Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown) [video] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927217
Seriously though, I would be weirdly fascinated to see what else you guys subscribe to and if there are any correlations to my subscriptions. I find this channelling people into little boxes fascinating, and those curves are also very cool.
Additionally, if youtube was forced to only play videos where copyright was proven to belong to the owner of the channel, would it collapse completely.
Is that perhaps what is shrinking the bag of marbles ?
Which interestingly suggests that if we force youtube to actually respect IP, it would reward new creators of quality work more proportionately
It would be interesting to me to know how many stories in HN trend simply because a group of people were all recommended the same content.
It is kind of uncanny that we all have seen this particular video in our recommendations recently. It makes me want to try and create a graph of the connections between all the links.
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance of our algorithms is necessary
But I am a little surprised by the amount of people that get that from the recommender system too.