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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
I'm working on a team to build alternative YouTube recommendations. You can search a channel to get a list of similar channels. Our list for Asianometry includes the Asia Society's official channel which has videos of public talks
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
People here recommend like to recommend mCoding. Our alternative YouTube recommendation algorithm can suggest dozens of similar channels to mCoding which also focus on python programming: https://channelgalaxy.com/id%3DUCaiL
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
>As a user of them, I make sure to use multiple engines You may be interested in our alternative YouTube recommendations. Search a channel to find a list of other channels making similar videos. For example, our recommendations for How M
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
>Terrible recommendations. YouTube has the same problem. Whoever is leading recs is doing a terrible job. This is exactly why I am working on a team to build alternative YouTube recommendations. Search a channel to get a list of smaller
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
YouTube is definitely doing curation of "viral" videos to introduce novelty into their recommendations. They've gotten so conservative that the usual algorithm can't fully satisfy users' need for novelty, so they wi
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
They are definitely doing this again. They have become so risk-averse in their algorithm that they have to curate "random" videos to stimulate users' needs for novelty. This video "An Old Man's Advice" with an
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
>It's the dreaded "more of the same shit" algorithm This problem of not-enough-novelty in YouTube's recommendations is exactly why I am working on a team to develop alternative YouTube recommendations. Search a channe
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
>at the same time, youtube is really bad at exposing you to new channels that you would enjoy. they bombard you with similar videos ("here's 15 more toilet seat review videos for you!") but they're not able to extrapo
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
Have you seen NightHawkInLight: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFtc3XdXgLFwhlDajMGK69w LaserSaber: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIKzUKkh7XtnSYPW0AJb-9w or StyroPyro: https://www.y
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
I am on a team working on alternative YouTube recommendations and I discovered Yannic Kilcher and Machine Learning Street Talk off the list of channel recommendations for Two Minute Papers. The whole list has a ton of AI channels: https:&#
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
I actually found his channel with the alternative YouTube recommendations database I'm working on. He was one of the top links off the list for Y Combinator's channel. The list for his channel includes some likely suspects like Te
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
>An airline or UPS can absolutely say “we don’t like the contents of what you are shipping so we refuse to transport it”. Cf.: >An important legal requirement for common carrier as public provider is that it cannot discriminate, that
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
Social media should be considered common carriers, like telephone companies, delivery services, or transportation services. An airline or UPS cannot just say "We don't like your politics so we will not ship your packages." So
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
Good suggestion and noted. Thanks!
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
>Who stops people from running their own search engines? This is basically the reason my team and I are building an alternative set of YouTube recommendations. You can check them out here: https://channelgalaxy.com I was just
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
I'm working on a team to make alternative YouTube recommendations. Here is our list of similar channels for Not Just Bikes which includes dozens of urban design and transit channels like Oh the Urbanity! and Shifter: https:/&#x2F
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
>Happens to me a lot on Youtube too - you watch just one thing - and now your recommendations are full of things like that one thing. Or Facebook/Youtube, somehow: I watched a single video on Youtube about Viking sword fighting and
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
How has Yannic Kilcher not been mentioned yet? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZHmQk67mSJgfCCTn7xBfew I discovered him on Two Minute Papers' similar channel list on the alternative YouTube recommendation algorit
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
>YouTube also has volumes of content, most of which barely gets seen, while they have a massive user base that is regularly unsatisfied with recommendations they get... >YouTube is still useful if you know how to dig deep and find con
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
It is pretty obvious as a creator. The analytics available encourage experimentation. You find that mentioning subscribing or making a more visually engaging thumbnail will significantly boost important metrics like CTR. CTR is a metric alm
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
Just put out an update on the database to correct the missing icons. As channels change icons the old links go dead. Should be back to near 100% icon coverage now. As far as "elements out of focus and missing some borders" goes, I
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
Give it a reload. Google App Engine is giving random problems and an immediate reload will almost always solve the issue. If anyone has any advice on this issue I'd love to hear it.
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
Surprised Quanta and Sean Carroll aren't on this list.
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
You watch The Angry Astronaut? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQvhpTBJRgMAXXzHHzJr7hg
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
Lex Fridman definitely has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSHZKyawb77ixDdsGog4iWA He even has a clip channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJIfeSCssxSC_Dhc5s7woww You ever
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
>Fall of Civilizations You might like Dan Davis History: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUVwT8zcS5Z_rYXnpomlbfg and Maiorianus: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAPLyCPMWlJ0hZCS5-A8loA > M
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
Hey, I'm working on a project to help users discover more interesting content on YouTube. Our channel-based recommendations allow you to search a channel and get a list of other channels making similar content, with a focus on surfacin
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
>as well as begin reading/watching some great information on entrepreneur published on yCombinator youtube channel. You ever hear of Slidebean? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4bq21IPPbpu0Qrsl7LW0sw I found t
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
>I remember going on deep YouTube rabbit holes in another era, because their recommendations always pointed to new, highly related content. Then, at some point in time, YouTube switched their recommendations algorithm to direct me to a m
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by NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
You aware of the AnandTech channel and their podcast? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Qjj9Jpww3iQarwt8HOcDw I could give you a list of channels that do similar content to TechTechPotato.

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