The Zipf Mystery
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WordCount.org www.wordcount.org/
How many days have you been alive? www.beatcanvas.com/daysalive.asp
random letter generator: www.dave-reed.com/Nifty/randSe...
Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: / obscuresorrows
Word frequency resources:
[lemmatized] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_co...
www.uow.edu.au/~dlee/corpora.htm
www.wordfrequency.info
www.anc.org/data/anc-second-re...
www.titania.bham.ac.uk/docs/
www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readm...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktio...
ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/
[PDF] www.wordfrequency.info/files/e...
[combined Wikipedia and Gutenberg] www.monlp.com/2012/04/16/calcu...
corpus.byu.edu/coca/files/100k...
corpus.byu.edu/
corpus.leeds.ac.uk/list.html
books.google.co.uk/books?id=j...
www.ling.helsinki.fi/kit/2009s...
Great Zipf's law papers:
colala.bcs.rochester.edu/paper...
www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/s...
arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0412004...
www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/c...
Zipf’s law articles and discussions:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/a...
io9.com/the-mysterious-law-tha...
plus.maths.org/content/os/lat...
judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/...
plus.maths.org/content/myster...
www.datasciencecentral.com/pro...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27...
other Zipf’s law PDFs
ftp.iza.org/dp3928.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/1402.2965.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/1104.3199.pdf
www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~jim/zipfjrh.pdf
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
polymer.bu.edu/hes/articles/pg...
in untranslated language: arxiv.org/pdf/0808.2904.pdf
pages.stern.nyu.edu/~xgabaix/p...
www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/pa...
statweb.stanford.edu/~owen/cou...
arxiv.org/pdf/1310.0448v3.pdf
www.kornai.com/Papers/glotto5.pdf
Zipf’s law slides:
www.slideshare.net/guest9fc47a...
Pareto Principle and related ‘laws’:
www.squawkpoint.com/2013/03/pa...
billyshall.com/blog/post/paret...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_...
Random typing and Zipf:
www.longtail.com/the_long_tail...
health 80/20: archive.ahrq.gov/research/find...
Principle of least effort:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princip...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfi...
www.pnas.org/content/100/3/788... [PDF]
csiss.org/classics/content/99
self organized criticality:
journal.frontiersin.org/articl...
Hapax Legomenon:
campus.albion.edu/english/2011...
www.dailywritingtips.com/is-th...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_l...
[PDF] www.aclweb.org/anthology/J10-4003
www.wired.com/2012/01/hapax-le...
oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/con...
oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/con...
Learning curve: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learnin...
Forgetting curve:
www.trainingindustry.com/wiki/...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgett...
Experience curve effects: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experie...
Forgetting
and zipf's law: act-r.psy.cmu.edu/wordpress/wp...
public.psych.iastate.edu/shaca...
marshalljonesjr.com/youll-reme...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting
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@Vsauce 8 років тому
Hey Vsauce! FYI: 181 million / 5555 is 32583.2583258... the "=" should be a "≈" How I missed that is a mystery -- but it's not as big as the Zipf mystery!
@steelwolf411 8 років тому
+Vsauce yes
@humvy23 8 років тому
+Vsauce Thank you for your art Michael.
@antoinecedriccc2 8 років тому
+Vsauce You should do a video about the six degrees of separation theory!! Anyways love your vids.
@ItsMatic 8 років тому
What about Cern or H.a.r.p Something about portals or wormholes into different dimensions do an Vid on that ? .
@rayankhalil2495 8 років тому
ummm okayy??? #FuckThisShitImOut
@finnberuldsen4798 8 років тому
Finding a Vsauce video in your subscriptions feels like finding $20 on the street.
@manueldom123 8 років тому
+Finn Beruldsen Well said! I need more $20 dollar bills.
@samherport7586 8 років тому
it really does mate
@veazix 8 років тому
+Finn Beruldsen Both get the reaction: "Ummmm... YES."
@oducks5820 8 років тому
Its $20 worth of knowledge.
@joseph_lacy 8 років тому
So true
@twodogstar2565 Рік тому
It's extremely hilarious to read the list of 100 most used words in order and try to sound like you're actually trying to explain something to someone
@earlbilbrey8058 Рік тому
But it is kinda eerie to think about it as a comprehensible statement of some sort. Kind of thinking of it as an unarguable statement that we are all collectively making. 🤔
@macizogalaico Рік тому
@@earlbilbrey8058 every couple of days someone, somewhere, invents dadaist poetry again
@frogg_tv4774 Рік тому
it does sound like when i try to explain things to someone-
@SteeZy644 Рік тому
Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
@Thiesal-4 10 місяців тому
TOATAIIITIFYWWOAHBBT
@rohitsinha3600 Рік тому
I love how he says the most used words in English as if it's a sentence of a good ol' English poem.
@RudyHH2 Рік тому
i am not sayin' most script'd
@UnclePengy 10 місяців тому
Verily, t'was iambic pentameter!
@Qaptyl 8 місяців тому
ye olde english poem
@harrys4698 8 років тому
80% of Michaels hair is on 20% of his head
@Cpt_Crack 8 років тому
Whoops
@LilLeanCuisine 8 років тому
Nice one
@gavinwarner3480 8 років тому
Savage
@bsigns1935 8 років тому
nice...
@eraldylli 8 років тому
He looks hot, well... warm.
@gemworm 4 роки тому
In group chats: 80% of the talking is done by 20% of the members
@abeke5523 4 роки тому
All these comments made me realize that holy fucking shit the 80-20 rule is actually everywhere
@_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ 4 роки тому
Holy shit you’re right
@small_SHOT 4 роки тому
It is confirmed that *y o u e x i s t*
@skthechef8075 4 роки тому
Facts
@floofyliu8819 4 роки тому
Big brain big brain
@coolerman_13 Рік тому
"by focusing on 20% of what's wrong, you can expect to solve 80% of the problems" mind blown
@Aranwaar 9 місяців тому
I focused on 40% now i solved 160% of my problems
@tomomalley50 9 місяців тому
@@AranwaarNoob, I’m doing 100% for 400%
@tomomalley50 7 місяців тому
@@phil_bean shut up
@venga3 6 місяців тому
But being able to identify what that priority 20% should be is the real key.
