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A4 is metric paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI

I can't not share this excellent video on the subject by CGP Grey on "metric paper":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI

⬐ jagrsw

It's interesting that the human scale is (logarithmically) in the middle between the plank distance and the size of the observable universe.

Beautiful (in an educational sense and in a visual sense) CGP Grey video on metric paper: https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI

⬐ vxNsr

That video kinda lost the thread of what it was supposed to be about, it went from a cool video about paper (which admittedly is no easy task) to a generic “things are small but also things are big”

⬐ julianbuse

I dont think the video is really about the paper, it's just a hook.

⬐ jcynix

Cool animation, as almost always by CGP Grey. Reminds me of the book "Powers of Ten" by Philip and Phylis Morrison, published in 1982 ("Scientific American Books")

⬐ anonymfus

In the Director's Commentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lyN6Qg8VQ4 ) CGP Grey said that it was directly inspired by the video version of "Powers of Ten".

⬐ mkl

Powers of Ten was also a 1977 short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

(Duplicating my own comment from a few months ago.)

⬐ burlesona

That went a very different direction than I expected. Thanks for sharing :)

⬐ None

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⬐ Orthanc

Glad you liked it!

⬐ jorl17

Just taking a second to appreciate you and your work. I have one of the first ever Theme System Journals. While I've grown older and now no longer watch your videos as religiously as before, I do still follow along Cortex.

I was a patron for Hello Internet. Though I doubt it will, I hope you guys can one day bring it back. So many fond memories :)

Thank you for your hard work and almost-always insightful remarks!

⬐ leshenka

What happened to HI though? They seemingly stopped doing it without any reason and I really liked it. Thankfully Cortex is a lot like HI and I enjoy it a lot.

⬐ spiffytech

This question is raised every time Grey or Brady pop up anywhere. Although it's understandable (Hello Internet was great!), I've become a lot more sympathetic after watching a Patrick Rothfuss video about how it dehumanizing it feels to constantly be asked nothing besides when Famous Thing is coming back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtlYvNB6PZE

⬐ user_7832

Are you really CGP Grey? If so, thank you for your high quality videos! (Science) educators like you make YouTube and the internet a better place :)

(Ooh, I had a quick question if you don't mind - how did you get into animating the videos in the beginning? I'm also hoping to make sciencey/educational/technical videos on YouTube but I don't have any animation/software experience. Right now I'm just planning to draw static images/diagrams on my iPad and use that for the video, like a slideshow.)

⬐ manholio

He goes into it in an older comment in his history: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Orthanc

⬐ Orthanc

Yes it's really me -- I don't often comment on hacker news, but it was just funny to come across my own video here.

⬐ porkbrain

I wish HN had a feature to follow or anotate users. Not the first time I meet someone interesting I know from another space here on HN. However, without such feature, I shall forget the username.

⬐ yoyojojofosho

You can use Hacker News RSS [0] and subscribe to a user's feed [1] via https://hnrss.org/user?id=USERNAME

[0]: https://hnrss.github.io/

[1]: https://hnrss.github.io/#user-feeds

⬐ scott_s

Create a bookmark category for HN users you want to follow, and bookmark their comment pages.

⬐ dskloet

I figured since for Reddit this functionality is provided by RES, for HN it should be HNES so I searched "hacker news enhancement suite" and found this [1] which does list "Ability to tag users" among its features.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

Here's fun video about metric paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI

⬐ dcgeib

Thanks, I finally understand the beauty of A4. The rest reminds me of a video I watched in physics class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0