My response to being reverse-Dereked

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  • Опубликовано: 1 июл 2022
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  • @SmarterEveryDay2
    @SmarterEveryDay2 Год назад +5723

    Classy video.

    • @Vodboi
      @Vodboi Год назад +381

      2nd channel-ception

    • @reububble
      @reububble Год назад +253

      I like to think you (Destin) were on your main channel when you saw this but decided to swap over to your second channel to comment, just for the "second channel-ception".

    • @wobblysauce
      @wobblysauce Год назад +19

      2nd channel got their back.

    • @SmarterEveryDay2
      @SmarterEveryDay2 Год назад +176

      @@reububble nope sorry, was logged in on SED2

    • @jollyjoystick1696
      @jollyjoystick1696 Год назад +9

      @@SmarterEveryDay2 Hi Destin nice to meet you on a comment section 😄

  • @jonathanl8538
    @jonathanl8538 Год назад +3864

    Matt should write a book on maths errors.

    Oh wait.

    • @cossaertom
      @cossaertom Год назад +136

      Did you mean to say Matt errors?

    • @thefountainpendesk
      @thefountainpendesk Год назад +71

      @@cossaertom That would seem like a Parker square of an error

    • @angelusmorningstar
      @angelusmorningstar Год назад +12

      @@cossaertom that would just be a book of spelling errors 😂

    • @moonliteX
      @moonliteX Год назад +1

      people know what they do.

    • @marijnl
      @marijnl Год назад +3

      @@cossaertom That would be more of an encyclopedia then

  • @eidolonish
    @eidolonish Год назад +630

    Takeaway: Derek is too famous, Matt is too pedantic, and Steve Mould is the nicest man on the planet.

    • @odesseus
      @odesseus 6 месяцев назад +12

      This made me smile

  • @_notch
    @_notch Год назад +3036

    Now THAT is a delightfully spiteful counter correction! I strongly approve.

    • @Twosies20
      @Twosies20 Год назад +4

      No checkmark? 🙃

    • @jerry3790
      @jerry3790 Год назад +7

      Notch?

    • @rws531
      @rws531 Год назад +1

      @@Twosies20 because it’s not Notch

    • @PiercingSight
      @PiercingSight Год назад +15

      @@rws531 It is. That's his youtube channel. He's posted some of his other programming experiments there.

    • @bknesheim
      @bknesheim Год назад +1

      Could be used as the definition of nit-picking.

  • @frankjohnson123
    @frankjohnson123 Год назад +2296

    Absolutely destroyed him with the 8 -> 7 correction, Matt’s still got it! Nice video

    • @IqweoR
      @IqweoR Год назад +72

      That got me laughing so hard XD

    • @goatmeal5241
      @goatmeal5241 Год назад +35

      We'll call it a draw!

    • @concinnity9676
      @concinnity9676 Год назад +30

      That was funny, but I think in just a teasing manner, like "two can play at this corrections game." I think they both know Veritasium was right on that; because, when one only shows one significant digit, rounding it is the best, accepted way. It's the power of ten that is important. I prefer scientific notation, "7.8 E-31".

    • @thargy
      @thargy Год назад +34

      Yeah, it’s “funny” because he know that it’s a really weak “correction”

    • @Hugh.Manatee
      @Hugh.Manatee Год назад +71

      I think my friend @@concinnity9676 meant 7.9 * 10⁻³¹
      I mean if you're going to show 2 significant numbers rounding is the best accepted way 😉

  • @storyspren
    @storyspren Год назад +1004

    Ah yes, the Parker Correction, which looks and sounds like a rounding error is about to be pointed out, but which then points out that the rounding is actually correct but it needs to be known that this number has been rounded :D

    • @strandedinparadise8202
      @strandedinparadise8202 Год назад +34

      Parker Correction gets my vote!

    • @bralex6669
      @bralex6669 Год назад +12

      I *immediately* though of a montage similar to that of the Parker Square.
      We need Brady on this.

    • @fuseteam
      @fuseteam Год назад +5

      derek now got parkered xD

    • @Anytus2007
      @Anytus2007 Год назад +11

      I also thought of "Parker Correction" but do we want to save that for when you attempt to correct someone else's mistake, and your correction is *almost* correct, but not quite?

    • @storyspren
      @storyspren Год назад +7

      @@Anytus2007 That's already called "incorrecting" someone in my lexicon so I didn't think about that :P
      But since Matt was fully aware of the almost-perfect nature of the square when making it, I'd say almost correcting someone but not quite correcting them on purpose is closer to the intent

  • @bkucenski
    @bkucenski Год назад +690

    It's always nice when Matt helps out the little channels with some extra sound bites for their videos.

