When your friend asks you to engineer the Matrix

[@zachstar]

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[@feha92]

Holy shit that segue! I knew what would come after the second sentence of it ("with all the media"), and it hit like a bolt from thin air alongside with the objective fact of how sheer genius the segue was.

[@Savahax]

Oh wow interesting news site. Most I read is blatant marxist propaganda. Unbearable

[@claudiu2019]

Is ground news the ministry of thruth? Can I ask chatgpt if I should trust GN? Can I ask Gemini if chatgpt is onest? Should I trust ground news news about Gemini news?😅

[@shadowredstone7123]

these ads are actually good tho...like the panning out and being like "has this happened to you?"

[@mushroomjuise2349]

the = instead of == hits close man

[@guymitchell9234]

Not as close as forgetting a semicolon

[@Skylla54]

Twist. It was javascript, because of not type checking it went into a recursive loop. Thats how the eternity bug happened. I send a PR. Should be fixed in some time.

[@joebuckley2180]

As manufacturing engineers, it's often said that we "fight fires" so I asked someone if it's "Engineer = Firefighter or Engineer == Firefighter?"

[@Parciwal_Gaming]

yes, yes it did. Ouch

[@catburner1896]

Fr

[@dylanparker130]

"Guess-and-Check has stood the test of time for a reason" 😂

[@jamieking3124]

"Oh! I didn't write my name and date at the top, that might be the issue." I knew my computer science degree was worth it

[@mtarek2005]

*didn't comment

[@thedarkbrickstudio2452]

I don't get it

[@mtarek2005]

@@thedarkbrickstudio2452 he forgot to comment it, so he added it but not in a comment so it errored

[@nosajimiki5885]

A comment is a way of excluding a section of code from compiling so that it's just a note in your code without actually being functional code. You often see developers put their name and date of publication in a comment at the top of their code, particularly in open source programs with attribution licenses.

[@Serizon_]

zach was willing & able to upload two videos in an hour the community really appreciates this day

[@CubemasterXD]

you mean willing && able

[@BoomBoomMushroom]

@@CubemasterXD lmao

[@Daviticus042]

And at least one of them is actually good.😉

[@CubemasterXD]

everytime someone asks me to code up something "small, it wont take long" its exactly this kind of scope with exactly this kind of errors with exactly this kind of "did you not write documentation"

[@timeodaneosetdona]

Me: So we’ve got the backend pretty much sorted. We’ve bodged up a basic front end so you can test the functionality. Them: Can I get the icons in Cornflower Blue ?”

[@NaudVanDalen]

The reason time in this Matrix goes by much slower than in the real world (while in the movie it's the same speed) is because he's running it on a laptop, so it needs a lot of time to calculate one second of the Matrix.

[@AlatusAllod]

5:19 "Look familiar? Scenes like these are happening all over the galaxy RIGHT NOW."

[@boggless2771]

YOU could be next!

[@alexandergu7797]

That is... unless you make the most important decision of your life!

[@nnjfxe]

Prove to yourself that you have the STRENGTH and the COURAGE to be FREE

[@Chuckster_83]

Join the- what should we call this?

[@loganhagen5754]

DA DA DA DA DUUU DUUUU!!!!

[@jqsm1neS]

I love when a Zach Star Himself video gets uploaded to the Zach Star channel

[@marcmuntada4643]

I think he once said engineer-related skits would go here, but it may have been in one of my simulations.

[@jqsm1neS]

@julianw1010 this changes nothing about what i said

[@tzarg]

ik I checked the channel and was like "huh"

[@San-pv]

yes smart version is for the smart people

[@danser_theplayer01]

1:22 duuude, so accurate, I write a function or two and then I get like 10 errors before I figure out that squiggly bracket } was extra.

[@TheGiggleMasterP]

"Have you tried turning it on and back off again" "I literally can't"

[@greencertifiedweb]

"Forgot a semicolon" Around 1992, I was writing code on the Genesis (68000 cpu), for a game we were showing SEGA 2 weeks later at CES. I caught a bug. I spent 3 days looking for it before I finally noticed the missing pound (#) sign. I was loading from memory, not immediate... Still made my deadline!

[@nosajimiki5885]

Around 1992 I was sitting in my dad's lap as he programed and I thought typing looked so cool that I would give it a try, he undid most of the damage quickly, but somewhere in the process I managed to replace a colon with a semicolon which took him 3 weeks to fix because its exact placement meant that it compiled without any warnings or errors... just did the wrong thing.

[@greencertifiedweb]

@@nosajimiki5885 LOL, I had my son on my lap once. He hit clear... Fortunately, I'd backed up 5 minutes earlier. But it's amazing how one character can make the difference and in hundreds of thousands of lines of code, seeing the difference between this ";" and this ":" is tough!

[@SaHaRaSquad]

I once wrote such ugly code that a snippet I commented out was necessary for compilation, removing the comment would trigger a compiler bug and make it throw an error.

