THE VIDEO SHELF · motor skill learning
Hovering a Helicopter is Hilariously Hard - Smarter Every Day 145
Smarter Every Day host Destin Sandlin tries to hover a helicopter and finds it very hard. The video shows how the constant coordinated corrections across several control axes feel at first and how learning makes them automatic.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as a vivid example of tacit knowledge and skill acquisition, where the brain eventually abstracts away the complexity.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- SmarterEveryDay
- Topic
- motor skill learning
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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[VIDEO] Here's a pretty good one. It appears to be constant 3-axis compensation, although he alludes to newer helicopters that have made it much easier.
hexane360 on Hacker News · 2017-03
In An 85-year old millionaire hides $1M treasure in the Rocky Mountains (2016)> Those helicopter pilots must have a very steady hand. Piloting a helicopter in general requires an incredibly steady hand on unintuitive controls that interact with each other in ways that are difficult to predict[1]. Being able to do that with high precision, a disturbingly …
pdkl95 on Hacker News · 2018-08
In What to Do After Finding Hot Connectors on Overhead Power Lines (2017) [video]
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