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 Yay! 100k! Nice! Big celebration, we have just reached 100,000 subscribers. Now truth be told as of recording of this videos, we actually don't have 100,000 subscribers yet. There's like 156 missing. So all I have to do is not get cancelled in the next two days or so. And this is harder than it seems. But I've managed so far I think I can make it. So thank you everyone who's been here for any amount of time. 100,000 of you have decided to click on the subscribe button and I'm eternally grateful to every single one. I would have never ever ever thought that a dude on YouTube talking for 45 minutes about research papers and stuff would get any attention at all pun intended. But hey, it's come to this. So thank you all so much. This has been absolutely great. I have no intention of stopping. Now this video right here is supposed to be a little bit of an announcement video. And also I thought we'd look a little bit into the channel statistics because I know some of you are interested. So what are the announcements? As I said, I have no intention of stopping reaching 100k doesn't make a big difference in terms of content. In fact, I have lots of ideas for nice content, and probably more ideas than time to implement them. But there's some cool stuff coming up. Also, I will be hosting and ask me anything on probably Sunday as gonna happen here on YouTube. So you'll see that pop up if you're around at that time. Next thing, merch. I thought it'd be funny to have a little bit of channel merch, and I don't have it ready yet. But we'll chat on this court a little bit about what is going to be offered because I do want your inputs into these kinds of things. So let's get some funny merch. And I think that'll be cool. Speaking of discord, special thanks to everyone who is there who participates to everyone who has ever asked and to everyone who has ever answered a question in the help channel to everyone who has participated or even just listened to the paper discussions we host there is special thanks to the regulars and to the moderators who keep everything going. This would absolutely not be possible if it were just myself. So huge thanks to everyone there. This community is just amazing. And we will not be at 100k right now if it weren't for the support that I'm getting from there. If you're not yet a discord member and you do want to be more involved, link is right there in the description. Everyone's welcome. As I said, next to the usual discord chit chat, we have regular paper discussions. And also there are some community projects. Currently, there is one called homebrew NLP, where the goal is to build a framework that can run really large language models on a single machine. If you're interested in that, absolutely join and participate in creation of that. Very cool. Okay, that being said, let's dive a little bit into the channel statistics. Now I think due to the rules of AdSense, I'm not allowed to show you the exact numbers of revenue that come from ads, not entirely sure that's the rule actually, but I have heard it from somewhere and I'd rather not get into trouble. Safe to say, it's not nearly a number where you could live off of this or anything like this. It did support for example, the new camera that I've gotten so you can enjoy an excellent quality. Also, thanks of course to the Patreon and subscribe star supporters and also the people who've sent me a bit of crypto. This has also enabled me to get a new iPad instead of my old Surface tablet, which makes the creation of the paper reviews just a lot easier. So thanks a lot for that. So here I've pulled up statistics since January 2020. I have made numerous videos before that, but not nearly at the scale or frequency that I'm making them now. So the real video making started in the early days of 2020, when the first wave of the current global phenomenon hit, and I suddenly found myself with a bit of more time on my hands. And at that time, I was watching a lot of videos by people like PewDiePie and Casey Neistat, and I deep respect for these people that upload every single day. And I asked myself, how long could I keep this up? And it turned out I could keep it up for about three to four months. So as you can see, YouTube is mostly a grind with a few intermittent spikes. I believe the first spike here is GPT three. And the second spike is alpha fold. You can also see the times I took a couple of breaks namely here in late summer of 2020, and in early summer of this year. It's pretty cool how you can see all of this in the stats. Also, we've recently passed 4 million views, which is crazy. Interestingly, here you can see while a lot of people appear to have watched the GPT three video, not a lot of people have watched it to the end. See the difference? Spike? No spike. Spike? No spike. Maybe that was a different video. Top videos, of course, the all time favorite attention is all you need. See, I've uploaded this in 2017. And it's drawn people ever since, which means I must have done something right. Now people have told me to get a thumbnail for this going or anything like this. But I'm not I'm not going to change a single thing about this video is doing well. People are watching it for a long time, not going to change a thing. Here you see other popular videos are alpha fold and GPT three. Now also surprising is trans coder, which a lot of people watch, but then they watch kind of none of it. So this might have been the big spike. I'm not sure if the thumbnail here is misleading and people expected coding content rather than an analysis of a research paper, or it's because the first part of this word is sort of politically overloaded and maybe people clicked on that or the algorithm recommended that to people. I'm not sure but it is what it is. Interestingly, click through rate has been going steadily down. I'm not sure if that