AlphaPhoenix | Impressions: Every exploit to break the algorithm targets this baffling metric @AlphaPhoenixChannel | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 19 hours ago
Welcome to my first meta-video! Today we will be taking a break from physical science (It'l be back tomorrow) and entering the realm of computer science, with a YouTube video about impressions and the recommendation algorithm that has a self-referential updating thumbnail that tells you how many people have seen the thumbnail!
I also introduce the "CTR-Watch-Time Product" as a metric for video success, effectively the additional time YouTube expects to retain a viewer by showing them a thumbnail. It's an interesting metric when youtube is behaving normally, and for videos of similar length.
At the end, I go into some detail on the python script that's actually updating this thumbnail all the time. Warning: it's absolutely horrendous code
#YouTube #Algorithm #CTRWtP

Music etc. in this video:
I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626

Deep Thought - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Patrick "push it somewhere else" meme - Spongebob Squarepants
Purple Crewmate - Among Us
GlaDOS voice and screenshot - Portal/Portal 2 by Valve
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_2042_A_row_of_computer_servers_in_a_server_rack.jpg
Slack quotes from other YouTubers used with permission

Electroshock Catan (pt. 2: How it Works)

$Inside Grande Pines Observatory: Top-of-the-line amateur astronomy A look inside Grande Pines Observatory! This observatory has featured in multiple timelapses, appearing in my channel trailer, the Barn Door tracker video, and the Polaris Timelapse video, but Ive never actually done a video about the observatory and all of the awesome equipment inside, so here it is! Grande Pines Observatory is operated by my dad (the astronomer). He is also the presenter in this video. I got to have fun shooting somebody elses project this time! Hope you enjoy! The gallery of images at the end of the video were taken in this observatory, some with the old 10 f/4.0 Newtonian telescope that the telescope featured here replaced. Music and stuff used: I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Comfortable Mystery 2 - Film Noire by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100537 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Ether by Silent Partner Creative Commons Simulation of a bahtinov mask diffraction pattern when focusing Niels Noordhoek Creative Commons Attribution$

Introducing the Magneto-Turboencabulator

Freezing water sounds like a special effect #shorts

$Five years in 49 minutes Ive had piles and piles of questions about the research that I did in gradschool, so here it is! Be careful what you wish for... About a year ago I defended my dissertation from UCSB in Materials, exploring, among other things, growth of a semiconductor called lead selenide, a narrow-gap material with a bright (ba-dum-tss) future in the realm of infrared optoelectronics. I hope you enjoy! For more information than you could ever reasonably desire: https://escholarship.org/content/qt9mj491xk/qt9mj491xk.pdf Viewers of the channel are probably going to be most interested in all the fun machines featured in chapter 2, Experimental Methods - Molecular beam epitaxy (making crystals in ultra high vacuum) - X-ray diffraction (explained with almost no math) - Electron microscopy (many variants) Music in this video: I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626$

Why does WATER change the speed of electricity?

Impressions: Every exploit to break the algorithm targets this baffling metric @AlphaPhoenixChannel