@MouminDaherAbtidon Місяць тому
It's not ANY 20% but a specific 20%.
@PazEr80 5 місяців тому
Last week I attended a lecture at university about power laws and preferential attachment processes. It's crazy to think that I already knew everything because 8 years ago teenage me was binge watching Vsauce. Thanks Michael for making us smarter in the most entertaining way, honestly no one does it like you. You will never be forgotten.
@Silvertarian 8 років тому
Explains why 20% of employees do 80% of the work.
@joeyrozic1100 8 років тому
+Bulkbs Jokes
@John----Smith 8 років тому
+Bulkbs because they must follow pareto's law, which is a management directive in almost all companies.
@AlterVayne 8 років тому
+Walders1 It doesn't. Here we have 20% of the EMPLOYEES and 80% of the WORK, These are separate objects. You cannot sum up two percentages of different objects.
@Italianchef26 8 років тому
+Bulkbs It makes sense to me. A small quantity of workers (a small quantity of words) are responsible of a large quantity of work (make up most of what we say). I know it was intended as a joke but the rule still stands I guess...
@foil767 8 років тому
Communism...
@awaken6760 8 років тому
20% of this video left me 80% confused.
@ToddFarenbourgh 8 років тому
80% of this video contained 20% of the Information :-D
@mozillafoxer8489 8 років тому
+Simon Tiersch *cough* the *cough* other *cough* way *cough* around *cough*
@ThePlumAbides 8 років тому
20% of this comment contains 80% of my reply
@CorieandMosesVideos 8 років тому
+Simon Tiersch Lol! Or is it that 80% of the information was given in 20% of the video? .> 0.0
@Gabu_ 8 років тому
+Kevin Simmons uhhhhh... pls, help. I'm stuck inside my mind now, and I can't find the way out.
@lezbeehonest0294 10 місяців тому
14:40 I've always loved when in conversation, someone uses a word that's out of fashion or hasn't been used in a while, and within like 3 minutes, someone says it again. Or when I watch a streamer that has an article or something on screen and they choose a word from the visible text. Like our brains just latch onto words.
@cara-seyun 3 місяці тому
I believe this is the explanation for why there is so much plagiarism online People aren’t even aware they are copying someone else
@mostlyghostey Рік тому
I think one of the most wonderful things about our "Zipfian Mind" forgetting things, is the chance to experience them "like new" all over again. It's comforting to remember that even if you can't remember all of a book you read, you can have the joy of reading it again and being surprised by the things you forgot.
@jimmycryz Рік тому
Same with Vsauce videos, I watched this video in 2018, 2020 and now in 2022 and I never remembered anything from the past viewings.
@monicarenee7949 Рік тому
@@jimmycryz I remember watching this video before but couldn’t even remember it was about so I rewatched it
@kamilocastillo5816 11 місяців тому
That's called nostalgia
@cherriberri8373 9 місяців тому
My issue with that is then i just start remembering stuff as i read and so that isnt even true :(
@digletwithn 4 місяці тому
@mostlyghostey the = 6.9% (58 words total; 4 occurrences)
@Botpointo 2 роки тому
Group projects: 80% of the work is done by 20% of the students
@nicoyazawa2051 2 роки тому
Damn
@KYR4T0NIN 2 роки тому
Or the other way around since they don’t finish the project
@eclecticsoffy 2 роки тому
It actually do be like that
@thomasbraeuning1918 2 роки тому
e. g. one student
@_judge_me_not 2 роки тому
15.4% of your sentence is "the"
@ladyalicent705 4 роки тому
In a classroom 80% of the talking is done by 20% of the kids.
@obamabinladen4109 4 роки тому
Lord Davrox more like 3% of the kids
@LilCheesyBean 4 роки тому
Obama bin Laden, that’s just the one kid that every teacher hates
@mmabagain 4 роки тому
In a classroom 80% of the homework is done by 20% of the kids too.
@GORNK 4 роки тому
or are 80% of the kids done by 20% of the talking?
@charlesballiet7074 4 роки тому
yea well most chimps are taught to regurgitate information. Thinking for yourself requires that rare spark of intelligence
@Darknight24x Рік тому
Every time I see this video, I always forget that quote at the end. "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten; even so, they have made me." Thank you Michael. 😊
@colby722 8 місяців тому
Watching this nearly a decade later. Probably my 20th time revisiting this exact video. By far my favorite video on UKposts. Absolutely beautiful composition and every part makes me think deep every time I watch it. I love this video
@d-bro5695 8 місяців тому
You and me both mate - I try to educate people about Zipfs Law frequently, but usually just redirect them here. Come to think of it, I’d probably redirect about 80% of them here and explain it sufficiently to the other 20%….
@evanmclellan9014 7 років тому
80% of my attention is on 20% of the screen
@boozer01 7 років тому
Ronald McDonald Nigga I'm gonna kick the McShit™ outta you
@bliss7470 6 років тому
Your profile picture is very appropriate for your comment.
@mangetsuderdeutschgamer6580 6 років тому
Nigga you too woke for me
@Whyolent 6 років тому
tbh that is probably correct
@w00fsicle36 6 років тому
1000 likes in just three months... I'm impressed.
@enderboy1824 4 роки тому
“The of and to, a in is I. That it for you was with on. As have, but be they.” -Michael This was my senior quote
@sudokuzcalkami 4 роки тому
sounds Shakespearean
@enderboy1824 4 роки тому
@Vahe Mayilyan The almighty loaf
@enderboy1824 4 роки тому
Vahe Mayilyan pretty old meme
@UrWifiIsSlow 4 роки тому
It was mine too
@utkarsh3012 4 роки тому
Or is it?
