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New Video: Can I Beat My Own Challenge?

Welcome to another episode of “why am I like this, why do I spend my time on things like this when I could be spending my time on things that are beautiful and good”.

But it’s still Pi ...

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Piano Secrets Masterclass for Pi Day 2022

Another video already? Yes. I thought it'd take longer, because the footage I captured felt like a mess and I thought I'd have to start over, maybe with a proper script. But once I got into the edi...

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Pi Day 2022: Chromatic Challenge

This is my 12th annual Pi Day video. 

Our Pi Day celebrations are perhaps the most consistent thing in my life, and part of me is always surprised how I manage to follow through year aft...

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New Video: Twelve Threads

Hello everybody!

How do I explain this video? All I know is that it is very much itself.

If you haven't seen the previous video about the BTS Octahedron, you might want to start there: ...

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How We Reopen

 A month ago I became involved in a bipartisan effort to really understand what it would take to get through the COVID-19 crisis in the US.

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Outpacing the Virus (new whitepaper)

Hey all you good humans,

Difficult to believe that Pi Day was just three weeks ago, when I wrote about how my goal with the Pi Day video this year was to sneakily get PSA info to people who w...

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Well I made a video about a tv show I guess

Hello good humans!

It's been a while since I published a video, and I know this won't be everyone's cup of tea... but I've always enjoyed watching other people's in-depth analyses of movies a...

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Changing my Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data

Hello good humans!

I've been in heads-down work mode for the past two months writing this piece: https://thea...

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Pi Day 2019: 6 Digits of Pi!!! 🍰

Hello Good Humans!

We did it, made it 'round the sun another two pi times, just in time for the 9th Annual Vi Hart Pi Day Video!

I've had this one in mind for many years, a lighthearted...

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The Meaning of Cake

New video! New video!

Hello good humans,

I could not help but try this bundt cake scutoid experiment based on figure 1 c in the original scutoid paper: 2019-02-28 18:41:38 +0000 UTC View Post

The Mathematics of Monkeybread

Hello Good Humans!

The Monkeybread video is live, and I'm pretty happy with it! It looks so tasty in a headset, so if you have a cardboard or other VR headset do check it out in VR! 

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Scutoids Are Live!

Hello good humans!

I'm very excited about this video. I've really fallen in love with scutoids in the past few months, and...

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The Calculating Stars book recommendation

Hello! I just flew across the country and would like to recommend a book that made my trip fly by. After being given many glowing recommendations, I finally read The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronau...

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Scutoids

Hello good humans! Today I would like to talk about Scutoids.

Earlier this month I did a lens clip series looking to see if we could find a scutoid in a pomegranate. The compiled 2018-08-30 01:18:56 +0000 UTC View Post

How much is "About 2" really?

So last week I was supposed to be working on spidermath 2, and at lunch I noticed something weird about the numbers on a can of soup. 

I thought, oh, grocery store applied math is always useful...

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Four Utilities Puzzle (and how to ruin a bagel)

We did it! New video! Mugs! Bagels! Peachy Rings! Toroidal Graphs!

#3 on my "what videos can I make quickly" experiment is response/puzzle commentary, in this case in response to this collab by 3blu...

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Mini-Etude in D

So for the past three days I've been working on trying to make a fun little music theory video... but it turns out the syncing process is not as automatic as I thought. So that might have to wait, pos...

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Spidermath!

Thank you for your support!

Editing to add a little more background story, now that I'm not a morning tiredperson:

On this week's VIM LIVE we talked about rituals, and I talked about one of my...

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Deleted Scenes and Making Of Metachirality!

Hello good humans!

I gotta make this quick since the video already finished uploading and it's after 6pm:

1. Deleted scenes and making of video is up! I thought it'd be an easy 2 day project b...

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Metachirality!

Hello good humans! Metachirality part 2 is here, pastakitties and all.

There's so much more to say about metachirality and screw symmetry, so many tidbits that didn't make it into the final video......

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Metachirality?

Well good humans, Metachirality part 1 is live! Thank you for sticking around and helping fund its creation!

This video is based on a true story. More specifically, I was told many years ago that Me...

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Lens: Awesome and Has Bugs

As you may have seen by the overabundance of email notifications (apparently lens still has some bugs, which I have reported), Patreon has added a new feature kind of like snapchat where I can upload ...

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Pi Day Rant 2018!

It's 3/14/1...8, and we're just going to roll with it. Why not have Pi be 3.1418...?

As I explain, it ends up being the worst Pi Day ever. And that was before we got the news of Stephen Hawking's pa...

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Full Speed Ahead

Two of last week's Pi Poll options were pretty close, and comments hinted that many people thought a Classic Pi Rant would be more fun but maybe a 4th Wall breaking video would be better for them, lik...

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Snow Day: Unusual Tracks

Well, the snowy world is full of interesting things to think about, and I thought I'd shoot a behind-the-scenes or dogwalk video just for you. And then as I was doing that I thought why not put a litt...

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Peace for Triple Piano

It's done! It's live! Woooo!

And here's the making of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1zJoU6Luss

SPA...

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Feb. update and Ambisonic test

Happy February! Thank you all for sticking around while I work on this project. It's wonderful to be able to pay my bills whether I want to work on something easy or something a bit more outside my us...

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Child (documenting a 2014 art game)

As Christmas is almost here, yesterday I decided to try to document an art game called "Child" that I made over Christmas in 2014, and that has long-since deprecated in both hardware and software.&nbs...

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Hexaflexaflakes

We did it! Finally, after many years, mathematical snowflake crafting and mathematical hexaflexagon crafting have been combined to form hexaflexaflakes, and we got it done just in time for the holiday...

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Back to business as usual!

I don't know if you got a notification because I didn't, but Patreon has announced that they are no longer going to implement the fee and payment structure change that they announced last week: View Post