is to be expected as you grow, I guess. I'm not sure. But maybe I should do a little bit more clickbait to get people to click more. When people search for this channel, the most thing they search is my name, which is quite flattering. And then it is the titles of the videos they're interested in such as attention is all you need GPT three, alpha fold or vision transformer, which was a cool video. If you remember, I reviewed that before it was clear who the authors were and I sort of deanonymize the paper live and yeah, I thought that was funny. So who are you? You are probably on YouTube mostly around 6pm in Central Europe, you're probably also subscribed to Two Minute Papers, Lex Friedman, Tesla, the MLS Street Talk and Sabine Hossenfelder among other channels. Now specific shout out to MLS Street Talk. If you're not subscribed to that, I can highly recommend it. I'm part of it not always but a lot of times and we have super duper interesting discussions with people that I would have never guessed I could ever reach and talk to and ask them questions. So I think we have really cool guests and the conversations are often quite technical. So I think you will enjoy that. In terms of watch time, only about half the people are subscribed, which is surprising. That means 200k subscribers isn't far away. And 19 out of 20 of you are probably male and a lot of you are between 25 and 34 years old. Now I'm never sure if that is just the statistics of the people where YouTube knows what they are because they've specified it somewhere or is that what they guess about people in which case I guess that would be seriously distorted because the guessing would probably be based on something like your interests, which might be that if you're into a lot of technical subjects, you're more likely to be male, but then you count that to the statistic here and probably that statistic is then used again for training the algorithms. I'm not sure so I'm not going to interpret too much into this thing right here. Also, you're quite likely to be from the United States or India, but really the geographies are distributed quite all over the world. Okay, I've actually figured it out. Yes, the giant spike was in fact the transcoder video. And here you can see that the traffic source was mostly external. So in fact, the GPT three video was a much smaller spike, not much earlier than the transcoder spike. So this was it for the channel statistics for the celebration of 100k. Thank you so much to everyone who is here to everyone who's helped and who's participated. I hope you still enjoy the content. I still read all the comments. If you have any feedback, any wishes or anything like this, let me know. I'm looking forward to what's to come and have a great day. Bye bye.
 Yay! 100k! Nice! Big celebration, we have just reached 100,000 subscribers. Now truth
 be told as of recording of this videos, we actually don't have 100,000 subscribers yet.
 There's like 156 missing. So all I have to do is not get cancelled in the next two days
 or so. And this is harder than it seems. But I've managed so far I think I can make it.
 So thank you everyone who's been here for any amount of time. 100,000 of you have decided
 to click on the subscribe button and I'm eternally grateful to every single one. I would have
 never ever ever thought that a dude on YouTube talking for 45 minutes about research papers
 and stuff would get any attention at all pun intended. But hey, it's come to this. So thank
 you all so much. This has been absolutely great. I have no intention of stopping. Now
 this video right here is supposed to be a little bit of an announcement video. And also
 I thought we'd look a little bit into the channel statistics because I know some of
 you are interested. So what are the announcements? As I said, I have no intention of stopping
 reaching 100k doesn't make a big difference in terms of content. In fact, I have lots
 of ideas for nice content, and probably more ideas than time to implement them. But there's
 some cool stuff coming up. Also, I will be hosting and ask me anything on probably Sunday
 as gonna happen here on YouTube. So you'll see that pop up if you're around at that time.
 Next thing, merch. I thought it'd be funny to have a little bit of channel merch, and
 I don't have it ready yet. But we'll chat on this court a little bit about what is going
 to be offered because I do want your inputs into these kinds of things. So let's get some
 funny merch. And I think that'll be cool. Speaking of discord, special thanks to everyone
 who is there who participates to everyone who has ever asked and to everyone who has
 ever answered a question in the help channel to everyone who has participated or even just
 listened to the paper discussions we host there is special thanks to the regulars and
 to the moderators who keep everything going. This would absolutely not be possible if it
 were just myself. So huge thanks to everyone there. This community is just amazing. And
 we will not be at 100k right now if it weren't for the support that I'm getting from there.
 If you're not yet a discord member and you do want to be more involved, link is right
 there in the description. Everyone's welcome. As I said, next to the usual discord chit
 chat, we have regular paper discussions. And also there are some community projects. Currently,
 there is one called homebrew NLP, where the goal is to build a framework that can run
 really large language models on a single machine. If you're interested in that, absolutely join
 and participate in creation of that. Very cool. Okay, that being said, let's dive a
 little bit into the channel statistics. Now I think due to the rules of AdSense, I'm not
 allowed to show you the exact numbers of revenue that come from ads, not entirely sure that's
 the rule actually, but I have heard it from somewhere and I'd rather not get into trouble.
