Q&A, Advice, and Other Rants

[@carykh]

It's nice to see Particle Life in the background, I always thought it was a nice screensaver-esque simulation! I also really like the idea of using a KZbin channel as motivation to turn old side projects into video opportunities, because I find myself wanting to do that too. EDIT: I did not realize i was COFFED AT at 3:21!!!!! 😠😠😠 >:(

[@BomberTVx]

Lol, so cool to see 2 intelligent beings talk to each other

[@imagine4191]

Bomber TV ur an intelligent being

[@technobabble7702]

*cough cough* notice me senpai

[@BomberTVx]

@@imagine4191 well thank you, don't know how you did know that, but you are right!!! lol

[@BomberTVx]

@@technobabble7702 what's the point of commenting in the first place? to let my opinion being noticed by the content creator for feedback, or by the community for whatever reason, so yeah... notice me please, otherwise I would not have commented and kept my opinion for myself, not so good, since my opinion is the best and shuld for that reason be shared lul

[@user-vx1wt4hb5l]

For a spare time hobby you are doing pretty damn well

[@ohno5559]

I'm eager to watch this awesome channel continue to explode. The algorithm isn't all bad.

[@elitrem1843]

May the youtube algorithm be with you young one.

[@kylaxial]

yes, may the algorithim be with            you

[@therealchromify]

A KZbinr that doesn't have his head up his ass. What a time to live in. Honestly you're so down to Earth I forgot what it was like not having a KZbinr tell you to "smash that like button and subscribe".

[@animalibera4326]

Your channel is on the short list of channels which make me feel truly happy when uploading a new video ^^ Programming cool stuff is the best hobby ever, i have no requests but to stay alive and uploading things time to time :) A fan

[@ersatzludusium]

Im a current transfer student at UCB, and while I'm not an eecs or cs major, I still have to code for my major. Ive never coded before college and hearing your background is a definite inspiration to get better at coding.

[@AstroFerko]

CMPSC is so exciting! I am learning about MCMC right now in my computational astrophysics class at PSU and there's still so much left to learn! Your channel is an inspiration to fledgling coders like myself.

[@zokalyx]

Dude I love how down to earth you are. No lies/fake stuff and when you want to hide something you actually say why. Also respect++ for the monetization thing haha

[@EthanCGamer]

Thanks for the video Mr. Parade! It's been quite the ride from 1k to nearly 100k, keep it up!

[@natep2794]

Your neural composer project was my favorite so far, and it's by far the best that I've seen that uses a learning algorithm to generate music. I was thinking that you could probably do the same thing with 2d game tiles to help speed up the process of making art for games as well. Your content is awesome and inspiring keep it up! I look forward to see what you've been working on.

[@Ludifant]

I like your channel a lot. It inspires me to do similar things (a lot worse usually), but I learn a lot each time and sometimes I wander of in directions that I find interesting. I used particle life to paint pictures by creating trailing paint, for instance. Image generation is kind of my thing. Nothing worth publishing ( I do have my own channel, but somehow it got to be about optical illusions) so far, but I thought you might like to know you inspire people.

[@Dezomm]

Hey, I just wanted to say I really appreciate your channel. Please keep doing your own thing!

[@elle3562]

I just wanted to say thanks, the section talking about your education was really motivating/encouraging to me. I'm technically still a high school senior and I'd like to think I've done pretty well academically; by the time I graduate I'd effectively be a junior in whatever university I go to if they take my credits, and I'm valedictorian and I've got pretty good extracurriculars, but this is also in an area known for being terrible education-wise. This might sort of give away where I am, but my town was found by some study to be the least educated city in America for a couple years while I was still going through its public school district. Even Saturday Night Live joked about us a couple years back ("wait until they don't read about this"). Now I'm at a better program that isn't involved with the horrible public school district here, but it's still in the area, and I've been wondering for a while if I'd be doing anywhere near as well if I lived somewhere else where education was actually valued and taken more seriously. Then about a month ago I learned that I got rejected from a state school that was my safe pick, so I doubt I'll get into my long-shot colleges, and I'm probably looking at one of the... less than good state schools for Computer Science that still had their applications open after I heard back from the first university. I'd try to tranfer to a better school for my graduate studies, but I keep feeling like if I'm not good enough for what my friends/professors and I thought would be a safe bet, then why would a good university take me later when the only thing that's changed is that I've gotten more credit hours and a bachelor's degree from a place that's not much better than where I am now, at least within my major. I keep feeling like my academic and career plans are pretty much shot. But to hear that you started out at a community college and tranferred to UC-B really gave me a lot of hope; I doubt I'm as smart as you, but maybe tranferring to a better university later on is more likely than I think, and I won't really know how things will turn out until later, so I probably shouldn't worry about them so much now. That was a lot of background and lead up to a pretty short conclusion, but what the hell, I still have an hour to kill until class and I haven't really talked seriously about my worries with anyone so it's kind of nice to write them down somewhere where chances are few people will read them, but I can still act like I'm talking to someone without feeling wierd. Well, as wierd; it definitely feels strange now. Anyways, if you do end up reading this, thanks again, and just know that you seem like a really cool person and I hope you continue to do well for yourself.