@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667 Рік тому
I cannot remember all the Vsauce videos I’ve seen any more than all the meals I’ve eaten, even so, they have made me. Thanks, Michael and your team for everything, and thanks to all of you human friends for everything the truth is that in spite of me, being a lonely person, I love every second that I pass with all of you. And as always thanks for making majestic videos Michael.
@billyma6 Рік тому
i always wondered how zipf would apply to languages like mandarin where it isn’t expressed in itemized components like letters
@chonpincher Рік тому
There's a good paper on this at dsd.future-lab.cn/members/2015nlp/readings/zipf's%20law/JCLC_18(1).4.pdf
@ayellowllama9602 6 місяців тому
Aren't characters itemised components?
@Reivax2007 3 роки тому
The most used words are now: hey, vsauce, Michael, here.
@person7038 3 роки тому
The most words you said in that sentence are “ , “
@neeevirus 3 роки тому
@@person7038 that is not a word. A word is made up of letters. That is a special character. You can't even say it since it doesn't have a pronunciation. That said the most words I said in this reply was "is", not ".".
@maddog3006 3 роки тому
Ikr
@person7038 3 роки тому
@@neeevirus Ik I was kidding
@neeevirus 3 роки тому
@@person7038 I had a slight feeling you were kidding, but I still went and replied like that sorry for not getting the joke
@mlgeorge. 4 роки тому
Fun fact: He had said 16 words before the first “the” he said
@ramananprv4756 4 роки тому
!!! Why doesn't this comment have more likes
@slinkerdeer 4 роки тому
@@ramananprv4756 because this video is from 2015
@b4o450 4 роки тому
But the comments are 3 days ago
@spadeney3722 4 роки тому
MLGeorge AND THAT IS ABOUT 5.88% OF WHAT HE SAID (in those 17 words) AND HE SAID ABOUT 6% OF WHAT YOU SAY WILL BE “THE” coincidence? I THINK NOT
@x_Fr0stee_x 4 роки тому
No mans sky. 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
@unfinishedsketch. Рік тому
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
@GothicOctopus Рік тому
Fun fact: I remembered the top most used words and often tried to quote them in order but for YEARS I could not label this video. It made me so happy to stumble upon it again
@ibperson7765 7 місяців тому
That IS a fun fact
@wthisthishandlething 7 місяців тому
@@ibperson7765 indeed - who dosent like a good ending
@ibperson7765 6 місяців тому
@@wthisthishandlething Word
@Vsauce 8 років тому
And just like that there are already TWO Google results for "quizzaciously." Now, within the Google-search-result corpus, quizzaciously is technically a "dis legomenon." Next stop? "tris legomenon," then "tetrakis legomenon," and beyond!!!
@FlamJongUn 8 років тому
pentakis, exakis etc!
@MadeinHell2 8 років тому
+Vsauce Such a thing happens to google whacks all the time. It is a sad thing to see go.
@maxkoller6315 8 років тому
hahaha I love you mate :)
@ArceusDX 8 років тому
+Vsauce I just checked the Oxford English Dictionary site, Quizzaciously has disappeared.
@thethanmanland2 8 років тому
+TheOneTemor omg illuminati confrimed
@iwllkllyoo1 8 років тому
so, theoretically, 80% of views on UKposts are on 20% of the videos?
@RetroLPGames 8 років тому
+Thadeus Crimson And - theoretically - 80% of views on UKposts are made by 20% of the users. I wonder if there actually is official data about it, shouldn't be to hard for Google to get it...
@peterseagrave4051 8 років тому
80% of the videos are created by 20% of users. Well, in theory.
@markwelschmeyer2426 8 років тому
+Thadeus Crimson and like 8% on Gandom Style
@markwelschmeyer2426 8 років тому
+Thadeus Crimson this could also mean that the "top" you tube commenter comments twice as next as the 2nd.
@kaskade333 8 років тому
I read somewhere that 99% of the views are on 30% of the videos
@coldguto Рік тому
just finished a paper work for university, in which the teacher linked the basis of work as this exactly video. that's how important you and your crew are to us, michael.
@irenecheca6575 6 місяців тому
Thank you for all the resources you posted in the description, much appreciated. Gonna try to use your video in my class on Language Variation and Change.
@grfrjiglstan 8 років тому
And now there's 58,800 Google results for 'quizzaciously' - and a subreddit. Way to go, Michael, you saved a word from obscurity.
@seigeengine 8 років тому
+grfrjiglstan No. If the rule holds then quizzaciously becoming more popular won't have any net effect.
@AquariusRisen 8 років тому
That's funny; my Web search didn't come up with anything.
@Zerepzerreitug 8 років тому
remember to search for it with quotation marks. With them, it's only 110 results so far.
@artyknotswastaken 8 років тому
+Arturo Gutierrez Ah, 327
@mariahmerry 8 років тому
+grfrjiglstan Btw, the word in in Wikipedia now as well lol
@ThatMumboJumbo 8 років тому
This video made me uneasy for some reason.
@hailmusix5225 8 років тому
Because 80% of the government is 20% Illuminat :o
@Fatherlake 8 років тому
+Mumbo Jumbo HEY MUMBO!!! A SURPRISE TO SEE YOU HERE! im a subber btw
@morgancook4288 8 років тому
isn't it weird the same people you like also like the people you like ?
@evren.builds 8 років тому
+Mumbo Jumbo It`s just that you`re living in a computer program nothing to make you uneasy...
@AdroSlice 8 років тому
Wow. Interristing to see you here, of all places. I'm glad you have interrest such cool things though.
