Great storytelling, longform, random topics.

[Johnnycomelately]

Will start the thread with this one. Mike Patey speech about general aviation safety, goes to 43:12 of 1:20:50 and then the format changes.

Only took one timestamp, 31:45, for the successful landing part about a scary icing incident.

I've Lost 4 Friends in 60 Days - Aviation Safety Discussion | Mike Patey
Mike Patey
344K subscribers

Nov 5, 2023
“Mike talks aviation safety here at KSPK, forum hosted by Hangar 107. It's been a rough couple of months for Mike as he's lost 4 of his good friends. Please everyone, take a hard look at yourselves and look for ways you can fly safer.

The full discussion with Juan Browne can be found on Hangar 107's page: https://www.youtube.com/@Hangar107-KSPK”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X1nXjPhGrwY

[wegge]

Interesting idea for a thread, very much looking forward to the next contributions.

[Johnnycomelately]

Not sure how to introduce this one. Story might be about how he never will have grandkids to tell about this. Great storytelling tho. ~8O

Action at 14:00+

Centipede Bite Worse Than ALL Stings?!

Brave Wilderness

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-6vzjjIrRK8

[Johnnycomelately]

Banter, here between 4 guys, is IMO one of the best ways to tell stories.

Occasional ticker/banner: “For legal reasons, this is a joke”.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=B3UUdbtBoVI

[Johnnycomelately]

Placeholder to keep this thread alive. What I would call, a kid doing kid stuff, as far as storytelling.

Cool basic story though, about the career highlights of a US Navy WWII submarine commander: Lawson Red Ramage.


Ramage's Rampage - US Submarine Sinks 5 Ships in 37 Minutes - USS Parche

The Fat Electrician
900K subscribers

372,099 views Feb 11, 2024
(Edit: No description besides merch ads)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kg_NWDnidLM

[Johnnycomelately]

Another longform random story. Sailor James, in his 36 foot ocean going sailboat, seeking shelter from an incoming storm, last Oct/Nov in New Zealand waters.

Anyone know what “sloppy” means? It’s about the conditions, or maybe his boat’s progress through them.

IMO, this is a good example of how to tell a good story, with few words. Visuals are cool, description is key. Mmm, but I was born pre-sailor’d.

A Challenging Sail in The Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand to Waiheke Island from Great Barrier Island

Sailing Triteia

4,731 views Feb 26, 2024 #solosailing #sailingnewzealand #newzealand
Episode 344 : Season 10 : New Zealand - Aotearoa

“Hello Friends,
On this episode I haul up anchor at Great Barrier Island after an amazing stay and make way for Waiheke Island to hide from some approaching weather. The passage started out quiet but as the day progressed the seas started to build in the Hauraki Gulf and by the time I approached Waiheke the seas were charging and the winds were force 5.

I eventually made my way around to the south side of the island and tucked into Putiki Bay in the howling winds.”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pAKD0chrMHM

[Johnnycomelately]

At some point this thread had to get political, because those guys are such good talkers. Here are two of my top couple dozen most interesting speakers, Lex Friedman and Randal Carlson. Neither are politicians, but they try to understand the politics.

L= 3:04:21. Starts with Tucker’s thoughts on his interview with Putin, and gives way to philosophy by the end, but check 2:27: -2:29: for hate on the US Justice Dept.

Odd, meaning have never heard of this, admiration for facts regarding “MBZ”, king of the United Arab Emirates, around 2:51:.

About humility, ~2:52:.


Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #414

Lex Fridman

3.67M subscribers

1,126,181 views 13 hours ago Lex Fridman Podcast
“Tucker Carlson is a highly-influential political commentator. You can watch and listen to him on the Tucker Carlson Network and the Tucker Carlson Podcast.“

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=f_lRdkH_QoY

[wegge]

Mike Benz is reflecting on the art of telling complex stories. Slightly off topic, but not really

A mix of short videos, long videos, long written articles with receipts to bring a point across...


https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/st...48554887733343

Does tweet embedding work?

