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Free storage space. I wonder how much it costs for Google to store all those 2M videos. Here’s an idea. Encode your data/backups into a video (it’ll display as noise but that doesn’t matter). Store on YouTube for free instead of paying for terabytes on Google Drive.
An old idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
Store on YouTube for free instead of paying for terabytes on Google Drive.
Also been done: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive
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> They may have a different taste, but that taste is no better or worse than anyone else's. This is often repeated like it's some universal truth. Enjoying a film (or anything) doesn't mean it's great - this is a very hard to explain idea though, as it's something that is experienced in the core of your being. It's like trying to explain why small talk is important to someone from a low-context culture - there's prob…
I'd be interested if you have link/research that can explain to me why small talk is important (or what criteria makes sense for determining why movie X is better than Y). If you want to bother explaining too I'd happily read it.
But the vast majority of people have ONLY been eating plain sugar - they don't even realize there is a whole world of different ingredients and foods out there. Most people exposed to other foods don't go back to only eating sugar - and that's because real food is better. It's not something you can deduct with logic, and it will never be done in an academic/research setting because it's taboo in academia to make value judgements about culture.
I hate this trash. If you search for some obscure math topic on YouTube you'll 100% get these type of Wikipedia-to-speech videos instead of actual lectures.
What about blind people? Do they not deserve their content?
In hearing it in action I gotta imagine a YouTube video version is a hellishly slow way to get information for someone used to interacting with a computer via accessibility software, even if you were playing the video at full speed.
Not speaking for anyone of course, just a hunch.
I hate this trash. If you search for some obscure math topic on YouTube you'll 100% get these type of Wikipedia-to-speech videos instead of actual lectures.
What about blind people? Do they not deserve their content?
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Recommendation systems just mirror what the users watch - including their age - and the reality is that 99% of people have horrible taste in just about everything. They can't tell the difference between a great film and a terrible film - they walk away thinking "I enjoyed that".
> They can't tell the difference between a great film and a terrible film - they walk away thinking "I enjoyed that". If I walk away and think "I enjoyed that" then by all measures that was a great film. A great film will please most of not all of its target audience. When a film is shown in Cannes the target audience is cinema enthusiasts who seek deeper meaning and interesting new ways to use the medium. When a new…
The problem starts when restaurant recommendations websits starts to be filled with them based only on the number of people eating there per day. This is whats happening with youtube recommendations
The platform needs to be refactored completely and if the ad guys show up, kill them (figuratively and in jest).
To contrast with some actual and manually created video content: in the early 2010s I came upon a video by a Brazilian man filming himself with his webcam as he lounged in a bed while intensively and hurriedly puffing tobacco in a pipe. I don't know why I clicked his username to check out his other videos, but I found that he had uploaded over 7000 videos. From what I could see, every single one of them depicted him…
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It is important be intellectually stimulated and fiction is one of the worst ways to achieve that. Read a technical book or listen to philosophers debate or brush up on complex historically significant events. At the end of the day art is for entertainment. Whether or not you need the intellectually stimulating element in your art is subjective and unimportant.
I have been pushed in many thought provoking directions because of art. Issac Asimov ignited an interest in math, Kurt Vonnegut books laid a foundation for philosophy pursuits, and an indie film I was dragged to about a patriarch dealing with the inevitably of death completely reset my views on how to pursue life. Everything is everywhere in everything.