How Much Information?
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How much information is there in Spanish vs English, you vs the world? Check out Audible: bit.ly/AudibleVe
Huge thanks to all the amazing people who made this possible:
Christina Ochoa - Spanish / christina_ochoa
Vanessa Hill - Filming / braincraftvideo
Henry Reich - Filming, cameo / minutephysics
Cara Santa Maria - Set design carasantamaria.com
Michael Stevens - cameo / vsauce
Crystal Dilworth - consultation / polycrystalhd
Thanks also to MinutePhysics for wardrobe and lending the use of the amazing "Things to do when it's really cold outside" video: • What To Do When It's R...
More on this theme to come in the main collaboration with Vsauce.
When you drink too much and then you're just laying on the grass and being all philosophical and stuff
they smoked too much of that dank veritasium
BRUH IKR
iUseVegas BRUH IKR
@@megatrix500 +Megatrix500 This is even funnier if you speak a latin based language and understand that you're basically saying they consumed too much truth. it was too real for them!!! (verité = truth in french, and it probably similar in spanish & italien)
Bruh it's truth serum
2:58 ah yes, the distant year of 2020
Sweet innocent Derrick never knew what 2020 world bring. I’m envious.
sad me
Nobody expects the year 2020.
2021
Watching this on 2021 and its funny how that prediction is so wrong lol Last years total information on the intrrnet is only 4.4ZB
As a Spanish speaker this was my experience: initially I wasn’t paying attention to what she said and I just thought she was speaking fast for absolutely no reason. Going back again and listening I see they say the same thing and talk at the same speed. Which absolutely blew my mind. The rhythm of the speaking due to the amount of syllables from English to Spanish made it seem like Spanish is spoken much faster and to see that was crazy.
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"..they intentionally replaced the i with a y, so it could not be confused with the bit" Wait, I thought it was so that people wouldn't chew it
Hahahhahahhaha
Nice
Things like that dice roll are what make veritasium videos amazing.
Boyinaband Hey thats boy in a band! Love the fact that you watch theese videos
It was animated.
DAVE!!
DAVEEEE!
I wonder how many tries it took to get one of each (within the cameras view)
NOTE: The number of base pairs in the human genome is often quoted as 3,000,000,000 but this is for 23 chromosomes. Human cells are diploid, containing two copies of each chromosome, so there really are 6,000,000,000 base pairs in every cell.
You can never have enough backups, I guess.
Angie Kazama that's a lot of bytes there!
Pedro Silveira Ask a banana: The most produced and therefor eaten Banana is triploid, which makes it hard to bread. So, two seams to be a good compromise.
mmmmmmm.....banana bread......
sarowie, triploids are infertile. Hence, why people grow triploid bananas. They generally can't develop mature seeds. The same goes for "seedless" watermelons. They are also triploid. They even grow triploid fish. _" Human cells are diploid, containing two copies of each chromosome,"_ As some of you may know, not all human cells are diploid. Gametes are haploid, most liver cells (hepatocytes) are tetraploid or octoploid (with one nucleus or binuclear, respectively): jbc.org/content/278/21/19095.full and many heart muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) also become polyploid and polynuclear: circres.ahajournals.org/content/106/9/1498.full Skeletal muscle fibers are multi-nucleated, so they are also polyploid _sensu stricto,_ although in that case the process that gives rise to polyploidy (cell fusion) is different to the above cases. Likewise, the syncytiotrophoblast of the (human) placenta is also formed by cell fusion, and therefore multi-nucleated and polyploid. Finally, red blood cells (erythrocytes) have neither chromosomes nor nucleus. Edit: I had missed giant cells: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_cell
0:15 What a nightmare if you are fluent in spanish and english
My brain went divided in half
It actually wasn't bad... I could hear both languages and understood them... And since there saying the same thing, I could switch from one and still understand what they were saying... It was overwhelming at first but after a while I got used to it and could understand pretty well...
Victor Roque didnt know that they are saying the same thing
@@tsunghan_yu yeah, the whole point of that is to show that the same information (even in two different languages) take about the same time to exchange. It's pretty cool and interesting.
You can't be confused by two people speaking if you don't understand any languages. (Big brain time)
1:19 Henry was wearing a cgp grey shirt
And Derek wearing a Henry shirt???