@thattimestampguy Рік тому
7:15 Ease vs Understanding 11:42 Built Into Humanity 13:04 The Path Grows more common depending on how many people access it and how easy it is to access 15:47 50-100 Words frequently. Every other word 1 time. 18:37 Oleka
@MatsueMusic 3 місяці тому
I watch this video every time the world feels too chaotic to remember that this moment is just an outlier.
@sagesarrazine6270 3 роки тому
Fun fact: Marine biologists have found that Zipf's law also applies to dolphin click patterns. Dolphins have their own language
@dollcefina 3 роки тому
I knew it!! 🐬🐬🐬 (By which I mean that I _suspected_ so, not that I already knew the fact, haha.)
@4merly 3 роки тому
@@dollcefina Fun fact, you typed 16 words before typing "the". (idk if intentional)
@Nukestarmaster 3 роки тому
"So long and thanks for all the fish"
@JL1009 3 роки тому
@@sagesarrazine6270 16.
@-Danny 3 роки тому
Although yes, it's true that they have a language, it's not Zipf's law that confirms it. Going back to the paperclip example, you can see how random events in a set can result in this pattern. There's nothing intelligent about the way he picked each paperclip to link. Do we have enough information to say we discovered a paperclip language? ...maybe if you tried hard enough you could create it, but the data itself says nothing.
@jswp5 7 років тому
80% of the information I take from these videos comes from the first 20% of the video
@hamimseam2591 7 років тому
jswp5 ikr
@lennartweber2228 7 років тому
jswp5 20% of the information i picked up here will stay in my mind, while i will forget 80% again. imagine watching this vid over and over again. u will never remember everything 100%. now think about the tv series sherlock. SUPER HUMAN PROVEN
@adamkowal4381 7 років тому
all i need to know is how often the word sauce is used in english
@zanon__ 7 років тому
Moist.
@cockbreath01 7 років тому
2:08 you never even made it that far?
@johnkeogh4177 6 днів тому
It’s about usefulness. The most used words are the most useful in the widest array of situations. Ergo: they get used in lots of situations. Words with specific meanings are only useful in specific situations. Ergo: they get used only in those specific situations.
@giulioiannelli9556 9 місяців тому
You should have counted the words used in the video
@denisdrc5836 4 роки тому
Once you've read the dictionary, every other book is just a remix
@isleofbirb 4 роки тому
Denis DRC once you’ve seen the alphabet, every other word is just a remix
@whiteslate 4 роки тому
Isle of Birbs once you’ve seen a straight line, every written letter is just a remix
@curiousman4452 4 роки тому
@@whiteslate once you’ve seen a periodic table, the whole world is just a remix
@RASHY616 4 роки тому
Denis DRC woaahhh
@x_Fr0stee_x 4 роки тому
@@curiousman4452 once you've seen matter and energy, the whole observable universe is just a remix.
@randomuser3053 2 роки тому
Michael; the only man who can answer 16 questions when we only asked one
@Alienguy500 Рік тому
clearly he "answer"s more than we "ask"
@shyeskyeskyeksye Рік тому
80% of the answers come from 20% of the questions
@thaddeusphish4113 Рік тому
@@shyeskyeskyeksye my brain is to broken to read this
@ROMANXA5 Рік тому
1 minute of watching him and i learn more then a whole year of school
@rickastley3033 Рік тому
he'll answer 8 questions when asked only 2
@steveson129 7 місяців тому
Fun fact : you can say the word "of" for this whole video sp that the graph changes from 1/2 to 1/2+x
@rezapanahi249 Рік тому
Amazing. The paper clips part was mind-blowing.
@ajr993 8 років тому
80% of comments are created by 20% of users. Seems legit.
@M_Lars 8 років тому
A lot may not have accounts...
@wow-jc4ez 8 років тому
+Matthew Larsen user is disccusible word
@rashotcake6945 8 років тому
20% of girls are fucked by 80% of guys
@robo3007 8 років тому
+Rashotcake That is actually a statistic I've heard before
@rashotcake6945 8 років тому
+Robin Powell how about 20% of my dick's length causes 80% of the pleasure a girl feels when I'm hooking up
@direwolf029 4 роки тому
Obviously the programmers who made the simulation we live in got lazy and decided to write one law to cover the ratio of everything
@isore3090 4 роки тому
I think those "programmers" is just God
@thomasgreenhill2482 4 роки тому
@@isore3090 naw god doesn't exist
@Christina-pq7kn 4 роки тому
Yeah. If god were to exist as such an all powerful tyrant, then why doesn’t he change people who feel so privileged as to correct someone else’s beliefs. Like you Alikare.
@isore3090 4 роки тому
@@Christina-pq7kn why are atheists so ignorant, rude and conclude to opinions without thinking. Since when is stating my/your own opinion seen as "CoRrEcTiNg SoMeOnE's BeLiEf"? I think God is testing me with all these ignorant people like you, sorry bud next time, think and read comments clearly before commenting something stupid
@masony6489 4 роки тому
@@isore3090 you can't even spell "programmers" right, how are you talking?
@BBQDad463 9 місяців тому
Thank you for this video. It was thoroughly fascinating.
@JamesLewis2 Рік тому
The note that the list of most frequent words is lemmatized should have made clear that this is only for verbs: The list still separates "a" and "an", "we" and "us", etc.
@vidulab3977 5 років тому
5:06 The way one of my teachers explained the 80 20 thing: 80% of the noise in a classroom is caused by 20% of the students.
@ChangedNames 5 років тому
•brain explodes•
@weichenplays 5 років тому
The
@gressorialNanites 5 років тому
If that is true, s/he needs to speak up. The students in the back need to hear hir too.
@bursteh1135 5 років тому
Maybe she has ears, And if she actually has ears, we're doomed.
@zaxxro2547 5 років тому
Can you speak up? I can't hear from back here
@recrucity 5 років тому
The most used word people use while watching VSauce: “What?”
