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There's a RUclipsr called Dime Store Adventures who made an AMAZING video on Etaoin Shrdlu, I really recommend watching it if you're interested in the full story!!

Awesome!!!

amazing dress! you should do two more for two friends so that the three of you together can make a next level :)

Yay! Spray Paint!

Love it. I dreamt about Sierpinski(sp) triangles the other night. Must have been an omen.

Nailed it 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺

looks awesome!

Ultra cool! 🔺👗👍

Fantastic! That looked great!

Cool dress! I loved meeting you at EMF camp btw!

The megalovania background music is an... interesting choice 😂

Pikachu is my favourite. Ayliean, have you checked your spam box lately?

This is a mathematical theorem: girl + cuteness + Scottish accent + free spirit vibe + maths = CRUSH.

I enjoyed this, even if it was not ultimately useful. But I have a question. On a 3D cube, the corner pieces, the ones with three coloured 2D "stickers", are themselves 3D (1x1x1) cubes. On a 4D cube, what shape are the corner pieces with four coloured 3D "stickers"? And what about the edge pieces, the ones with three coloured 3D stickers? And so on?

Tutorial on how to make a dodeca hexa flex agon

Thank you so much, I look forward to your videos. My favorite of all time from you is the Towers of Hanoi, I often rewatch that one just because it's so informative. I hope you keep producing these top shelf items forever :)

What song is this? 😃

I found it rather pleasant that "South Ireland" is an anagram of the modt common 12 letters we use, i love little things like that

I have previously watched a video about this. Was just as Etaoin Shrdlu

Is that a Margate crab museum shirt?!?

Vsauce Ayliean here,

I'll tell you exactly what I'm up to with my life: buying one of those Crab Museum t-shirts!

The hot typesetting machine could not delete an incorrect letter, you had to fill the line and then remove that line as a whole afterwards, so they just ran their finger over the keys to fill up the line. I don't think theres a particular reason the keyboard had to be organised that way except to be "backwards compatible" with the order that typesetters were used to from before the machines was created. With old movable type sorting the letters roughly by order of frequency made a lot of sense: they would have a big case with several compartments containing small lead slugs with each letter. And since you would not want to create tons of letters you rarely use and constantly run out of frequent letters, they would have larger compartments for the more frequently used characters so that they could fit more of them in the case without wasting a lot of space. The obvious order to sort the boxes would of course be alphabetical order (since this predates qwerty), but of course having a large box of T's right next to a tiny box of Q's would be rather ugly and impractical to construct, so it makes more sense to figure out the (rough) letter frequency and sort by that so you can have a row/column of large boxes first and then more rows/columns with smaller boxes (that might be half the size of the boxes above). The standard that emerged would also store the capital letters in one case and minuscles in another case placed below the other, which is why we call capital letters "upper case", because they are from the literal upper case. So of course when you want to introduce a keyboard for automated typesetting you would also want to order the buttons in the order that old school typesetters are used to to ease the transition. It also would not surprise me if in the first purely mechanical implementations if it was also an advantage to order them this way since the magazines containing the letters would presumably still be different size depending on frequency, so it's probably much cleaner to have the linkages to the larger magazines be ordered together for space efficiency and tidyness.

Is that the etymology of the "hot key", then? Also, I hope you're enjoy the time with family, friends, nature, studying, and yourself while you're between jobs. I definitely wish I had done so instead of stressing out each day because I felt directionless. But each day not settling for a mediocre path you hate is a win, even if it doesn't feel like "success" outwardly.

Hey Ayliean, do you have a Patreon or some way we can support your content? :)

"kids with their "qwerty uiop", back in my day it was etaoin shrdlu!"

So fun - love it - thanks for sharing You should look at the Google ngram viewer at the frequency of Etaoin Shrdlu. There are ngrams between 1800 and 2019 from their scans - quite neat. Certainly made its mark. You can also search in the books to see where it was scanned. ❤

Fantastic!

