This is my favourite Matt Parker video because not only is it the length of a feature film, but it has the plot twists of one too.

@Jkirek_

5 жыл бұрын

I got the "aw come on" reaction when he said "what are the chances" at the second probability roll, because that's some dad level pun. It wasn't.

@JB-ym4up

5 жыл бұрын

Still a better love story than twilight?

@robertnett9793

5 жыл бұрын

@@JB-ym4up: Static white noise has a better lovestory than twilight.

@joeythehat9

5 жыл бұрын

I was like... the probability of getting probability 3 times is 1/5^3 = 1/125 = 0.8%, or 1 out of 125. WHAT ARE THE ODDS lol.

@IoEstasCedonta

5 жыл бұрын

I'm genuinely not sure if he was serious about the spinner or not.

"You can find any pattern you want to any level of precision you want as long as you're prepared to ignore enough data." That's a huge thing to realize.

@willionaire77

5 жыл бұрын

The basis of every crazy conspiracy theory. 😂

@7hundao

5 жыл бұрын

that's like the definition of bias ... DUH~

@conexant51

5 жыл бұрын

You're all so right! Still, it's quite unbelievable, in this day and age, that people will listen to a person like Donald Trump. Sadly I guess it comes down to the premise of 'fake news' and the morons who buy into it!

@tristanridley1601

5 жыл бұрын

Hence if Pi turns out to be truly random, every single number is somewhere in it, and even every written work (encoded by any/every encoding system)

@conexant51

5 жыл бұрын

@@tristanridley1601 Nice observation!☺

People in the live audience have no idea how huge those name drops were. "My friend James Grime... My friend Tom Scott..."

@leadnitrate2194

3 жыл бұрын

They didn't know about Matt's huge nerd clout.

@raadtmaarwat5781

3 жыл бұрын

you did take good look the public animate.. Corona exlude public, am i getting mad and they (beside the few moving wich axtract brain automaticly focus only those moving.. However now i told you look at the adience aint moving.. What adience aint moving...ahh then look closely examin some movements using cheap algoritme..and only part is moving other wise prob looked adience hockey game in the audience computer game! Wannah bet?

@usualunusualkid7149

3 жыл бұрын

@@raadtmaarwat5781 I am sorry, do you know English?

@Axel_Andersen

2 жыл бұрын

James Grime ? Tom Scott ?

@yeiiovv4989

2 жыл бұрын

My favourite Easter eggs.

From the moment the first spin landed on "probability" I had a feeling it was going to be a long-haul joke; I just couldn't decide whether the wheel was weighted or it was done in multiple takes. Well done, Matt; and props to that audience for being so patient hahaha

@toriless

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was possibly going to happen.

"Maths is difficult, but the people who're enjoying maths are not the people who finds it easy but the people who enjoy how difficult it is." very inspiring.

@Michelle-pn9xt

3 жыл бұрын

who're is not a word.

@peteconrad2077

3 жыл бұрын

@@Michelle-pn9xt it’s included in several dictionaries although it’s considered improper for formal use. But it is a word.

@huskiehuskerson5300

2 жыл бұрын

@@peteconrad2077 But look how hilarious it is omg. Another eg.

@huskiehuskerson5300

2 жыл бұрын

@@Michelle-pn9xt But you're

@peteconrad2077

2 жыл бұрын

@@huskiehuskerson5300 it probably is to little minds....

"Texas, undone by a lone star" That's a lot funnier than the audience reaction gives it credit. That would have been mystery-bisuit worthy on Citation Needed.

@cresleyb

5 жыл бұрын

Tim H. Exactly what I thought!

@krashd

5 жыл бұрын

Many in the audience likely just didn't get it as Texas being known as the "lone star state" might be common knowledge in the US but over here it's just a piece of American trivia that could win you a point during a pub quiz :D

@EleanorPeterson

5 жыл бұрын

[I mean no disrespect by this Comment.] The audience reaction is typically British. Low key, nothing to get too excited about, no need for any whooping or cheering or flag waving etc. Just a pun. We do puns. Meh. We Brits may not know about all the different US State names - familiar day-to-day names such as Nutmeg, Peach, Prairie, Show Me, Pelican, Badger, Beaver (steady...) simply don't feature in schools here, but I'm pretty sure everybody with enough curiosity to turn up to a Royal Institution lecture will have read enough to know that Kentucky's the Bluegrass State; Florida's the Sunshine State; New York's the Empire State; and that Texas is the Lone Star State. I doubt if many Brits know that South Dakota is ALSO a Sunshine State, or that Minnesota is the NORTH Star State; and we ain't got none o' them thar pesky Minnesota Gophers over here, neither...

@mbenoni7397

5 жыл бұрын

@@EleanorPeterson This is the most British comment I've ever read.

@NenadKralj

5 жыл бұрын

The lone Star State (:TEXAS :) !! Love TX

"Lots of my friends procreate" as a bridge to talking about children's books was suboptimally received.