  • @der.Schtefan
    @der.Schtefan Год назад +564

    Glad that you accepted the reverse-Derek so gracefully without having the need to find a flaw.

    • @EntropicTroponin
      @EntropicTroponin Год назад +62

      I found Derek's call-out of the mistake quite arrogant. Matt's jab at the digit is humourous in comparison

    • @der.Schtefan
      @der.Schtefan Год назад +22

      @Squant Like you just now?

    • @jeremiahsmith8499
      @jeremiahsmith8499 Год назад +21

      @@EntropicTroponin It's arrogant? What? He was pursuing the truth, nothing more, nothing less.
      You'd be a fool to think there was any bad blood or ill intent in that correction.

    • @drebk
      @drebk Год назад

      🤣🤣😆😆

    • @drebk
      @drebk Год назад +8

      @@jeremiahsmith8499 the ol fake beef between YT content creators.
      Never gets old

  • @Fiyaaaahh
    @Fiyaaaahh Год назад +749

    Congrats on spotting the erroneous 8 Matt. How does it feel to be the Dereker instead of the Derekee?

    • @mrpie3055
      @mrpie3055 Год назад +1

      Amazing

    • @NeatNit
      @NeatNit Год назад +9

      In the off-chance this isn't obvious - ignore that spam message...

    • @Soken50
      @Soken50 Год назад +15

      @@NeatNit No, don't ignore it, report it! With prejudice !!

    • @NeatNit
      @NeatNit Год назад

      @@Soken50 Oh, I do, but that doesn't actually do anything! Comment scams don't lose Google any money so they don't bother to do anything about them.

    • @abhishekpatil5768
      @abhishekpatil5768 Год назад

      @@Soken50 ueah

  • @TurtonatorGuy
    @TurtonatorGuy Год назад +728

    Drama in the maths community is so wholesome compared to the rest of youtube, lol

    • @kieronsingh3007
      @kieronsingh3007 Год назад +14

      This feels like it has the potential to become the maths analogue of Uncle Roger and Jamie Oliver

    • @dekippiesip
      @dekippiesip Год назад +71

      That's just the nature of maths. There is no back and forth, if you're proven wrong it is definitive. There are no shades of grey or 'different perspectives' or 'a context' to consider. Just the plain cold truth.

    • @pshtwhoneedsaname
      @pshtwhoneedsaname Год назад +19

      idk people got pretty fired up about the -1/12 thing

    • @hughcaldwell1034
      @hughcaldwell1034 Год назад +51

      @@dekippiesip So long as you can agree on axioms and definitions, which isn't as common as people might think.

    • @MrFram
      @MrFram Год назад +7

      flammablemath tho

  • @trigonzobob
    @trigonzobob Год назад +125

    You aren't exaggerating. You're underestimating. I showed that video to _both_ of my dogs.

  • @davecorry7723
    @davecorry7723 Год назад +169

    That was great. I've never laughed harder at a 7 after 30 zeros.

  • @SimonDonkers
    @SimonDonkers Год назад +1759

    Derek being loose on the language and digits, does that mean he should get reverse-reverse-Dereked?

    • @chitlitlah
      @chitlitlah Год назад +47

      Derek played the reverse card on Matt and Matt played one right back with his "Your calculation is 1% off." But Derek had nothing but a wild card left so he won anyway.

    • @iidoyila
      @iidoyila Год назад +12

      didn't matt get matted anyway , dereking was a different thing

    •  Год назад +12

      Does reverse-reverse-Dereked cancels out to just Dereked?

    • @madmaveric
      @madmaveric Год назад +7

      would that not be reverse-Dereked-reversed (Why do I feel like Sheldon cooper is about to appear and correct us all :D).

    • @Qermaq
      @Qermaq Год назад +8

      @@madmaveric It's Dereks all the way down.

  • @aj76257
    @aj76257 Год назад +537

    I’ve always appreciated the corrections section in the descriptions of your videos. It’s a good philosophy towards mistakes

    • @3_up_moon
      @3_up_moon Год назад +6

      The news used to have to do this as well.

    • @D33r_Hunt3r_
      @D33r_Hunt3r_ Год назад +6

      They do... 3 days later on page 47, after everyone has moved on and in a place no one sees.

    • @peterw9006
      @peterw9006 Год назад

      Where is it here?