@geometryjosh21 5 років тому
The most used phrase in vsauce videos is: or is it... OR IS IT . . .
@lewwylemons 5 років тому
@@geometryjosh21 vacuse? (edit: congrats you fixed it) (edit again: actually you didn't its vsauce not vsause)
@embee5375 5 років тому
Haha I just added this video to my playlist called "What?"
@user-rd8xy6zv5z 4 роки тому
And that's crazy
@rainbowlemew 4 роки тому
The word least used while watching Vsauce: FBI, open up.
@shresthaditya9731 Рік тому
0:02-'the' is the most common word 6% of everything you say and write 0:25- 1:14-Power Law 1:22-Zipf law 3:20-Use of Zipf Law 4:30-Pareto Principle 6:57-Principle Of Least Effort 8:17- 9:48- 13:30- 14:40-Zipfs Law is based on preferential attachment 15:47- 17:00- 18:10-
@xXx_Regulus_xXx Рік тому
timestamps are the most valuable comments, thank you
@circuitguy1010 24 дні тому
About 80% of my brain exploded with 20% of information on this video.
@TheCarolgibbons 4 роки тому
I've always said I wear 20 percent of my clothes 80 percent of the time.
@nathanbullaft 4 роки тому
Clever one 😂
@mariomaxy1140 4 роки тому
Taking that into account, you’re saying you have 20 pieces of clothing... Wow, loser!
@joelackers5104 4 роки тому
Mario Maxy he could have 5 pieces of clothing
@edme8865 4 роки тому
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... 5 outfits and 5 days, that would mean wearing the same outfit for 4 days straight. bump it up one level. 30 outfits for 30 days. Starting to reach on the number of outfits, but continuing on. That means wearing 6 outfits for 24 of those 30 days. This seems it could be achieved by cycling through those 6 outfits four times during the month, or once a week with wearing one of the non-six outfits on the 7th day and washing those six outfits. This would make 12 of those 30 outfits actually used, however... bump it up one level. 365 outfits for 365 days. A far stretch on the number of outfits. That would mean wearing 73 outfits for 292 of those 365 days. This still seems plausible until considering the number of outfits. So... Try time to try the magic interentz search box. One survey list average articles of clothing as 103, another as 142, and another recommends 10 outfits. Try 142. Divide into shoes, bottoms, tops, underwear and that is 35.5 sets. Now times 20% is 7.1 outfits. There is the argument of how the shoes, bottoms, tops, underwear give multiple permutations of outfits, and this is correct. Yet by following that argument out goes into automatically disproving the 20-80 claim because of not filling the 20% of clothing by either not using that 20%(going commando?) or using more than 20%(outfit matching requirements-pajamas do not mix with button up work shirt). So, the 10 outfits is the most. Revising the above... 10 outfits for 5 days--little problem with "25 hours in a day" concept. Otherwise seems great. 10 outfits for 30 days--each outfit would have to be worn for 3 days, straight. Not to be confused with the breakdown of 30 outfits for 30 days. 10 outfits for 365 days--each outfit would have to be worn for over a month. Not too certain if even homeless people do this.
@inanjarif1388 4 роки тому
@@edme8865 There is the alternative option of,you know, *_cleaning the outfits_*
@mmandible5470 2 роки тому
“I cannot remember all the books I’ve read anymore than all the meals I’ve eaten, even so they have made me” is perhaps one of the most beautiful sentiments I’ve ever heard
@Luxifer66 2 роки тому
according to zipfs law, by now you must have forgot it.
@abra_escaped 2 роки тому
Why thank you captain risk of rain 2
@MysteriusSushi 2 роки тому
“I cannot remember all *the* books I’ve read anymore than all the meals I’ve eaten, even so they have made me” is perhaps one of *the* most beautiful sentiments I’ve ever heard
@StdDev99 2 роки тому
I'm glad I have forgotten this video because I've enjoyed it again 6.5 years later like I'm seeing it for the first time
@nickoldberg1752 2 роки тому
I'm so glad he ended with that bit of positivity because it was getting to existential crisis a bit about how much of our lives we forget
@MAJ0ROCEL0T 3 місяці тому
I come back to this video often. Its honestly so existentially comforting somehow.
@BitcoinAndChess 3 місяці тому
Andrei Jikh just did a video showing a newly discovered Power Law: Bitcoin. It's price is predictable. Check it out.
@func_e Рік тому
This is why I love this channel. the rabbit holes never cease
@sophiacopple4735 6 років тому
Listen, I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens
@calebmatthews2026 6 років тому
Sophia Copple we're being studied or we're a simulation and zipfs law is just the code which dictates our behavior. The same is true for quantum mechabics. It's the only thing that makes sense.
@clawthelaw 6 років тому
C M I thought of something like that as well, I'm not saying that's my theory of existence but it was the most interesting and equally "logic" answer I could think for this case. Life is crazy isn't it?
@jdjsjcjdn 6 років тому
Sophia Copple dead
@stijn184 6 років тому
If your dad's name is Francis Ford you will make my day XD
@mustafayusif865 6 років тому
Or god
@nownothingwillbewrong2958 4 роки тому
0:27 me talking to a girl be like
@geoffreyloaiza8281 4 роки тому
Omg lol
@hunterobrian7761 4 роки тому
that makes two of us
@FestivalofFreaks 4 роки тому
Me trying to talk to anyone
@warwick802 4 роки тому
Lmao
@twistedgwazi5727 4 роки тому
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAN FUNNY RELATABLE XDDDDDD 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@junbird Місяць тому
Shout out to my professor, who showed us the beginning of this video during class for introducing the topic at hand. Would have never expected of watching Vsauce during a university lecture.
@slide0549 Рік тому
This one video made the results for quizzaciously go from one to ~4,420 in 7 years.
