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I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]

126 points by surprisetalk ago | 15 comments

ChrisbyMe |next [-]

This entire youtube channel is a gem btw.

Delightful video on the lambda calculus and other compution concepts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcVA8Nj6HEo

mkw5053 |root |parent [-]

Thanks for sharing. I remember reading Introduction to Lambda Calculus many years ago and it was one of those times where I had crazy math dreams and would wonder around SF convinced everything is functions. Like literally everything.

sublinear |root |parent [-]

I miss having the crazy math dreams I used to get when I was in college. If only life could be an endless stream of turning over new stones.

fasterik |root |parent [-]

I wonder if it's an age/brain development thing. I also had crazy math and programming dreams in my early 20s. I don't get those any more, though I still spend a lot of waking time (possibly more now than back then) obsessing over math and programming problems.

globular-toast |next |previous [-]

Youtube quality really let's stuff like this down.

nomilk |next |previous [-]

The emergent patterns are... stunning. Especially the ones around 2m35s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg&t=2m35s

Keyframe |next |previous [-]

Great, but audio and audio mix is absolutely horrendous and super turbo 2.0 annoying. So much so I had to turn it off and read CC.

jaapz |root |parent [-]

I liked it, felt right for the video

Keyframe |root |parent [-]

I think it might be the mix and the (low) level of voice over background and the stereo image combined with what I am listening on that makes me uncomfortable for some reason.

buildbot |next |previous [-]

Wow this is stunningly beautiful and extremely cool. And I learned something I had never heard about.

BRB going to go make hyperbolic outer billards art

dlcarrier |next |previous [-]

I will never cease to be amazed by the range of thought experiments that get published as math papers.

temp0826 |next |previous [-]

Shooting pool with dmt entities right here

brador |previous [-]

This is math junk food. Pretty though.

bayindirh |root |parent |next [-]

It made me reconsider what I think about mathematics in general. So, if it was junk food, it was a nutritious one at that.

fasterik |root |parent |previous [-]

I would call it art, not junk food.