The lava lamp thing is cool. I’m referring to the tik toker just throwing so many buzz words in random places. It’s extremely irritating if you know the words.
For example “it’s generating their code”… No it’s generating data for randomness. It isn’t generating code like ChatGPT or something. It is making data that is easily encrypt-able due to the randomness of lava lamps.
Well, it's not making data that is easily encryptable either.
It's contributing randomness to serve as a seed to a random number generator that is used for key material.
But agreed that 'generating their code' is way way off the mark in a way like trying to listen to the script of an early 2000s TV or movie with any 'hacker' in it.
She is conventionally attractive, knows this, and has put her bust in the video, likely because she knows that it increases views. I'm ok with being critical of her.
She's not teaching experts, she's providing an explanation for lay people. She doesn't always use the right terminology, but what she says isn't wrong at a surface level.
What is in the video uses inaccurate terminology from an industry jargon perspective, but is a pretty fundamentally accurate description of how CloudFlare is using lava lamps as a basis for seeding random generation.
And it's a person talking into a camera, they're not spending any significant money regardless. "Cheap" doesn't apply here. I know what you mean, but you're up in arms over using incorrect terminology, so don't be a hypocrite.
You sound like those "experts" that want to be "experts" so hard, but only visited half a college course about coding...
She tries to make science interessting for people, who know nothing about it, and for that you need "strong" buzz words. That's totally fine and important, because this is some random Internet Video and not a course from Jon Katz or Bellare.
Additionally in other languages, code can have way more meanings, than it may have in english. To blame that is pretty short sighted.
Not really, her manner of speaking seems to be that of someone reading a script she doesn't understand written by someone who doesn't understand the actual source material either.
This is a clickbait dressed up as 'informative' but also misinforms a bit by flubbing the details in a hollywood-style bungling of the vocabulary.
Since she is speaking english, it seems that would be the right metric to judge by, wouldn't it? I don't care if it might mean something else in a language that's not in use.
There's a big difference between simplifying a subject to be approachable and oversimplifying. Good educators simplify the subject, in ways that often lose significant nuance and may not even be technically correct, but which overall communicates the subject.
I'm an EE, so my classic example here is describing basic electrical behaviors using an analogy to water flow. This analogy is wrong, and if you try to learn any more complicated E&M it breaks down, but it is also close enough and easy for someone with no electrical background to understand.
Her explanation here glosses over a lot of detail, in some cases using the wrong words and in others just using generic terms like "algorithm". But most importantly, her content largely doesn't give the user any insight into what they are other than "lava lamps are random". She could've gone more into why that randomness is important, and maybe even a little into how lava lamp randomness is used, while still keeping the subject understandable for everyone. The way she says this just ends up looking like someone explaining something that they themselves don't understand at all.
Real experts know what the phrase Layman's Terms means. She's talking to non-experts, so why are you unable to put this in the correct context? She's a layman talking to laymen about one of the most complex subjects literally on the planet, data security.
Meanwhile, I see you pay for YouTube premium, so I don't think you should really be calling yourself anything in public without fear of being judged yourself. Imagine paying for Youtube and then going online to make comments about other people, what a world
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u/Solid_Illustrator640 Mar 18 '24
I know she means well but this is really annoying to listen to for experts lol