ETAOIN SHRDLU was the namesake of SHRDLU, an AI made in 1970 in MIT that was more advanced than ELIZA and RACTER which it could understand shapes, colors, and physical relationships (eg asking "where is the red ball?" would result in "the red ball is on top of the green cube").

huh this is wild

Baots. Oh, and Eatoin Shrdlu.

What's the t shirt?

SAME! Unemployment for longer than I'm comfortable admitting. Anyway, maybe the reason for m is that graphically it looks similar to n but with an extra hump and so they took n's dash dot and extended it just a bit to be dash dash? IDK no sourcing, just minding. Also, your makeup is AMAZING!

kind of a ride throught history... nice!

When I first learned the Morse code I came up with quite a few mnemonics based on rhythm. For example, L = ". - . ." = "be-ELL-zee-bub", Q = "- - . -" because the Queen is "SO LAH-di-DAH", Y = "- . - -" = "WHY(Y), for *****'S SAKE?" And here's a question you might like to ponder (or analyse)... how ambiguous is "prison Morse"? When prisoners allegedly send each other messages by tapping on pipes, the final symbol in each letter is ambiguous because you can't tell from the rhythm whether it's a dot or a dash. I once made a spreadsheet to analyse all these ambiguities and work out whether the system would actually be useful. The only firm conclusion I reached is that, yeah, you'd have to use scraping sounds for dashes. Either that, or add a dot to the end of every letter so the rhythm gave you the final symbol. I often wonder what solutions people have found for this problem.

Seek out the books compiled by Denys Parsons, which contain large collections of unintentional comedy caused by typos and other printing/editing errors, and even feature a fictional family named SHRDLU in their preamble text. If your sense of humour is anything like mine, they'll have you rolling on the floor with mirth. A random example from my memory (from a novel, I think): "A wasp strayed across her face. He kissed it." They're pretty old books now and the content has dated a lot, but worth a look. My parents had them on the shelves when I was a child, and we all loved reading aloud from them!

1:48 for the "Z heavy" language, my guess is Polish

Also unemployed! Trying to just hang in there for now

About the O being dash-dash-dash. Original Morse's code had not only short and long marks, but also gaps of different duration - and the O was two dots with the double gap, if compared to the gap between two dots of I (like 1001 vs 101). So three dashes for O is not Morse's per se. It's from the international standard that was based on a german version by Friedrich Gerke who removed different gap sizes in letters. However his version of O was way too long. That happened in his version because he had more characters overall - because of vowels with umlauts. So in the international standard it was kinda simplified to "just" three dashes - in the process also making SOS memorable. I couldn't quickly find a proof that it was specifically made so to make SOS memorable and not the opposite (SOS emergency code created from memorable codes).

The job market sucks so hard. Someone with your talents will be able to find something I'm sure. Thank you for another amazing video.

Love this! Also unemployed and staying sane by finding cool shit to unpack like this! I'm just one person but I think vertical video is here to stay, if you're comfortable working with it, own it.

Complete guess but I wonder if O got 3 dashes in morse so that SOS ended up being ...---... in order for it to be memorable

The frequency table which I memorized, omg 53 years ago!, is the one I still use. I believe it came from about 1950 to '55 as gleaned from American newspapers. The first 12 letters are etaonr ishdlf. When I'm teaching someone how to solve ciphers one of the quick tips I give them is that most of the language consists of very few letters. Then I tell them to remember the name "Sir Eaton". I'm changing that to "South Ireland", where my ancestors emigrated from, as of now. BTW, I still have a 'line-o-text' that I found outside our locak paper, way back then, when I was picking up my papers for my paper-route!

The more I think about it, the more sense it makes that a video about "ETAOIN SHRDLU" inadvertently got shot vertically. ↕📽👍

I'll never stop loving you, even if you do post vertical video.

last question hits hard

As someone who has had seasons of unemployment, I hope you're doing okay. If it's feeling hard in a particular moment, just know that you aren't alone in that feeling. Your worth is not rooted in the whims of a fickle supervisor / employer / economy. You got this. 👍

I've always felt that Etaoin Shrdlu sounds like a monster from some HP Lovecraft story...

great video! I hope being unemployed isn't affecting you negatively and wish you well <3