I can speak both languages and they speaking at the same time blew up my mind haha
+seriekekomo what did they say?
pramitbanerjee the same.
yes is true
Omg same here
same u.u
So many awesome people collaborated with me in this video: MinutePhysics Vsauce BrainCraft Cara Santa Maria Crystal Dilworth +Christina Ochoa - thank you all!!
Doesnt the uncertainty principle forbid what is said at 4:37? Esle you could predict the future with the same method right?
Great video! Unfortunately, even if you knew the precise location of every particle in the air, land, and sea... I don't think you could trace it back to your speech patterns. The Thermodynamic and Quantum arrows of time both say otherwise. There are just certain things that are irreversible. I think the best you could do is find a number of possible states. I could be wrong, though.
MinutePhysics's video said that we cant do that. I guess this is was classical deterministic part and the next part will be about the quantum part. BTW MP's video was called something like "Can we predict everything?"
Tejas Chitnis Predicting the future and extrapolating information about the past are two different things. And if I remember correctly, for some reason quantum mechanics behaves in a predictable fashion if time is reversed. It's really confusing and doesn't make intuitive sense, but that's QM for you.
LeiosOS If you could trace the pattern, condition and motion of two particals, could you trace the pattern condition and motion of three? Is the outcome of the roll of the dice determined prior to it landing on the table? Yet impossible to determine by us simply because of the minutia of variable influence? If there is only one past, and only one future, and each incremental state of existence depends on the existing state of the present, then predetermination seems the only obvious conclusion. I couldn't be in America then suddenly in France, unless energy compelled me to be in the new location.
This is the first time in my life I hear two languages I can speak at the same time. It drove me crazy, my brain kept constantly switching between Spanish and English. I've heard two languages at the same time before, like in the Olympics and the news, but usually, I can only understand one of them. This was quite different, a new experience por así decirlo.
New experience, asi por decirlo
I'm fluent in both but English is my main language, so I tuned the Spanish out. That might be because I hardly ever hear that dialect, though, so my brain doesn't tell me to pay attention to it.
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Justamente
"By the year 2020" as I'm watching this exactly 4 hours from that exact year...
psst it's 2020 now. nice jolyne avi
I'm from the future, and you might not want to go into 2020.
Yea it sucks really really vad
Go back.
@@davidt01 Aight! Imma go find a cave and go back to 1986.
I'm Spanish, and that girl must have had four or five cups of cofee because she's talking way faster than people normally do LOL.
im not spanish but spanish is my main language
ComandanteJ I'm spanish too and YES, she is speaking quite fast!!
ComandanteJ 我很反感，我覺得這個西班牙
the scarecrow Google translator gives me a translation that i dont think is accurate, so i cant understand you.
+ComandanteJ Depends on what tongue of spanish you are talking about. Yeah she is speaking a bit fast but not THAT much faster than the norm here. - I live in Costa Rica
I am bilingual in Spanish and English, and I just couldn't handle both languages at once. I exploded
that's an overload of information.
are you fine now ?
Me too dude plus i had the german subs on 🙉 i died
@@akemdam9824 0.o but.........you posted! /s
Condolences to your family
1:30 *Let's all take a moment to appreciate how much time he spent to throw all the dice each with different numbers*
From my calculations the chance of that happening is about 1.5%
@@wincentywilk7511 ohhhh great work
Just some seconds?
@@wincentywilk7511 is that evem right? i got 0,00214335%
@@Deguu68 Well I don’t remember what calculation I did. But I know the probability is: 1*(5/6)*(4/6)*(3/6)*(2/6)*(1/6) Whitch is… (5/324) Or 0,015432098765432 Or 1,543…% What was your calculation? PS I am not a native english speaker so there are mistakes
I fell in love with your channel. I've watched all Michaels' videos atleast twice now, and almost got fed up by how little of similiar, information intense content there is. glad I'm here and thank you.
I will be using the start of this video to teach my classes what ascii is. Thanks!!!
my pleasure
Veritasium and i now understand it too ..and what all that code really was.....as always ...a awesome video.
