Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks

Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
481 Posts 17 Posters 23.0k Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • KlausK Offline
    KlausK Offline
    Klaus
    wrote on last edited by
    #10

    Yeah, it looked cool, but I kind of hate these talks where math is presented as a kind of beautiful mystery, where the focus is only on the "visuals" and not even an attempt is made to explain what is going on. It presents a very inaccurate picture of what math is about.

    taiwan_girlT 1 Reply Last reply
    • KlausK Klaus

      Yeah, it looked cool, but I kind of hate these talks where math is presented as a kind of beautiful mystery, where the focus is only on the "visuals" and not even an attempt is made to explain what is going on. It presents a very inaccurate picture of what math is about.

      taiwan_girlT Offline
      taiwan_girlT Offline
      taiwan_girl
      wrote on last edited by
      #11

      @Klaus said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:

      Yeah, it looked cool, but I kind of hate these talks where math is presented as a kind of beautiful mystery, where the focus is only on the "visuals" and not even an attempt is made to explain what is going on. It presents a very inaccurate picture of what math is about.

      YEs and no I agree. I have seen presentations like this that focus on nature and math in nature, and how math concepts show up in nature where it cannot be "manipulated". For me, this is kind of the same talk. 🙂

      1 Reply Last reply
      • AxtremusA Away
        AxtremusA Away
        Axtremus
        wrote on last edited by
        #12

        One of the world’s most famous classical concert pianists plays one of the world’s most famous piano repertoire by one of the world’s most famous composers on one of the world’s most famous acoustic piano. What’s not to like?

        Link to video

        Lame or cool? You be the judge.

        1 Reply Last reply
        • AxtremusA Away
          AxtremusA Away
          Axtremus
          wrote on last edited by
          #13

          Quarternions!

          Link to video

          What do you “multiplication is rotation”?
          I wish there were cool animations like it when I was learning complex numbers.

          1 Reply Last reply
          • AxtremusA Away
            AxtremusA Away
            Axtremus
            wrote on last edited by
            #14

            I believe this one was sponsored/commissioned by a food company, but a very good, very funny video nonetheless:

            Link to video

            taiwan_girlT 1 Reply Last reply
            • AxtremusA Axtremus

              I believe this one was sponsored/commissioned by a food company, but a very good, very funny video nonetheless:

              Link to video

              taiwan_girlT Offline
              taiwan_girlT Offline
              taiwan_girl
              wrote on last edited by
              #15

              @Axtremus That is a good one, especially when you realize that the passion people have for bakwa 555555

              1 Reply Last reply
              • AxtremusA Away
                AxtremusA Away
                Axtremus
                wrote on last edited by
                #16

                From the same people who made the Bakwa video:

                Link to video

                1 Reply Last reply
                • HoraceH Online
                  HoraceH Online
                  Horace
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #17

                  What accent is that? And why are they speaking English?

                  Education is extremely important.

                  AxtremusA 1 Reply Last reply
                  • HoraceH Horace

                    What accent is that? And why are they speaking English?

                    AxtremusA Away
                    AxtremusA Away
                    Axtremus
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #18

                    @Horace said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:

                    What accent is that? And why are they speaking English?

                    Think people of Chinese descent in former British colonies like Singapore/Malaysia; this explains the English speaking. Most likely they grew up in Cantonese speaking communities that also influenced their accent.

                    AxtremusA 1 Reply Last reply
                    • AxtremusA Away
                      AxtremusA Away
                      Axtremus
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #19

                      Kevin Costner spy thriller movie:

                      Link to video

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      • MikM Away
                        MikM Away
                        Mik
                        wrote on last edited by Mik
                        #20

                        Good stuff, Ax. Have you watched Yellowstone? Some of Costner's best work to date. The show is entertaining, not a masterpiece, put some of the acting is quite good.

                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        • AxtremusA Axtremus

                          @Horace said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:

                          What accent is that? And why are they speaking English?

                          Think people of Chinese descent in former British colonies like Singapore/Malaysia; this explains the English speaking. Most likely they grew up in Cantonese speaking communities that also influenced their accent.

                          AxtremusA Away
                          AxtremusA Away
                          Axtremus
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #21

                          @Axtremus said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:

                          @Horace said in Ax’s lame movie recos and cool YT picks:

                          What accent is that? And why are they speaking English?

                          Think people of Chinese descent in former British colonies like Singapore/Malaysia; this explains the English speaking.

                          When they try to order street food using the Queen’s English:

                          Link to video

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          • AxtremusA Away
                            AxtremusA Away
                            Axtremus
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #22

                            This one is about teenagers participating in a program that’s supposed to “cure” their homosexual tendencies:

                            Link to video

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            • AxtremusA Away
                              AxtremusA Away
                              Axtremus
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #23

                              Epic Korean period action dramedy; this one is one lame at all, a very good movie:

                              Link to video

                              1 Reply Last reply
                              • AxtremusA Away
                                AxtremusA Away
                                Axtremus
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #24

                                Vietnamese martial arts period action movie.
                                In terms of martial arts choreography and wire act, it’s a lot like watching Hong Kong kungfu serial from 30~40 years ago.
                                But this was shot in hi-def and the sceneries and cinematography are gorgeous!

                                Link to video

                                1 Reply Last reply
                                • AxtremusA Away
                                  AxtremusA Away
                                  Axtremus
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #25

                                  Animated “Hulk” feature film:

                                  Link to video

                                  1 Reply Last reply
                                  • AxtremusA Away
                                    AxtremusA Away
                                    Axtremus
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #26

                                    Non-combative competitive Tai-Chi:

                                    Link to video

                                    1 Reply Last reply
                                    • HoraceH Online
                                      HoraceH Online
                                      Horace
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #27

                                      Needs better outfits.

                                      Education is extremely important.

                                      1 Reply Last reply
                                      • AxtremusA Away
                                        AxtremusA Away
                                        Axtremus
                                        wrote on last edited by Axtremus
                                        #28

                                        Review of Banerjee, Duflo, and Kramer’s 2019 Nobel-winning work on the study of poverty:

                                        Link to video

                                        Not sure if there is an English version of such a succinct, high quality review. Please share if you find one. Otherwise I suppose you’d have to rely on English closed caption (it’s an option that you can turn on in YouTube).

                                        1 Reply Last reply
                                        • AxtremusA Away
                                          AxtremusA Away
                                          Axtremus
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #29

                                          Not sure if this is affiliated with “TED Talk,” but stylistically this looks very much like a “TED Talk”.

                                          This one is from a sociologist who did 20 years of research on mainland China’s sex service industry.

                                          Given mainland China’s censorship regime, not sure how much she had to censor herself before she’s allowed to speak publicly on this topic. Regardless, she shows much compassion with her presentation.

                                          Link to video

                                          1 Reply Last reply
                                          Reply
                                          • Reply as topic
                                          Log in to reply
                                          • Oldest to Newest
                                          • Newest to Oldest
                                          • Most Votes


                                          • Login

                                          • Don't have an account? Register

                                          • Login or register to search.
                                          • First post
                                            Last post
                                          0
                                          • Categories
                                          • Recent
                                          • Tags
                                          • Popular
                                          • Users
                                          • Groups