@Peter_1986

4 жыл бұрын

The topics sex and procreation aren't harmful to children, and the phrase "a lot of my friends procreate" is the exactly same kind of phrase as "a lot of my friends have children".

@MadMethod-qs1en

4 жыл бұрын

Well said

@astropgn

4 жыл бұрын

And he said so calmly lol

@alaindubois1505

4 жыл бұрын

At a disability lunch at the Bison Park, a man attending with his wife, introduced himself as a father of four! So what was this all about? He managed a heterosexual act four times?

@bcubed72

4 жыл бұрын

Well, you could say it was optimally received, if the desired variable were "unease." Just optimized for a different variable than you anticipated.

Probability comes for the second time: "What are the chances!?" Audience: "..."

@janas.8735

4 жыл бұрын

@omar garaali Thanks

@milire2668

2 жыл бұрын

@@janas.8735 np fam

@joshwatt5434

2 жыл бұрын

It's because he edited out the spins that weren't probability, meaning the audience were in on it

@oscarthegrouch23

Ай бұрын

@@joshwatt5434He did? When does he say that?

@joshwatt5434

Ай бұрын

@@oscarthegrouch23 this comment is two years old and I am not rewatching to find out what this was about lol

"But neither of them are going anywhere because parents are jamming up the whole system..." fell out my chair, Matt

As soon as I saw probability as a subject to be chosen *at random* my eyes narrowed. Well done.

@joyfuljaj

3 жыл бұрын

same

@bettyeldridge

2 жыл бұрын

@@joyfuljaj : me also

@HappyBeezerStudios

2 жыл бұрын

not only was it chosen at random, it was chosen at random 3 times out of 3

@ten77emt

2 жыл бұрын

I was sure the wheel was rigged... and, they probably could has saved a ton of time if they had rigged it. The participants spin the wheel clockwise, but Matt spins it counter. 🤔🤔🤔 And, once, even claims, "it does land on other colors".

@lindsaybrown

2 жыл бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios What are the chances of that?

Watching Matt keep holding back smiles as his wife demonstrates the evidence of the recovery was amazing. That's a team.

It's amusing when he asks Lucy what is her research, as if he doesn't know. It's even more amusing when you realise they are married.

"Texas undone by a lone star.", is a great line. I think you would have gotten a bigger laugh in the states.

@melvyniandrag

4 жыл бұрын

haha I was surprised by the silence, forgot where the talk was

@melvyniandrag

4 жыл бұрын

@escorpiuser Texas is nicknamed "the lone star state"

@ckmym

3 жыл бұрын

Matt did the same thing at google and somehow got even less laughs.

@katavenger

3 жыл бұрын

@@melvyniandrag that still isn't funny.

@jaybeezy4124

3 жыл бұрын

@@TXDude not to be rude but math is one of the largest components of physics. Math is at the core of it all.

"Are there any... wait for the end of the sentence." This has 'teacher' written all over it, I love it

@scibanana3542

3 жыл бұрын

@MichaelKingsfordGray it has work boss stapled all over it.

@classicalphysic

2 жыл бұрын

Ignore teachers. Their teachers lied o them too. And the teacher then lied to his students.None of these quantum theorists have thought an original thought or questioned their fanaticism. And dogmatic religious fanaticism always holds back the pursuit of knowledge. As did the quantum forefathers... the religious fanatics running europe in the Renaissance. They stopped copernicus and Galileo from publishing. As with modern quantum clerics...The truth was too much to take.

@MeesterG

2 жыл бұрын

Teacher here. When that happens to me, I sometimes like to go: Is there anyone who....[all hands in the air].... Peed their pants? :D humor is easy with kids, I love it.

@BroudbrunMusicMerge

2 жыл бұрын

@@classicalphysic What.

@toriless

2 жыл бұрын

Wait for the end, not if Sheldon Cooper said it. It would still be going on.

As an Australian, watching him discuss the ancient Woolworth stores in England is fascinating.

This guy is precisely my kind of pedantic nerd, and I freaking love it

@karlbethke9645

Жыл бұрын

In the crescent moon misrepresentation, Matt correctly points out that stars shouldn’t be drawn inside the moon’s circumference. What is more troubling (to me) is that the tips of the horns have to be antipodal, I.e. 180 degrees apart.

"Is it a head on both sides" "No" "Is it tails on one side" "Yes" Wait a minute...

@IceMetalPunk

5 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing! "So it could be tails on both sides?"

@samuelwoods6648

5 жыл бұрын

The number of sides which are tails is 1. Not "1 side is tails, but this tells me nothing about the other side." hahahahahahaha

@samuelwoods6648

5 жыл бұрын

@icemetalpunk This is what didn't happen: "Is it tails on one side?" "No, it is tails on 2 sides." It's so difficult to convey a different perspective!

@benchapple1583

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, that was my instant reaction as well.

@aravindvissamsetty

5 жыл бұрын

This guy would have done well as a lawyer.

The 3 cogs logo is a surprisingly common mistake. It happened at my work - a multi-national engineering firm. Upper management proudly emailed their new logo to tens of thousands of engineers, hilarity and red faces followed.