[@CodeParade]

Thanks! I hope your college plans work out!

[@giannakisxatzigiannis1394]

Thank you! Your words on education are inspiring for younger people looking to study computer science in the future.

[@melcalc]

It's great to see a relatively small channel devoted to captivating coding projects expand. The algorithm is doing relatively well, at least for me.

[@thomasjarvis7262]

Respect for you. In my opinion, you have _the_ coolest tech channel on KZbin. And this video answered exactly the questions I was interested in.

[@AndrewKosmic]

your videos are really cool dude keep it up

[@twixerclawford]

While you may really did not like the angel puzzle video, that was how I personally found your channel, and I don't think I could've found your channel if not through that video. While it wasn't the best of your videos, it was enough to lead me to watching your other videos and then become a subscriber! There's always a good side to negative seeming problems :P

[@louisdurand4567]

I happen to recognize myself in many of your traits! I also learnt programming from TI calculators, I made a lot of programs for TI89 and Nspire that I shared on the web, which pushed me to finish my projects to make them useful. More specifically, I also have this tendency of wanting to keep projects "secrets" until I'm convinced it will work, or that I will be able to finish. Anyway, great content and good luck!

[@steveb12]

really appreciate this type of content once every while.

[@drevolan]

I've always been really interested in having my own KZbin channel ever since I started using it back in 2006. I have never thought myself to be interesting enough for it, but you've honestly been an inspiration to actuallz think otherwise. I've done a couple of projects over the years now but they just get lost in my Github account left in obscurity. The more I watch your videos the more I'd like to just start off just producing showing some of the projects. I'll start mustering up some ideas and see if I can get to produce a video over the summer break once the semester's not so crazy. Thanks for taking the time to create these videos :)

[@nop7695]

Great video my dude, thanks for answering. As something else, how do you manage to find ideas? What's your tought process and workflow for materializing an idea (as in where do you start)? How about a full list of languages you know? I too use your neural composer a lot, it's really good! Keep it up

[@jackdan1799]

Я был бы счастлив, если бы ты выпускал полезные видео чаще. Желательно практику, объясняя своими словами. Мне нравится твой канал(I like your channel). Thank you very much. I'm waiting for new videos.

[@JakeFace0]

Here's something I really want to see: Take a generative neural network an mess around with the weights and see what it does to the outputs. There was that video where someone took a face generating network and slowly deactivated one neuron after another. It was really interesting and emotional seeing this person decay and fade away. It'd be interesting to see what happens to the image (or song) as you mess with the neurons by, for example: increasing the weights on some of the neurons, at the start of the network, at the end of the network, or at random, inverting some weights, translating some weights up or down by a constant amount. I just wanna see what these networks look like when they start to break down

[@zhatar4214]

I love your channel so much, thanks for existing

[@oliviafortnite]

Great video mr.parade

[@ShizL]

This really inspires me to not give up coding.

[@liampeterson8299]

I subscribed because this channel is Amazing! I've always been interested in coding and engineering and i always love to see your projects and the process, so, keep up the good work :D

[@kizz4life]

Wow! I have the exact same story. Got interested into programming because of moding and startet with vb6, god knows why. Got my bachelors in CS and now work in IT. :)

[@Veptis]

Hey, this video was very informative - thank you. Have you ever considered to use your particle life to simulate biology in 3D? I can see organism and cells forming, even hints of multiple cells and splitting of cells. If you add some small mechanics to convert particles into others you might get further. So EE and CS is exactly the course I am planning to do, but I kind of don't want to start university directly after finishing 13 years of school in June his year. Between I would love to get a 6-9 months internship in either documentary filmmaking or something with thermal cameras, but all research projects I looked at only offer internship to students who already spent a year or two in university. So I am yet undecided what to do. A few years back I tried to code but stopped after the progression of maybe doing a console script with very basic logic and maths. I would love to do image processing and come up with new ideas for MFSR and SISR. Machine learning is crazy and I followed a few projects on most of he channels you named, how ever I don't have any experience myself but will look through the resources you shared. Is there any beginner friendly platform where you can just chose from different neural network models and edit a few values as well as accessing training data libraries from a catalog. Someone mentioned to me that Matlab might be a starting point as it still gives you full access to all the code. My current next step is to learn some python as most available neural networks I have seen in those projects used python projects as base. I am looking forward to seeing some of your starter projects.

