The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities

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Let’s say we’re going to trace out a curve where our x-coordinate and our y-coordinate that they’re each defined by, or they’re functions of a third parameter T. So we could say that X is a function of T and we could also say that Y is a function of T. If…

So this is going to be a serious video for two reasons. Number one, it’s my birthday today! I’m 32 years old, and my only birthday wish is that you just hit the like button for the YouTube algorithm. And second, I want to address something that I have av…

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And I’m in London, right outside Buckingham Palace. Oh, I’m actually running a little bit late for tea with the Queen. Yeah, she’s really into tea, but do you know what tea’s mainly made out of? Water, and so today, we’re going …

For hundreds of years, analog computers were the most powerful computers on Earth, predicting eclipses, tides, and guiding anti-aircraft guns. Then, with the advent of solid-state transistors, digital computers took off. Now, virtually every computer we u…