Storytime & Reading Comments | Two Minute Papers

Dear fellow scholars, this is Two Minute Papers with We have reached a lot of milestones lately. For instance, we now have over 1 million views on the channel in the next few days. We're also hoping to hit 10,000 subscribers. To put it in perspective, in 2015, August 20, we have had a 250 subscriber special episode where my mind was pretty much blown. That was about nine months ago. Whoa. For the record, here's an image that supposedly contains 10,000 people. Just imagine that they all have doctoral hats and you immediately have a mental image of 10,000 of our fellow scholars. It's insanity and I must say that I am completely blown away by your loyal support. Thanks so much for everyone for the many kind messages, comments and emails of which I'll read quite a few in a second. It just boggles the mind to see that so many people are interested in learning more about awesome new research inventions. And I hope that it is as addictive to you as it was for me when I first got to see some of these results. A huge thank you also to our generous supporters on Patreon. I find it really amazing that we have quite a few fellow scholars out there who love the series so much that they are willing to financially help our cause. Just think about it. Especially given the fact that it's not easy to make ends meet these days. I know this all too well. Being a full time researcher doing two minute papers and having a baby is extremely taxing. But I love it. I really do. And I know there are people who have it way worse. And here we have these fellow scholars who believe in this cause and are willing to help out. Thanks so much for each one of you. I'm honored to have loyal supporters like you. We are more than halfway there towards our first milestone on Patreon, which means that our hardware and software costs can be completely covered with your help. As you know, we have really cool perks for our patrons. One of these perks is that, for instance, our professors can decide the order of the next episodes and I was really surprised to see that this episode won by a record number of points. Looks like you fellow scholars are really yearning for some story time. So let's bring it on. The focus of Two Minute Papers has always been what a work is about and why it is important. It has always been more about intuition than specific details. That is the most important reason why two Minute Papers exist. But this sounds a bit cryptic, so let me explain myself. Most materials on any scientific topic on YouTube are about details. When this big deep learning rage started and it was quite fresh. I wanted to find out what deep learning was. I haven't found a single video that was not at least 30 to 90 minutes long and all of them talked about partial derivatives and the chain rule, but never explained what we are exactly doing and why we are doing it. It took me four days to get a good grasp, a good high level intuition of what is going on. I would have loved to have a resource that explains this four days worth of research work in just two minutes in a way that anyone can understand anyone. I haven't found anything and this was just one example of many Gandhi said be the change that you wish to see in the world and this is how two Minute Papers was born. It has never been about the details, it has always been about intuition. I think this particular comment is amazing and sums it up really well. These videos are amazing. Just the right amount of information to make you want to learn more, but enough to get a decent overview of the subject. This is exactly what Two Minute Papers is about. Get people excited about research, leave some room for exploration and make sure the resources to do so are given in the video description box. I wanted to showcase this one comment, but I started looking through some more and I just can't stop. I hope you'll be as delighted to hear them as I am. Thank you for continuing to make these videos for right now. I'm a student just starting to study to become a data scientist and your videos inspire me and make me excited about the future. Keep up the good work Quinn. I hope that these works inspire you to be just as great as the incredible researchers behind these works. If you look at the end of this comment, it what's so great about your content is that you strike the perfect balance of curation and information. I've seen 30 minute videos that taught me less than your short thingies. Thanks so much for the comment and nice name by the way. This has slowly but steadily become my favorite YouTube channel. Mhm. Thank you. I'm very happy to have you around. Better explained than my professor at the university in one and a half hours. Thanks. Please don't tell this to your professor. Thank you. I'm subscribed to over a hundred channels, but I look forward to your videos the most by far. Thank you for the great content. Wow. Your videos really inspire me and keep me curious about science and technology. I'm super interested in machine learning, neural networks, and artificial general intelligence. These breakthroughs in the field you share with us from week to week makes me feel that a new era is coming and I want to be a part of it. Thank you for inspiring young minds. I couldn't agree more. There are indeed so many works to be excited for. I really have a hard time containing my excitement. I don't know how you pump out so many great videos so quickly. Truly impressive. In fact, I'd like to do a whole lot more and hopefully this will be possible by doing it full time in the future. That would be really amazing. Here's a message from someone who just blazed through the entire series in one go. I hope one day we'll have so many episodes that it will be a serious life hazard to do so. Your channel is very inspiring. Now I can't think of anything else than to work on science or engineering. I hope these works will inspire you to greatness. And please make sure to write to me about all the amazing stuff you created so I can have a look. I think this one was shown to me in a forum topic about light transport. It seems to be written by a former student of one of my courses in Vienna in Incognito. Hey there and thanks for the kind words. Sometimes even the authors of the paper show up themselves and fortunately so far not to tell me how much I've butchered their work. Some of my heroes at IDE Software are also watching two Minute Papers and the new Doom game was also shipped on time. Peter Arvay is the CEO of Prezi and is also one of my all time heroes. In my humble opinion he is about as good of a CEO as any company could hope for. There are so many more kind messages that I have in my mailbox. Thanks so much everyone. Really appreciate it. I really feel like we are just starting out and we're taking the first few steps of a wonderful journey. Let's keep celebrating science together and remember, research is not only for experts, it is for everyone. Thanks for watching and for your generous support and I'll see you next time.