Virender Sharma really ?? really u did?? for all time u never understood any code.. and just representing them in this time.. u ..understood? wow
Anish Maharjan ?? Did writing that make you feel better?? u did? wow
randomjasmic 1st thing, i wasnt offensive to u. 2nd if u're trying to be defensive. Keep at it. wow
When Vsauce appeared on the grass all I could think about was "The Fault In Our Science".
I now want there to be a podcast where Vsauce and Veritasium just talk about the nature of reality together
What's interesting is that we can speed up most videos and still perfectly understand the language and the content being delivered. So the speed of a language isn't entirely limited by our cognitive capabilities. It has to be more about benefits vs cost of a different speed of communication. Or some thing on those lines. Because most things we do, tend to optimize themselves over long periods of time.
When you speed up a video (or audio) you actually do lose a lot of information. Even if you still understand the words, you lose the wide array of communication that a speaking human engages in beyond the words themselves. You lose tone. You lose emotion. You lose any kind of subtlety being communicated non-explicitly. If you don't believe me, try listening to comedy sped up. So I would argue that you can absorb the literal content of sped up audio as fast as at normal speed because you are dropping a lot of information in order to receive strictly the transcript faster.
@@nunliski - Maybe, but I’ve been doing that a lot, lately-watching videos at high speed-, and I’ve noticed that many speakers are actually very slow in giving new and significant information. They have pauses. They also have a lot of syntax or what I’d call grammar fluff that’s nonessential. Of course, half of what I’m viewing is semi-sensational news, and it’s often supplemented by photos or videos. Ie I suspect a) there’s a lot of syntax/grammar and contextual words that, if you already know the video byline and/or gist of the story, not much “missed” in hearing process limits is necessary or new. b) I also suspect that speakers-and writers-are limited by the thoughts and then the process of translating those thoughts into speech or writing. c) Corollary to b) - If I’m _watching_ a video, I am not really interacting with another person, thinking of their ideas, and we are both not needing to say things in a two person conversation. Even news shows-or scripted information videos like this one-are not really two-way streams of communication (not counting comments, for the sake of the video speed discussion). Ie the viewer has more working memory freed up to process incoming information.
@@nunliski I don’t. I’m very smart and it’s easy for me to understand the emotion as well. It’s exactly the same information. Your brain is just too slow. YOU ARE A PEASANT.
fr i jus watched this at 2x speed to save time
How many times did you have to roll those dice to get THAT outcome?
Pick any die and let it be the starting point. It has some number on it. The second die has a 5/6 chance of being different. The third die has a 4/6 chance of being different from the first two. The fourth die has a 3/6 chance of being different from the first three. The fifth die has a 2/6 chance of being different, and the last die a 1/6 chance. Multiply it all out and you get (6 factorial) / (6^6) = 0.015432099. The expected number of tosses to get that is the reciprocal of that value, which is 64.8. So, there's a 50/50 chance you'll get it within 65 rolls.
Or just combine separate 1, 2, 3 etc rolls into one shot. Also, what a necro, over 4 years.
Make all the die fake, all faces are the same
@@KipIngram I never saw this before and another necro revealed it to me. I'm going to have to watch the video again to understand what this was all about but I'm gonna guess that all the maths stuff is accurate. Until then, you have my thanks.
@@KipIngram actually, if you do 65 rolls, there is a 63% chance of succeeding. If you do it many times, on average you will succeed once every 64.8 tries, but if you roll 65 times in a row and then stop there is a 63% chance of succeeding.
I'm sure that any attempt to take the current state of matter in a closed system containing 2 people and extrapolate backwards to determine what was said between them at a previous point in time would find the uncertainty principle an impossible barrier to calculate around.
I know you posted three years ago, so I’m sorry. I think they meant that if someone had info info on a closed system everything that two people ever affect, they could extrapolate back to figure out what those people said at a given point in time. It’s like movies where a super computer can scan the whole universe, so it can answer any question past present or future based on how things act.
Strong Medicine yeah，wave function collapse loses information
Why the uncertainty principal? It's not necessary to invoke quantum mechanics here. Classically and thermodynamis states entropy must increase in real systems which aren't reversible. I believe the acoustic vibrations represent that. I agree the info is lost as pure heat, not stored.
my understanding of this has evolved and i think my comment wasn't very insightful. It is interesting to use quantum mechanics to explain the 'why' entropy must increase. Whereas my comment simply takes that as fact, Veritasium is trying to explain the mechanism. And in fact the information isn't 'lost' -- that's incorrect. Information can't be destroyed, it is entropy after all, transformation of the vibrations to diffuse heat is just a higher entropy state of the same information --with more 'noise'. Second law shows you can't reduce that higher state entropy to a lower 'noise' entropy state without spending energy, that's all.
