The improvements have added up. To qualify for the 2020 C.T.W.C., players had to achieve a near max-out within 2 hours. This standard of play left behind veterans who had qualified in each of the previous 10 years. Jonas, with his 1 max-out in qualification, entered the tournament ranked 31th among 64. Joseph, having scored a world-record 12 max-outs, came in as the No. 1 seed. By the quarter-final, the entire old guard had vanished. The remaining players were all of the YouTube generation, with many explicitly crediting its algorithm for introducing them to classic Tetris.
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Ambient japanese music
Old, ambient Japanese music became a smash hit. obscure chillout tunes are becoming popular again due to being featured in situational playlists.
50% of the Internet Is Fake
For a period of time in 2013, 50% of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”
Peak Pasta
To test out new shapes, chefs only need a few ingredients: flour, eggs, water, and an internet connection. “I think the advent of YouTube is when everything changed. You can just look up different shapes. Before then, you had to actually head to Italy to see the shapes, find the book, or work with someone who had actually worked there.”
Deadly Youtube
Killer gets 180-day sentence for YouTube stunt gone wrong
They planned on taking the Internet by storm with footage of Perez firing a gun at Ruiz, who believed that he could stop a bullet with nothing more than a hardcover book. There were a couple of issues with this plan. First, trusting a book to protect you from death, unless you’re boning up on how to make an anti-venom, is insane. Second, the pistol that Perez fired at her beau was a .50 caliber Desert Eagle. For the uninitiated, this is an insanely powerful handgun. With the right load, a round fired from it can bop through a bulletproof vest or pierce light ceramic or steel armor. In short, there was a very high probability that a book wasn’t going to cut it.
Despite this, Perez stood 30 cm away from her man and fired a single round. It went through the book! It went into him! He was killed! She got it all on tape, with not one, but 2 cameras. When Ruiz went down, she called 911 and told the operator what had happened. In December, Perez plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter. She was sentenced to 180-days in jail for the crime.
Layout Land
Jen Simmons, Mozilla Designer and Developer Advocate, is publishing a great youtube channel called “Layout Land”, full of valuable information and guidance in how to use the latest CSS techniques. It provides detailed information in how to use them, but also how to make sure they are accessible and useful for all browsers and users. Great stuff if you’re a web designer or developer.
Benny Hill
Benny Hill This makes all YouTube videos better by speeding them up and adding Yakkity Sax music.
YT olympics
With no specialist javelin coaches in Kenya, the then teenager turned to technology to see what Thorkildsen and other great champions such as Czech Jan Zelezny were doing. “I watched YouTube and it really paid off for me, to see the training techniques and skills they are using
besides all the time wasting & entertainment, there’s the occasional gem like this. he just won gold at the world championship.
Teen “Influencers”
get off my lawn! etc etc
Hayes doesn’t seem to have any of the qualities that one might equate with sell-out-a-theater stardom. He doesn’t sing or act or play an instrument or tell great jokes or even play sports exceptionally well; he just is, and that is far more than enough
YouTube Tacit Knowledge
Today, Khan Academy has 15m registered students in 190 countries. The YouTube channel has racked up over 500m views. Khan’s vision for the future has been endorsed by everyone from Bill Gates to Barack Obama; he’s working with institutions like Stanford University and the Tate.
While Khan is perhaps YouTube’s biggest success in the field of learning, the platform is saturated with instructional videos. There are YouTube tutorials for changing a light bulb, assembling baby buggies, learning the guitar. Shawn Mendes, the 16-year-old Canadian singer hailed as the “next Justin Bieber” taught himself guitar entirely via YouTube.
It’s easy to see the appeal: instead of puzzling over an instruction manual written in 15 languages, you can just watch someone show you. “Our toilet got stuck the other day,” Khan tells me. “Normally, you would hire a plumber. But I watched a YouTube video, which said this was a case where you need an auger – I’d never heard of that – and I went to the hardware store and bought one and I was able to fix it.”
2019-09-20: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer
Through these videos, learners can now partially replicate the master-apprentice relationship, opening up skill domains and economic niches that were previously cordoned off by personal access. These new points of access range from the specialized trades, where electricians illustrate how to use multimeters and how to assess breaker boxes, to less specialized domestic activities, where a novice can learn basic knife-handling techniques from an expert. YouTube reports that searches in the “how-to” category has grown 70% year-on-year.
2022-02-01: For me, the way Sandy Munroe and crew break down vehicles to explain the engineering tradeoffs is a great tacit knowledge example. I could never have guessed that i’d enjoy engineering breakdowns of a Tesla, but these videos are now some of my favorites.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 