  • @MedlifeCrisis
    @MedlifeCrisis Год назад +27

    Proud to be one of those [all people in the world] who whatsapped you Derek’s video hehehe

    • @proloycodes
      @proloycodes Год назад

      can you send me his number
      not like i'll spam him or anything, really

    • @memejeff
      @memejeff Месяц назад

      @@proloycodes ruclips.net/video/E6Kh3ayh1LA/видео.html

  • @fylosofer
    @fylosofer Год назад +6

    Beautiful. I was expecting and hoping for a response video. Matt, your humor, wit and congenial attitude always put a smile on my face. Thanks for being you.

  • @dan339dan
    @dan339dan Год назад +18

    4:47 Ah yes. The Parker Square we so fondly remember Matt of.

  • @adivp7
    @adivp7 Год назад +31

    Love that you're having fun with editing, Matt

  • @ceruleanwake8876
    @ceruleanwake8876 Год назад +5

    I love watching these channels. Not only for the education. The interest the intrigue the problem solving the ingenious creators but the drama the drama is the best. I love you guys. You always do a great job

  • @niezbo
    @niezbo Год назад +1

    How cool is this, watching my fav YT creators interacting with each other is such a awesome way! Love it!

  • @jmatya
    @jmatya Год назад +57

    Ah that last digit burn 🔥. Glad all of you form such a good company and interact with each other, that such topics are always fun to watch and laugh about in a positive way ❤️

    • @TheMartijnh73
      @TheMartijnh73 Год назад

      I totally agree with you here.. that positive note is what we all should follow in my opinion. When I watched Derek mentioning Matt, I felt that as positive feedback and free advertisement immediately. I love watching both streams, Derek for his ways of bringing various messages, and Matt for his awesome way of explaining math as an expert. I'll continue watching both ;)

  • @alanwilson175
    @alanwilson175 Год назад +39

    I congratulate Matt on his sincerity. Errors occur all the time, in science and math, and we just have to recognize them later and correct the mistake.

  • @Abstraxtudio
    @Abstraxtudio Год назад +1

    Even though I never seen your channel and only found this one from Veritasium, I love the friendly rivalry that's going on and can't help but respect it.

  • @jeffreybernath6627
    @jeffreybernath6627 Год назад +21

    The ending with the "correction" for Derek's video was great fun! I lol'd!

  • @JaxsonGalaxy
    @JaxsonGalaxy Год назад +35

    This reaffirms my sneaky suspicion that mathematicians are all petty dorks. I thank you for your service.

  • @callummacalister
    @callummacalister Год назад +29

    "Eventually, everyone in the world will be Reverse-Dereked"
    -Andy Warhol, probably.

  • @kundogb
    @kundogb Год назад +6

    Hahahah, was expecting this video to come and you did not disappoint XD

  • @howkre8ive
    @howkre8ive Год назад

    Mistakes or not, I always enjoy your enthusiasm for maths! Keep it up!

  • @aslemos2009
    @aslemos2009 Год назад +719

    Man, you've fought for that 7. You've scrutinized every pixel of Derek's video, and all you got was that lousy 7. Still, formally speaking, that does even things out. Well done.

    • @stephenkamenar
      @stephenkamenar Год назад +38

      that's as big of a mistake as saying pi = 3.142

    • @aslemos2009
      @aslemos2009 Год назад +24

      @@stephenkamenar Yes, and we will not be silenced!

    • @demoman1596sh
      @demoman1596sh Год назад +56

      @@stephenkamenar Well, not exactly. The mistake of saying pi = 3.142 is orders of magnitude bigger than Derek's mistake. Will I state exactly how many orders of magnitude? No, because then I might be making an even bigger mistake. 😛

    • @varunachar87
      @varunachar87 Год назад +31

      He could've found much more, but maybe he was trying to be nice. Derek, as he increasingly tends to do these days, muddled up a lot of details in his explanation. He gave the right answers, but for poorly communicated reasons. For example, the two copies of 100! that cancel each other out (one in the numerator and the other in the denominator) have very different meanings, which is a subtlety he should have better clarified. And worse, he did the calculation for a loop containing all of the objects, and then nonchalantly stated that the same works for any subset of the objects. Let alone mentioning that it works only for more than half of the total, it is poor communication even to take his edge case calculation and apply it to the interior cases without inspection.

    • @talastra
      @talastra Год назад +8

      Off by one errors can be super disastrous.

