How Much Information?

Huge thanks to all the amazing people who made this possible:

More on this theme to come in the main collaboration with Vsauce.

[boyinaband]

Things like that dice roll are what make veritasium videos amazing.

[veritasium]

NOTE: The number of base pairs in the human genome is often quoted as 3, 000, 000, 000 but this is for 23 chromosomes. Human cells are diploid, containing two copies of each chromosome, so there really are 6, 000, 000, 000 base pairs in every cell.

[Jetleckyboi]

2:58 ah yes, the distant year of 2020

[michaloslav]

When you drink too much and then you're just laying on the grass and being all philosophical and stuff

[veritasium]

So many awesome people collaborated with me in this video: Santa Maria Crystal Dilworth +Christina Ochoa - thank you all!!

[gamecrazy]

As a Spanish speaker this was my experience: initially I wasn’t paying attention to what she said and I just thought she was speaking fast for absolutely no reason. Going back again and listening I see they say the same thing and talk at the same speed. Which absolutely blew my mind. The rhythm of the speaking due to the amount of syllables from English to Spanish made it seem like Spanish is spoken much faster and to see that was crazy.

[seriekekomo]

I can speak both languages and they speaking at the same time blew up my mind haha

[ComandanteJ]

I'm Spanish, and that girl must have had four or five cups of cofee because she's talking way faster than people normally do LOL. 

[tsumikiminiwa]

"..they intentionally replaced the i with a y, so it could not be confused with the bit"

Wait, I thought it was so that people wouldn't chew it

[randomjasmicisrandom]

I will be using the start of this video to teach my classes what ascii is. Thanks!!!

[Eliasbassman]

I am bilingual in Spanish and English, and I just couldn't handle both languages at once. I exploded

[erichgonzalez]

This is the first time in my life I hear two languages I can speak at the same time. It drove me crazy, my brain kept constantly switching between Spanish and English. I've heard two languages at the same time before, like in the Olympics and the news, but usually, I can only understand one of them. This was quite different, a new experience por así decirlo.

[arkamaji]

1:19
Henry was wearing a cgp grey shirt

[Anonymous-]

1:30 *Let's all take a moment to appreciate how much time he spent to throw all the dice each with different numbers*

[charlesquinton]

I now want there to be a podcast where Vsauce and Veritasium just talk about the nature of reality together

[StrongMed]

I'm sure that any attempt to take the current state of matter in a closed system containing 2 people and extrapolate backwards to determine what was said between them at a previous point in time would find the uncertainty principle an impossible barrier to calculate around.

[ZoggFromBetelgeuse]

I once read an interesting approach to quantifying information: In this approach, information of a message M was defined as -ln(P(M)), where P(M) is the probability of the message M occurring. Hence, the message "Dog bites Earthling" has less information than "Earthling bites dog", because its probability is higher. Also, the message "Earthling bites dog" has more information in a serious newspaper, rather than a yellow press newspaper. This approach is of course based on the earthlings' binary thinking, their idea that everything has a probability [in other words, can be projected onto the true-false edge of the triangle of ternary alien logic]. But it's quite consistent. For example, the information of the combination of two independent messages is the sum of the two informations. 

[sotomonte_]

0:15 What a nightmare if you are fluent in spanish and english

[ten]

"By the year 2020" as I'm watching this exactly 4 hours from that exact year...

[SparkySummers]

How many times did you have to roll those dice to get THAT outcome?