@@dcamron46 excellent clarification dc, appreciate your further insight into the matter
I almost wanted to comment, that this videos style reminds me of Vsauce. And suddenly Michael pops into the screen. Even the FBI wrote wtf as a push note
Man, that talk at the end, especially what was said around the 4:50 mark, is exactly what I've been thinking about lately. Boy does the rabbit hole go much deeper from there. Great video!
HI, I was just wondering... Are u and Vsauce stoned at the park at 4:20?
I don't know about them. But it's damn true.
420 Blaze it
yupp
Was a little homoerotic.
The conversation was so fitting too hahaha
Woman store less important data in their memory than men. Case in point: Woman #1: "Wow. I love your new hair style." Woman #2: "Thanks. I spent $150 on it and it took 3 hours. Of course I had to make an appointment a week in advance. But it was worth it. It matches the new outfits I bought and my husband thinks it's great." Man #1: Haircut? Man #2: Yep. Men have more memory space for more important stuff.
Oooooor.... is it just that they have less memory space to begin with? ^_-
j3ss4ndr4 And waste what little they have on useless stuff??? Come on. That's being too mean. ;-)
Go to New York and you can get a hair cut that cost $1,000 U.S.
dudelivestrong a haircut that costs that much better come with a built in usb port and cup holders
CowsRule I think she (i'm assuming because her username is j3ss, like jess, although i'm not sure) was talking about us (men).
4:36 What Michael says here is now possible with AI, by just looking at a recorded video of some chips packet in the room, the vibrations created on it made by your voice, the AI can recreate the audio.
I swear this guy conveys information so beautifully that I didn't even realized it was only 5-6 mins
Up until 4:02 I wasn't sure if Derek smoked weed. But then he showed that he clearly does. Dat thought process.
His atomic weight is 42.0
I once read an interesting approach to quantifying information: In this approach, information of a message M was defined as -ln(P(M)), where P(M) is the probability of the message M occurring. Hence, the message "Dog bites Earthling" has less information than "Earthling bites dog", because its probability is higher. Also, the message "Earthling bites dog" has more information in a serious newspaper, rather than a yellow press newspaper. This approach is of course based on the earthlings' binary thinking, their idea that everything has a probability [in other words, can be projected onto the true-false edge of the triangle of ternary alien logic]. But it's quite consistent. For example, the information of the combination of two independent messages is the sum of the two informations.
I love you Zogg, your last video was incredible. I'm eager to learn about that weird species you always talk about, they are called Earthlings I believe (not for invasions, of course).
This is also similar to how teleporting machines work (outside Earth). Earthlings believe every particle in the body have to be quantified and be moved or copied to the destination. But really you only have to decrease the probability that you are at the source while simultaneously increase the probability that you are at the destination.
love your work Zogg
Infinite improbability drive?
MrBillllyBoob you mean you (x^2+(9/4)y^2+z^2-1)^3 - (x^2)(z^3) - (9/80)(y^2)(z^3)=0 his work :P
This is so vsaucey, I’d almost swear it was written and directed by Michael - omg, and as I write this, it’s Michael!
I've long wondered if it would be possible to hear the speech of ancient peoples by scanning sequential imperfections in crystal formations of fire-side stones as they cooled down and solidified, assuming that ambient sound waves would be enough to create detectable shifts in the molecular positions and the cooling would be predictably linear.
I suspect you could in a lab with the right technology, but not on stones left outside in the elements for thousands of years. Very interesting idea!
No
Yoooo!
This kind of feels like the flow of a sauce video....WAIT THERE'S MICHAEL!
I love how you and Michael are collaborating more often, the stuff you guys make together is amazing. =)
Oh, I thought they are an item.
veleronHL Instead of Derek and Henry? :-( ;-)
Very mind blowing video! I for sure thought that there would be a language that was better at relaying information faster than others, and I was jaw dropped that they all seem to be equal, very interesting!!
