https://youtube.com/channel/UCSju5G2aFaWMqn-_0YBtq5A I do mathematics and stand-up. Sometimes simultaneously. Occasionally while being filmed. (It's quite the Venn diagram.) Principle channel supporter: Jane Street https://www.janestreet.com/ http://standupmaths.com http://twitter.com/standupmaths TV & Film Podsync generator (support us at https://github.com/mxpv/podsync) en-us Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:46:47 +0000 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:58:11 +0000 https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AMLnZu-3jzx7LemCpLyGrI0kC06xEq9DNxQo9DFsOX0JZg=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj https://youtube.com/channel/UCSju5G2aFaWMqn-_0YBtq5A Stand-up Maths Stand-up Maths no ePdEMG7NXvQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=ePdEMG7NXvQ Go to https://establishedtitles.com/standupmaths and help support the channel. They are now running a Black Friday Sale, plus 10% off on any purchase with code standupmaths. Thanks to Established Titles for sponsoring this one, and only one, video! I talk about the F-22 dateline problem in my book Humble Pi. But if you don't have a copy, here are two contemporary articles from when it happened in 2007: https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f22-squadron-shot-down-by-the-international-date-line-03087/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/f-22-trips-over-international-date-line Here is a completely unrelated video: https://youtu.be/9Sk2vH_rTGQ Huge thanks to my Patreon supporters who funded the rest of the videos on my trip. They will be out soon! Support me and I swear we'll edit even faster: https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths CORRECTIONS - None yet, let me know if you spot anything! Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash Written and performed by Matt 'Edge Case' Parker Music by Howard Carter Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician Website: http://standupmaths.com/ US book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker/ UK book: https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:00:09 +0000 Stand-up Maths Edges Cases and the Highest Point in Florida (video 1 of 1) 7:47 no 1 9Sk2vH_rTGQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=9Sk2vH_rTGQ Go to https://establishedtitles.com/standupmaths and help support the channel. They are now running a Black Friday Sale, plus 10% off on any purchase with code standupmaths. Thanks to Established Titles for sponsoring this one, and only one, video! Here is a video I made about turbines at GE, like, a million years ago, Look, I still had hair on my global maximum! https://youtu.be/S-dAAiTiEvI Of course there is a 3blue1brown video about gradient descent: https://youtu.be/IHZwWFHWa-w Here is a completely unrelated video: https://youtu.be/ePdEMG7NXvQ Huge thanks to my Patreon supporters who funded the rest of the videos on my trip. They will be out soon! Support me and I swear we'll edit even faster: https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths CORRECTIONS - None yet, let me know if you spot anything! Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash Written and performed by Matt 'Local Max' Parker Music by Howard Carter Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician Website: http://standupmaths.com/ US book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker/ UK book: https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:00:08 +0000 Stand-up Maths Local Maximums and the Highest Point in Florida (video 1 of 1) 7:47 no 2 M4f_D17zIBw https://youtube.com/watch?v=M4f_D17zIBw Reminder if you want Patreon xmas stuff from me: be a confirmed supported by the end of November! https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths Just Shower Thoughts: https://just-shower-thoughts.com/post/149064738374/an-infinite-number-of-1-bills-and-an-infinite Tumblr blog: https://popinloopy.tumblr.com/post/149635744662/just-shower-thoughts-an-infinite-number-of-1 Tumblr re-blog: https://at.tumblr.com/curtdogg/popinloopy-just-shower-thoughts-an-infinite/sgnir8oxqsxm reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/meirl/comments/y5ifrs/meirl/ Limmy's Show: Whats heavier a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg Check out Limmy on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/limmy Vsauce from 2015: The Banach–Tarski Paradox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA Vsauce from 2016: How To Count Past Infinity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrU9YDoXE88 Veritasium from 2021: How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxGsU8oIWjY Numberphile from 2014: Infinite Fractions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpwUVExX27E Huge thanks to my Patreon supporters who funded those two giant piles of cash. Support me and help me make more ridiculous videos! https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths CORRECTIONS - Yes, I put in a second ball numbered 13. I'm going to claim that was on purpose. Spoooooky 13. - Let me know if you spot anything else! Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash Industry-leading post production and VFX by Alex Genn-Bash Written and performed by Matt Parker Voices by Gemma Arrowsmith and Tom Crowley. Music by Howard Carter Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician Website: http://standupmaths.com/ US book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker/ UK book: https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/books/products/humble-pi-signed-paperback Mon, 31 Oct 2022 20:33:55 +0000 Stand-up Maths An infinite number of $1 bills and an infinite number of $20 bills would be worth the same 22:34 no 3 OIXsKtywf2E https://youtube.com/watch?v=OIXsKtywf2E Need a VPN for $2.11/month? I use https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/standupmaths Huge thanks to Zoe Walker and all of the crew on Hurtigruten's expedition cruise ship MS Roald Amundsen. Book a trip here: https://standupmaths.com/antarctica See Zoe's website here: https://www.zoewalker.ca/researcher Here is my whale on Happy Whale: https://happywhale.com/individual/5653;enc=262742 Should be named "Krill Bill" any day now... "Advanced image recognition: a fully automated, high‐accuracy photo‐identifcation matching system for humpback whales" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42991-021-00180-9 The 3Blue1Brown video is from 03:39 in "But what is a neural network?" https://youtu.be/aircAruvnKk?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi&t=219 Watch the whole series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi But we can all agree my spreadsheet is just as visually stunning. Download it for yourself: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q2bsobqoiqu6crg/Spreadsheets_and_tails.xlsx?dl=0 Kaggle: Your Machine Learning and Data Science Community https://www.kaggle.com/ CORRECTIONS - None yet! Let me know if you spot anything. Thanks to my patreon supporters whose money I totally do not spend on Antarctic cruises. Support my channel and I can not go spend it on even more cruises! https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths Filming by Matt Parker Extra camera work by Lucie "I thought we were on vacation" Green Editing by Alex Genn-Bash Music by Howard Carter (but not the SUM PI-AMI theme) Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician Website: http://standupmaths.com/ US book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610964/humble-pi-by-matt-parker/ UK book: https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/5b9fa76f230ffa140094dc43 Nerdy maths toys: http://mathsgear.co.uk/ Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:02:16 +0000 Stand-up Maths I Found a Whale Using Maths! 22:22 no 4 c33AZBnRHks https://youtube.com/watch?v=c33AZBnRHks YES, the improvement should be 40,832,277,770%, not what I say in the video. The "408,322,778" multiple was correct and I did the percentage the wrong way. There will not be a follow-up video to correct that. The improvement was to my code from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-AfhLQfb6w This is episode 038 of the A Problem Squared podcast which started it all: https://aproblemsquared.libsyn.com/038-fldxt-in-wordle-and-improv-tact-hurdle Here is Benjamin Paaßen's full grid of all results and techniques used. It also has links to all the code as well. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11sUBkPSEhbGx2K8ah6WbGV62P8ii5l5vVeMpkzk17PI/edit#gid=0 The article by "encody" I mentioned: https://medium.com/geeklaunch/how-to-speed-up-your-code-224-444-739-using-graphs-cc37dc395c0c This is the reverse-frequency alphabet. Which is frequency in words, not in use (which would allow for frequency of word use; this list counts each word once). QXJZVFWBKGPMHDCYTLNUROISEA And whynot, a whole bunch of code. All of it is better than mine. All of it. (Even if you ran it all sequentially.) Benjamin Paassen [bpaassen] https://gitlab.com/bpaassen/five_clique Sylvester Hesp [oisyn] https://github.com/oisyn/parkerwords Phire [phire] https://github.com/phire/five_clique Neil Coffey [neilcoffey] https://github.com/neilcoffey/FunStuff/tree/main/WordleFiveWordFinder Richard Ebeling [He3lixxx] https://github.com/He3lixxx/five-words-five-letters Phillip Alday [palday] https://github.com/palday/FiveLetterWorda.jl Diggory Blake [Diggsey] https://github.com/Diggsey/five_words/tree/master Orson Peters [orlp] https://github.com/orlp/matt-parker-five-letter-clique/blob/master/src/main.rs Bryan Redd [ae6nr] https://github.com/ae6nr/25letters Pablo Yaggi [pyaggi] https://github.com/pyaggi/WordStats Leonardo Taglialegne [miniBill] https://github.com/miniBill/parkerrust Nathan Baulch [NathanBaulch] https://gist.github.com/NathanBaulch/cc26755dc89685fa209bf958e484c60d Stefan Pochmann [pochmann] https://replit.com/@pochmann/5words538?v=1 Jacob [encody] https://github.com/encody/jotto-problem Gé