A Problem Squared

142 = How Long Would YouTube Take to View and How to Display Without Glue or Screws

A Problem Squared

Show Notes

📺 How long would it take to watch all of YouTube? 🪧 How can you make an interesting public display board without damaging the walls? 🏖️ And we have Any Other Beachness (it’s a bit windy and a bit crabby)

Head to our BlueSky/Twitter/Instagram to see Matt and Bec’s differing experiences of the solar eclipse.

Here’s Count Binface and Matt the Count Binface Count Agent getting papped in Clacton: https://tinyurl.com/2h7apka7 And here's Matt's Stand-Up Maths video - Can Count Binface win? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zn1pGRgEoo If you like the sound of David Elms Describes A Room, you can find out more here: ⁠https://www.davidelmsdescribesaroom.com/⁠

Here are the places to go for a deep dive into YouTube Stats: https://tubestats.org/ Counting YouTube Videos via Random Prefix Sampling: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/2068816.2068851 A Transparent, Replicable, and Large-Scale Census of YouTube Channels and their Subscriber Counts Over Time https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06999

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