Zach Star

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(This channel used to be called MajorPrep, changed as of January 8th, 2020). I make nerdy and occasionally funny videos. For business inquiries: ZachStarYT@g...

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The algorithm from The Social Network

How do we know....(these random things) - Earth & Space Edition

The guy who invented mathematical logic

The guy who invented quantum physics

How do we know...(these random things)

What is cosine similarity (and its applications)

Responding to comments on my flat earth video

When you ask the internet any math question

How to compress an image with (basic) linear algebra

The first engineer (well, not really)

The math that proves the Earth isn't flat

How big is 1 billion

When your friend asks you to engineer the Matrix

Probability is just...really weird

Just 3 questionspuzzles that seem obvious but aren't

The History of Engineering (in exactly 20 minutes)

When Isaac Newton discovers gravity (and everything else)

Probably the weirdest function I encountered as an engineering student

How I wish logistic growth was taught to me in Calc 2

The intuition behind the Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem

Why following your compass will (almost) always lead you to the North or South Pole Math of Maps

When you're an engineer in the Star Wars Universe

Why do Electrical Engineers use imaginary numbers in circuit analysis

The scariest thing you learn in Electrical Engineering The Smith Chart

When you're an engineer for the Titan submersible

Ranking all 22 engineering classes I took in college

Each point is connected to its closest neighbor, how many connections can a single point have (max)

Why shadows (almost) always trace out hyperbolas (but it depends on where you live).

What are the odds that 3 'random' points on a sphere will form an acute triangle

Engineering jobs in the future (probably) be like...