@rhabenic

5 жыл бұрын

Ha! Not a 'good look' for an engineering company, I presume.

@AlDunbar

3 жыл бұрын

@@rhabenic in a drafting course that was required of civil engineering students, one day we were shown a video of a guy demonstrating how to go about sketching a threaded rod. He was doing a great job until he noticed that the threads on the model went the other way than in his sketch. I immediately laughed out loud as I knew what he was going to do correct the discrepancy. But when he turned the model end for end i was very disappointed to not hear anyone else laughing. I guess the guy thought that screws did not become left or right handed until they were given a head.

@Walthanar

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlDunbar I laughed so hard

@sMASHsound

2 жыл бұрын

and it was the artist that decided to make it work...

@keithmills778

2 жыл бұрын

And, in the case of the gear train on the coin, it’s more complicated than just having an even number of cogs. The gear ratios have to be correct so that it runs smoothly without locking up.

Here's one for the book. I learned in a highway design course that early on, they studied accident statistics and determined that, since accidents were more likely when driving on a curve or over a hill, that they could reduce the number of dangerous stretches of road by combining curves and hills whenever possible. This worked perfectly in achieving that result; of course that made the road even more dangerous.

@sMASHsound

2 жыл бұрын

lolllllllllllll. if that was early on, im interested to know what they did later on.

@AlDunbar

2 жыл бұрын

@@sMASHsound when they realized their error they stopped designing roads that way.

@sMASHsound

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlDunbar what led them to realize it what bad?

@AlDunbar

2 жыл бұрын

@@sMASHsound our prof didn't say, but I think accident statistics might have had a hand in it. Either that and/or someone realized the logical error and explained it. Note that the people who made the invalid deduction might or might not have changed their minds. It is not as if there is a single cabal of engineers who make decisions about design methodology, and are the ones responsible for correcting their mistakes.

@richardthomas6301

Жыл бұрын

There is another road in Spain I think that is completely straight and has one of the highest accident rates in the world. It is a very long road.

You know, when it landed on probability the first time, I figured that Matt had rigged it to land on probability all three times. I did not expect him to have people spin it until it got green all three times, I figured these talks had a time time schedule and at 1:07 it had probably already spilled over by a bit. Bravo.

@availablehage

3 жыл бұрын

Some game of luck

"In every second story, everybody died." Perfectly balanced...

@commonpepe2270

5 жыл бұрын

*Harvey Dent wants to know your location*

@user-ld4qt6ci7b

5 жыл бұрын

...as all things should be

@HailG3

5 жыл бұрын

Thanos would be proud

@DevranUenal

5 жыл бұрын

That put a smile on my face.

@The1wsx10

5 жыл бұрын

not quite because if there is an odd number of stories its not balanced kzread.info/dash/bejne/oqacmZR7fLHQec4.html

"A lot of my friends procreate" is one of the strangest sentences I've ever heard. (9:56)

@julieenslow5915

5 жыл бұрын

Clearly, you don't run in truly geek circles! LOL (I don't either - now - but I was in an accelerated class with three super geniuses starting in fourth grade through 12th grade. Such a sentence would not have been at all unusual in that class!)

@SathvickSatish

5 жыл бұрын

What does that mean?

@julieenslow5915

5 жыл бұрын

@Sathvick Satish The most common word that is very close in meaning "reproduce"

@dhaenir

5 жыл бұрын

@@julieenslow5915 That seems a little bit young to be using that sentence, even in an accelerated class.

@julieenslow5915

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it does. Not my choice when to start it - I think the fact they had 3 super geniuses meant they needed to up their game fast. Please note I was NOT one of the three!

Matt, Thank you very much for being honest that took so many times to get three instances of Probability.

@kristinehatkinson7323

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a crooked wheel...

2 жыл бұрын

it's scripted that he will reveal it though

Hats off to you, Matt! Loved it, esp. the ending -- @ 1:07:14 "...and I'm like, yeah, people have to earn the book"......yes, Matt, I'll do that.....thank you for this superb video!

3:08 "were not gonna edit it out" but you will edit out the 50+ spins of that wheel

@masonbronson3194

3 жыл бұрын

tis the point of the talk

@katherinekellmeyer5428

3 жыл бұрын

See, but by specifically mentioning that they didn't edit one bit out, they imply that they aren't editing anything else out! So it sort of sets us up.

@loturzelrestaurant

3 жыл бұрын

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@ijemand5672

3 жыл бұрын

we're*

I'm a simple man. I see Matt Parker on RI, I hit like and binge an hour watching him rant about numbers

@chrisj4288

5 жыл бұрын

This is true

@feelinghealingfrequences7179

5 жыл бұрын

you have failed to use the word "binge" correctly please try again

@lunadusk8590

5 жыл бұрын

your not the only one.

@Sylfa

5 жыл бұрын

I hit like and made the number of likes the first 3 digits of pi. Nice. (Assuming an accuracy over 3 digits, no rounding)

@Koni.1122

Жыл бұрын

@@lunadusk8590 you have failed to use the word "your" correctly please try again

This is one of my favorite maths (and logic) presentations, because it is fun! Thanks Parker, still love it.