  • @jehanr
    @jehanr Год назад +11

    Using the end of a 2nd channel video for a correction on someone else's main channel video is an amazing move.

  • @Paulsinke
    @Paulsinke Год назад +1

    Acknowledging and exploring your own mistakes is the ultimate expression of real scientific virtue, you have shown the depths of your wisdom and converted me to a lifelong fan. Cheers!

  • @vgoj
    @vgoj Год назад

    Been waiting for this anxiously

  • @PinataOblongata
    @PinataOblongata Год назад +21

    Didn't bother clicking Veritasium's video and din't even know you had a second channel, but I clicked THIS video. "OOOH!" I said to myself, "INTERNET MATHS CALL-OUT DRAMA!"
    Little did I realise I would not be able to concentrate on a word that was said due to being faced with one of the coolest-looking shirts I have seen in a while. I bet there's even some maths behind it!

    • @Ditocoaf
      @Ditocoaf Год назад +1

      Yeah, I always wish I knew where Matt gets his shirts.

  • @ohnonomorenames
    @ohnonomorenames Год назад +71

    One Australian respectfully snipped another Australian so the snipped Australian fired back with an equally respectful snip. What is important to remember is that they are both enjoying a lovely summer while there homeland is in the depths of winter (although Australian winters aren't really that bad). It's almost like they are both fine with each others videos and that the reference was nothing more than a back handed complement of the others channel.

    • @ThisMoose
      @ThisMoose Год назад +8

      Technically one is Canadian, but yes

    • @honorarymancunian7433
      @honorarymancunian7433 Год назад +8

      Meh all commonwealth anyway

    • @lawrymccarthy3292
      @lawrymccarthy3292 Год назад +5

      @@ThisMoose But lived in Australia long enough to qualify.

    • @vagga2u14
      @vagga2u14 Год назад +4

      Our winters aren't that bad... *cries in every place I visit on the east coast of Australia getting several hundred millimetres of rain and flooding*

    • @PRCDwtf
      @PRCDwtf Год назад

      Pretty sure Matt is British

  • @Rymunin
    @Rymunin Год назад

    Thanks for putting a smile on my face during the most thursday-like monday i have ever had

  • @Aleblanco1987
    @Aleblanco1987 Год назад

    I love how you all get along very well.

  • @josephpowell6009
    @josephpowell6009 Год назад +12

    me and my 99 homies was about to bust out of the joint with the random method. thank you for correcting that 8 to a 7. dereck was selling us false hope !

  • @lrj3000
    @lrj3000 Год назад +11

    That was way saltier that I ever expected! Waiting for more from this second channel

  • @DreamFreeFPV
    @DreamFreeFPV Год назад

    this whole video is just LOL. i just love the personality you bring to the table...

  • @bluemalamute
    @bluemalamute Год назад +1

    thanks for the laugh and always making it fun. Matt is a great champion for giving it a go--can't win if you don't play/ get anywhere if you don't try--and being diligent too/ learn from the mistakes.

  • @bluetone11
    @bluetone11 Год назад +3

    Both Derek and Matt ( and of course Grant Sanderson + the guys at numberphile etc ) are beacons of mathematical teaching . When watching the video where Derek takes a $10,000 bet ( re: moving faster than the speed of the wind ) , he makes the statement that if he is wrong in his calculations he would want to know why .This is a very good attitude to have . Historically there has always been great rivalry in the field of mathematics . So well done Matt ( and Derek ) for upholding this tradition . Thankyou both for making such brilliant videos .

  • @glassman6191
    @glassman6191 Год назад +8

    Matt, in general I love Derek's videos, but you are the master. Wonderful 'thought I point that out' and 'it all cancels out', 'move on with or lives'. Koala stamp! Well done! Love this!

  • @baerlauchstal
    @baerlauchstal Год назад +11

    Nice one, Matt; just the right tone, if I may say so!
    I also heard Derek as saying the probability of a random perm having a maximal cycle order of r was 1/r, and was struck by the fact that that clearly wasn't what his bar chart showed for r

  • @wiselinden
    @wiselinden Год назад

    Youre Amazing! No one makes me love maths as much as you make me love it.

  •  Год назад +7

    Your approach to science and being humble about it to be highlighted, totally fantastic! New subscriber here at least because we need more people in science open to correction, like you!

  • @donaldasayers
    @donaldasayers Год назад +278

    The trouble with Derekassium is that he is a little bit of a troll. He is often right, but he frames the truth with limited boundary conditions to give people room to argue. His Light lighting up at the end of a very long loop of wire being a case in point, the original video was correct, but framed in a way that invited disagreement.

