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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 sulam »

mustyoshi wrote: post #114
araes wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Above note is the reason Google can't recommend you anything. Consider momentarily the amount of data processing necessary to somehow recommend a relevant video from: ~14,000,000,000 videos on Youtube 615 seconds (~10 minutes) mean length. Which works out to: 8,610,000,000,000 seconds 143,500,000,000 minutes 2,391,666,666 hours 3,274,083 months 272,840 years 27,284 decades 2,728 centuries 273 millennia Netflix simply…

It can't be that hard, once you develop a profile for a user, you just need to classify the incoming videos and cross reference their profile against the classifications.

Sure and classifying video is one of the classically hard things for computers to do. Really classifying in general.

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

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Post by yuvadam »

MarcellusDrum wrote: post #128
magicmicah85 wrote: post #127

How fun. I went ahead and automated this by recording numbers 0-9 into mp3 files and then reading each prime number individually to play the mp3 of the corresponding number. Feel free to reuse if you want to participate. https://gist.github.com/magicmicah/a8cf863ed656e5b56c5449656...

I understand the nerdy need to automate this, but I feel like this defeats the purpose of the while experiment.

I don't know, it seems like a nice creative take, and it is their voice (as opposed to text-to-speech) so it does fit the requirements

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

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Post by magicmicah85 »

MarcellusDrum wrote: post #128
magicmicah85 wrote: post #127

How fun. I went ahead and automated this by recording numbers 0-9 into mp3 files and then reading each prime number individually to play the mp3 of the corresponding number. Feel free to reuse if you want to participate. https://gist.github.com/magicmicah/a8cf863ed656e5b56c5449656...

I understand the nerdy need to automate this, but I feel like this defeats the purpose of the while experiment.

And that’s fair, it’s certainly more monotone and less human but knowing me, I would make ten mistakes before I finally got to a good cut.

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

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Post by a_dabbler »

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.

At the top of the homepage there's a menu bar with categories, if you scroll all the way to try right of that there's a "new to you" option. Try it out :)

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

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Post by spencerchubb »

araes wrote: post #112
wruza wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Above note is the reason Google can't recommend you anything. Consider momentarily the amount of data processing necessary to somehow recommend a relevant video from: ~14,000,000,000 videos on Youtube 615 seconds (~10 minutes) mean length. Which works out to: 8,610,000,000,000 seconds 143,500,000,000 minutes 2,391,666,666 hours 3,274,083 months 272,840 years 27,284 decades 2,728 centuries 273 millennia Netflix simply…

Underrated reason for tiktok's success: shorter videos lend themselves way better to recommendation algorithms, because you have better data about what users want to see

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

araes wrote: post #112
wruza wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Above note is the reason Google can't recommend you anything. Consider momentarily the amount of data processing necessary to somehow recommend a relevant video from: ~14,000,000,000 videos on Youtube 615 seconds (~10 minutes) mean length. Which works out to: 8,610,000,000,000 seconds 143,500,000,000 minutes 2,391,666,666 hours 3,274,083 months 272,840 years 27,284 decades 2,728 centuries 273 millennia Netflix simply…

Almost all my recommended videos have tens of thousands of views or more. I don't know for sure if the algorithm usually ignores 97% of videos, but it might as well be doing that. Doing that vastly reduces the number of options and means you have lots and lots of data for each video.

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

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Post by Dylan16807 »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #132

This title really needs "Mersenne" in it, because for just "primes" the answer is trivially "no".

They're not talking about the next time we find a prime, but they're also not talking about the next time we find a Mersenne prime.

They're talking about the next time we find a largest known prime. Mersenne or not. So while the title could be clearer, adding the word "Mersenne" would imply the wrong thing.

While it's true that the next record will probably be Mersenne, the next Mersenne might not be a record.

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