Man! These videos were the bomb!! I'm glad they're being recommended to me once again. Re-visiting this topic would be cool now. Since it is later than 2020.
I love the part closer to the end. It really shows how "unique" we really are. Also showing how connected we are as people.
Ahh, the beautiful deterministic worldview. Still don't know how I feel about it, but it's gorgeous.
more on this to come...
Very much looking forward to it!
Veritasium WHEN!
Yes that's a fascinating subject ! I've been once totally persuaded that this theory was absolutely true, but then I've heard much about quantum physics and how little things may happen randomly. Really looking forward to this video !
But for me, the possibility lies that random is just... the unknown. We don't know the pattern.
1:31, Let's all take a moment to appreciate how many attempts were done for this shot.
maybe derek just knew black magic.
@@kennarajora6532 I love your profile picture
@@speed2574 thank you.
that was really cool. it would also come in handy if one wanted let's say look at points in time in history when language was changed and figure out the reasoning for letter changes, or reasoning for a certain language creation. now that would be pretty cool. imagine creating a language changelog, like "we changed this letter to be displayed like this symbol because of this reason" or "i'm gonna represent this sound in this way, because i think of that". that would be impressive and a book worth reading.
im spanish, and that woman was speaking really fast. Way faster than how we do
+Jacobo Pindado The point was to make the English and Spanish clips end at the same time. She has to speak faster to get the same amount of information out.
+Bloodbath and Beyond Spanish and English spoken naturally, and indeed any other language, will on average communicate the same amount of information in the same amount of time. That's the point Veritasium was making.
***** Which is why she has to speak faster to get the same information out, right?
+Bloodbath and Beyond Yes, and such a rate of speech is natural for Spanish speakers.
+Jacobo Pindado i have spanish friends and when they speak spanish they speak just as fast as that
3:35 In case you don't know what that is :) Ahhhh time is amazing growing old is amazing, hilarious :D
8 years after and still found this amazing
The way you illustrated the conciseness of English and the similar times between the same amount of information transmitted in both languages, was just... Amazing. And I only stopped at 0:33, there's so much yet to watch :D
Mind = Blown
Hey, I didn't know you watched Veritasium! I probably should've guessed though.
Derek, Mike, Grant, I think you are awesome and unique, keep it going, I love all your videos, I'm from Uruguay, and my native language is Spanish, I'm lucky to know English and be able to understand your amazing videos, I wish you the best, you are the most interesting youtubers, by the way, Derek or Mike (or both), can you make a video about how much easier is to learn each language and how does it interact with the brain, because, like you said, Spanish have less syllables than English, that may be why is easier for a Spanish learn English than vice versa
Nope,mind->blown.That is not a =
Grant probably wrote this comment.. rip
Mindblown
Veritasium The unqueness of a person could not be stored on a floppy disk. The information in DNA is not just whether it is 1,2,3 or 4, but also it's position. IF you take all the unique bits out and stung them together, you've actually lost a lot of information. This is the same reason why patches/diffs of computer code are bigger than the actual number of bytes being changed by the patch set. All those extra bytes encode the offsets and some checking to make sure that each bit goes in the right place. So for non-contigious DNA where no half-nibble delta appears next to another one. We'd need 33 bits per 2 bit delta. Giving us 27MB requirement with no checksums and a really weird non-byte boundry storage mechanism. And that's assuming no insertions or deletions, just chages. We'd need more bytes to store what needs to be done if we want to actually create a working mechanism.