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by wegge (here)
Mike Benz is reflecting on the art of telling complex stories. Slightly off topic, but not really

A mix of short videos, long videos, long written articles with receipts to bring a point across...


https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/st...48554887733343

Does tweet embedding work?

I don’t know about embedding tweets, but great linked talk. Thank you.

Besides short and long form comms, he also suggests a medium format too, to provide meaningful updates as a complex story evolves.

[Johnnycomelately]

Coolest to me was that that his audience was school age kids, teens and tweens, and he kept his words challenging. Some of those words, don’t hear them often. And the whole orator thing, smart and funny. In my daydreams I talk near that good, but not irl.

Vid is long.

The history of Mars - Carl Sagan's 1977 Christmas Lectures 3/6

The Royal Institution

1.55M subscribers

4,392 views Aug 16, 2024

“ In the third of his Christmas lectures, Carl Sagan explores the mystery of the Red Planet.”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IDyx6f5J6ro

[Johnnycomelately]

This one is a standup history lesson, by the curator of the Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial, Ryan Szimanski.

This job is his second as a curator of a USN museum warship.

He does vids mostly about details of the New Jersey, but often brings in a larger scope. This talk is the first time I’ve seen this focus on a broad complex event.

IMO, he did well. His ship was one of the two American flagships, that’s the tie in, and he explains how two battle groups got involved in retaking the Phillipines. But he never mentioned the NJ after that, just talked like a good history prof.

He also describes the Japanese navy’s situation, their prior (to this battle) strategy of splitting into three battle groups, and how they did well in managing the resultant complexity of having them all coordinate in one big action.

Mapping the Fleets at Leyte Gulf

Battleship New Jersey

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bg4OYFCmxg0

[Johnnycomelately]

The story of Iron, as a nutrient, especially how it seems to relate to long Covid. Told as a walking talk, by my ever more famous fellow Edmontonian, Mic Raszek.

So, two messages. 1, Iron is necessary to the transport of Oxygen, and 2, Iron’s presence is diminished by an onset of COVID but then is amplified in a harmful form that flows through the blood and promotes ~oxidant ~radicle chemicles.

Also, a lack of Iron can exacerbate the detrimental effects of COVID. In the second half, he goes into why biological women may be be more prone to have/get long COVID, by losing a significant fraction of their red blood cells via menstruation.

He talks a bit about ‘normal’ sources of nutrient-Iron, mirroring the advice my own doctor gave. After he said my blood test showed low Iron, and I asked where can I get that: “meat”. I had been a vegetarian for decades, took ridicule about that all that time, including on some really hard jobs, and then it was over.

OK, that’s all I have to say about that. Anybody got info on good non-slaughter Iron sources?

Iron deficiency in long COVID

Merogenomics

1,102 views Premiered 3 hours ago
“We look at iron deficiency during the pandemic from multiple levels: how it could negatively impact the severity of the disease, lead to long COVID (especially in women), and influence vaccine efficacy. How do we get iron deficiency, what can we do about it and why looking at iron levels is so crucial for proper immune system function.

What we cover:
*How the link between iron deficiency and immune function was discovered
*Key players in iron body transport and storage
*How iron levels and key players are affected in COVID-19
*How we naturally limit blood iron during infections to fight infections
*The link between free catalytic iron and reactive oxygen species
*How iron deficiency is linked to long COVID
*What are the natural causes of iron deficiencies and symptoms
*Why women are at greater risk of long COVID
*Potential impact of lockdowns on iron deficiency
*How iron deficiency could negatively impact vaccine efficacy including COVID
*Proposed treatments for long COVID

Location: Kamenja Park, Croatia”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rLlwIFPY0YQ

[Johnnycomelately]

Theme of this is, “We are One”.

Conference talk, Chris Lehto, vid length is 37:34.

Am getting this on record here, to keep close. Might find some other thread that would benefit from a copy.

Einstein’s Hidden Theories: Cosmic Unity Explained!