I remember watching Have I Got News For You in the 90s when they talked about the Arianne 5 crash. Angus Deayton called it "Arianne Cinq" which if course sounds like "Arianne sank".

When he showed the falling Jenga tower that required less energy because of the resonance, that was absolutely amazing.

@TobiasJohansenMusic

5 жыл бұрын

You can simulate the same phenomenon in a bathtub full of water. If you shove your hands back and forth randomly, no meaningful waves will form. Only if you hit the resonance frequency of the tub (that is dependant on the size and shape of the tub) will a big wave form. For normal sized tubs that means pushing way slower than your intuition tells you.

@DacuberTM

5 жыл бұрын

Its so easy to show. Take a swing set. Watch someone swing. There you go?

@rewrose2838

4 жыл бұрын

@@DacuberTM I thought the same about swinging and how it's like two things (the person and the swing) moving synchronously

@kingjames4886

4 жыл бұрын

now go find a gyroscope.

The glitch in the matrix started when the 'guest' spinner was supposed to call out the category, but then Matt did for the teen and adult. A good use of a Good Hour! Keep up the great content!

The jenga buildings part really resonated with me... 😋

I've been very pedantic regarding the "stars where the moon should be" for years now, the difference between me and Matt is that he makes people laugh about it and I make people want to throw things at my face.

It's our birthday today! And we couldn't think of a better present than this extremely enjoyable talk all about maths and what happens when it goes wrong. We've even been told there's Pi. Mm, pi...

@opossumj

5 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday! And thank you: you make my day any time you publish a new video! Greetings from Italy!

@aryamankejriwal5959

5 жыл бұрын

The Royal Institution HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

@Tjousk

5 жыл бұрын

My birthday too, how improbable. (:

@IWouldLikeToRemainAnonymous

5 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday The Royal Institution.

@aidanlevy2841

5 жыл бұрын

Keeping up the good work for another year :)

Just went through the comments and I'm kinda shocked to see how little people appreciated this lecture. This guy is absolutely phenomenal. I was smiling throughout and learning some really cool stuff at the same time. He did an amazing job and I hope to see more from him on Ri. Huge fan, Matt!

@Lawofimprobability

3 жыл бұрын

I read Humble Pi. The examples are all found in the book but the jenga tower wasn't.

@jasonp.brunke3601

2 жыл бұрын

There's not enough of us in this world who appreciate knowledge... who possibly want to expand themselves, learning new topics... he's quite good...

@AlexanderNash

7 ай бұрын

There are thousands of comments and certainly you didn't read all of them? Even if you did what about all the people who watched but didn't comment(millions) which you can't know their level of appreciation. Maybe you appreciated it but you certainly didn't learn anything about ignoring data did you?

I just recently started realising what Matt meant when he said that math is about "getting it wrong and working towards the right answer". That is exactly what my current course in Applied Mathematics is like - that course is about a bunch of super-complicated equations that simply cannot be solved exactly, and instead require a lot of trial and error with various approximation techniques.

Teaching concepts like resonance using real world examples. I learnt a lot of things from this video. Keep it up

I liked this video purely for the joke “Troops should not break... dance”

"Texas, undone by a Lone Star." Very nicely done.

@skylerbirch8248

5 жыл бұрын

Bob, Squirrel King honestly, how did that not get more applause

@eidodk

5 жыл бұрын

@@skylerbirch8248 Because it's in England... literally NO ONE in England knows Texas IS "the lone star state"

@skylerbirch8248

5 жыл бұрын

eidodk ah, I thought it was a more common name across the way

@skylerbirch8248

5 жыл бұрын

Connor Mcnally huh. Well thanks for educating me on this lol

@Scum42

5 жыл бұрын

I'm really sad more people didn't get the joke, but I can't honestly expect people in the UK to know the nicknames of the states when I don't even fully understand exactly what countries and regions "the UK" even is.

I found this video while aimlessly browsing (It's COVID time and I'm bored). Well, it could be a turning point in my life, or not... But either way, thank you so much for sharing your time, energy, friends, and family with the rest of us. For now, my lips are frozen in the shape of a big warm smile.

This was a very fascinating and entertaining talk. Loved it...

maths and doing things incorrectly, finally a video showcasing both of my skills.

@andrerenault

5 жыл бұрын

Parker maths

"Average means I'm above 50% of books" Should we from now on call median a Parker average? I'm fine with that.

@AshiStarshade

4 жыл бұрын

You raise an interesting point, except that he probably could have better explained. This is a skewed distribution, so in this case the average is in fact better than 50% of the books.

@shambosaha9727

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, median, mean and mode can all be called average, which is where a lot of misleading statistics comes from. I read this in Darell Huff's excellent book "How to Lie with Statistics".

@surfingbilly9654

4 жыл бұрын

@@shambosaha9727 median, mean and mode can all be called average ONLY if the data you are looking at follows a normal distribution.