    • @Pulsar77
      @Pulsar77 Год назад +162

      He loves clickbait, he even admits it. So he says something controversial, which will spark discussion, which gives him more views and an excuse to make a follow-up video. All for that sweet cash. Honestly, I find him more and more annoying.

    • @brittoncooper1251
      @brittoncooper1251 Год назад +77

      Honestly, it's one of the reasons I like his channel. The deep dives other creators make while trying to correct, or confirm, his videos end up providing excellent explanations of otherwise difficult topics and different approaches to problem solving. Plus, it shows in pseudo real-time the way science actually works.

    • @qwertyasdf66
      @qwertyasdf66 Год назад +73

      @@Pulsar77 That's why I unsubbed from him a while ago.

    • @noellesears10
      @noellesears10 Год назад +95

      @@Pulsar77 its annoying if you go into his videos expecting a scientist or a mathematician or a logician. veritasium is a performance intended to reach more people, because being purely scientific is more interesting to fewer people. inviting discussion allows those smaller and more niche youtubers to reach more people through his pop-science channel

    • @skully2212
      @skully2212 Год назад +39

      I don't think he was correct at all and the only way he was able to claim to have been right is to have framed the question as vauge as he could, and then retconned in the actual answer after he was called out for an incorrect video that wasn't even convincing. Knowing that there's a big difference between the amount of power the light gets instantly and after a second, the only way to salvage it is to make assumptions not presented in the original video. Assuming that the light bulb isn't dimmable, which is what most people think of when there's a light bulb in a problem, then he would have been totally wrong.
      Veritasium has always been obnoxious and I've never felt like I've enjoyed learning anything from that channel.

  • @PrimalBeard
    @PrimalBeard Год назад

    Strict definition. I laughed so hard at the end. Great video!

  • @rafael2350
    @rafael2350 Год назад +1

    I'm just amazed by the attention to details on Matt's videos

    • @trigonzobob
      @trigonzobob Год назад

      If he just had the same attention to accuracy :)

  • @jeff__w
    @jeff__w Год назад +32

    3:02 So *Matt* is wearing the identical shirt in his earlier video as in this one. So I surmise that that is his “100 prisoners problem” shirt. (He’s not like Tom Scott, is he?)

    • @lolzold4
      @lolzold4 Год назад +4

      Nice spot!

    • @jeff__w
      @jeff__w Год назад +1

      @@lolzold4 Thanks!

  • @TheOriginalJAX
    @TheOriginalJAX Год назад +5

    I watched the first 6 minutes of the video then went to bed and came back to it after getting back up, Glad I watched the very end bit. Most important bit of all I do approve good Professor. I do agree this should be about lets say keeping score so once again good job.

  • @yahccs1
    @yahccs1 Год назад +1

    Very good response to a video-response to your previous video.
    It's nice you managed to fit in some humour at the end! I saw Veritasium's video the other day too.
    I think reaction videos to other people's videos seem to come up more (on the suggested video list) as if they are more click-baity than usual! Maybe because we all like errors to be spotted... but are not so keen on having our own errors pointed out!
    Hopefully no one will expose someone else's errors in public in an embarrassing or humiliating way. It seems so many science/maths communicators on RUclips all know each other so are all friends and sometimes friendly rivals!

  • @martinmonath9541
    @martinmonath9541 Год назад +1

    So hilarious at the end. Still have tears in my eyes 🤣

  • @jesseparrish1993
    @jesseparrish1993 Год назад +17

    I do hope that Derek learns from this and is more cautious in the future. I'm lucky my daughter wasn't with me when that 8 came on screen but other parents may not be so lucky.

  • @philipbyrnes7501
    @philipbyrnes7501 Год назад +4

    Good onya Matt, I’m proud to be represented by two great Aussies like you and Derrick lol. Been watching you both for a few years now and am so grateful that you’ve both become the men of science that you have and for the great teaches you both are. Thanks mate, a very enjoyable rebuttal ,’)

  • @johnmc67
    @johnmc67 Год назад

    Always good to see creators keeping it classy.

    • @johnmc67
      @johnmc67 Год назад

      And I’ll pass on the LCS.

  • @rishbhardwaj1431
    @rishbhardwaj1431 Год назад

    Well done! Now that's how one takes an embarrassing situation, owns up to it, and comes back with something funny to say. Wholesome!

