How Much YouTube Paid Me for 600 Videos with 2.8M Views in 9 Months
In March of 2023, my husband and I started a YouTube music reaction channel. I know, I know, reaction videos are very polarizing — some get it, some don’t. That’s a different article. Within two weeks of starting the music reaction channel, we hit the 1,000 subscriber / 4,000 watch-hour monetization requirements, and over the balance of 2023 gained over 18,000 new friends (subscribers) who watched nearly 200 thousand hours and amassed over 2.8 million views. Compared to our travel YouTube cha...
How Much YouTube Paid Me for 600 Videos with 2.8M Views in 9 Months
In March of 2023, my husband and I started a YouTube music reaction channel. I know, I know, reaction videos are very polarizing — some get it, some don’t. That’s a different article. Within two weeks of starting the music reaction channel, we hit the 1,000 subscriber / 4,000 watch-hour monetization requirements, and over the balance of 2023 gained over 18,000 new friends (subscribers) who watched nearly 200 thousand hours and amassed over 2.8 million views. Compared to our travel YouTube cha...
Fossilized Human Testicles Or A Dinosaur Bone?
The distal part of a left femur of Megalosaurus from Cornwell, U.K., in posterior view, and first reported by Plot (1677); A, illustrations by Plot (1677, table 8, fig.4); and B, Brookes (1763, p. 312, figure 317) showing the label ‘Scrotum Humanum’.; C) Isolated theropod tooth (likely Megalosaurus) from the Stonesfield, U.K., illustrated by Lhuyd (1699, plate 16, figure 1328). Source: Modified from Hendrickx, et al., 2015. In1970, British paleontologist Lambert Beverly Halstead published a p...
Fossilized Human Testicles Or A Dinosaur Bone?
The distal part of a left femur of Megalosaurus from Cornwell, U.K., in posterior view, and first reported by Plot (1677); A, illustrations by Plot (1677, table 8, fig.4); and B, Brookes (1763, p. 312, figure 317) showing the label ‘Scrotum Humanum’.; C) Isolated theropod tooth (likely Megalosaurus) from the Stonesfield, U.K., illustrated by Lhuyd (1699, plate 16, figure 1328). Source: Modified from Hendrickx, et al., 2015. In1970, British paleontologist Lambert Beverly Halstead published a p...
It’s Time to Ditch the Turing Test
In the film Ex Machina, tech mogul Nathan Bateman (played by Oscar Isaac) invites his employee Caleb (Domhall Gleeson) to his remote compound so that Caleb can perform a Turing test on Ava, a robotic AI that Nathan designed. On the morning after Caleb meets Ava for the first time, the two men have a very interesting conversation about how to test whether she’s actually conscious. Caleb: It feels like testing Ava through conversation is kind of a closed loop.Nathan: It’s a closed loop?Caleb: Y...
It’s Time to Ditch the Turing Test
In the film Ex Machina, tech mogul Nathan Bateman (played by Oscar Isaac) invites his employee Caleb (Domhall Gleeson) to his remote compound so that Caleb can perform a Turing test on Ava, a robotic AI that Nathan designed. On the morning after Caleb meets Ava for the first time, the two men have a very interesting conversation about how to test whether she’s actually conscious. Caleb: It feels like testing Ava through conversation is kind of a closed loop.Nathan: It’s a closed loop?Caleb: Y...
AI’s Threat to Scientific Progress: Monoculture and the Illusion of Knowledge
While listening to a podcast called Weird Studies, I was struck by how the relentless drive to quantify and categorize the world leaves little room for the ‘weird’ — phenomena that defy easy explanation and challenge our existing knowledge frameworks. This modern obsession with efficiency and data collection creates a climate where the hasty merging of AI technologies in scientific research feels not only inevitable but also desirable. While AI offers the allure of objectivity and speed, it r...
AI’s Threat to Scientific Progress: Monoculture and the Illusion of Knowledge
While listening to a podcast called Weird Studies, I was struck by how the relentless drive to quantify and categorize the world leaves little room for the ‘weird’ — phenomena that defy easy explanation and challenge our existing knowledge frameworks. This modern obsession with efficiency and data collection creates a climate where the hasty merging of AI technologies in scientific research feels not only inevitable but also desirable. While AI offers the allure of objectivity and speed, it r...
Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Swap in Raydium Using the SDK
IntroductionRaydium is a decentralized protocol built on the Solana blockchain that facilitates fast and secure trading, liquidity pooling, and automated market making. It is an automated market maker (AMM) that allows users to easily swap between different assets without the need for an intermediary, such as a centralized exchange. The main feature of Raydium is its ability to provide fast and low-cost decentralized trading using a combination of liquidity pools and market-making algorithms....
Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Swap in Raydium Using the SDK
IntroductionRaydium is a decentralized protocol built on the Solana blockchain that facilitates fast and secure trading, liquidity pooling, and automated market making. It is an automated market maker (AMM) that allows users to easily swap between different assets without the need for an intermediary, such as a centralized exchange. The main feature of Raydium is its ability to provide fast and low-cost decentralized trading using a combination of liquidity pools and market-making algorithms....
