It shows ApplicationError. Got a HN hug of death, or are you updating?
Show HN: Search engine for lectures
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#12Great resource but your filtering needs some serious work. I managed to filter myself into a corner with no way to get back.
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#13It shows ApplicationError. Got a HN hug of death, or are you updating?
Sorry, looks like a memory issue on the Solr server. I shut everything else down, so hopefully it holds!
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#14Looks interesting. As someone going through all of Dr Jordan Peterson's lectures, I put him in the search and only one of his talks (with Joe Rogan) came up. Please add his stuff if you get the chance (he has a YT channel). It'd also be nice to be able to find like-minded talks. Also, when pressing the back button through some searches, the URL changed with me but the results stayed the same.
Thanks for the feedback!
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#15Really interesting, are you searching through Youtube? Wonder what other sources that you are getting the source data out of
I'm collecting lists of speakers/conferences and doing very targeted crawling. There are a couple essays on the site (in progress) if you're interested in more detail-
https://www.findlectures.com/articles/2017/05/15/Building-a-...
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#16On mobile, The email modal is over most of screen and can't be closed...
Really sorry about that. I pushed a change to hide it when it doesn't fit.
That area of the screen is supposed to be an informational card, like you see in Google search results. When I have the data, it shows books a speaker has written, and I'm working on getting more in there.
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#17Nice! That's going to be very useful when learning a new topic/technology How are the hits ranked? I imagine just time? Do you have a list of all sources you used?
There are about 20 factors right now, which I've been tuning over time. They are applied as I'm able to get the data for the talk. Here is a selection-
1. Is the publisher of the talk good? (whitelist)
2. Is the talk referenced in social media (e.g. HN)
3. Safe for work (i.e. you could use in a lunch and learn)
4. Length (15-50 minutes preferred)
5. Is the speaker a keynote level speaker?
6. Are there closed captions? Can the video be embedded?
7. How often does the speaker say 'um' (or similar)
8. Is the talk in English (there are some in Russian and Arabic, but only small collections)
9. Are there notable audio quality issues (channel balance)
10. If it's a historic talk, older talks get higher ranking
11. If it's a technical talk, these get lower ranking, unless you filter to that
12. Is the speaker influential enough to have a wikipedia article?
13. Has the speaker written books?
14. What is the role of the institution that sponsored the talk (conferences are neutral, think tanks, etc lose some ranking)
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#18Great resource but your filtering needs some serious work. I managed to filter myself into a corner with no way to get back.
Thanks for the feedback - I'll look into fixing that.
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#19Interesting project, but as op said email modal on mobile can't be navigated out of.
Sorry about that, it should be fixed now.
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#20The idea is really good, but there is still a long way to go. Searching for "python simulation" (a suggested search, btw) yields results such as "introduction to programming lecture 23" - short of watching the lecture, how am I supposed to judge it's relevancy? There is no description, and the title contains neither "python" nor "simulation". Also, the email sign up modal is enough to not make you want to return.
Thanks for the feedback. The email thing should be better now.
Agree on the relevancy issue, I'm working on ways to improve that. If you do a search that matches the closed captions, it will tell you where in the video the match starts.