I'm just going to post here comedian Nick Mullens take on the whole Elon buying Twitter thing https://youtube.com/shorts/YMnQoihx0xI?feature=share

Doesn't that describe a base 12 system though rather than a base 60, if your off hand represents X * 12? Like in base 10, eleven is represented as 11. (1 * 10 + 1) and in base 2 11 is three (1 * 2 + 1)

Edit: I found a video by numberphile explaining base 60 and he describes it exactly like you did. I guess what I'm hung up on is why is it considered base 60 rather than base 12? https://youtu.be/R9m2jck1f90

The base 10 number system wasn't universal for human civilization and certainly wasn't the first numeric system developed by humans. The sumerians used a base 60 counting system which they passed on to the Babylonians, which is why we we still measure our time and things like angles and coordinates in geometry by factors of 60. (Eg 60 seconds in a minute 60 minutes in an hour)

It originated by using our thumb to point to the 3 bones of our fingers, times that by 4 you get 12, times that by 5 fingers per batch of 12 and you get 60. (That last step at the end confuses me because it seems to contradict using your thumb to point to your 4 fingers but that's what the wiki seems to say)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal

I get that and all and who knows maybe I'm outside whatever target user YouTube is capturing. It's just now it's seriously getting in the way of useability to a point it's actually making me disengage with the platform more often instead of keeping me glued on the site for prolonged periods. I rarely engage with recommended videos because YouTubes algorithm gets it wrong like 7/10 times for me and spews garbage at me (I delete my history and start from scratch sometimes to alleviate this).

If they want to keep me engaged when using search specifically then they should simply provide me content that I asked for in my search query and then after finding something and click to watch it, from there let the recommendations flow in to keep me clicking. I'm not going to be able to watch their ads for products Im never going to buy if they aren't giving me what I want through search easily.

It just seems so ass backward to me. Do the product owners/designers at YouTube believe the majority of it's user base are that easily distractable like we all have ADD. Where they will use search with the explicit goal of finding something specific only to immediately abandon that goal 2 seconds later after seeing something unrelated but from a creator they watched before.

This stuff seems like it's from a relatively newer update and as someone who constantly works with UX designers and love poking holes in their ideas in order to get to the best solution. I would love to somehow see the usage analytics data from this update on the search feature because I can't be the only one finding this completely unintuitive and disengaging.

Will it not display recommended videos with the search results. This is the one thing that's seriously annoying me about YouTube these days. You want to search something about a general topic and maybe if youre lucky the first 2 videos are something related to what you search but then you have tonnes of completely unrelated videos based on your past viewership. It's so annoying they essentially blended in your content home feed with the search despite being two completely different features with different use cases in mind. I don't understand how an Alphabet company can screw up the act of searching this bad.