Freya Holmér
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New video: Why can't you multiply vectors?
🕑 Added 2023-10-28 09:22:01 +0000 UTCI went to Dutch Game Day earlier this month to give a talk, and I'm happy to finally share it with you all!
It's about an obsessive attempt at multiplying vectors! Not those pesky dot or cross products, but proper, canonical multiplying, whatever that means, and whether that even makes sense. I hope you'll find the answer interesting c:
The state of freya's brain
As some of you might already know, I've been in a very rough spot since the spline video - I've been going to rehab for burnout, which has been a slow and difficult process, as well as a month of a strong depression. I mostly retreated from making videos to switch gears, trying to take a break, but, that usually just means going back to my comfort zone of coding projects on my own. I think I've realized I literally don't know what it means to relax. I've come to notice that I only feel "relaxed" when I'm productive, working on my projects, which, doesn't seem healthy, but I don't know of any alternatives.
I made some gains immediately by fixing my sleep, which had been horrible for months. I would lie in bed for hours not falling asleep, only to wake up early, again unable to fall back asleep. I did a lot of reading on sleep hygiene in general, and I've been taking melatonin, the combination of which, has actually helped a lot. I've also been trying to get back to exercising, and I've gone swimming a few times, hopefully I'll be able to keep that up! It's always wild to me how important physical health is to mental health.
But not everything has helped, of all the things we've talked about at rehab, of meditation, breathing exercises, metacognitive exercises - I noticed that I have a veritable storm in my head, in a way that didn't seem to be an issue whatsoever for the others at rehab. In talking to my psychologist, we've decided I should probably get screened for ADD, because there certainly are signs. I'm hoping that might help me find answers and ways to, well, at the very least prevent this from happening again.
Anyway, I've been making some progress in recovering, I'm really happy I managed to do this talk without getting too stressed out about it all <3
The state of social media
It seems like social media platforms like twitter, which used to be my primary one, are struggling. The prospect of losing all the following and all the math content I've posted over the last decade on there because elon musk decided to steer the titanic into a 6th iceberg, isn't very fun, and has me worried.
With that in mind, I've started a mailing list! Whatever happens to social media, or even substack itself, they can't take email away from us right?
I'll probably only use the mailing list for project announcements, like, when I release new videos, new blog posts, or if I ever get around to making merch
As for the rest of my social media links, you can find them at acegikmo.com
Finally, thanks a ton for all of your support throughout this whole thing. The fact that you're all still here even though I am godawful at Posting Content™ and Providing Value™ on here, especially of late, it means a lot that you are still supporting me ❤
// Freya
Comments
Freya Holmér
I'm glad! and/or I'm sorry that happened
Malcolm Ryan
Thanks! You led me down a GA rabbit hole this week. This makes so much more sense than Quaternions.
Morias
Thank you Freya !
Freya Holmér
thank you matthew!
Matthew Leighton
This is such a clarifying set of connections. I appreciate your content so much. Thank you for sharing this. That said, I hope you find a sustainable path to burnout recovery.
Merijn Vogel
Always nice to see that whenever mathematicians came up with extensions to number systems out of curiosity, very useful things get discovered. Quaternions still baffle me a bit, and I will appreciate them when having my next boss fight in a game 🤣
Leonardo Taglialegne
This was amazing! I had tried to understand bivector before but this was so clear, I now get them!
Daniel Shimmyo
This is my favorite talk of all time. My mind is blown! Thank you for helping us to understand and appreciate complex numbers and quaternions!
Jesse Thompson
Scratches is happiest kitteh https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/307057157281677313/1166308676034900069/20171111_134338.jpg