[@TheRainHarvester]

MrVipitis , you might like this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2fFeaOAZ6yJZrs

[@mrnarason]

Have a math/physics background and you and other channels like this makes me really want to be good at coding/machine learning

[@elianagriffith9510]

Thank you for introducing me to Skypex. His music is amazing.

[@skypex5255]

[@alegz]

keep it up dude, your content is great!

[@Kenlimepie]

Could you consider reworking Marble Marcher to have AI marbles? I feel like the individual time challenge is good, but I think playing with other marbles makes it feel more like a marble race.

[@butteredcoffee4210]

idk man seems like a huge challenge for somebody working on this on the side

[@FBDSG]

The particle life background is much nicer to watch than your usual animated avatar. Please use it more!

[@zacksargent]

I would love to see some of your beginning programs!

[@jtn191]

Have you thought of revising the neural composer? I think removing the drum channel from the MIDI, using "transformers", maybe transposing all the data into the same key might produce better results. I'm really interested in that project!

[@-nathun8507]

I’m currently learning C++ with learncpp . com as my first language It’s going quite well so far!

[@laureeeeeeeeeeeeeeen]

Great video. Thanks for the answers!

[@kkckier8693]

your videos are pretty cool, hope you make more!

[@TheRainHarvester]

kkckier the second , you might like this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2fFeaOAZ6yJZrs

[@Spacecore2]

Cool video, also I like the background thingy.

[@lil-rose]

I love your channel, I am a student of computing and information engineering and I want to get inside the IA world, because I found it very interesting and also I like a lot mathematics and statistics, and your videos are specially inspiring for me. I just wanted to say, please keep going your work, and thanks for inspiring me to learn by myself and make my own projects c: if I make an interesting project can I share it with you?

[@smeshdoggo1954]

"great personal resume" I'd like to see code bullet link his KZbin channel in his resume

[@redwoodenjoyer]

Going into sophomore high school right now, near Berkeley. I really enjoy the math behind games etc, less interested into sciences other than CS. I make alot of programs related to math concepts, but a little elementary because they're just done with GL and SFML (Julia set generations etc). Not fully sure if I should go into Computer Science or a finance / marketing field. I dont expect much advice wise about finance because you probably dont have experience with the field, but any tips on which path would be better from your experience from CS? Is it possible to do both?

[@Noromdiputs]

Pycharm is a pretty good tool for python development. Mypy can help too as the project gets bigger. I've used notepad++ myself for a lot of smaller projects though.

[@px64]

/your channel is a Gem!!. Glad I found this!!.

[@zachp7725]

Project idea: you feed it part of a song and it tries to guess what will come next

[@jamesheasman1594]

Very nice, I'm 13 currently, I watch Hopson, Carykh, and CodeBullet. And I have a good history of GameMaker. Now I'm learning Java. Btw your content is very inspiring!

[@butteredcoffee4210]

Java I cool, but C# is kinda the new and big thing now, It’s very similar to java, I would suggest it for you. Good luck!

[@jamesheasman1594]

@@butteredcoffee4210 I have already looked at C# and know how to make games with it, I just like the libraries for java and sort of how it works. Thanks for this though, I've tried learning Mono Game, .NET Framework and the XNA Game Framework. None of which I like very much. But that's just personal preference.

[@nathanaelpage]

This is how I got a job as a programmer. Keep up the good work!

[@trust852]

@@nathanaelpage I want to learn to code but I get very discouraged as I don't really know what to code and I don't really know what language to start on and is learning from a coding book a good way to code?

[@TerragonDE]

Hehe, i had a very similar problem with "using Arrays" and made endless code instead :D This video sounds a bit like my history, only difference is that i dont work in tech industry and make everything as a hobby ^.^

[@cmdlp4178]

I made a game in VisualBasic(classic VB 5) some years ago, I got OpenGL to work in VisualBasic. Currently I am programming a game in C++. But I only uploaded a small gameplay of my old game to KZbin.