Chris Lehto
108K subscribers

2,574 views Sep 17, 2024

“In this video, Chris Lehto explores groundbreaking ideas in physics that suggest a deep connection between everything in the universe. From Einstein's forgotten theories to Dirac's Large Number Hypothesis, he breaks down complex concepts like the Schwarzschild metric, Hubble's law, and Mach's principle to argue that the universe is a unified system. Discover how these "coincidences" in physics reveal that we are all connected through fundamental forces, offering new insights into the nature of consciousness and the cosmos.“

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0MGevtWbEyg

[Johnnycomelately]

John Surtees, motorcycle race rider, a top level race car driver in the twisties (European, up to F1) series starting around 1960, gave this talk about his racing career. Vid includes lots of original clips.

He covers lots of ground, notably the swamp of politics in the Ferrari organization (please see abt halfway through, TL= ~52).

I didn’t note the time stamp or the team (he quit and then joined a bunch of teams, usually because he couldn’t stand tha politics/culture), but an 8 cylinder AIR COOLED race car engine sounds bonkers to me (and yeah, it way-underperformed, and John moved on).

John Surtees, the Champion of Formula 1 and Motorcycle Racing

Best Documentary

5.61M subscribers

3,939 views Oct 6, 2024

“ John Surtees, son of a motorcycle shop owner and three-time sidecar champion, began riding at 11. He left school at 16, became a motorcycle engineer for Vincent Motorcycles, and won his first race. Transitioning to F1, he impressed with Ferrari, winning the 1964 world championship. He's the only person to win titles on two and four wheels.
He also competed in the US, surviving a crash, and later started his own F1 team, which struggled financially.
He retired from motorsport and pursued a successful career in property development. Tragically, his son Henry died in a racing accident in 2009.
Director: Jason Fenwick
Series: Racing Through Time”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UECX32d748M

About: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Surtees

John Norman Surtees, CBE (11 February 1934 – 10 March 2017)[1] was an English Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver. On his way to become a seven-time Grand Prix motorcycle World Champion, he won his first title in 1956, and followed with three consecutive doubles between 1958 and 1960, winning six World Championships in both the 500 and 350cc classes. Surtees then made the move to the pinnacle of four-wheeled motorsport, the Formula One World Championship, and in 1964 made motor racing history by becoming the Formula One World Champion. To this day Surtees remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. He founded the Surtees Racing Organisation team that competed as a constructor in Formula One, Formula 2 and Formula 5000 from 1970 to 1978. He was also the ambassador of the Racing Steps Foundation.

[Johnnycomelately]

Hey Yoda, and Bluegreen.

Getting this down for my own enrichment use, didn’t catch it all the first time through.

Timestamps, abt 40 in, talking on the parallel-universes so-called paradigm. 40 plus 8:00 or so, iirc, gets into basic trustworthiness of science. All I got.

L= near 2:00:00, IMO a good use of time.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hF4SAketEHY

[Johnnycomelately]

Gary Paull rap-battles with Nick Zentner. Sort of. Just needs some ageless tunes, maybe The Battle of Evermore, or Andy’s Chest, or Sam Stone.
.
Or Glen Gould’s second recording of the Goldberg Variations, ‘82 iirc.

My fav would be Ludwig’s Diabelli Variations, where he won that contest, and won money for that.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ngxdd42fDwg

[Johnnycomelately]

Interesting talk, between a YouTuber and a scientist. Latter checks the tuber several times, good to see, but host Chris held up well through the first 2:00: talk about cosmology. Vid is 2:38:12.

The first talk is about postulated mechanisms behind space and time and spacetime, and might appeal to cosmology nerds, then there’s sections on weird stuff, UFO’s, and a discussion about AI going from 2:12:33 until near the end when it goes off the rails once again.