@emilykalunga3510 4 роки тому
Shakespeare: 0:27 people in 1610: 😍😍😍😍🙌🙌🙌😭😭😱😱
@mambodog5322 4 роки тому
Also English teachers throughout the galaxy
@emilyrobinson1610 4 роки тому
This made me laugh pretty hard
@elliotsmelliot 4 роки тому
Holy shit bro this is honestly the best shit I’ve seen today
@calebmurray4438 4 роки тому
Shakespeare: 0:27 English majors now: 😍😍😍😍🙌🙌🙌😭😭😱😱
@silverninja5218 3 роки тому
Dam that poem spoke to me, everything that I or other people say cant surmount to this. That shit was fire!🔥🔥
@emzy_9442 3 роки тому
I know what I must do. I must make an entire book that says the word sauce over 100 million times
@snoopydog1163 2 роки тому
disturb the balance restore *sauce*
@newboy6736 2 роки тому
when you do that it goes up the word rankings and gets divided by a smaller number so it dosent even make too much of a difference in the grand scheme of things
@theosouris7063 2 роки тому
Reject logic. Return to the 2009 YTP.
@xylobomb7527 2 роки тому
I will do the same, but with *SUS*
@ahmed4363 2 роки тому
Now add V
@michaelbiljon8249 10 місяців тому
This is my favourite video on UKposts. I really want a follow up to this. Like, do we know any more about this phenomenon in the past 7 years?
@onkara4363 Рік тому
This video is soooo quizzaciously fascinating
@XXXXD 3 роки тому
I just realised that by knowing only top 100 words in english you practically know 50% of the language .
@labinsocarivan5736 3 роки тому
😱
@cysis7537 3 роки тому
So most of the words are useless.
@RK-ep8qy 3 роки тому
@@cysis7537 yh tbf, I mean what exactly does "the" tell you? Not much
@ckhb059 3 роки тому
So if i learn 100 of the most used words in French i then know 50% of the language and I may still have a hope of not failing my gcse French test
@CAMSLAYER13 3 роки тому
@@cysis7537 some are vestigial others are too specific for common speech
@KanatiGD 3 роки тому
POV: you’re trying to get the 5,000 second long ad
@staswasyl1912 3 роки тому
lol relatable
@mariomario-ih6mn 3 роки тому
yeah
@ricobingcang6228 3 роки тому
Yeah
@mikethehistorian 3 роки тому
Frrrr
@imthiccanddoingvideosandso4569 3 роки тому
lol yessss
@dannydacheedo1592 9 місяців тому
18:07 to be fair, that sounds exactly like something Michael would say
@justinhamilton8647 8 місяців тому
19:23 youre so right… I always thought I could never forget my friends and teachers from school and now I can hardly remember anything
@z01nk3d6 7 років тому
My phone is at 20% 80% of the time
@JonathanLaliberte1 6 років тому
why phone is at 80% 20% of the time
@Smudge7Four 6 років тому
I feel that!!! 20 % rn
@ThePremiumGamer 6 років тому
so your phone is at 80% 20% of the time
@pocketinfinity4003 6 років тому
Androids are at 80% 80% of the time.
@Mrunibro 6 років тому
Pocket Infinity you made me check my battery% after reading it. It was at 80%. i.imgur.com/juX40TJ.png
@4TheRecord 3 роки тому
I had a Scottish manager and his most used word began with an f.
@7Dimensi0ns 3 роки тому
Hahaha brightened up my day =P
@profprostate8683 3 роки тому
Nigga?
@maxwellli7057 3 роки тому
@@profprostate8683 wow big funi
@maxwellli7057 3 роки тому
@Adithya Nair always have this dude too
@mimiminecraft5362 3 роки тому
Pedro Dumper wtf
@frogg_tv4774 Рік тому
Michael never ceases to amaze me. i didn’t know i was so predictable
@peyton_tucker Рік тому
I tried the paper clip thing and it worked
@justanothermcytfan7988 5 років тому
Sauce is the 5,555th most used word, and is a five letter word. V is 5 in Roman numerals. WHAT
@hensolo8825 5 років тому
So V5,555, or 55,555, is 5 numbers long. Coincidence?
@justanothermcytfan7988 5 років тому
....or is it?
@th3br0wncray0n2 5 років тому
What is real?
@hulyan8944 5 років тому
*v s a u c e mindfuck m u s i c*
@bellasizemore2433 5 років тому
This has me shook..
@nulcheck 2 роки тому
Lays really takes the 80-20 thing to heart with 80% air and 20% chips in the bag
@auritro3903 2 роки тому
Lol
@auritro3903 2 роки тому
Like 69 lol
@unlimiteddd 2 роки тому
Boom! ʕ-ᴥ-ʔ
@swallow_skyla3602 2 роки тому
LOL
@GigaChad-tv7xl 2 роки тому
Fun fact: there's actually no air in crisps bags! Instead, it's nitrogen gas. It has to be there, because it keeps the crisps fresh. If it were air, the crisps would turn stale.
@nickfosterxx 11 місяців тому
A suitably profound close, beautifully done, would never have thought of that.
@crazyhayden 8 місяців тому
I never knew that word was and still is a popular word to a degree of that size! I wonder whether a sentence could be constructed without using it, though I believe it'd be quite challenging for any writers attempting such an activity. Zipf is such an interesting phenomenon to be talked about, and I hope to see more of it! Wait a second, this sentence seems awfully devoid of a specific word. Oh well, probably not concerning to me or anyone else reading.
@bryantadam7960 5 років тому
Agent Smith: Michael is the one. Eliminate him now. Michael: Or am I?
@valentinborisov6605 4 роки тому
Vsauce theme starts playing
@joshnajothi4100 4 роки тому
We
@boppe2235 4 роки тому
"Am I the one? ... dot com is a website that allows you to find out if you are the one or not. Just another DONG, something you can do online now guys"
@canuckeraust 4 роки тому
Oracle: maybe
@user-rd7jv4du1w 4 роки тому
In fandoms: 80% of the toxicity comes from 20% of the fanbase
@MusicalInquisit 4 роки тому
I think it's more the other way around, depending on the fandom.
