Hello everyone! In an email chain about my last blog post, a list of software i recommend, I shared a list of YouTube channels I like watching. I thought I’d list the channels publicly here! They’re sorted in descending order of recommendation, weighted inversely by popularity.

suckerpinch: He makes silly but incredibly technically impressive computer projects. I’m always surprised about how much effort goes into his videos! I personally like his videos Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need (I love weird machines) and Rupert’s Snub Cube and other Math Holes (I too have fallen into many math holes). He’s also very funny.
Richard Behiel: He animates and narrates physics lectures aimed at a college level audience. It’s hard to find high quality long-form physics videos on quantum mechanics that’ll provide more than a hand wavey overview. My favorite videos on his channel have him derive the Dirac equation, interpret electromagnetism as a gauge theory, and introduce spinors. He’s currently doing a series on the strong nuclear force, but I haven’t had the time to watch it, so I can’t personally vouch for it.
2swap: An up-and-coming math 3Blue1Brown style YouTuber. His animation, sound design, and topic selection are incredible! I really like Adventures in State Space (the visualization of the state graphs are so satisfying) and What is PLUS times PLUS? (it introduced me to Tromp diagrams).
AlphaPhoenix: Physics youtuber. He has lots of videos that’ll test your mental model of electricity! His video, An intuitive approach for understanding electricity, was really fascinating to me.
eigenchris: His series, Spinors for Beginners, was useful supplementary material during my abstract algebra course, mostly because I struggled to find other applications of that knowledge.
3Blue1Brown: Of course!
Robert Miles
Welch Labs
Rational Animations