I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video] (youtube.com)

127 pointsby surprisetalk2 days ago16 comments

ChrisbyMe 6 hours ago

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 6 hours ago

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 6 hours ago

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 an hour ago

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.

nomilk 4 hours ago

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

globular-toast 38 minutes ago

Youtube quality really let's stuff like this down.

buildbot 5 hours ago

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 3 hours ago

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

Keyframe 32 minutes ago

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 30 minutes ago

I liked it, felt right for the video

Keyframe 23 minutes ago

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.

temp0826 5 hours ago

Shooting pool with dmt entities right here

brador 2 hours ago

This is math junk food. Pretty though.

fasterik an hour ago

I would call it art, not junk food.

bayindirh 29 minutes ago

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

nkrisc 6 minutes ago

How so? I think applied mathematics is the exception.