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10, actually
Every base is base 10 ;) https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/1czson4/eve...
https://old.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/1czson4/eve...
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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…
I use the like buttons to show myself I've watched a video. It does not result in optimal video recommendations, but hey ho.
It feels like the Youtube algorithm is on drugs now. I get a lot of uninteresting recommendations of videos with no views from channels with no subscribers. A lot of recommendations of things I've already watched recently. A lot of recommendations of stuff that's extremely old (a lot of which I've already watched).
And these recommendations persist for ages. Somehow it must know after a while, after presenting me the same video 50 times that I'm not going to watch it. It's so tiresome. And god help me if I watch a few cat videos. My recs are going to be full of cats for weeks. I feel like I have to watch cat videos in incognito.
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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 synthes…
What is a practical use for largest known prime number?
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 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...
Off topic but this is not technically true. 41 million digits means 1.3 years of saying one digit per second. Even taking 3x as long, to account for sleep and other activities, this would take about four years - still very much doable.
Four years times $100k/year plus $100k completion bonus equals $500k; I guess many people would be willing to do it alone under these conditions.
Ooh, let’s do this with the Busy Beaver function too. BB(5) is only 12,289 binary digits to say out loud. BB(6) and BB(7) can’t possibly take that much longer to say.
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You may be onto something here. We must retain some of our youthful wimsy to be able to appreciate this project.
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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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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…
You aren’t the target market.