@user-ix6lu9rn1m 4 роки тому
Musical Inquisitor if 20% of the toxicity comes from 80% of the fan base then that’s just a different way of wording what the original comment said
@MusicalInquisit 4 роки тому
@@user-ix6lu9rn1m Yes, but it means different things.
@user-ix6lu9rn1m 4 роки тому
Musical Inquisitor no, not really if 20% of the fan base is 80% of the toxicity then 80% of the fan base is 20% of the toxicity
@MrVasteel 4 роки тому
@@MusicalInquisit nope, Walker is right
@zagyex 9 місяців тому
this video is in my top 10 videos on youtube. I watched it accordingly many times.
@MadDunhill 8 місяців тому
i've seen hundreds of vsauce videos but i think Zipf's Law is still the most mind blowing thing i've ever heard. makes it feel like we're living in some kind of simulation lol
@nesteru15 8 років тому
"Sauce" is the 5,555th most common english word, 5555 is a multiple of 5, 5555 divided by 5 is 1111, 1+1+1+1 equals 4, FOUR has four letters, 5 minus 4 is 1, ONE has three letters, triangles have three vertices... VSAUCE ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED!!!
@ELLIOTTA 8 років тому
'A' for effort
@Vsauce 8 років тому
+Andre Nesteru G ▲sauce
@DKong100 8 років тому
+Andre Nesteru G so that means all the information that vsauce has been providing us with is actually a set of false information to dull the public when the illuminati takes over o.o
@nesteru15 8 років тому
Vsauce replied to my comment :O You just made my night!!
@izSeth 8 років тому
+Vsauce "▲" oh wow because the upside down V from vsauce looks like a triangle i see what you did there (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@qwertylyn8382 5 років тому
Damn, that's alot to take in late at night before bed
@bxvtriz 5 років тому
Qwerty Lyn i literally share the exact same struggle right now
@tacokitten 4 роки тому
lol I am literally typing this at 11:00 at night at night and I feel the same way
@MrMista-zk6rz 4 роки тому
Qwerty Lyn i feel u now
@akirasousuke7660 4 роки тому
Dude... 3:14 AM here.
@uwumarii 4 роки тому
12:07 here and in tired af. Why are we doing this to ourselves
@MikeSims70 Рік тому
Yet when it comes to remembering how a book made us FEEL, that is rarely ever forgotten... as is true with just about every emotional response to any significant event in our lives. The gritty details of what made that event what it was may be easily forgotten, but the emotional impact that it had on us, is almost never forgotten. We may be intellectually Zipfy, but our feelings don't seem to be as much so ... unless they are, while their interpretation can help us recall more details about something ... perhaps the relevant details of an event in our lives is somehow condensed into a very small piece of information that is then easy to store in mass quantities ... our emotional response to events.
@redude08 8 місяців тому
Time to make a book that's just the word sauce 5,000 times
@Icewind007 4 роки тому
When a nuke lands, 80% of the damage is in 20% of its blast radius.
@egg9709 4 роки тому
80% of the comments are from 20% of the video's existence
@david203 4 роки тому
A nuclear weapon doesn't land. Waiting until it lands to explode would result in less damage.
@kahlzun 4 роки тому
@@david203 but a lot more penetration or fallout. Depends on whether you are seeking blast radius or denial of area..
@boostplease7450 4 роки тому
Dont nuclear weapons go off in the sky?
@seemelater5056 4 роки тому
is that's why 80% of anime is 20% hentai?
@Kimpes 8 років тому
20% of the comments get 80% of the likes
@andrewmcclintock7582 8 років тому
Yep.
@ryantyler8685 8 років тому
This ones true, though.
@goofyboy2627 8 років тому
Capitalism
@gnera666 8 років тому
and 80% of the comments get 20% of the dislikes :P
@martiddy 8 років тому
80% of the spam is made by the 20% of users.
@chaboychit 3 місяці тому
Still one of my favourite Vsauce videos if not my favourite. And also the video I found out we have the same birthday. Happy 38th in 3 days, Michael! It'll be my 24th.
@shaneclark8903 Рік тому
The ending music is Lonely Night by Dave James & Keith Beauvais. Hopefully this saves time for others.
@jesserusso5455 2 роки тому
This explains why whenever you learn a new word you all of a sudden start hearing it everywhere for like weeks after
@yamanbusmaje 2 роки тому
actually true, happend to me recently ... i felt like im living in a simulation, like where the hell that word was 20 ago and why I'm seeing it and hearing it everywhere
@summerwoodsmusic 2 роки тому
@@yamanbusmaje That’s the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon….I’d love to see that get its own VSauce video!
@profile1157 2 роки тому
Bro soo true
@KanarisTM 2 роки тому
Yep.
@GenericProtagonist118 2 роки тому
Sus.
@TNCROCx 3 роки тому
zipfs law 🤝 fibonacci sequence : being everywhere
@nightmare3885 3 роки тому
Wasnt it fibbonaci? My entire life was a lie
@Pal42_ 3 роки тому
@@nightmare3885 i have a theory that the Italian language and an English speaker's memory can't work together. Everytime someone tries to spell an Italian name it always ends up having double letters in the wrong spots
@CeleryBruh 3 роки тому
@@Pal42_ ferrari or ferarri?
@dylanpham9995 3 роки тому
Pareto’s principle: am I a joke to you?
@WellBeSerious12 3 роки тому
That is an archaic and stupid system.
@MirunaNero 9 місяців тому
I feel like zipf's law occurs as a pattern in relation to all these concepts. The path of least resistence, compromises in how we do things (ie efficiency and practicality between opposing forces), mathematics of random chance in language, the 80/20 principle. To use an example from another video - it seems like the bachristocrone of reality. Reality is *not* purely random, nor are humans. But its a concept that applies to BOTH randomness and patterns. And it's one that is an incredibly applicable, practical pattern to apply to many things, human or not. We find it everywhere because, like a bachristochrone its the easiest most practical and best compromising pattern to apply to many many things.
