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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/116975504347111605 This is interesting. But I am the kind of person who gets impatient with videos and prefers to read, at my own pace, sometimes faster than what a video offers, and sometimes slower. In fact, when I was a student I was the kind of person who got quickly distracted during lectures. The lecturer would say something rather interesting at some point, and then my mind would switch off from the lecture and think only about that, and then I would realize much later that I missed everything after that point. Luckily books existed to both catch up and then go further. One more thing. During the pandemic, I asked my students in a poll whether they preferred (1) the prerecorded lectures, (2) the lecture notes, or (3) to have both. The answers were evenly split among the three possibilities.