Dr. Alexander Unzicker: Rethinking Physics—Aether Theory & Scalar Wave

Chris Lehto
109K subscribers

2,509 views Dec 4, 2024

“ In this engaging interview, Dr. Alexander Unzicker, a physicist and author known for his critical perspectives on contemporary physics, delves into the historical and modern interpretations of ether theory, offering a fresh examination of this foundational concept. He critiques mainstream physics, questioning the reliance on complex mathematical models that may lack empirical grounding. The conversation also touches on the intriguing topic of scalar waves, exploring their theoretical implications and potential applications. This discussion provides valuable insights into the evolution of scientific thought and encourages a re-evaluation of established paradigms.”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1q66VcYEyao

[Johnnycomelately]

Nuts and bolts of AI

Lex talks with two equally smart dudes, about his stated major interest. For 5:06:18 (- 3:30 intro) 🤪

I am nearing an hour in, and I feel like a failed nerd. Firehose, as is said, of information.

This is about more than the tools and the processes, it gets into parameters like morality and geopolitical situation, and all the energy those many many graphics processing units use.

From what is described in the first hour, of the process of current ai machinations and workings, no wonder that they are building their factories/lairs next to nuclear power plants.

DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459

Lex Fridman

4.54M subscribers
163k+ views, Feb 2, 2025

“Dylan Patel is the founder of SemiAnalysis, a research & analysis company specializing in semiconductors, GPUs, CPUs, and AI hardware. Nathan Lambert is a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the author of a blog on AI called Interconnects.
Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep459-sb
See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.”

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
3:33 - DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3
25:07 - Low cost of training
51:25 - DeepSeek compute cluster
58:57 - Export controls on GPUs to China
1:09:16 - AGI timeline
1:18:41 - China's manufacturing capacity
1:26:36 - Cold war with China
1:31:05 - TSMC and Taiwan
1:54:44 - Best GPUs for AI
2:09:36 - Why DeepSeek is so cheap
2:22:55 - Espionage
2:31:57 - Censorship
2:44:52 - Andrej Karpathy and magic of RL
2:55:23 - OpenAI o3-mini vs DeepSeek r1
3:14:31 - NVIDIA
3:18:58 - GPU smuggling
3:25:36 - DeepSeek training on OpenAI data
3:36:04 - AI megaclusters
4:11:26 - Who wins the race to AGI?
4:21:39 - AI agents
4:30:21 - Programming and AI
4:37:49 - Open source
4:47:01 - Stargate
4:54:30 - Future of AI

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_1f-o0nqpEI

[Johnnycomelately]

F4: for fans of physics. Modern physics that is. Hilbert Spaces, stochiometric swamps, and the quest for a holy grail.

Quantum Gravity is imagined as a wedding band, between two truthinesses which don’t like to talk to each other: Einstein’s large-scale warped spacetime, and Schrődinger’s (and others’) spooky wave functions for all the really tiny stuff.

If I understand correctly, the “massive problem” seems to be choice of appropriate theoretical tools, which are like mathematical frameworks, to be able to define reality. Until now, Jacob says, modelling of (any) average value is erroneously conflated with actual averages as they occur in nature. Representation of spacetime is key to getting at/to everything else.

I’ve only watched once through, am posting it here to keep it close for if I want more looks.

This is a 15:40 section of a 2+ hr interview by Curt Jaimungal of Harvard physicist Jacob Barandes. The complete is embedded at bottom.

A Massive Problem All of Physics Completely Missed

Curt Jaimungal

440K subscribers

posted Mar 30, 2025

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9v-d7CDvcok

Here is the full vid, posted 1 month ago, which I have not yet seen. L=2:48:41.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wrUvtqr4wOs

[madrotter]

Great thread!!!

If it comes to story telling I often go to the Soft White Underbelly channel on youtube. Interviews with loads of homeless people, mostly from Skid Row, interviews with ex-cons, narcotics officers, gang members, jail guards, prostitutes and pimps, scientists and so many other kinds of people. He also did loads of interviews with folks from the Appalachian area in America... Often truly amazing stories, stories that'll bring tears to your eyes, stories that'll upset you or just make you sit open mouthed....

Nobody can tell a story like Sammy The Bull

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X6xdD4updN8

The one with Nick Yarris was just amazing, heart breaking....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lvx-ufCDaS0

Ex-con Eric, just amazing how a street guy like him can express himself and his stories are often mind blowing, there's a bunch of videos with him on the channel....

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I1t5bSu3Avs

And so much more.....