@shambosaha9727

4 жыл бұрын

@@surfingbilly9654 Technically speaking, they can all be called average ALWAYS. They have the SAME VALUE if the distribution is Gaußian.

@downtroddenmusic

4 жыл бұрын

I used the median recently in a report and to avoid the confusion of talking about the 'average' value, and knowing that the audience would not have heard of the median, I referred to the result as the 'typical' value i.e. the typical number of days worked, rather than the average number of days worked.

Mr Parker is someone who takes a few moments to get used to , but now I am very grateful he has these videos. He is really interesting and entertaining.😅😊👍👍

45:15 Another fact that has to be considered is that the projections that the maps used to pinpoint the locations could also affect the shape. The previous researcher could have even selected the same locations on a different kind of a projection and identified another pattern. They're just random conincidents.

Great show from Matt as usual! And Happy Birthday RI! The cogs thing reminds me of when my wife showed me her team's illustration of a marketing process with interlocking cogs: "that won't work!" I said. She was unconvinced it would matter, but did go back with my fixes. The next customer she spoke to confirmed that they were all engineers and, yes, it would have been a major barrier to credibility if they'd carried on with it as it was. I don't think I got any brownie points: she just realised that 'nerd' is a wider-spread condition than she'd thought.

@IceMetalPunk

5 жыл бұрын

@@stupidtreehugger Do you realize that none of those links work?

@bakedutah8411

5 жыл бұрын

IceMetalPunk, LMAO. 😂😅🤣

@schuwi4

5 жыл бұрын

@@stupidtreehugger Ummm, excuse me, what the frick? That is the most forced transition I have heard in a long time and I don't see how your single-origin stuff is related to the original comment or video in *any* way whatsoever. I'd write you off as a bot if it wasn't for this horrible introduction that shared a word with the original comment. That would still be impressive to pull of for a bot.

@TheEternalPheonix

5 жыл бұрын

Bwahahahahaha!

@dssingh8218

2 жыл бұрын

Thats a good one!! 👌

Parker is my favorite mathematician which is something I never thought I'd say about a mathematician xD.

@zoltankurti

5 жыл бұрын

Except he doesn't do what a mathematician should. He is rather a standup comedist.

@crytocc

5 жыл бұрын

And what "should" a mathematician do, exactly? You do realize that people can be more than one thing, right?

@MrDannyDetail

5 жыл бұрын

@ K W I know what you mean, but the logic of what you actually said doesn't work. If you never thought that "X is my favourite mathematician" was something you'd say about a mathematician, then that suggests you thought you'd say it about a non-mathmatician, which obviously is then a paradox.

@liebert234

5 жыл бұрын

​@@MrDannyDetail I don't think never thinking to say "X is my favourite mathematician" about mathematicians implies that they would have thought it of non-mathematicians either. It definitely makes it ·strange· to specify mathematicians, but that doesn't necessitate that they would have thought about it at all. "I would have never thought I would have a favourite member of set A that was in set A" is logically equivalent to "I would have never thought I would have a favourite member of set A", since any favourite one could have from set A must also ·be· in set A. I think this is more of a linguistic question of what including that redundant detail implies of the speaker, rather than a question of logic. When it comes to language, including unnecessary details like that imply that there exists a possibility that something could've been otherwise, or at least that the speaker thinks so. "I picked up a stone, and it was a stone" is completely true and logically valid, but the fact that the second clause is in there makes it sound like it the speaker is surprised that the stone was a stone, which is an illogical thing to be surprised by.

@MrDannyDetail

5 жыл бұрын

@@liebert234 Great response! As you say it's a linguistic amibiguity that depends on whether you consider the 'about a mathematician' part to be unnecessary repetition of the same fact, or a new piece of information that's critical to the intended meaning, which in turn depends on how the person says it. Perhaps I misspoke when using the word 'logic', but I'm not sure what other word could be used in it's place. I mean the deduction that the repetition would not be there unless it conveyed the possibility that something could have been otherwise, is itself a form of logic. I guess it only fails to be true logic because it would be an assumption rather than a hard fact.

I really enjoy your work, and didn't think I was in the mood for it at the moment but let it play in the background anyway. Well I'm happy to be wrong. A good show so far and I'll be letting it play to the end.

This makes me realize how easy it is to mess something up. Like imagine writing an entire movie franchise without having these kind of mistakes would be so hard.

When Matt asked "Does the coin have two heads?" and "Is there tails on one side?" it still could have been a coin with two tails :)

@sleekotter1109

4 жыл бұрын

If there's tails on one side there's tails on one side.

@KaiHenningsen

4 жыл бұрын

@Sthaman Sinha How do you know? That doesn't follow from the data available at that point.

@Peter_1986

4 жыл бұрын

@@KaiHenningsen I think (s)he means that "tails on one side" is supposed to explicitly say that there is a tails on ONLY one side.

@sMASHsound

2 жыл бұрын

he stressed 'one' so i assume he meant 'only one side'

@RockStudioLive

2 жыл бұрын

@@sleekotter1109 But still, that's not tails on only one side.

