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It probably wasn't too hard to arrange the stars on the US flag, because 50 is a nice easy number to work with. But one day soon there might be 51 which doesn't really divide by anything much, and sometimes there's been 43 or 13 which are even harder to work with. How can you still get them into a nice pattern, and more to the point, what really bad attempts did people make?

A lament about the rather silly degree to which we make web development somewhat harder than it probably ought to be. GMTK's "Bedroom Coders" video: th-cam.com/video/n79SYpEVMgM/w-d-xo.html

Long, long ago, we held a vote to decide how to hold votes. It was a disaster, at least by the standards of the day. Obviously in the harsh light of 2021 it feels like a halcyon nostalgic heyday. But we voted by some margin to leave things the hell alone. Would we have been better off changing things? I mean, yes, if Cameron had realised then that referendums were things he could lose then we w...

I've read my whole life that the planet Saturn would float in a gas of water. But what if we actually tried it? The jaunty piano theme at the end is: Hammock Fight by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. [creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: [incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100213](inc...

Obviously a lot of people are very into buying digital art as NFTs right now, and that's clearly very damaging for the environment and kind of a ludicrous speculation market headed for a crash rendering it little more than a pyramid scheme, but I wanted to discuss the underlying idea of NFTs as a means of owning digital art because I think most people have focussed mostly on the ecological and ...

A diatribe about a text editor (because it's not like there's anything else going on in the world rn) Shoutout to micro, a very slick terminal text editor which didn't fit anywhere in the narrative of the video so I couldn't squeeze in a mention in the script. It's not really what I'm asking for from my dream terminal editor but it's the best one I've found. Also strictly my point isn't that go...

this took me like fifteen minutes, a real vido is in the works

I tried to make a video about viral maths problems and the "BODMAS"/"PEMDAS" mnemonic for the order of operations, then I got slightly distracted. It is a video about that, but via Katie Hopkins, a murderous panda, and Sydney, Australia.

A quick look at how and why the planets in Populous 3 *looked* like spheres even though they were secretly donuts. Links: 🎧 Mathematical Objects podcast episode: aperiodical.com/2020/10/mathematical-objects-klein-bottle-with-matthew-scroggs/ 📺 Mathematical Objects on TH-cam: th-cam.com/users/aperiodical (Bear in mind it started late so doesn't have the recent episodes up yet) 🎮 Play Mathsteroid...

Maths TH-cam is doing #MegaFavNumbers - your favourite number greater than one million. The mega-est number I can think of is the number of bytes in a megabyte, but it's probably not the number you're thinking of (and probably not that number either). Maybe you'll learn something about how we define standards, or else already know it and enjoy my explanation all the same. Honestly I'll take eit...

Dominic Cummings sings My Way about his lockdown breach

An adapted version of the semi-planned talk I did at the 2019 Manchester Skeptics Soapbox event. It's about the word "technically", and how switching between different styles of language can be used to mislead you. Soapbox event listing: www.gmss.uk/events/soapbox-2019 Steve Mould's full 'magenta' video: th-cam.com/video/iPPYGJjKVco/w-d-xo.html

A trick I have developed to make it look like I'm paying attention in videocalls when in fact I am playing videogames. OBS: obsproject.com/ Virtual webcam plugin: github.com/CatxFish/obs-virtual-cam There are plugins for other OSes, I happened to get the Windows one working first 🤷🏻‍♂️

In this video, I teach Infinifactory to add numbers together. References: Binary adder in Baba is You: th-cam.com/video/nuIv8fzxMtw/w-d-xo.html The Numberphile video where Matt talked about the dominoes: m.th-cam.com/video/lNuPy-r1GuQ/w-d-xo.html And the one the clip was actually taken from: th-cam.com/video/rEw2hE8ZRl/w-d-xo.html Plus the overproduced "main" domino video - see if you can spot ...

Hacking A Roomba To Play Doom On My Floor

Blue Monday: Fighting Bullshit Maths With Bullshit Maths

Con Medicine: The Most Confusing Cracker Joke Ever?

Binary Addition in Baba Is You

Conway's Game of Life in Baba Is You