Tom 7

2026-04-06 Tags: youtube-channels

Tom 7 (the 7th of his name) makes consistently amazing, very high effort, funny, math and computer science videos. Often for "SIGBOVIK", a yearly conference and journal by the "Association for Computational Heresy."

Some of his videos that I think will be interesting to you even if you're not into programming:

How I ran the length of every street in Pittsburgh: PAC TOM

Over the course of 16 years, he runs along every single street in Pittsburgh, starting or ending each run at his home, requiring increasingly long runs to collect them all, and using GPS and google maps to track and confirm every segment of every street has been covered.

30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World

He comes up with a series of bad chess algorithms, starting simple with things like "play the alphabetically next move" and getting increasingly weird, and then has all the algorithms (plus some real chess engines for baseline) play eachother to compare their strengths.

Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need

He explores different bad ways to store data, including reclaiming e-waste from bougie $60 covid-19 single use tests and building a chip to connect them.

The ending is just killer.