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How Many Holes Does a Human Have?
Vsauce · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2021–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 48 other explainer videos tagged Pure mathematics, the mean is 4.1 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 4.0 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
50% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
- Channel / speaker
- Vsauce
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- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Pure mathematics. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How Many Holes Does a Human Have?Current video | 3 | 3 | 50% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.explainer · 3Blue1Brown | 16 | 15 | 80% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| The hardest problem on the hardest testexplainer · 3Blue1Brown | 8 | 7 | 100% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| A Swift Introduction to Geometric Algebraexplainer · sudgylacmoe | 7 | 7 | 100% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?”. Its short rationale: Answers the question of how many holes a human has.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “'Entropy bagels' and other complex structures emerge from simple rules”. Its short rationale: Entertaining, somewhat rudimentary introduction to topology.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Let's Settle This”. Its short rationale: Animations of rings morphing into a T-shaped pipe at given timestamps.