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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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Maybe they could run it through Whisper on Groq? It should be able to process individual clips in about a second.

Except that: >We're aware it's likely that if you're reading out a long string of digits like this, you're likely to slip up or say a wrong digit. Mistakes are a very human feature, but as long as you correct it and carry on, they're fine - we just need evidence of humans having said the whole prime, not necessarily in one go. You can watch your video back through before submitting to check it's ok. If you want to ed…

But errors would be rare enough that a single sufficiently OCD soul (or a handful if you wanted error correction of last verification step) could look over the transcripts and diff them against the text of the prime and ensure that every digit in the prime is part of a large sequence of digits read out by the people.

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

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10, actually

Every base is base 10 ;) https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/1czson4/eve...

I love this! I can't believe I've been a math person basically forever and this is the first time I've heard this.

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

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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.

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

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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?

I am glad you like it. I never claimed my personal projects are anything more than that. They have uses for me for sure :-)

But then, you know, I don't involve 100k people in my projects...

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

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I 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...

That was a fun read. I think I let myself get a little too excited for an ending that couldn’t possibly satisfy, but it was still satisfying innit its own way

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

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I 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 read this as a teenager. So good.

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

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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…

I use the like buttons to show myself I've watched a video. It does not result in optimal video recommendations, but hey ho.
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