Weijers [gweijers] https://github.com/gweijers/wordle_cover David A. Dalrymple [davidad] https://github.com/davidad/five-letters Alex Recuenco [recuenco_alex] https://github.com/alexrecuenco/five_clique Kristin Paget [KristinPaget] https://github.com/kristinpaget/fivewords Ilya Nikolaevsky [IlyaNikolaevsky] https://github.com/ilyanikolaevsky/five_words Cheers to my Patreons for helping enable these videos. Without them test running all that code I'd never know how much better an iPad is than me. I'm sure I'll need Patreon help again soon; you can join the team here: https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths CORRECTIONS - Ha, I got the percentage around the wrong way. Should be 40,832,277,770% better. - Yes, I missed the binary digit for the "A" in "BREAD" and everyone in the live premier chat noticed. Sorry about that. 🍞 - Let me know if you spot any other mistakes! Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash Some graphics by Benjamin Paaßen Written and performed by Matt "32 days later" Parker Music by Howard Carter Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:40:08 +0000 Stand-up Maths Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770% 28:47 no 5 EGoRJePORHs https://youtube.com/watch?v=EGoRJePORHs If you, or someone you know, would like a paid internship in New York, London or Hong Kong: check out Jane Street. https://www.janestreet.com/join-jane-street/internships Nathaniel Johnston's post on The Binary “Look-and-Say” Sequence: http://www.njohnston.ca/2010/11/the-binary-look-and-say-sequence/ Huge thanks to my mate Jonny Berliner for recording Eigen See Clearly Now because I thought it would be funny. Check out his website and channel for more science music fun. https://www.jonnyberliner.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmlQXk6q0peqvKO9YhvP3vA More on the general Look and Say Sequence: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/LookandSaySequence.html I told you 3blue1brown had a good visual explanation for eigen-stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDu9oVAE-g Thanks to Ben Sparks for helping out with the graphics as well. https://www.youtube.com/c/SparksMaths Cheers to my Patreons for helping enable these videos. That whiteboard wasn't free you know! Keep me in whiteboard pens here: https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths CORRECTIONS At 11:17 I accidentally have Nathaniel Johnston's name as "Daniel Johnston". No idea how that happened. But I'm very sorry. - Let me know if you spot any other mistakes! Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash Eigen See Clearly Now music by Jonny Berliner channeling Jimmy Cliff Eigen See Clearly Now lyrics by Matt Parker and Johnny Nash Non-Eigen music by Howard Carter Maths graphics by Ben Sparks Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson Tue, 13 Sep 2022 21:09:09 +0000 Stand-up Maths Can you trust an elegant conjecture? 15:35 no 6 _-AfhLQfb6w https://youtube.com/watch?v=_-AfhLQfb6w Five words. Twenty-five letters. Can you find them? That's the Q. I'm not sure I mentioned this enough, but I have a podcast and it caused this video. Search for "A Problem Squared" wherever you get podcasts and you shall find. https://aproblemsquared.libsyn.com/ Get ALL THE WORDS as "words_alpha.txt" here: https://github.com/dwyl/english-words Here is the vastly superior code that Benjamin sent in: https://gitlab.com/bpaassen/five_clique My tweet here: https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status/1549343218407456769 Against my better judgement, I have put my code on github: https://github.com/standupmaths/fiveletterworda You can also see me talk about two lines of the code over on the second channel. https://youtu.be/kx2sT87Ah0I I downloaded the Wordle words from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/wordle/comments/s4tcw8/a_note_on_wordles_word_list/ https://gist.github.com/cfreshman/a03ef2cba789d8cf00c08f767e0fad7b#file-wordle-answers-alphabetical-txt https://gist.github.com/cfreshman/cdcdf777450c5b5301e439061d29694c 3blue1brown video about Wordle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA&ab_channel=3Blue1Brown Cheers to my Patreons for motivating me to film a thing from the podcast as a quick youtube video. And helping me justify to Lucie why I need to film a thing while we are "on holidays". https://www.patreon.com/standupmaths CORRECTIONS - Nothing yet. Let me know if you spot any mistakes! That is all! Stop reading the description and go do a better job coding this challenge yourself. Original question from Daniel Bingham Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash Additional filming by Matt Parker Beer by some hotel in Athens Music by Howard Carter Design by Simon Wright and Adam Robinson J̸I̸G̵ ̸C̸O̴U̶L̶D̴ ̶H̵A̵V̵E̸ ̸F̷O̴U̴N̷D̷ ̷A̸L̴L̸ ̵5̵3̶8̷ ̶I̶N̶ ̸U̸N̸D̵E̸R̴ ̶3̴2̷ ̴D̸A̶Y̴S̶ Wed, 03 Aug 2022 20:28:03 +0000 Stand-up Maths Can you find: five five-letter words with twenty-five unique letters? 19:50 no 7