance.
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The Marvelous Metallic Ratios: From Phi to Sigma
PBS Infinite Series
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This video explores the metallic ratios, including the golden ratio (phi) and the silver ratio (sigma). It discusses their geometric representations, their relationships with continued fractions, and
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The Power of Arithmetic Coding: Achieving Near-Optimal Compression
mathematicalmonk
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Arithmetic coding is an elegant and powerful compression technique that achieves near-optimal compression for lossless data. It encodes a sequence of symbols into a sub interval of the interval from 0
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The Power of Math Content on YouTube: A Review of the Summer of Math Exposition Contest
3Blue1Brown
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In the Summer of Math Exposition contest on YouTube, smaller math channels gained attention and generated over 7 million views collectively. The peer-review process and shared deadline played a signif
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The Beauty of Matrix Exponents
3Blue1Brown
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Matrix exponents are a powerful tool in mathematics and physics that can be used to solve differential equations and describe complex systems. The process involves exponentiating a matrix, which resul
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Astrophysicists Discover a Black Hole Emitting Particles Beams Towards Earth
PBS Space Time
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Astrophysicists have observed a black hole that is shooting out particle beams directly at Earth. This phenomenon, known as an active galactic nucleus, is not dangerous but is incredibly fascinating.
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Generating Random Numbers: The Mystery of Deterministic Computers
PBS Infinite Series
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Computers, despite being deterministic, can generate random numbers using various algorithms. These pseudo-random numbers rely on an initial seed and follow a pattern, but they appear random and have
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The Invariance of the Speed of Light: Debunking Variable Speed of Light Theories
PBS Space Time
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The speed of light in a vacuum is constant for all observers, as supported by Lorentz invariance in special relativity. Variable speed of light theories have been proposed, but they lack evidence and
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The Summer of Math Exposition: Collaborate and Create!
3Blue1Brown
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Join the Summer of Math Exposition, a contest and collaboration event for creating math content online. Subscribe to the mailing list, submit your content by August 15th, and engage with other partici
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Decoding Finite Precision Arithmetic Coding
mathematicalmonk
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Learn how to decode finite precision arithmetic coding with step-by-step explanations.
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The Fascinating Phenomenon of Polarized Light Passing Through Sugar Water
3Blue1Brown
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When polarized light passes through sugar water, it gets twisted in a unique way, resulting in different colors appearing in diagonal stripes. The twisting rate depends on the frequency of the light,
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The Summer of Math Exposition: Celebrating Math Explainers Online
3Blue1Brown
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The Summer of Math Exposition encourages people to put up math explainers online. Success means more good explanations online. The winners are not the focus, but getting more good explanations is. Thi
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The Decline of the World's Population: A Paradigm Shift
AsapSCIENCE
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The world's population is projected to peak at 10.9 billion before starting to decrease. This decline is primarily due to decreasing fertility rates in wealthy nations. While some may fear the economi
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The Central Limit Theorem Explained: The Emergence of the Bell Curve
3Blue1Brown
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The central limit theorem states that regardless of the initial distribution, as sample sizes increase, the distribution of the sum tends to follow a bell curve. The mean of the distribution represent
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Understanding Arithmetic Coding: Infinite Precision vs. Finite Precision
mathematicalmonk
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Arithmetic coding is a method for data compression that requires infinite precision. We can rescale the interval from 0 to 1 and repeatedly split it until we find a binary chunk completely contained w
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The Size of the Universe: How Much Can We See?
PBS Space Time
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The size of the observable universe is constantly expanding, but there are limits to our ability to see and explore it. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) represents the farthest light we can see,
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The Connection Between Artificial Intelligence and Rationality
Julia Galef
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In this video, we explore the connections between artificial intelligence and rationality, focusing on theoretical fields like probability theory and logic that have inspired both AI and rationality.
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The Game of Cops and Robbers on Graphs: How Many Cops Do You Need?
PBS Infinite Series
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In the game of Cops and Robbers on graphs, the cop tries to catch the robber by moving along edges. We explore how many cops are needed to guarantee capture, and characterize graphs as cop-win or robb
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