Guy called “Tom scott” Lmao

@DanksterPaws

5 жыл бұрын

Nah fam i just had a laugh how casual that mention was

@twinsunianlp7359

4 жыл бұрын

Clearly his full name is Thomas Scottland.

@NiteshMaharjan11

4 жыл бұрын

@@twinsunianlp7359 Thomas "red shirt" Scottland

Although I will probably (pun intended) never be a huge maths enthusiast myself. I can appreciate the fun you can do with it and the important part it plays in the world we live in. Thanks for this interesting video! My younger self would've never believed I'd spend an entire hour watching a video about math in my spare time and enjoy it ;-).

Such a naturally talented maths communicator. Wish my math teacher was this engaging.

@omp199

3 жыл бұрын

You must have composed that comment on an aeroplane. I can spot the point at which you crossed the Atlantic.

I honestly thought the wheel was rigged, as the audience were turning it clockwise and matt was spinning it anti-clockwise and there was some mechanism that only worked in one direction.

@pahlkott

5 жыл бұрын

What is the odds of it landing on probability?

@yafu2599

5 жыл бұрын

more pertinently what are the odds of a complex clockwise/anti-clockwise fixing mechanism versus matt just re spinning till he get's green and editing the video But to answer your question, it's 1 in 5, or for 3 probability in a row I believe it's 1 in 125 (1 in 5^3)

@OB1KXB

5 жыл бұрын

i thought the same thing. and after he said the "dont believe everything you see on the internet" thing, i thought "but what if the video ISNT edited?"

@NoNameAtAll2

5 жыл бұрын

3 _green_ is 1 in 125 but 3 _same_ in a row is 1 in 25

@PDeRop

5 жыл бұрын

I’m a magician. Probability is my game. I was blown away, that they did several takes to make this happen :)

Omg, by the third one, I knew something was up but I thought it was a weighted wheel or something 😂

@merdehappens

5 жыл бұрын

Also the props he had on him.

@solomonarbc

5 жыл бұрын

Nothing was up. That's why he said he'd never use the wheel again, because he wanted to bring up something else than probability 3 times.

@aryamankejriwal5959

5 жыл бұрын

solomonarbc I’m not sure if this comment was meant to be a joke but he said that they just cut out all the footage in the middle

@OrangeC7

5 жыл бұрын

@@aryamankejriwal5959 I think he was joking about that. Like he said, don't believe everything you learn on the internet. >:)

@aryamankejriwal5959

5 жыл бұрын

OrangeC7 😂😅

I wish I had you as a maths teacher! You make me wanna grab my old A-level notes and do some calculus and logarithms.

20:38 Round of applause for total destruction of Jenga buildings! :-)

"Making cogs grate again"?

@phoenixstone4208

5 жыл бұрын

Tim Fairless puns will never grind my gears

@MrDannyDetail

5 жыл бұрын

OMG that joke totally flew over my head when he said that in the video. I totally forgot that great had a homonym.

@984francis

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder how many people didn't get that, also the the three cogs cannot rotate? Maybe they are not cognisant😬

@MCLooyverse

5 жыл бұрын

OH. That's good. I did not get that at first.

@anantkerur557

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrDannyDetail *homophone

I had a "that's me" moment, surfing random videos on you-tube, finding myself in the background.

@amber1862

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder how many KZread videos I'm in? It's actually scary to think there has almost certainly been a time, where someone online looked at me in the background of someone else's video (from a local vlogger or filmmaker for example). It's not scary that someone has seen me, what's scary is that I'm still there right now, and there are many short moments of my life literally sitting in servers all over the world, accessible to almost anyone.

@mmitja

5 жыл бұрын

It only counts if you married the uploader before seeing the video. 😅

South Korea, buildings, exercising Paul Shepherd and Jenga! (relates to the bridge feedback chapter). There is a Korean show on netflix called "my Mister" where the lead plays a civil engineer who designs buildings, and it mentions a building he designed where a gym caused problems and the damping mechanism he put in to counter it.

Very nicely done. I love the lesson to try and then correct and then try again.

I remember his last lecture. Good to see you again matt.

To speak to the probability stories in this video: My wife is originally from Utah, and her dad grew up in American Fork. After we moved to the Portland, Oregon area, we were in a mall where we overheard a woman talking to a store clerk about her upcoming voyage to Utah. We had just moved to Oregon (literally a few months before), and we interjected ourselves into the conversation saying that we had just moved from Utah and was curious as to where she was going. She mentioned where she was going, but she also happened to mention that she lived in American Fork for a while. My wife said, "That's where my dad's from!" She asked his name, and when my wife told her his name, she exclaimed, "I dated your dad in junior high school!" We were BLOWN AWAY. Right then, my wife called her dad, and they talked for about twenty minutes on the phone in the most impromptu lovers' reunion I had ever experienced. It still brings a smile to my face.

@renedekker9806

5 жыл бұрын

Mmm... it's no longer something that happens to somebody in the world, but now we need to take into account it happening to a viewer of Mats video. That is a much lower chance.

