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To be fair, both have no direct practical applications. And getting people interested in math is actually a great side-effect of stunts like this.
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?
#72I got strong "The Nine Billion Names of God" vibes from this!
Just as the last video is uploaded, without any fuss, the stars start going out...
https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#73At https://youtube.com/watch?v=5GFW-eEWXlc&t=1480s, the characters in the 1977 epic space opera Star Wars state the first 48 (binary) digits of the prime, 47 years before its discovery!
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#74Earlier 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.
I seen multiple creators performing A/B tests on clickbait titles/thumbnails/pokatchu faces and everywhere conclusion was the same: it's so effective for their bottom line that even when they are not comfortable with it, they cannot afford to not do it.
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#75At https://youtube.com/watch?v=5GFW-eEWXlc&t=1480s , the characters in the 1977 epic space opera Star Wars state the first 48 (binary) digits of the prime, 47 years before its discovery!
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Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#76So, each human gets 419 digits from a pool of ~41M digits, or a target of ~100k videos uploaded. This is the weirdest DDoS attack on YouTube I've seen.
DDoSing youtube i am afraid ll take far far more than that. atleast a 100 million AI generated garbage videos to be uploaded every hour to even consider it as an attack at the minimum
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
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To be fair, both have no direct practical applications. And getting people interested in math is actually a great side-effect of stunts like this.
The direct application of looking for primes is that's an interesting computer science research project (perf, networking, big data) with a clear practical use, besides obviously being a pure research field which is valuable in itself. There are 800+ results in google scholar for the project (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=GIMPS&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&...)
Vocalizing primes? Maybe it could be used in speech synthesis although I'm not sure that the terms allow it or that the participants would be happy with their voice becoming AI...
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#78Are they going to verify that everyone said their sequence correctly? It would be a silly and pointless prank to derail the effort by omitting a number on purpose, but this is the internet... Or maybe it's just the 'coming together' aspect that we're going for anyway, in which case, it doesn't matter :)
...and accidentally discover the next biggest prime number!
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#79I got strong "The Nine Billion Names of God" vibes from this! Just as the last video is uploaded, without any fuss, the stars start going out... https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
I last read that story nearly a decade ago, I think. This time around, it feels more real. The engineers follow silly instructions from people with money, and then...
Re: Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, both have no direct practical applications. And getting people interested in math is actually a great side-effect of stunts like this.
The direct application of looking for primes is that's an interesting computer science research project (perf, networking, big data) with a clear practical use, besides obviously being a pure research field which is valuable in itself. There are 800+ results in google scholar for the project ( https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=GIMPS&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&... ) Vocalizing primes? Maybe it could be used in speech synthes…
Writing an emulator for the Z80 also has no practical uses but we all do things for fun don't we?