[@Hiljaa_]

In 1992, I was -15 years old. How fast time flies

[@galvanart3623]

"Forgot a semicolon" ah yes engineering

[@DugdoesDigging]

cleanest ad transition

[@brunoberti8790]

Wait. When they exit the matrix they don't have helmets. They're still inside

[@AtrakKarta]

Or since it's the future, maybe they got upgraded to the Elon X-Tesla FitBit Chimp Chip, which is inside their heads. Gotta keep it ambiguous; the sequel isn't written yet.

[@OzixiThrill]

That and if a thousand years go by in real life, you won't make it.

[@Raventhetophatfounder]

😮😮😮 two Zach videos in an hour holy shit balls

[@somerandomweeb4836]

That's because he's able and willing to entertain us

[@LUCTIANITO]

This is a class about how to make an advertisement

[@srepinS]

1:25 That is so real. Making a whole script and realizing you didn't add a parenthesis or dome other syntax bs

[@CameronShawMusic]

This video was so out of left field, and its what I love from Zach Star.

[@KaleDarville]

the infomercial sponsor bit is still my favorite way to do ad reads

[@ReaIHuman]

3:40 when you want to see if friendly fire is on.

[@TaurielTheElf]

As a Computer Science student, this is the most relatable thing I've ever seen in my entire life

[@TheGiggleMasterP]

They had a show about this, it's called "Chuck" and its fantastic!!

[@claudiu2019]

Because of the blonde spy

[@jackengele2144]

To be clear for other people reading this, the show is the same concept of uploading Kung fu to someone's mind. Not someone trying to engineer the matrix to win a Kung fu contest

i can imagine the bloopers of him trying to fight himself in front of a green screen

[@jw8160]

Green screen? No, he films his videos in the Matrix and then exports them so we can watch them out here. 😋

@@jw8160 oh right

[@Immortal_Cultivation]

Can't wait until a Matrix/SAO vr system is created

[@beskamir5977]

I maintain that these shorts are just very elaborate ads with perfect sponsorship integrations.

[@igorbondarev5226]

These 2 channels have finally become indistinguishable

[@retroforager]

ground news got every damn youtuber in a chokehold

[@nvmr080]

Hey Zach, I really love your content and have watched almost every video you have done on engineering, and I was wondering you could do one about Computational Engineering, because there seems to be really not that much content about it

[@semja]

The real joke is that engineers actually have these expectations for them

[@jarrod752]

I love how he's able to keep to the clients timetable.

[@Conta_Minated]

I'm pretty sure he had no idea if dying in the matrix would kill you in real life too. Seeing how quick he was to test it, he clearly hoped so.

[@nissantzvitovey]

Are we sure this was uploaded to the correct channel?

[@makori]

Hey this looks like the guy from the youtube channel "Zach Star Himself"

[@АндрейВоронов-ф2б]

Right? Best crossover ever

[@1jotun136]

"stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself"

[@sleepykitten2168]

Best sponsorship transition ever.

[@SackbotNinja03]

Better explanation on the creation of the matrix than the movie

[@vismaykedilaya1318]

never have i seen a sponsorship transition that fits so well with the actual video.

[@italiandarthvader]

The best intro to a sponsor I've ever seen lol

[@morkovija]

I love this, thanks Zach for sharing your comedy bits with the main channel folks who might be missing out on the goldmine of such stuff you have on your other secret channel!

[@GraysonJStedmanjr]

And as soon as I finished watching this video I got an alert on my phone from Ground News

[@someanonymousguy8423]

That "PEACE" is so Tamer Shaheen referrence

[@chr1093]

We got second channel videos back on the first channel!

[@Tekkerue]

I am willing and able to guess and check.

[@Jakub1989YTb]

I'm a software dev and this is exactly how we test. What is a better analog to prod than prod, right?

[@greatcanadianmoose3965]

you work at crowdstrike?

[@white_145]

"okay we're safe" lmaoo that hit so hard

[@zunaidparker]

Zach, you logged into the wrong account! 😂

[@ashleysmith38]

It does feel like that sometimes when you study engineering

[@ztheyoutuber9614]

I love how he posts on both of the channels

[@luisfilipe2023]

Two videos from Zach in the same day wow

[@flairium5296]

The accuracy here is absolutely incredible. Now there are 2 issues with the accuracy of this video. First is that you forgot to include the 6 hours of procrastinating, and 2 hours of screaming at Google. Second is the time warp anomaly, you forgot to make sure the multiplication only played once per second, so although each second should have been only 1.015 second, you ended up with each second being 1.015^60 seconds.

[@PhatesDemise]

Bro just played “Guess and check” with death 😂

[@Gaafet]

Such a solid friend

[@gobihoukou1]

Love the fundamental theorem of engineering. It also stood the test of time.

