Have you seen more math videos in your feed recently? (SoME2 results)

2022-10-01

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Winners and honorable mentions for the SoME2 contest

Playlist of all entries: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQX-jgAF5pTZXPiD8ciEARRylD9brJXU

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**Winners**

Clear Crystal Conundrums, A Multifaceted Intro to Group Theory

https://explanaria.github.io/crystalgroups/

The Lore of Calculus

https://youtu.be/5M2RWtD4EzI

How Realistic CGI Works (And How To Do It Way Faster)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsZiJeaMO48

Percolation: a Mathematical Phase Transition

https://youtu.be/a-767WnbaCQ

The Coolest Hat Puzzle

https://youtu.be/6hVPNONm7xw

**Honorable mentions**

How to Take the Factorial of Any Number

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

How are memories stored in neural networks?

https://youtu.be/piF6D6CQxUw

The shapes of waves of ships and ducks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC3CjBZLHXs

Differentiable Programming from Scratch

https://thenumb.at/Autodiff/

Researchers Use Group Theory to Speed Up Algorithms — Introduction to Groups

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KufsL2VgELo

Pleasing Panoramas and Matrix Multiplication

http://xperimex.com/blog/panorama-homography/

A Tale of Tangent Spheres

https://youtu.be/zR_hpai3XkY

Why there are no perfect maps (and why we eat pizza the way we do)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HeBP3MG-WHg

What Lies Between a Function and Its Derivative?

https://youtu.be/2dwQUUDt5Is

1 Billion is Tiny in an Alternate Universe: Introduction to p-adic Numbers

https://youtu.be/3gyHKCDq1YA

The Mathematical Problem with Music, and How to Solve It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK2jYk37Rlg

A Curious Track, or What Bikes Are Hiding From Us

https://youtu.be/l7bYY2U5ld8

An Inverse Turing Test

https://calmcode.io/blog/inverse-turing-test.html

What A General Diagonal Argument Looks Like (Category Theory)

https://youtu.be/dwNxVpbEVcc

Why the Circle encloses the Largest Area | Explained using Hill Climbing

https://youtu.be/CFBa2ezTQJQ

The Amazing Math behind Colors!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnUYoQ1pwes

An Interactive Guide for Bézier Curves

https://www.summbit.com/blog/bezier-curve-guide/

Does Every Game Have a Winner

https://almostsurelymath.blog/2022/07/28/does-every-game-have-a-winner/

A Finite Game of Infinite Rounds

https://youtu.be/LUCvSsx6-EU

Numberphile's Square-Sum Problem was solved!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vxW42R47bc

Timestamps:

0:00 - The rising tide

2:08 - Choosing winners

2:54 - Motivation (macro)

8:09 - Motivation (micro)

10:55 - Clarity

12:57 - Novelty

14:26 - Memorability

15:07 - Winners

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