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jgalt212 12 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Problem solving using Markov chains (2007) [pdf]

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.

anitil 12 months ago [–]

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

jgalt212 12 months ago | [–]

Yeah, I didn't think he was doing it for his health.

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