Interesting idea, but the “Go” button is not appearing for me on Safari mobile.
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YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some like me actually appreciate the youtube recomendations based on the previously watched content, but need to be extra careful when watching some kind of content that is likely to be weighted a lot by "power users". Example, I do not follow videogames, but I do enjoy watching speedruns of old games ocassionally, so I need to watch it on incognito mode so I won't have my recommendations flooded with videogame video…
Essentially with all that data, YouTube still hold a bad recommendation engine.
I'm currently unaware of any recommendation engine that's worth acknowledging.
Netflix, Amazon, Youtube, PornHub, etc... they're all accomplishing little more than "similar to the one, and only one item you last saw", with dramatic shifts in "profiling" from one or two videos.
Actually, Netflix acknowledges this and splits the recommendation into "because you watched X..", so at least it covers a greater range (eg last 5 things seen)
I'm damned sure they could be much more useful if they would let me tell them what I like, by implementing rating systems that are worth using (e.g. the ability to browse and edit previous ratings in a sane fashion)
but user-useful recommendation is not the actual goal, so really its just that our metrics are wrong. It's probably great according to view counts.
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#83These should just be running 24/7 in a lobby of a building somewhere
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#84Absolutely incredible. I felt like I had a bird's eye view to humanity.
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#85Are these curated? Or is it truly just new things?
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#86FYI. When you share the link on Facebook no description or picture is added. Cool site
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#87This was surprisingly satisfying to watch. Thanks for doing this
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#88> These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you).
How does it work, technically? Is there an API to pull videos with a certain title format within a certain range, and then are the sections of video randomly chosen?
Edit: Found this https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut - answers some questions:
> The server currently pulls in videos daily from youtube. Search criteria is [TAG]XXXX with upload time this week, where TAG is a raw video prefix such as 'dsc' or 'img'. This search turns out to be a good approximation for the data set of home videos created in the last week.
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#89My anecdotal observations are that the lonely, unloved videos typically consist of home movies, personal vacation videos, children's sporting events, and group exercise. Except for the exercise, it seems like the kind of stuff you'd find on any family's VHS tapes from the 80s and 90s.
Can anyone explain the prevalence of group exercise videos? Has anyone had radically different experiences?
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#90I'm a little disturbed that it appears to have started playing immediately, but with the text and go button as an overlay.