[@tc6818]

Oh-ho-ho-ho... Oh-ho-ho-ho... Oh-ho-ho-ho... Oh-ho-ho-ho... (I kept waiting for the opening lyrics of Kung Fu Fighting.) Everybody was kung fu fighting Those cats were fast as lightning In fact, it was a little bit frightening But they fought with expert timing

[@alexmckay2319]

"Siri, build me the matrix, I forgot my homework"

[@sky_pirate]

Final Fantasy. Cool SFX choice.

[@tomriddle2257]

That sponsor segue was brilliant. 😅

[@hen-l]

This is better than the skits you've been putting out on Zach Star Himself lately... imo

[@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket]

As someone who studied C++ and Python (I actually don't do programming I decided to do IT), in high school and college I have to say. This is fire. (I don't care the kids aren't jiving with my slang)

[@CaptainBlitz]

1:26 oh my god not the semicolon that brings back PTSD😭😭

[@andresdelbusto2184]

Glad to know a Matrix's creator level engineer does the same mistakes and test things on the same way as I do when programming

[@theroobobianking]

I'm so confused which is the real channel Zach star himself or just Zach star

[@garcipat]

this is a summary of my daily work.

[@johnchessant3012]

comment name and date at the top, manual, table of contents, passive voice, first-person, ... is this the guy from "Engineering professors be like"

[@iksbat1355]

Gold

So, 3 = 2. Now, that's something. I just learnt something new. 🤣🤣🤣

[@davidumann6707]

As an engineering student, having to document my work is physical pain.

[@Immortal_Cultivation]

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO HAVE MATRIX LEVEL VR?!?!

[@brennenhorton2493]

Every single joke in this video hit me on a personal level.

[@tzarg]

have you been stuck in a matrix for thousands of years? am I not real?

[@itamareizikovich6973]

I saw your shirt, and remembered my CS student friend who once told me "pi is equal to 3, and pi squared is equal to 10".

[@Boevaia_Pelmeha]

They always ask how to engineer the Matrix, but they never ask how to reverse-engineer the Matrix.

[@goldenking2046]

1:23 testing in prod be like

[@learnwithkian2198]

2 Zack vids in one day. What’s happening?

[@jw8160]

Glitch in the matrix. 😋

[@book19118]

Make a video on DFT and FFT please.

[@hamzamotara4304]

That's a CS major!

[@LuisDiaz-qg3eg]

Assuming someone remembers to design jobs in the matrix with real-world published SQL 1992-2022 standards Imagine after thousands of years people getting out can't do any single real job with a commonly used database language

[@Petch85]

Omg... exactly like working for a sales. Sales team: Can we make this... We have already sold it.... And also 10 more things that we promised that it could do. Me: 😱

[@rookiegamer1234]

Well this reminded me of Jhoony test mostly because that dude that is not celebrated put kung fu moves directly in another dude's head.

[@lukemainwaring4844]

The cs jokes are way too relatable

[@Nerdman41]

I like the fact that your macbook's webcam is covered for privacy from men in black

[@3gou]

Zach Star isn’t himself right now it seems

[@NaudVanDalen]

Nice relevant topic on Groundnews. Maybe Elon Musk will make a real full dive VR helmet and Meta makes the Matrix for it.

[@alicepbg2042]

I want that shirt

[@griffinmartin6356]

pure chaos

[@ForCandor]

Everytime someone gives you more work to do make sure it gets back to them a 100 fold.

[@dreamerofthorns]

"You should be prpud of your accomplishments even though nome of them are real" basically describes my life

[@crowmaster9652]

engineering the matrix requires massive exploration efforts not some title to draw unsuspecting viewers in to discuss the awareness of matrices we should explore what we can not spread awareness of exploration its like your room needs to be cleaned and you are spreading awareness that your room will be cleaned even though there is no trajectory suggesting the task to be started.

[@ArathirCz]

But, what if.... you are willing and able?

[@hamzamotara4304]

Wait until he realizes that Zach does skits.

[@crowmaster9652]

@@hamzamotara4304 a channel that once supported engineering concepts not influenced by ads

[@PrometheusMMIV]

How can you have a passive voice in first person? I thought passive voice was like "The lawn was mowed" as opposed to "I mowed the lawn." Aren't those mutually exclusive?

[@Bluesonofman]

SAO reference

[@JVSkellington]

So, did he also create immortality?

[@ryanthankyou6956]

lmao thank you thank you thank you

[@Orion1540]

which was the second channel again? 🤣

[@d0pomein]

nice segue

[@BlkHat]

I thought this wouldn’t be serious till the testing, == man…

[@MidnightMoon197]

This is how the matrix was created in the films.😊

[@opgods2885]

Current chem students feel the pain of sig figs reference

[@Frostywaffle]

Yeah

[@Bosnian.Spartan]

How'd they survive a thousand years?

[@Erioletheonecanolie]

Youve got this star :) Eri loves all, no matter how hard they may try and fall. So if you want something, just ask, and jf you already payed for it, then youll always last ;) I was metatron. New heaven, new everything. New names, new ranks, and thats whats so perfect