 Safe to say, it's not nearly a number where you could live off of this or anything like
 this. It did support for example, the new camera that I've gotten so you can enjoy an
 excellent quality. Also, thanks of course to the Patreon and subscribe star supporters
 and also the people who've sent me a bit of crypto. This has also enabled me to get a
 new iPad instead of my old Surface tablet, which makes the creation of the paper reviews
 just a lot easier. So thanks a lot for that. So here I've pulled up statistics since January
 2020. I have made numerous videos before that, but not nearly at the scale or frequency that
 I'm making them now. So the real video making started in the early days of 2020, when the
 first wave of the current global phenomenon hit, and I suddenly found myself with a bit
 of more time on my hands. And at that time, I was watching a lot of videos by people like
 PewDiePie and Casey Neistat, and I deep respect for these people that upload every single
 day. And I asked myself, how long could I keep this up? And it turned out I could keep
 it up for about three to four months. So as you can see, YouTube is mostly a grind with
 a few intermittent spikes. I believe the first spike here is GPT three. And the second spike
 is alpha fold. You can also see the times I took a couple of breaks namely here in late
 summer of 2020, and in early summer of this year. It's pretty cool how you can see all
 of this in the stats. Also, we've recently passed 4 million views, which is crazy. Interestingly,
 here you can see while a lot of people appear to have watched the GPT three video, not a
 lot of people have watched it to the end. See the difference? Spike? No spike. Spike?
 No spike. Maybe that was a different video. Top videos, of course, the all time favorite
 attention is all you need. See, I've uploaded this in 2017. And it's drawn people ever since,
 which means I must have done something right. Now people have told me to get a thumbnail
 for this going or anything like this. But I'm not I'm not going to change a single thing
 about this video is doing well. People are watching it for a long time, not going to
 change a thing. Here you see other popular videos are alpha fold and GPT three. Now also
 surprising is trans coder, which a lot of people watch, but then they watch kind of
 none of it. So this might have been the big spike. I'm not sure if the thumbnail here
 is misleading and people expected coding content rather than an analysis of a research paper,
 or it's because the first part of this word is sort of politically overloaded and maybe
 people clicked on that or the algorithm recommended that to people. I'm not sure but it is what
 it is. Interestingly, click through rate has been going steadily down. I'm not sure if
 that is to be expected as you grow, I guess. I'm not sure. But maybe I should do a little
 bit more clickbait to get people to click more. When people search for this channel,
 the most thing they search is my name, which is quite flattering. And then it is the titles
 of the videos they're interested in such as attention is all you need GPT three, alpha
 fold or vision transformer, which was a cool video. If you remember, I reviewed that before
 it was clear who the authors were and I sort of deanonymize the paper live and yeah, I
 thought that was funny. So who are you? You are probably on YouTube mostly around 6pm
 in Central Europe, you're probably also subscribed to Two Minute Papers, Lex Friedman, Tesla,
 the MLS Street Talk and Sabine Hossenfelder among other channels. Now specific shout out
 to MLS Street Talk. If you're not subscribed to that, I can highly recommend it. I'm part
 of it not always but a lot of times and we have super duper interesting discussions with
 people that I would have never guessed I could ever reach and talk to and ask them questions.
 So I think we have really cool guests and the conversations are often quite technical.
 So I think you will enjoy that. In terms of watch time, only about half the people are
 subscribed, which is surprising. That means 200k subscribers isn't far away. And 19 out
 of 20 of you are probably male and a lot of you are between 25 and 34 years old. Now I'm
 never sure if that is just the statistics of the people where YouTube knows what they
 are because they've specified it somewhere or is that what they guess about people in
 which case I guess that would be seriously distorted because the guessing would probably
 be based on something like your interests, which might be that if you're into a lot of
 technical subjects, you're more likely to be male, but then you count that to the statistic
 here and probably that statistic is then used again for training the algorithms. I'm not
 sure so I'm not going to interpret too much into this thing right here. Also, you're quite
 likely to be from the United States or India, but really the geographies are distributed
 quite all over the world. Okay, I've actually figured it out. Yes, the giant spike was in
 fact the transcoder video. And here you can see that the traffic source was mostly external.
 So in fact, the GPT three video was a much smaller spike, not much earlier than the transcoder
 spike. So this was it for the channel statistics for the celebration of 100k. Thank you so
 much to everyone who is here to everyone who's helped and who's participated. I hope you
 still enjoy the content. I still read all the comments. If you have any feedback, any
 wishes or anything like this, let me know. I'm looking forward to what's to come and
 have a great day. Bye bye.