@MrSJPowell

5 жыл бұрын

@@renedekker9806 You have to increase the probability by a factor of how many strange coincidences you allow, as well as distance from the teller of the story. Matt's specific examples revolved around pictures shown to those about to get married. Now we're up to meeting someone who had a passing relationship with n degrees of separation. Each of these makes things exponentially more probable.

@shawnheneghan4110

5 жыл бұрын

Last summer a young lady I had never met had her small puppy named "Stevie Nix" chase my young kitten named "Little Richard" up a tree. Strange coincidence? Sure, but that's not the real strange coincidence. After finally retrieving poor Little Richard, we got to talking and discovered that we had both gone to the same high school - 4500 km away. Albeit 40 years apart That was a day to play the lottery.

@57thorns

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrSJPowell Not to mention that we have to factor in what constitutes a "weird occurence". If there are no rules set up before hand, literally anything goes. While it is unlikely that one specifik freak occurrence happens to one person, and it is likely that it will happen to someone at least once, it is also,. by the same logic and reasoning, impossible to go through life without experiencing at least one weird event as an individual. You just need to look for the patterns.

@jayeisenhardt1337

5 жыл бұрын

Small number of people in the same location. And its easy. Only 300+million outta a few billion so what are the odds? Remember most Americans never leave the States. East coast to West coast its not even the entire continent.

37mins in an wasn't planning on watching this, very good job keeping the audiences attention. No ads either, I usually close my tab an reopen KZread if an Ad interrupts what i'm watching.

Brilliant. I love this lecture, thank you! I genuinely laughed out loud with the wheel (no spoilers) : Brilliant - would have been some nice mathematical poetry

I just assumed the spinner was rigged. Of course he'd go about it the Parker way--don't cheat, just repeat.

@MrSJPowell

5 жыл бұрын

Well, James Grime did it with the 10 coin flips in a row video.

@bluellamaslearnbeyondthele2456

5 жыл бұрын

Love your avatar

@bryceschug486

5 жыл бұрын

it was a little suspect that it stopped on the purple before the green on the last one. that (at least in my mind) confirmed the rigging

46:20 remembered a quote that is incredibly relevant to what he says here "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong" - Albert Einstein I remembered that from a Space Engineers loading screen, I don't look up Albert Einstein quotes in my free time fyi

@availablehage

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha what's wrong in looking up quotes in free time😂

@mattgilbert7347

3 жыл бұрын

Dats called falsification. Mr. Popper

I love Matt Parker as a mathematician and stand-up comedian.

I love these lectures, and just ordered both books.

47:11 Wheel was on green, camera cuts to man about to spin, wheel is on red.

@gliese3095

5 жыл бұрын

Good eye, good eye !

@KumaKaori

5 жыл бұрын

Ah, can also freeze frame at 26:18 to notice the peg grabbed in the wide shot, is not the peg released in the "good spin" close up.

@nicholasn.2883

5 жыл бұрын

JamieJamez Did you watch the whole presentation?

@JamieJamez

5 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasn.2883 Frame-by-Frame

@neutralmst6855

5 жыл бұрын

@@JamieJamez I assume he ment, if you watched the whole video. Because in the video itself this exact gets explained and specificly adressed.

- What happens when MATT goes wrong? - They call it a square.

As an old school IT nerd, I appreciate the URL. Intentional or not the I love it, and will purchase the book, or rather ask for it as a birthday gift since that's around the corner.

I was lamenting the same topic coming up but ended up glad about it, I do hope there will be another to cover some other topics as examples and in the meantime I'll buy the book.

Matt, I'm from Texas and it's obvious that star is where it is from gravitational lensing. On an unrelated note, I'm not sure how to convey in text when my voice clearly indicates I'm grasping at straws.

@CraftQueenJr

5 жыл бұрын

james jones it’s obvious. * tips hat *

@Schizopantheist

5 жыл бұрын

This is because in Texas the moon is way bigger

@petertaylor4980

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think gravitational lensing can explain the gradient background showing through...

@puedojoe

5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the Earth's shadow on the moon merely coincidentally resembles the plate's background very, very closely.

@renedekker9806

5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was just Texas redefining the size of the moon, like Indiana did with pi.

So 2011 is "disturbingly recent" but 2010 is "the distant past"?

@TauGeneration

5 жыл бұрын

2011 is as far into the past from 2019 as 1997 is to 2005

@CP110

5 жыл бұрын

gotta draw the line somewhere

@hdckighfkvhvgmk

5 жыл бұрын

Well it depends on what it is that is recent, i guess

@devincory9695

5 жыл бұрын

@@hdckighfkvhvgmk "anything" I think was what he said.

@Fete_Fatale

5 жыл бұрын

It's the "rule of 7" most of 2011 is within 'seven point something' years ago, while 2010 isn't.