[@neromule]

I like doing my own computer science projects too, and it's always a struggle to finish them, so your video really motivates me to do videos about it, I think it's a really cool idea. At the moment, I'm trying to train a GAN to generate MTG cards, it doesn't work yet but maybe someday there will be a youtube video about it. I would be in french tho, so you probably won't be able to understand it.

[@CodeParade]

I'd still watch it with CC :)

[@JamesSmith-rb5lv]

What about a KZbin channel name generator? It would be neat if you could also find the difference between small and large channel names.

[@GigsTaggart]

If you are a youtuber for a living you have to think about your place. You aren't KZbin's customer. You are their product. You become the product of a company you have no say in running. That is the major reason making a living based on any company's platform is a major folly. Some of these guys that have enough patreon and fanbase that may follow them to other platforms or even their own web site will probably be OK. But for the majority of them, their relevance ends as soon as a company completely out of their control decides to stop carrying them as a product.

[@KRABPXL]

Eyy Cary and bullet :D

[@DylanMatthewTurner]

I can't believe someone else started making games with GameMaker and then TI Basic just like me. And then moved on to C++. Wow

[@tempname8263]

Principles that you are following when managing this channel are partially similar to ones I've made for my own future channel, which I planned a long time ago, and which may never see the light, unless I fix that lazy-dreamy attitude of mine. So, thank you for inspiring me a little by making yourself a living example. I am not going to be doing coding there, though. I'll be doing what bores both me and, as I now know, you, - tutorials. Or more precisely, lessons on science and every other subject expressed as 3d animations with accurate physics and alternative point of viewing our reality. Now, you want to know why the angel problem video got so many views? Probably tags you've used were considered by KZbin as something that general population would be interested in. Almost everyone knows what an angel is, right? Yet not everyone is aware of what fractals are. Plus, these tags are thematically far apart, and KZbin hates giving people variety. But that's all just my speculation, you know? Another hypothesis I have: thumbnail is just intriguing. It is easy on your eyes and shapes are clearly defined, yet you cannot tell what exactly that sprite is supposed to mean. And now that I think about it, video title as well looks pretty pleasantly. But actually, it's hard to tell what exactly makes it all appealing. You have to put different video previews side by side, from the most popular to the least, and then compare them how does their impact differ.

[@tempname8263]

...and I am too lazy to do that myself :o

[@kevin._.27]

11th grade first programing class visual basic. I read ahead in the book and found arrays but stopped right before loops. I made Pumpkin invaders (space invaders) just copy pasting and changing the index took like 3 hours. I showed my teacher and he told me about loops. Face palm. If only i read further ahead in the book.

[@keithplayzstuff2424]

when you recognize all 3 channels mentioned (carykh and you are the best imo)

[@henrycgs]

Sometimes I do feel like doing this as well. I have loads of small projects I made on my free time that I feel like sharing with the world. But I'm not sure if would fit in youtube...

[@Fghjkjhljhghj]

It is so cool that you are interested in game development)

[@graeme6056]

Yes code bullet and carykh

[@auri1075]

Im so interested in that background.... imagine if it was played on a huge computer to make a super simulation with particles like in earth and see if it reaches some point where bigger living beings appear. It would need a supercomputer if we want to make things big but... it would be awesome either way... the time at wich things happens may be too long so it would be a challenge, having more speed at the simulation would be great but the computer would need to be even better, i guess that if it worked in 2D then there would start to appear 3D projects, but that would be inimaginable... at least for me now...

[@TheMateyl]

Interesting, I learned to code In exactly the same way. Visual basic without even knowing what a variable was for months and then gamemaker.

[@christianhemingway2807]

Make a neural network that can write scripts of our videos. Use your scripts as a data set. *cough* *cough* and you could use it with Cary KH's scripts too *cough* *cough*

[@floatingturtle2512]

4d Minkowski space, or just an engine that renders higher dimensional space

[@Garbaz]

Given your channel recommendations at 0:22, I have to say, please don't turn into yet another "Slapping AI onto yet another thing" clickbait channel. I, and probably many others, are here for your unique projects like Particle Life, Marble Marcher & Chaos Equations. A channel I would consider more similar to yours is Sebastian Lague. Or rather his "Coding Adventures" series. That's not to say that I don't like neural networks, it's just that most of the time, there is no new idea behind these projects and with clickbait thumbnails and titles, they are particularly of-putting.

