Materials Used in Ted’s YouTube Demos
Videos (watched in order)
Bernuli’s Principle (watched at 1.25x speed, extremely minimal pausing)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DW4rItB20h4&t=604s&pp=ygUVYmVybm91bGxpJ3MgcHJpbmNpcGxl
Functionality of Bluetooth (watched at 1.25x speed, extremely minimal pausing)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1I1vxu5qIUM&pp=ygUJYmx1ZXRvb3Ro
Virtual memory (normal speed, 2 minutes of pausing through the 20 minute video)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A9WLYbE0p-I&pp=ygUOdmlydHVhbCBtZW1vcnk%3D
James web space telescope (1.25x speed, no pausing)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=csIry_3pbDU&pp=ygUaamFtZXMgd2ViYiBzcGFjZSB0ZWxlc2NvcGU%3D
Green’s function (3 minutes of pausing)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ism2SfZgFJg&pp=ygUSTWF0aGVtYW5pYWMgZ3JlZW5z0gcJCc0JAYcqIYzv
Understanding buckling (normal speed, no pausing)
Evolution of rock paper scissors (normal speed, no pausing)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tCoEYFbDVoI&pp=ygUgZXZvbHV0aW9uIG9mIHJvY2sgcGFwZXIgc2Npc3NvcnM%3D
Long term memory videos:
(First 4, presented in a group)
Matrix factorization
Nerf gun
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N8JpePwvuHw&pp=ygUTSmFyZWQgb3dlbiBuZWVmIGd1bg%3D%3D
Transistors
Wallis product
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPy_UMV-08&t=1251s&pp=ygUUV2FsbGlzIHByb2R1Y3QgM2JsdWU%3D
(Next 2, presented 5 minutes after reasoning with the given set)
Next pointers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hFQCa1Cq0&pp=ygUWTmV4dCBwb2ludGVycyBsZWV0Y29kZQ%3D%3D
Heart anatomy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q0anNccSxNY&t=5s&pp=ygUNSGVhcnQgYW5hdG9teQ%3D%3D
(Next 2, presented after a 5 minute reasoning chain)
PNG algorithm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EFUYNoFRHQI&t=1405s&pp=ygUXUG5nIGFsZ29yb3RobSByZWR1Y2libGU%3D
Besier curves
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw&t=1289s&pp=ygUNQmVzaWVyIGN1cnZlcw%3D%3D
(Last one, presented after 5 minute reasoning chain)
Cortical columns
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dykkubb-Qus&pp=ygUOYXJ0ZW0ga2lyc2Fub3Y%3D
Videos for the 11 item task
Novel Videos
Heart anatomy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q0anNccSxNY&pp=ygUeRWxlY3Ryb3BoeXNpb2xvZ3kgb2YgdGhyIGhlYXJ0
Speculative decoding
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VkWlLSTdHs8
The economic opportunity of climate tech
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FvKeHcpps1Y
A plan is not a strategy
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iuYlGRnC7J8
Lidar workings
https://youtu.be/3EehCU3csJQ?si=4EHzc-PwSkMEUSwA
First 3 concepts from the participants list
Merkle trees
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n6nEPaE7KZ8&t=204s&pp=ygUMbWVya2xlIHRyZWVz0gcJCdgJAYcqIYzv
Reed Solomon codes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1pQJkt7-R4Q&pp=ygURcmVlZCBzb2xvbW9uIGNvZGU%3D
Tumbler lock
Next 3 concepts from the participants list
Why is pi in the normal distribution?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cy8r7WSuT1I&pp=ygUkM2JsdWUxYnJvd24gd2h5IHBpIGlzIGluIHRoZSBub3JtYWwg
The hardest problem on the hardest test
How do keyboards work?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h-NM1xSSzHQ&pp=ygUZYnJhbmNoIGVkdWNhdGlvbiBrZXlib2FyZA%3D%3D
Videos for the 6 item task
The Stimuli: The challenge involved synthesizing 6 complex concepts:
2 Novel Systems: Learned from randomly selected videos immediately before the monologue began. The topics were:
A 12-minute video on all forms of government and their drawbacks (Democracy, Parliamentary Systems, etc.)
A 22-minute video on the neuroscience behind the "Thousand Brains Theory" of Cortical Columns.
4 Known Systems: 4 randomly selected concepts by Rohan from the 90 topics in my Atlas I've added in the last month. The 4 chosen were:
The Vibrohammer (
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1HNMzAv8RVM&t=22s&pp=ygULVmlicm9oYW1tZXI%3D)The Steam Engine (
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xnClSss50pI&t=1s&pp=ygURSmFyZWQgb3dlaiBzdGVhbSDSBwkJ2AkBhyohjO8%3D)The Eigenvector (
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDu9oVAE-g&pp=ygUQZWlnZW52ZWN0b3IgM2IxYg%3D%3D)The Binary Search algorithm (
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eVuPCG5eIr4&pp=ygUYQmluYXJjaCBzZWFyY2ggYWxnb3JpdGht)
The Task: Immediately after watching the two videos (the neuroscience video at 1.25x speed with a total of 1:30 of pause time; the governments video at regular speed with 2 minutes of pause time), my task was to produce a 10-minute, uninterrupted monologue, finding deep structural connections and analogies among all six concepts.
(Correction Note: During the monologue, I accidentally used the word "autocracy" when I meant to say Oligarchy-- it was a genuine speech error, not a logical one.)
