Sorry about that. I had Google Adsense auto ads on. Not sure if they turn up the number of ads based on traffic. Turned them right down now.

Wow I see what you mean. I was planning on cutting down to 1 video a week once my channel had grown a bit but I can see from your channel that quality > quantity so I might do that sooner! Thank you.

Thank you for the warning. Yes it can get pretty addictive checking the numbers all the time. I have no intention of becoming the next Mr Beast so there is no worry there. I have a big list of technical topics I want to cover but there is definitely a worry that no one will watch them. I have been releasing 2 videos each week but I will likely cut this down to 1 once I have grown a bit more. Otherwise, I can definitely see it leading to burnout.

Yes, I don’t think I have ever had so many people on my website at once. Good job it is hosted with Cloudfront and S3!

I am sure it will die of quite quickly but I have had 33 people subscribe since posting this an hour ago.

So thank you for everyone that has.

Nice I have subscribed. I think any content about AI would probably do well with all the hype around GPT-3 at the moment. Yes speaking in front of a camera is really difficult. There is literally hours of recordings of me trying to say the same thing over and over again that gets cut.

Thanks for the subscribe!

Yes that’s a good tip. I have been using the app recut to cut out all the pauses and unwanted bits.

For those doing this, be sure to check the settings and have someone watch the result - if you're "showing screen" it can be fine but if you're "showing face" and the end result makes you look like you're flickering in and out of existence and spazzing, it can be entirely distracting.

Good point about showing screen vs face differences. I do screen recordings - it is a bit jarring sometimes even after adjusting how I record taking into account that I'll be pruning silent parts.