Based on the video if he says 1 MB of purely base pair differences, that would be 4,000,000 base pairs (4 per byte). Multiply that by 35 bits (33 bit offset, 2 bit value) and it comes to about 17.5 MB. It is possible to reduce the amount of space required by using a variable length encoding for the offsets. A example of a simple variable length encoding is to reserve the top bit of each byte as a flag to indicate whether more bytes are required. This works especially well if you store the offsets in order, and instead of storing the absolute offset, just store the difference from the previous offset. I ran a simulation with 13-bit style variable length integers, and with randomly distributed offsets, it comes out to less than 8 MB. It still won't fit on a floppy, but not bad :). This was my simulation code (C#): const long totalBasePairs = 6000000000; const int diffBasePairs = 4000000; const int bitGrouping = 13; Random rand = new Random(); List offsets = Enumerable.Range(0, diffBasePairs).Select(n => (long)(rand.NextDouble() * totalBasePairs)).OrderBy(n => n).ToList(); Func getVLIntSize = (value) => { int s = 0; do { value >>= bitGrouping - 1; s += bitGrouping; } while (value != 0); return s; }; int offsetsBitSize = getVLIntSize(offsets[0]) + Enumerable.Range(1, offsets.Count - 1).Sum(i => getVLIntSize(offsets[i] - offsets[i - 1])); int basePairsBitSize = diffBasePairs * 2; int totalBytes = (offsetsBitSize + basePairsBitSize) / 8; Debug.WriteLine(totalBytes.ToString("#,##0"));
jdpurcell2 Nice work :-)
Martin Owens Thanks! I had another cool idea too: you don't even need to store the 2 bit values each time. List the offsets for A first, then C, then T, then G, using a special offset (e.g. one greater than the maximum possible offset) to delimit where each list of offsets ends.
jdpurcell2 It'd be cool to write something firth to generate a random set of data about 1.5GiB then to modify it randomly 1.5 million times (1 in 1000) then give you the two files to see if you can first unpack into a delta and then repack into either file (forwards and backwards) ;-)
I would kill for a chance to spend a day with Michael and Derek. Respect and Love from Bulgaria guys. You are awesome !!!!
that was mind blowing. And this is why I LOVE science, and Veritasium :)
Given the last scene the second part basically has to be about entropy (link between the entropy of information and physics), am I right?.
excellent deductions.
... but what if you saw only half of frozen?
Then you haven't actually seen Frozen.
well Frozen is a 1 hour and 30 minute video, so if you didn't see the other half then technically you didn't see frozen, but then you could say the you saw the whole film except the last millisecond does that mean that you haven't seen frozen yet? Nonetheless you are going into hypothetical territory, and that's not a good place to be.
the definition of half is important as you could have watched the whole movie by skipping a frame which would still be a whole movie but pain to watch if the original is around 25fps
then you use quantum processing, superposition and shit
master3243 Then, when we ask if somebody has watched the movie, we actually ask them, if they know the plot and if they can make sense of it? So, when I spoiled a plottwist in that one GoT episode to my friend, does it mean that he "watched" this episode? He already knows what will happen... I know, I'm a terrible person. Sometimes...
5:15 THATS A PRETTY GOOD GREEN SCREENING! THATS AMAZING ACTUALLY! ITS PERFECT! :DDD
When he pulled up that DVD I was honestly thinking, gee when last have I seen one of those.
4:02 best moment in the entire history of youtube
I think it's rivaled by that Idubbbz/Vsauce crossover.
4:15 was this the original thumbnail
a lot off questions I have...it is very interesting subject!! I wish to learn more, from you in your new videos.. tnx .... all your videos are great!!! tnx for shearing your knowledge!!!!
That part at the beginning was amazing
Ya know, I’ve always had this thought. What language conveys information the most efficient. And although this video talks about other stuff, it’s always been a wonder to think “if I speak a certain language, does it communicate better than another language?” It’s always been something I’ve wondered... or maybe, a new language gets made up that does what we’re thinking but faster?
But the real interesting question is: what is INFORMATION? My field, Information Science, does not have a consensus about it. And there's several other fields which have a concept of Information, also with no consensus. Great video, by the way. And great book also. It is a very good starting point.
The video is based on a book of James Gleick. He writes about science with journalist view. No so precise in some cases, BUT a book form the 80s, "Caos" caught my attention as a boy and was my beloved bedside book! It drived my curiosity towards science... The sence of amazement... Same stuff here... (today I am a PhD and quantitative in finance). I am so grateful for that... MUST read this one...
How much information? * stretches out his arms * THIS MUCH!!
3:00 Not bad for a prediction in 2014. That number was measured to be about 44ZB.
3:32 That "[I]n case you don't know what that is." part though. XD
What IS it?
