This is the 3rd time I've seen someone who makes YouTube videos go mad trying to second guess "the algorithm."
YouTube provides creators with a firehose of data: How long people watch, when they stop watching, the distribution of views.
YouTube also sometimes selects videos using a secret, unknowable algorithm to be "promoted." For small and medium creators this is a huge deal and the difference between 500 views and 500,000.
For self-critical analytical minds it's a toxic combination. 1/
Once again I'm seeing a creator I like as a person, someone who cares about science get obsessed and maybe a little delusional about little blips and kinks in the watch-time graphs for his videos.
You see suddenly "the algorithm" hasn't been boosting his videos like before. He didn't change anything the views just dropped off. And so he's looking for a reason he can control for this happening.
But... it might not be anything rational. They change the algorithm all the time. 5/
My advice is to avoid depending on YouTube if you have the option. It's not a good work environment.
I hope that this guy comes out of it. I'm not kidding when I've said it's driven other people mad. Like they had to get therapy because of it... which sounds funny ... until you think about what it would really be like.
Thanks for letting me share about this. It's weighing on me today--
When telling big national news stories, can we deliver local digital versions to every town in the UK? What about to every ward? Read more about our latest experiment in semi-automated content generation here https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2023/salco-2023/
@elonjet people has to take cars for emission control every once in a while. Might be a good time to do the same for private jets, and charge an environmental tax. This is beyond any civilized environmental standard
tl;dr Books, most likely generated by an LLM, were being sold on Amazon under Jane Friedman's name. The same books were added to her Goodreads profile. Amazon initially refused to remove the books. If it's happening to her, it's definitely happening to other authors.
The sea in #Normandy looks different if you’ve chosen (a local bookstore accommodated) to read #Condé, #Glissant, and a book on regional entanglements in the #transatlantic slave trade and the slave economies. #slavery#history
Glissant, in his “discours antillais”, talks about “inquiète tranquillité”:
“The uneasy tranquillity of our existences, by so many obscure relays tied to the tremor of the world.”
Drei Wochen hinter meinem Zeitplan habe ich nun auch endlich Baustelle 2 des Großprojekts Habil-Fertig-Schreiben geschafft. Jetzt kann das Wochenende kommen!
@MichiganPal I’ve just started the Red House by Roz Watkins. I’m only a few chapter in but am so far enjoying it, after a couple of false starts on books that failed to keep my interest. It is about a dark topic but hopefully will be suspenseful rather than grim.
It does have the below quote, which my greyhound-adjacent part-whippet would resent if she could bestir herself from her bed…
I'm the reviewer you want today: I just submitted an "accept as-is" on this R&R two hours after receiving it. Somebody give me a cookie (or send this kind reviewer energy my way, please).