I was in an 80 story building during construction that during a strong wind storm that started twisting ( not just swaying) like crazy. It was quite scary. This was before the mass damper tank was constructed on top which I’m sure was where all the maths came in 😊

@tncorgi92

6 ай бұрын

I worked in a brand new office building in Florida, someone didn't do their maths right because the first time we had a big wind storm the building bent and twisted enough to make some of the windows pop out of their frames. Anyone who parked in the lot adjacent to the building (think: upper management) had huge sheets of glass falling on their cars.

Great Presentation - I like math because no matter how long it takes me to get to a solution, the math never gets mad or frustrated - it patiently waits for me to succeed!

"When maths goes wrong" I'm sorry, did you mean... Parker maths?

@lyrimetacurl0

5 жыл бұрын

I came to say something like that too but you said it

@DecayedPony

5 жыл бұрын

Parker Maths, when something is so close to being right but is still wrong.

@SathvickSatish

5 жыл бұрын

Liam West haha

@starkis14159

5 жыл бұрын

Yessss

@robert4445

5 жыл бұрын

What is parker maths

I'll have to say that the way you brought this with comedy, metaphors and plot twist this is one of the best shows I have seen so far. Amazing work I'm a great fan or yours

This is what happens when the missile doesn't know where it isn't.

I took an engineering ethics course in undergraduate. A couple of our case studies were in your book. I recall we watched a video interview: the person said CAD really stands for "Computer Aided Disaster". As often the output is "trusted" because the computer calculated it (and often there isn't an easy way to check it)

I love the idea of maths being a progression in which you get less and less wrong. At school I got a lot wrong. Five years later I met my old maths teacher and he asked me what I was doing now. I was able to tell him that I was teaching maths!

Sir you won hearts when at the very beginning you said, " that person is on phone, while I am talking. once a teacher, always a teacher'.

"What happens when maths goes wrong?" Just add a constant😂

As a math major during the Middle Ages (actually, the 1970s), I loved your lecture. Also, as an amateur astronomer in the 1960s, I seem to recall an image of a crescent moon with a star coming through the dark side. We had a good laugh about that.

Mildly interesting probability story. I once visited Tokyo and during a wild night out lost my mobile phone. The next day my friend received a phonecall to come and pick up my phone. Turns out, it had been picked up by someone I had gone to primary school with 15 years prior who had recognised me in the photos on my phone, had contacted back to our mutual home country to get all the relevant phone numbers and then called through to arrange a meeting spot. The chances are pretty small and I am eternally thankful they went to the effort.

@Blxz

5 жыл бұрын

I don't know about luck. what I do know is that it has nothing to do with my comment that you are replying to. Maybe you meant to put in the main thread?

When wheel landed on purple the 2nd time i suspected it was rigged but I underestimated Matt. He actually went out of his way to involve the audience and editors to fool us viewers! Love it!

@toriless

2 жыл бұрын

Fun with magnets!

@toriless

2 жыл бұрын

Man, about five spins each time

"Texas - undone by a Lone Star." Thank you for that joke. Got a jolly chuckle and made my day brighter

Fantastic talk, After the probability hit the second time on the wheel I got suspicious, glad he fessed up at the end.

Buffer Overflows, Hydrazine, and Giant Jenga; An Introduction to Statistics by Matt Parker

@wierdalien1

5 жыл бұрын

And Parker Square

He does such a good job with his lectures. So much fun to watch!

gotta say very well presented, i put this video on at 3am and figured id watch 10-15mins before bed and see the rest when i got up lol i was wrong but i enjoyed being wrong and enjoyed the video as well so thank you for that

Fascinating. I wanna watch more. I was a math major, and I can't intuitively figure out why the Grimes dice are not transitive. Going to have to research.

This really reinforces my theory that Matt wrote this entire book just to try to justify the Parker Square

@KennethSorling

2 жыл бұрын

The Parker square needs no justification. Except that it does. That is an inherent property of a Parker square. That is THE inherent property of a Parker square.

Parker is funny, articulate, and entertaining. The way in which he has explained these concepts and ideas is remarkable, good show.

You know! I had never liked math.... But I really LOVED that professor

The earthquake/exercise class story reminds me of a Blaster Bates tale: His job was close to houses so instead of one big blast he was setting off a series of small charges. First he sent someone to the nearest house and set off a test detonation. The observer and householder were happy that there was no effect on the house or it's contents so Bates carried on with the sequence. He had hardly started, however, when a lady came running and shouting from further along the road saying that her home was being shaken badly: resonance and wavelengths!

I was expecting a documentary about Parker Squares.

@dcs_0

5 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment

@Roescoe

5 жыл бұрын

@@dcs_0 it's even titled "Maths Goes Wrong"

@petervilla5221

5 жыл бұрын

@@Roescoe That makes this quite the Parker video then, hey?

@klobiforpresident2254

5 жыл бұрын

"Is it heads on both sides?" "No" "Is it tails on one side" "Yes" A Parker coin.

@sandhu22GI

5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Trey Parker

I am so glad this popped up in my feed, excellent talk👍

I read the book and you definitely mentioned people dying in it.

This is the man (and this very video, specifically) who subscribed me to this channel. Months later I discovered his own channel as well, but that was a different story.