  • @davidwood8730
    @davidwood8730 Год назад +154

    Derek gets "dereked" a lot. His video on sailing faster that the wind and his one on the propagation of electricity in a wire got a lot of responses

    • @timbeaton5045
      @timbeaton5045 Год назад +6

      Not to mention the flurry of videos around Dirk (of Veriistablium* fame) and his video explaining the Poynting Vector.
      *Acknowledgments to CGP and Brady and their H.I. podcasts

    • @GamezGuru1
      @GamezGuru1 Год назад +66

      except there was nothing wrong with the sailing video, people just couldn't accept it...

    • @jemandanderes7075
      @jemandanderes7075 Год назад +20

      Isn't getting dereked when you are in the process of creating a video but someone (often times Derek) gets a video on the same topic out earlier, so you make your original video and in that point out a little mistake?

    • @zzzyyyxxx
      @zzzyyyxxx Год назад +14

      Yet he was correct in every one of them, even doing thorough experiments to show those that didn't accept them that he was indeed right.

    • @Vexas345
      @Vexas345 Год назад +18

      @@GamezGuru1 Nothing wrong with the electricity one either but EEs are still raging mad about it lol

  • @wallywutsizface6346
    @wallywutsizface6346 Год назад +8

    I understood the problem from your video, but Derek definitely answered a satisfying question. The ultimate question of the problem is “how many scramblings result in their being no loops longer than 50”? Your video was sort of hand-wavy and just said we brute forced the answer with computers, whereas Derek explained how you could figure it out on just a whiteboard. Not that I don’t love both your videos, but I appreciated that aspect of his video

  • @dmerrill85m
    @dmerrill85m Год назад

    I can't wait for the rebuttal video!

  • @dedkeny
    @dedkeny Год назад

    The last minute of the video is gold!

  • @henrygreen2096
    @henrygreen2096 Год назад +16

    That’s one of the reasons I went for STEM. It’s collaborative and I, myself, or other colleagues will help fix or catch mistakes in the overall goal of finding a solution.
    Great video as always Matt.

    • @alisioardiona727
      @alisioardiona727 Год назад +2

      Make sure you're the last the spot a mistake to flex your intelect.

  • @bartjennings
    @bartjennings Год назад +8

    I think we all know that ACTUALLY, Matt here has been being Parker-Dereked

  • @Brunoenribeiro
    @Brunoenribeiro Год назад +2

    The guy is smart, funny, AND humble. You're awesome Matt

  • @Noxictyz
    @Noxictyz Год назад

    Love your stuff Matt

  • @lukaleroux479
    @lukaleroux479 Год назад +15

    I don't know why, but the bit about first digit after those 30 zeros being a 7 and not an 8, even though it does round to 8, gave me a genuine laugh. Has been ages since I had one it feels. I'm still laughing even ad I write this and I'm not sure why xD

    • @Mosethyoth
      @Mosethyoth Год назад

      For me it's that this number is unperceivably small. The smallest correction I've ever heard of. 1.114E−32 to be precise.
      It get's very close to the smallest physically reasonable unit of length we have which is the Planck length which is 1.6E-35 meters.
      (apparently attempting to measure any shorter distance would create a black hole)

  • @nekogod
    @nekogod Год назад +5

    I like that you (I'm certain it's deliberate) are wearing the same shirt in both videos!

  • @jmac8929
    @jmac8929 Год назад

    Thanks for the chuckle

  • @excluseive9769
    @excluseive9769 Год назад

    This was just so fun to watch!

  • @petermoore9504
    @petermoore9504 Год назад +386

    Hi Matt, here's a quick idea for you. Emma Raducanu has been incorrectly stated as being 5' 7" when she is 1.75m tall ie 5.7 feet (5'9"). This is on the WTA website and was shown on the BBC Wimbledon coverage. Is it time to go metric completely?

    • @guest_informant
      @guest_informant Год назад +14

      This is brilliant I hope Matt sees it.

    • @xpqr12345
      @xpqr12345 Год назад +66

      Regarding going metric: YES! It has been time to do that for decades!

    • @guest_informant
      @guest_informant Год назад +32

      What happens to players who are 5' 11". Are they converted to 5.11 ft (5' 1" - rounded) :-)
      PS Going metric completely. Metric time and the French Revolution is worth reading about.

    • @petermoore9504
      @petermoore9504 Год назад +20

      It's not just the WTA, Barney Ronay wrote an article for the Guardian on 29th June 2022 where he states Emma has a disadvantage at 5'7". Perpetuating the error.