A floppy disk. He says it in the video.
a save button
@@aerobolt256 i find it funny that when the floppy disk was invented, there used to always been this confusion like "why is it called "floppy" when its quite stiff? (For context, floppies were preceded by even bigger, _floppier_ disks which i think were still called floppy disks). Then they would explain to you "yes because compared to the hard drive in the PC, this is floppy. And furthermore, if you take out the _actual_ disk inside it.." Hold on... what? So you pulled back that clip up top and you could actually pinch out what I can only describe as a thin circle of cellophane-like plastic. The disk was ruined once you did this, but I remember being blown away by the fact that what I thought was the disk itself was just a plastic case for... _the floppy_ And then, of course, CDs became widely used and compared to them, the floppy disk is floppy in every aspect, so the confusion died away with the technology. 🤔 You know for someone who hated history in school, I sure blab on about it sometimes...
Whoa 🤩🤩 how you made those dice outcomes to such unique outcome..this is awesome
This was brilliant. Resonated with me on what I wonder about when I'm bored.
Like for the Floppy !!
dude, this sounds weird :D
+Clarence the Potato Man wat
*floppy disk
you mean the save icon for us millenials?
The 5.25"s from the 80's are the shiznit! ;D
Watching in 2020, didn't realize this was made 6 years ago until 3:00
Made me chuckle in floppy disk. My kids asked me what those square plastics are. And I literally made him sit down for me to explain the ancestor of storage devices.
thinking on your suggestion about remeasuring a sound wave in a chamber, have to say it will not work probably because of thermal noise , the entropy of a isobaric volume with an impulse of sound doing into it would be heated ever so slightly, then when returning to equilibrium would increase the entropy... that is even before i start talking about quantum effects, or maxwells demon
English is a stress-timed language. Stressed syllables are longer, louder and higher-pitched. Unstressed syllables are weakened, so shorter, quieter and lower-pitched. Spanish is a syllable-timed language - the difference in length, loudness and pitch between stressed syllables and unstressed syllables is much less significant than in English. I'm not sure whether Spanish uses more syllables to express the same information as English (it's possible because of the morphology - e.g. verb endings) but the main difference is that English weakens most of its syllables (but doesn't eliminate them completely) and Spanish doesn't.
Thank you. I had never heard of these concepts before
what i experienced on the internet is, that you often have people commenting or replying in spanish even if it is an english video or your own comment is in english. i'm german, but i don't answer everything in german. are spanish speakers just to proud or what is it, because they are able to respond in english having watched the video in english? the positive thing about this is, that i am seriously considering to learn spanish^^
I noticed that as well, but I assume it is due to the the vast amount of bilingual speakers in both languages, especially in the U.S.
Well my spanish friend says most simply don't know english or not enough to hold a conversation. The rest can't be bothered.
Very well presented as usual !
Most important question: How many times did you (or whomever filmed it) role those dice for a 1-6 sequence!?
Awesome.
I've wondered this for years (the relative information density of languages).
I calculated that you got ~1,54% chance to get the dice combination you had. How many tries did you had?
Unless the dice are of course loaded
The expected amount of tries is 64, so not a big waste of time really
the dices could have the same number on all of their sides
I checked, and by what I could see, they were all standard.
You guys do realize that it was done by the computer right?
I knew most of this stuff but the perspective is refreshing thanks
I love seeing Michael on your channel
How many times did you have to roll the dice to get that outcome for the video?
chances are 1/6.1/6.1/6.1/6.1/6.1/6 = 1/6^6 which is 46656
They look like they're weighted
Ahmuyr Thats if each dice has to be a specific value but the just have to all be different so its 1 * 5/6 *4/6 *3/6 *2/6*1/6 so 64 tries I think.
Roskal Raskal exactly.
Ahmuyr You don't even deserve a reply ;)
Spanish speaking people complain that English speakers who speak Spanish as a second language but not very well speak far too quickly. Maybe that is because it is perceived that Spanish is spoken quickly. When I was learning Spanish, I quickly noticed that the words tended to be much longer. I was proud when I learned the translation for "unfortunately": desafortunadamente. ading "ly" to an English word is equal to adding "mente" to a Spanish word. A cool video would be one that explains why you can't learn Colombian Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese without becoming a sexier person.
Chris Foote yes but ly not come from mind. Mente equals to mind.
Nice video! On the last part though, that sounds like the Laplace Monster hypothesis, which does not work due to quantum uncertainties. In the case oe atoms passing on information, I think the information will gradually become undetectable as more quantum uncertainties are mixed in.
