Re:How Big Is YouTube?
by hipadev23 on Saturday December 23, 2023 @12:01AM
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> This is such a clever way of sampling
I'm sorry what? It's the most basic approach possible. It's literally random sampling. That's not saying it's ineffective, quite the contrary, but to call it clever is a bit absurd.
Re:How Big Is YouTube?
by blackle on Saturday December 23, 2023 @12:05AM
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It is a little more sophisticated. They say they use an exploit that was found where a URL with five characters with a dash will get autocompleted by YouTube (I wonder why that is.) That improves sampling by 32,000 times apparently
I'm sorry what? It's the most basic approach possible. It's literally random sampling. That's not saying it's ineffective, quite the contrary, but to call it clever is a bit absurd.