    • @baksatibi
      @baksatibi Год назад +24

      Regarding going metric, imperial unit countries could adopt the SI prefixes without completely giving up on the imperial units. Just pick one unit for each dimension (length, mass, volume, etc.) and start using the SI prefixes with it. For example you can have nanofeet, microfeet, millifeet, centifeet, decifeet, feet, decafeet, hectofeet, kilofeet, megafeet, etc. This would have the advantage that citizens don't have to suddenly get used to units they rarely (if ever) used in their lives, but gets rid of the non-decimal unit conversions which is probably the source of most errors when using imperial units. This also makes it easier to transition to the metric units because then only one conversion factor is needed per dimension.

  • @PuchMaxi
    @PuchMaxi Год назад +10

    Good thing you kept the shirt, for continuity and all. Love the M.C. Escher artwork on your wall.

  • @RickSjoerds
    @RickSjoerds Год назад

    Haha. Loved it! Stylish answer! Suits you!
    I like it when channels I follow pop-up with some things/(re-)directs from some other channels I follow.

  • @stefanbalauca7481
    @stefanbalauca7481 Год назад

    Brilliant video, especially the final :)))

  • @MC---
    @MC--- Год назад +52

    That is so funny that you science communicators have a term for whenever Derek beats you out to posting a video or now reverse-dereked.
    Reverse-Dereked has lead me to finding some really great channels. I don't know why RUclips hasn't thrown your videos in my feed sooner.
    I found Nick Lucid's Science Asylum because of the whole misconceptions of electricity saga. This also lead me to Medhi's Electroboom and then Steven Mould
    I found Dr Becky channel through a similar thing with the release of the images of the Black Hole at the center of our galaxy.
    Its almost as if RUclips's algorithm should have a Derek filter.

    • @DehimVerveen
      @DehimVerveen Год назад +11

      Have you found AlphaPhoenix as well? It's a great channel, I highly recommend it!

    • @triffid0hunter
      @triffid0hunter Год назад

      Also check Tech Ingredients and Applied Science for more practical science/engineering content ;)

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin Год назад

      @@triffid0hunter
      Practical Engineer is really good, from a civil engineer perspective. I legit learn things watching his channel, and his more recent (and relatively new to his channel) current events videos have been fascinating.

  • @jasertio
    @jasertio Год назад +5

    Derek got Parker-Squared

  • @yank5429
    @yank5429 Год назад

    A masterful nugget of cavillous face-saving (and cocooned in such a considerate chiffon!) there at the close, Matt. Derek is incomparably fortunate to have such a punctilious friend and admirer.

  • @johnduncan5117
    @johnduncan5117 Год назад

    Love the equalising move at the end.

  • @boas_
    @boas_ Год назад +10

    Yeah I also spotted that mistake because I was following along doing all the calculations

  • @transcendentape
    @transcendentape Год назад +11

    I always like seeing new videos from Dirk of Veratablium.

    • @jmacd8817
      @jmacd8817 Год назад +2

      It's "VeriSTABlium" 😉😇
      Anyhow, hi "fellow Tim"!

    • @Wordsnwood
      @Wordsnwood Год назад +2

      Take your upvote, Tim... ;-)

    • @Anna-ip8ub
      @Anna-ip8ub Год назад +2

      I miss the Timfoolery

    • @timbeaton5045
      @timbeaton5045 Год назад +1

      @@jmacd8817 Hi back, to you! And I'm a bassist, too.

  • @nathan_aus
    @nathan_aus Год назад

    Great video and the last minute was gold. 🤣

  • @thequixoticman
    @thequixoticman Год назад

    I cannot express how much joy the ending of this video brought me.

  • @JosephParker_Nottheboxer
    @JosephParker_Nottheboxer Год назад +3

    I'm laughing so much at this, but this seems to be the classic arguement of pedantics and somantics. you're both far smarter than me, heck I think Steve Mould is too. but well done in owning your minor error and explaining it, love it and love yout stuff.
    On a Side note I might need another copy of Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimention, I've lent it out to a few teachers and it's getting well dog-eared and used.

  • @petersall1055
    @petersall1055 Год назад +4

    replace "dereked" with "cucked" and it still makes sense

  • @buddgaf1304
    @buddgaf1304 Год назад

    The end of this one gave me a good laugh. Thanks.

