Look Around You - Maths(video.google.com)
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Look Around You - Maths
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5054356894457127152#
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Garbage.
Get that MESS OFF HN.
That garbage is a special case of a huge ocean of related grabage that has nothing at all to do with 'math' and, instead, is some brain-dead, K-12, social, cultural, economic, WTF nonsense. Follow the money: The unions of K-12 teachers want taxpayers to send more money for more nonsense. Sickening.
Get that MESS OFF HN.
That garbage is a special case of a huge ocean of related grabage that has nothing at all to do with 'math' and, instead, is some brain-dead, K-12, social, cultural, economic, WTF nonsense. Follow the money: The unions of K-12 teachers want taxpayers to send more money for more nonsense. Sickening.
It's a satire on the BBC's 1970s school programming output.
The writers know what they are doing; this parody of mathematics is exactly how real mathematics sounds like to a lay person. This is nonsense, sure: but so is the satirical poetry of Lewis Carroll and the poems of Edward Lear, and the most erudite experts in the English language derive much pleasure from reading such nonsense.
Indeed, the more sophisticated the mind, the greater the need for self-parodies such as this show.
The writers know what they are doing; this parody of mathematics is exactly how real mathematics sounds like to a lay person. This is nonsense, sure: but so is the satirical poetry of Lewis Carroll and the poems of Edward Lear, and the most erudite experts in the English language derive much pleasure from reading such nonsense.
Indeed, the more sophisticated the mind, the greater the need for self-parodies such as this show.
Uhh...you realize this is actually a joke show? This is not a serious documentary. You can certainly still object to it being on HN, I just thought you should realize this is not actually intended to teach maths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_around_you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_around_you
Recently bought the box-set of this series .... love it!
What an amazing theme song.
Peter Serafinowicz, one of the two guys that created and wrote the show (he also plays the tall scientist in it), also made the music for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Serafinowicz#Composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Serafinowicz#Composer
The one about "computer games" from series 2 was also a stand out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBcrTucxiRc
You can even play one of the fake games ("Diarrhea Dan") profiled in the episode on the BBC site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/programmes/compute...
You can even play one of the fake games ("Diarrhea Dan") profiled in the episode on the BBC site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/programmes/compute...
Why is this shit showing up on Hacker News? There are plenty of places I can find funny videos if I want that. Please don't let it infect this place.
Live a little. This is a classic.
When I want to live a little, I'll go read reddit. HN is not the place for this.
Oh c'mon, have you looked at the front page of reddit lately? Hacker News is hardly in danger of becoming indistinguishable.
We come here to interact with a group of people with some sort of shared ethos and sensibility, submitting and voting on content we collectively find interesting. If you don't enjoy seeing this on the front page, vote something else up.
We come here to interact with a group of people with some sort of shared ethos and sensibility, submitting and voting on content we collectively find interesting. If you don't enjoy seeing this on the front page, vote something else up.
>Hacker News is hardly in danger of becoming indistinguishable.
I very very much disagree. Online communities really are a slippery slope. People are naturally predisposed to upvote cotton-candy content, and if you start letting any of it in, eventually it will overwhelm whatever nutritional content used to be there. The people who care about good content will stop checking HN, and you'll left with nothing but stuff like this.
I very very much disagree. Online communities really are a slippery slope. People are naturally predisposed to upvote cotton-candy content, and if you start letting any of it in, eventually it will overwhelm whatever nutritional content used to be there. The people who care about good content will stop checking HN, and you'll left with nothing but stuff like this.
> People are naturally predisposed to upvote cotton-candy content, and if you start letting any of it in, eventually it will overwhelm whatever nutritional content used to be there.
Totally. That's a very valid point. It's much easier to upvote an amusing BBC2 video than to digest, upvote and participate meaningfully in a discussion around a serious technical article.
However Hacker News has remained remarkably tonally consistent in my opinion:
December 2007 frontpage: http://web.archive.org/web/20071229130614/http://news.ycombi...
December 2008 frontpage: http://web.archive.org/web/20080701051131/http://news.ycombi...
And it looks like the group nostalgia for the glory days of reddit is a little overblown as well: http://web.archive.org/web/20071229144532/http://reddit.com/
Ok, maybe not entirely overblown. Most of that stuff looks like it was at least submitted by people who could drink legally.
My current concern with HN is actually not fluff content, but the preponderance of inane business and personal development blog posts. If I have to see one more "how to find a technical co-founder" post... ;)
Totally. That's a very valid point. It's much easier to upvote an amusing BBC2 video than to digest, upvote and participate meaningfully in a discussion around a serious technical article.
However Hacker News has remained remarkably tonally consistent in my opinion:
December 2007 frontpage: http://web.archive.org/web/20071229130614/http://news.ycombi...
December 2008 frontpage: http://web.archive.org/web/20080701051131/http://news.ycombi...
And it looks like the group nostalgia for the glory days of reddit is a little overblown as well: http://web.archive.org/web/20071229144532/http://reddit.com/
Ok, maybe not entirely overblown. Most of that stuff looks like it was at least submitted by people who could drink legally.
My current concern with HN is actually not fluff content, but the preponderance of inane business and personal development blog posts. If I have to see one more "how to find a technical co-founder" post... ;)
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I think, people are skeptic to vote / comment on technical issues than is the case when stuff is for 'real' people :)
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First time I saw this I laughed so hard I cried
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