A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers

Happy to see someone else who watches Michael Penn videos.

I came here to say the same thing!

YouTube has become a fantastic place for this long tail of content, in this particular case a bunch of interesting math problems and tricks presented on a blackboard. Or, even full classes, from a person focused on honing pedagogy.

3blue1brown is another amazing channel for math as well.

I have a feeling that this sort of content is the seeds of very great things for humanity. In the 20th century, ET Jaynes talks about how people never get credit in academia for creating simpler paths to greater understanding. But with YouTube, creators can both reach an audience and also find patrons to support them, or maybe even make a living off of YouTube directly with enough viewers.

Motivated students have such resources at their fingertips just from an internet connection, if they happen to get lucky enough to find the right resources.

math does every 30 or 50 years simplify stuff. It's hard for the originators to do it, they get so familiar they are able to get weird intuitions that make the difficult tractable. I listened to some of the simple groups people talking about it, and they just had crazy detailed knowledge about all sorts of group properties and prime properties and so on. Totally inscrutable without devoting your life to it.