  • @GoldenMinotaur
    @GoldenMinotaur Год назад

    Haha, well handled. Subbed on both your channels now instead of a suggested only viewer

  • @Yupppi
    @Yupppi Год назад +21

    There's something cool about being reverse-dereked, like your face pops on his channel "this guy was so ahead and interesting that I had to make a video about his thing. There's a little catch to it when I pondered about it". Also probably great continuation to the saga of reaching higher RUclips numbers. Also you got to point out a mistake in it, now you're set to launch a chain of videos like Mehdi vs Derek or Mehdi vs Steve Mould or Mehdi vs the world.

  • @MayorMcC666
    @MayorMcC666 Год назад +3

    DEREK OWNED BY MATHS AND LOGIC

  • @Somerandomdude-ev2uh
    @Somerandomdude-ev2uh Год назад

    I think we can all hope for a series of videos with more and more pedantic corrections between these two

  • @BrianBuckeye
    @BrianBuckeye Год назад +1

    The flying eagle screaming Parker's square made me laugh out loud!

  • @afrayed
    @afrayed Год назад +5

    Where is your shirt from Matt? It’s awesome!

  • @qzbnyv
    @qzbnyv Год назад +13

    I just like to imagine Dirk searching through your videos for comments where you’ve been corrected by someone on a point in material way, which then gets turned into the next Veritasium video.

    • @diggoran
      @diggoran Год назад

      HI 👋
      That does seem like something that Dirk from Veristablium would do…

    • @qzbnyv
      @qzbnyv Год назад

      @@diggoran If you sign yourself up to the OpenAI beta, you can use their Playground to have the GPT3 algorithm list a stack of Dirk from Veristablium variations. Just give it a few you knew in a list, but also include “Dr”, “Derek”, “Muller” and “Dirk” in the restricted words list so that it doesn’t start giving you a bunch of repeats that don’t match the pattern.

  • @edumathv
    @edumathv Год назад

    This is just AWESOME!

  • @Astarothpool17
    @Astarothpool17 Год назад +1

    Last digit making all things equal...
    So petty and very funny. Good job loved it lol

  • @LeoStaley
    @LeoStaley Год назад +22

    On brand. I love it. I also love that he's wearing the same shirt as when he got Dereked.
    Edit: wait, there's no... Video. RUclips is confused. It just keeps trying to buffer, but can't play video.
    edit 3, OK nevermind. It was RUclips being dumb.

    • @nk4j272
      @nk4j272 Год назад +1

      Yeah, the video has behaving strange for me, but I managed to watch it
      Edit: just a coincidence, I think the RUclips app bugged.

    • @mattparker2
      @mattparker2  Год назад +7

      I've not touched it. Must be RUclips still caching it etc.

    • @0v_x0
      @0v_x0 Год назад +1

      I get a lot of buffering and codec rendering issues on the Android app, pausing and minimizing tends to do the trick, at least if the video is all artifacted right after an ad (it's always an ad that breaks the codec into smeary rainbow pixels). I have issues maintaining wifi connection from upstairs sometimes, but RUclips is losing connection and coming back online waaay more often than I have issues with in other apps. It's just not very stable. Google seems to keep "fixing" things that weren't broken.

  • @_CJ_
    @_CJ_ Год назад +7

    :D you have won :) Just kidding - I would love to see more videos about showing how important is to fix or let others to fix mistakes and how important is to go with that and don't get stuck on wrong solution because of ego. Thank you for fun :)

  • @lettersnstuff
    @lettersnstuff 6 месяцев назад

    I appreciate your and Steve Mould’a chemistry

  • @benzymatic
    @benzymatic Год назад

    Dying laughing at the correction to Derek's video at the end. 😆

  • @eashanshenai4980
    @eashanshenai4980 Год назад +5

    Refresh the page guys, the audio is there.

  • @Aciek25
    @Aciek25 Год назад +5

    I remember watching full footage of matt playing dice and calculating some coprime numbers. And I spotted a mistake in it. I wrote a comment with that mistake, tagged it and checked if anyone else has found it earlier.
    And Matt hasn't tagged me in a correction:(
    Edit. With Matt I can watch tee getting cold and I find it interesting.

    • @dmuntz
      @dmuntz Год назад +5

      I'm reporting that Matt failing to tag you in a correction needs correcting, and therefore I expect to be tagged in a correction. I await my reward.

  • @Alec0124
    @Alec0124 Год назад

    Hey Matt, watching this 21 days later. Surprised I haven't found your channels before, your personality and integrity seem to really come through here. Subbing so I can hear more from you :)

  • @KimHarderFog
    @KimHarderFog Год назад

    Love the Parker Square appearance at 4:47 :D