Comment by satvikpendem
4 days ago
I assume OP watched this excellent Veritasium video about Markov and his chains [0] and posted this article which was referenced in that video.
4 days ago
I assume OP watched this excellent Veritasium video about Markov and his chains [0] and posted this article which was referenced in that video.
Top comment on the video gave me a chuckle.
> I wonder if Markov chains could predict how many times Veritasium changes the thumbnail and title of this video.
I think I remember he did a video explaining that changing the title and thumbnail gives a significant bump in views so that a video can become evergreen. CGP Grey mentioned doing this and hitting 1B total views years earlier than he expected
Yeah, I didn't think he was doing it for his health.
You nailed it, I wanted to post the actual article but found that they where behind a paywall, and I don't know if pirated content is allowed to share here but it's definitely worth a read though!
It is often not piracy to find open copies of papers; the authors often publish them directly (on their personal pages or on arxiv). A commenter further down found a public link: https://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Network-course-readings/Ma...
Yeah, most authors are not concerned about their papers being shared because what they care about is citations, not money. It’s the publishing companies that want to put up the paywall (and the ones who would make any money from it anyway).
Honestly a pretty bad video by Veritasium standards.
Consider the nuclear reaction metaphor. It's clearly not memoryless. Eventually you'll run out of fissile material.
The diagram for that example is bad as well. Do arrows correspond to state transitions? Or do they correspond to forks in the process where one neutron results in two?
> Consider the nuclear reaction metaphor. It's clearly not memoryless. Eventually you'll run out of fissile material.
I think no real process is memoryless: time passes/machines degrade/human behaviors evolve. It is always an approximation that is found/assumed to hold within the modeled timeframe.
Sure but it's still the case that if you treat the reaction as memoryless, your model's predictions will be wildly wrong. It's not a good model in this case.
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3.4 Mio views in 4 days. Wow…
Veritasium is quality content. Those eyes don't hurt nothing either.
They unfortunately recently (last few years) sold out to private equity (which tends to glaze over fundamentals and tries to pump out massive content using previous brand quality to give it credence), so beware of quality in more recent vids:
https://youtu.be/hJ-rRXWhElI?si=Zdsj9i_raNLnajzi
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He's had a couple of misleading videos over the last few years that finally made me unsubscribe. Specifically the lightbulb with a 1 light second wire and the more recent video about light taking infinite paths.
There was also the Waymo ad and the Rods from the Gods video where he couldn't bother to use a guide wire to aim.
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Speaking of eyes, Veritasium's occasional collaborator Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl) is doing much better after complications from long covid left her bedridden for two years. It's good to see her up and at 'em.
Her latest video, showing her out of bed and going for short walks, is here: https://youtu.be/vqeIeIcDHD0?si=WoxpqZOuRTWD2XYd
Nah, he transparently accepted money from waymo to peddle propaganda. Once somebody takes propaganda money, there's no trusting them anymore. From then on out, everything they do is in service to propaganda paymasters. Even just doing regular, good quality work can only be viewed through the lens of acquiring social capital to liquidate into financial capital later.
See: Brian Keating licking Eric Weinstein's jock strap in public and then offering mild criticism on Piers Morgan.
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I assumed he read the Illuminatus! Trilogy and wondered where Markoff Chaney's name originated... There might be something wrong with me, now that I think about it. /s
That's where I first learned about them.
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