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Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by zimpenfish »

wruza wrote: post #55
dyauspitr wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube has on average close to 4 million video uploads per day

And still can’t recommend me anything interesting outside of my chamber.

I wouldn't mind if it didn't keep recommending me videos I've already watched (they're showing the red bar! they know I've watched it!) or from channels I've already said no to or on topics I've frequently said no to or on topics that I watched one video on[1] and now YouTube thinks I want a full page of similar videos.

The algorithm is, for want of some better words, absolute cack.

[1] Even if I don't finish the video or say I don't like it or say "don't recommend channel", FFHS

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by Gare »

yen223 wrote: post #6
mserdarsanli wrote: post #2

They should say it in binary

Well at least the calculations are easier It takes about 3s to say 10 "one"s There are 136,279,841 ones in the binary mersenne prime That works out to about 41 million seconds worth of footage, or about 473 days Given there was a gap of 6 years between the discovery of this mersenne prime and the previous, in theory 1 person could say all the digits (in binary) before we find the next mersenne prime!

> Given there was a gap of 6 years between the discovery of this mersenne prime and the previous

It was the largest gap so far. Several primes were quite close. The next one might be discovered much sooner. Previos two had a gap of a bit less than a year.

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by tux3 »

wruza wrote: post #55
dyauspitr wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube has on average close to 4 million video uploads per day

And still can’t recommend me anything interesting outside of my chamber.

I think it's just pretty hard to recommend things outside of what they know you like.

You can log off and look at what's popular on your country's front page. I get a couple popular music videos, clash of clans, soccer, and a whole lot of clickbait/prank/you won't believe this/pikachu face thumbnail videos.

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by wruza »

zimpenfish wrote: post #61
wruza wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And still can’t recommend me anything interesting outside of my chamber.

I wouldn't mind if it didn't keep recommending me videos I've already watched (they're showing the red bar! they know I've watched it!) or from channels I've already said no to or on topics I've frequently said no to or on topics that I watched one video on[1] and now YouTube thinks I want a full page of similar videos. The algorithm is, for want of some better words, absolute cack. [1] Even if I don't finish the vid…

Lol, I know the pain (who doesn’t). Disliking and removing from history works for me, at least in the short term. I put history right on the sidebar with unhook extension, I believe. Sometimes I clear whole pages from there to avoid spam.

What to do with videos I don’t want to dislike, idk. It keeps recommending watch-once-already-watched videos indefinitely.

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by wruza »

tux3 wrote: post #63
wruza wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And still can’t recommend me anything interesting outside of my chamber.

I think it's just pretty hard to recommend things outside of what they know you like. You can log off and look at what's popular on your country's front page. I get a couple popular music videos, clash of clans, soccer, and a whole lot of clickbait/prank/you won't believe this/pikachu face thumbnail videos.

Won’t work without trying.

It wasn’t hard 10-15 years ago when it was at its peak. I suspect all it did was relaxing walk rules and simply presenting more diverse selection, which optimizes for surfing but deoptimizes for some modal group.

I also remember right-bar surfing techniques that don’t work anymore.

Front page is distilled garbage to me.

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by tux3 »

wruza wrote: post #67
tux3 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's just pretty hard to recommend things outside of what they know you like. You can log off and look at what's popular on your country's front page. I get a couple popular music videos, clash of clans, soccer, and a whole lot of clickbait/prank/you won't believe this/pikachu face thumbnail videos.

Won’t work without trying. It wasn’t hard 10-15 years ago when it was at its peak. I suspect all it did was relaxing walk rules and simply presenting more diverse selection, which optimizes for surfing but deoptimizes for some modal group. I also remember right-bar surfing techniques that don’t work anymore. Front page is distilled garbage to me.

Part of it is also the creators optimizing for what the suggestion algorithm rewards. If you don't like the front page, you're looking for a needle in a haystack, because creators are rewarded very heavily for making the kind of content that lands on the front page and gets mass amounts of views.

Youtube doesn't have much of an incentive to show things that are not either popular in general, or that already worked on you in the past. There are some people that care strongly about that (me included), but it's a very small minority.

If the A/B test says distilled garbage is what hijacks the dopamine center the best, then you will be fed the A/B juice. And on average, people in your cohort will like it.

Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?

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Post by fmbb »

dyauspitr wrote: post #41
CrazyStat wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Youtube has more than that uploaded every single day.

YouTube has on average close to 4 million video uploads per day

Are there any recent stats on how many hours (maybe days now) that are uploaded per second?
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