[@benjaminanderson1014]

Not a video idea, but you might want to check out thesession.org if you ever want a large data set of simple music.

[@keremkalntas7137]

nice!

[@이영훈-d7o]

dude how long did it take you to master Keras? Thanks

[@CodeParade]

Still haven't "mastered" it, I'm constantly looking up documentation, but I'd say 6 months to a year to get really comfortable with it.

[@UFOgamers]

Do a PCA on crop circle images. Maybe we can prove that some are not human made 😂

[@ItsLogic]

I love how your channel has grown so much over the past month with 70 thousand newcomers in January. I love your channel and I hope you keep it up. I have an idea for a Neural network you could make, and it would be using all of the transitions from _ editing software using the same still images for both transitions, and having a CNN GAN or whatever type of network try to recreate the *video* transition, I know that making it a video will probably sacrifice quality, but possibly making an engine where simple arrays tell it to do certain movements may preserve that quality, but my idea is one that it won't create usable transitions, but may create transitions that can be used as ideas.

[@jamesbalajan3850]

If you liked Hopson's channel, another channel I would recommend checking out would be Bisqwit's.

[@CodeParade]

Yes, that's another great channel as well!

[@badacconosu]

Thats really how i would have set up my channel but i have just not enough time! I considerd dooing sth like louis rossman where i document my actual work but it never really came to reallity because it would slow my workflow down :/

[@stv3qbhxjnmmqbw835]

Code bullet is just awesome, he's a real guy with good knowledge and Siraj Raval is a total scam.

[@numero7mojeangering]

i hope you will explain how your particles life background work!

[@Cyfrik]

He already has a video about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJDdno1oaMyljqc

[@curtreyes00]

Do you think you can get into the industry without a college degree? I don't want to take loans to get a degree because I am know a lot about software development and am very confident in my ability.

[@CodeParade]

I think it's possible if you have an impressive portfolio. A lot of tech jobs use merit based, not experience based, hiring so if you can get the interview (from a good portfolio and resume) and do really well, you can probably get in.

[@flashgames1273]

pls do a project with Scott from Strange Parts! That would be so awesome...

[@MalikenGD]

What about Sebastian Lague?

[@connorconnor2421]

Sebastian Lague is good too.

[@juneguts]

do you know about suckerpinch's channel

[@charlz-darvin]

Спасибо за русские субтитры! Ты сам их делал? А самое главное - зачем?)

[@graykas4594]

Очень сомневаюсь, что это он сделал. Скорее всего просто кто-то перевел, и он добавил. Ютуб ж поддерживает community translations

[@charlz-darvin]

@@graykas4594 я знаю. Но обычно, когда кто-то сторонний добавляет субтитры, ниже описания есть его никнейм. А тут нету. Вот я и подумал на автора.

[@boxes9323]

присоединяюсь к вопросу

[@themobiusfunction]

1:48 It finally happened. :)

[@kellywu4061]

Spare time hobby: 94k subscribers

[@benyere]

Code Bullet is my guy so funny

[@timtrain]

Wow, thanks for making this video, it was very interesting! I would definitely love to see some of your old game projects :]

[@jeromeyklein8838]

What was your job at google?

[@azamai]

Is music 🎶 AI Open Source? I have beautiful idea for it.

[@felix_riziy_3279]

Why don’t you go in a gaming sphere? Don’t know about money, but it’s cool if you’re a gamer

[@Mical2001]

I did c++ as my first language because I was a FOOL lmao

[@iminni3459]

Can I ask how old you are?

[@alcoll1038]

8

[@trupotato]

Hahahahah! You started coding the same way I did! Sort of. I got all my own books / did my own research.

[@EvilCherry3]

Someone should force pewdiepie to display particle life in his mini tv during one of his videos. ^^

[@sodiboo]

5:47 That's.. what programming is...

[@Cl0udWolf]

Made a vid after messing with music neural network for hours and losing my mind

[@X4R2]

1:50 LOL "pays *too* well". Weird flex, but okay.

[@stickman3214]

It's not a flex... it's him explaining why he doesn't do KZbin full-time. If he didn't say that, he wouldn't have answered the question.

[@Yuriosity]

Check out Jabrils, he's more goofy

[@donkeymanliekyearspsoos4871]

Who just watched one of the blobs moving around while listening

[@thepizzaguy8477]

My blob got a scattered ):

[@MuradBeybalaev]

I forgot Daniel and Siraj are separate people.

[@CrucialMuzic]

Yeah a lot of videos get demonetized and what not. Maybe have a patreon page?