4:02 When your best friend visits to play some video games and hang out
That's Henry, right? Not Grey? Grey can't be caught on screen, right...?
I saw that as well...
I’m scared
The probability of getting a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 from rolling 6 dices at the same time is: 1 in 24195. How did you do it? Magnets? Camera trick? Video editing? LUCK :0?
Got it. You edited some dice rolls with a video mask.
It's actually bigger than 1%: www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6%2F6*5%2F6*4%2F6*3%2F6*2%2F6*1%2F6
Ted Sanders Mmm.. I think you are right. I messed up. I was doing something with base 6 which didn't end well I guess
Haha, no worries, everyone messes up sometimes. Always better to try and get it wrong than to not have tried at all. :)
The probability is around 1.54%, so about 1 in 64 and not the crazy number you claim.
This gives me such good vibes
That's a lot of beautiful info.
that's a diskette not a floppy disk
Derek Veritasium and Michael Vsauce could make a great couple! They should marry!
Imagine if they could have a baby (it´s impossible, I know). That baby will be incredible
First in line to be adopted, thanks.
RThrim700 it's not theoretically impossible though, you can in principle pair up their chromosomes and stuff... you know where this is headed...
Russell Subedi I had thought about that theory too but it's pretty impossible
RThrim700 it is practically impossible
Love all your videos!!!
That bit with the 2 languages was amazing
For a second 1:19 I thought that was *CGP Grey*..
Me too!
nah its Henry Reich from MinutePhysics
Strongly disagree with the last statement. No Derek you cannot extrapolate backward and forward, because of Heizenberg uncertainty principle, and because of inability to meassure with infinite precision and uncertainty to meassure all parameters of particles.So you cannot extrapolate.
I'm hoping that's where the "To be continued..." comes in.
I agree, he was being very deceptive there.
I think this leads into the next video, where they talk about randomization.
Огнян Герасимов i just write there hoping for new information.
+gano i think they should have had michael asking "or is it?" and the classic Vsauce music there if that's the case
What a pleasant surprise to catch Michael here
The last part was amazing😍
The beginning was a but weird for me since i speak both languages
What was the Spanish woman saying?
exactly the same
William Vazquez 😂😂😂
A todos los que hablamos castellano nos ha explotado el cerebro 😂😂
When i was younger, I thought that English speakers spoke much faster. I'm Spanish. I guess it's just a matter of getting used to the language.
Yo también soy español y tienes toda la razón sobre eso, cuando yo era pequeño parecía que los ingleses hablaban súper rápidos... Jajajaja
tambien me pasaba/it happened to me too
Eso es típico, cuando aprendemos un idioma siempre pensamos que hablan más rápido que nosotros porque no estamos acostumbrados, pero si cuentas el promedio de sílabas que un castellanoparlante dice por minuto, es mayor a las que dice un angloparlante.
Los idiomas derivados del latín ofrecen muchísima mayor precisión describiendo eventos y objetos. El inglés ofrece poca precisión y por eso gasta menos palabras en general
Yeah its bound to sound "faster" if you don't understand the language, because your brain is trying to pick out words or syllables and it can't get more than probably 2 of those without throwing out an _"Error: input language library 'megusta.lib' not detected, please update libraries and speak again."_ Therefore its easier to feel overwhelmed with a wall of noises that make no sense to you, and it can feel like they're rocketing through whatever they are saying. Its like if you aren't very good at math, and you see an equation with one too many numbers in it. Its probably only maybe 5 more integers or variables than you're used to, but suddenly your brain alt+f4's out of the calculator then boots 'beautifulmind.exe', and it may as well be the matrix for all the chance you have of working it out after that... PS: I'm not entirely sure why I persisted with dehumanizing my mental states into mock PC files, but it's done now.
I'd like more information about the languages, the first bit comparing languages and how they convey information was very interesting to me.
Your video are so thought provoking! Thank you! This was fun.
2:10 I thought the "i" replaced with "y" to not mix up with a word "bite"
Correct me if I'm wrong - but I think quantum physics throws a big monkey wrench into that last claim of being able to trace back information.
Ahhh...as an old Yahtzee player, that straight flush at 1:30 was a thing of beauty.
How much information can we have? Ithkuil:Allow us to introduce ourselves