@jahongirsalimov8515 Місяць тому
Hey, Michael, Jahongir here. I am from Uzbekistan. I watch your videos almost every day. At first, when I started watching your videos, my aim was to just learn English language from native speaker in a natural way. But then my perspective towards you totally changed. When I was a child I was thirsty to learn something new. I had always looked for a new interesting facts. One day I found something that can satisfy my thirsty, curosity to understand the world and discover the all mysteries for myself. It was your your channel. Thank you for all things you have been giving. I always stay curious.
@thomashara7760 4 роки тому
"The" appeared 131 times in this video
@mjams231 3 роки тому
So does that mean the second most used word in this video occurred 65.5 times?
@porchcollapse8612 3 роки тому
Mason Chamberlain approximately
@mcsk6791 3 роки тому
he use the word “a” 66 times
@leoirias3506 3 роки тому
@@mcsk6791 interesting, whats the third most used word
@pepperpoop7729 3 роки тому
glad you have so much free time to count this
@arjaycook7612 3 роки тому
What really messed me up is the realization that 80% of your memories come from 20% of your life.
@Zilicon 3 роки тому
20% of your memories come from 80% of your life
@MaNu3Lo 3 роки тому
That is exactly the same thing if 20% of memories come from 80% of life, there are still 80% of memories left from the 20% of life remaining
@rulerworld1289 3 роки тому
Stole my comment😡
@arjaycook7612 3 роки тому
@@rulerworld1289 Sorry, didn't see it.
@sprtrnds7880 3 роки тому
@@MaNu3Lo I'm pretty sure that's what he meant
@afaceinthestreet 8 місяців тому
An absolute classic, this video!
@gumarks_ Рік тому
About that last quote Michael mentions. I guess that many of the things you do/experience, including that large amount of things you will definitely forget some time later, will, even unconsciously, forge who you will be in the future. Maybe you can't remember one specific thing that happened to you five years ago, but there's a chance that it was significant enough to give you some kind of knowledge or slightly shape your personality a certain way. Even if you don't remember that it happened, its repercussions in you are still there, it's part of you.
@foxyninjaa 3 роки тому
My mum always used to say, "Education is what you remember after you've forgotten what you've been taught"
@joshuaarnold1895 3 роки тому
You mean that “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”?
@foxyninjaa 3 роки тому
@@joshuaarnold1895 XD precisely
@Qaptyl 3 роки тому
@@joshuaarnold1895 dont forget to wear goggles and have no exposed skin mixing water with crayons is dangerous
@joshuaarnold1895 3 роки тому
@@Qaptyl what? XD Is this what you learned in school??
@Qaptyl 3 роки тому
@@joshuaarnold1895 well they always put warning in the beginning of the school year but never even use anything toxic
@Luisp0t 3 роки тому
Where’s the ad?
@moonlight_trains1 3 роки тому
Hello verified profile
@thebigfatsmp3689 3 роки тому
The 5000 second one or another one 😂😂
@TearDaTaco 3 роки тому
I got a goddamn 1:45 skipable ad
@yourlocalyoutubeuser4460 3 роки тому
same tho
@bimon5687 3 роки тому
Maybe they'll fixed the ad?
@vanillotl 7 місяців тому
Because of this video, quizzaciously is now on wikipedia. Good job, Michael 👍
@RepOfAntarctica Рік тому
The of and to A in is I That it for you Was with on As have But be they -Poem based of the top twenty English words in usage, as of this video (2015), by Michael from Vsauce.
@carval2001 3 роки тому
Poet: "The of and to a in is I that it for you was with on as have but be they" English teachers: SO INSPIRATIONAL
@explodamite2 3 роки тому
it really is, right??
@Solteratube 3 роки тому
Works for me.
@yousufansari4962 3 роки тому
@Hubert Farnsworth lmaooooooooooo
@carval2001 3 роки тому
@Hubert Farnsworth its a joke lol
@tommytwotacos8106 3 роки тому
Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
@quentinbell5617 4 роки тому
Quizzaciously “Quizzaciously” is an English word that means “in a mocking manner.” The word was once one of the rarest in the world (which is known as a hapax legomenon- when a word only appears once in a body of text…or in this case, a Google search) until a notable UKpostsr, Vsauce mentioned it in one of his videos.
@punchjudy 4 роки тому
Which begs the question, did Quiznos go out of business?
@chaoticsilver8442 4 роки тому
Not according to the screens at 17:35 "Given to a quizzing., of a quizzing character., one who is quizzed." (The Oxforda Dictionary) and at 17:57 "bantering., quiz., to question., interrogate." (Elder Speak) Somehow... Michael fudged up.
@Mini-ir9sn 4 роки тому
The second the was the 16th word of what you said
@horsham9816 4 роки тому
666 likes😳
@Ommelanden 4 роки тому
Michael should start a charity for abandoned words who sadly never get used
@smileydag 7 місяців тому
You really should have a link to Shannon. Zipf and Shannon are used together often. "Shannon entropy as a robust estimator of Zipf's Law in animal vocal communication repertoires" Shannon defined the quantity of information produced by a source--for example, the quantity in a message--by a formula similar to the equation that defines thermodynamic entropy in physics. In its most basic terms, Shannon's informational entropy is the number of binary digits required to encode a message.
@jewelaloo7831 8 місяців тому
Not far into the video, but there's a real fun exercise in my line of work (I'm an artist) called the 80/20 rule! Basically when you draw or paint something in 20% of the time you usually do (basically a quick-sketch) you can get 80% of the work done. It helps your brain go into overdrive and make you focus on what you want quicker.
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