YouTube videos, Mandelbrot & Enigma, …

Yeah some of you might wait for another post about the ConstraintSolver project but I needed a little bit of break this month.
There are some things I want to shortly mention in this post. It’s probably one for those of you who are interested in all kind of stuff that I’m working on and not a special topic.

I’ll talk about YouTube videos which includes the Mandelbrot set and two Enigma Videos and future projects. Afterwards I’m talking about the future of the blog and will have an extra section about a very fresh idea in my mind which I just want to put out there for now 😀

Before we start I should mention that my Enigma package is now official and can be installed with ] add Enigma. Juhu 🙂

YouTube videos

Let’s start with YouTube videos. For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter or Patreon or the Enigma post at a later stage probably haven’t seen my YouTube videos.
I’ve created a YouTube channel a year ago and just posted some visualizations there for my Kaggle and sudoku posts. I thought that for some projects it might be nice to invest a bit more time in visualizing them and talking about it. I myself watch more YouTube videos than reading blog posts and probably more than I should.

I’m still going to blog more than I make YouTube videos for several reasons:

  • You can copy and paste my code directly
  • You can read it as fast or slow as you like
  • You don’t have to deal with my accent (just with my writing style)
  • I can edit stuff easily
  • I can update my posts
  • I can more easily link to other sources (yeah I can use the YT description)
  • It feels like less work 😀

In general I think for coding projects blogging is the way to go. Nevertheless visualizing stuff is easier in videos.

For now I created three real videos:

Both Enigma videos are linked to my blog post about it. Where the first one is a simple explanation of how the machine works and the second one is about how to break the cipher if we just have a small clue about what the message might be about.

The video in between about the Mandelbrot set was just a simple idea I had one day where I wanted to do some “live” coding and thought the Mandelbrot set is a nice subject to visualize and do in such a session as it is easy to implement and I can use my GPU… finally 😀

In the video you see a clip zooming into the Mandelbrot set and then coding a still image of a Mandelbrot set using the CPU first and the speeding it up with the GPU. I might write a blog post about that project as…