TEDTalks as of 06.16.11

Post by Devilboy » Sun, Jun 19, 2011, 7:17 AM UTC

joshu wrote: post #17

dasht wrote: post #13

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Their handling of that whole thing was, for me, the breaking point when I could no longer give them benefit of the doubt or any longer take them seriously.

I was in the audience at the time. It was awful. I'm glad comedians are trying to reclaim the term "retard" but I had no context for it and it just seemed inappropriate.

Post by joshu » Sun, Jun 19, 2011, 7:27 AM UTC

hugh3 wrote: post #24

dhbanes wrote: post #23

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So shouldn't TED release the talk so we can all have the opportunity to come to the same conclusion?

Think of it from their point of view. They want to be known for brilliant talks, not crap ones. If it really was an awful talk, it devalues their brand to publish it.

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jun 19, 2011, 7:28 AM UTC

newhouseb wrote: post #33

younata wrote: post #31

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on computer vision? (judging from your profile) Any chance it's up so that we can see how it was edited?

indirectly, yeah ( http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/60024/ ). It's not up yet (despite all my testing/preparation the WiFi didn't really work so it was a little rough) - not sure if it will go up, I guess we'll known before TED 2012 :)`

Post by newhouseb » Sun, Jun 19, 2011, 7:44 AM UTC

joshu wrote: post #37

newhouseb wrote: post #25

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Yeah but TED talks are _heavily_ edited from how they appear live on stage. TED puts an insane amount of effort into making the talks appear fluid and this is subconsciously I think partly why TED has been successful (everyone seems inhumanely perfect and articulate). If a TED talk bombs, it can be tricky to edit it into a coherent whole - I can imagine this is doubly hard with a comedian because timing is so importa…

I dunno, lots of the talks are stellar in person too... People practice a lot before they are allowed to go on.

Post by fs111 » Sun, Jun 19, 2011, 9:52 AM UTC

younata wrote: post #30

hs wrote: post #16

for you who don't have flash and don't feel like clicking to download, you can download an xml format file from http://metated.petarmaric.com/metalinks/TED-talks-grouped-by... then we can script to extract the xml file get the ted videos, like: wget -c -O "1984/Nicholas Negroponte in 1984 makes 5 predictions.mp4" http://www.ted.com/talks/download/video/4837/talk/230 wget -c -O "1990/Frank Gehry as a young rebel.mp4"…

I wrote a script to do that for you. [1] (and am having my server download the first fifty listed in the xml file). I'd like to point out that there's a little bit under a thousand talks, so I highly recommend you only download a few videos at a time. (each video is about 40 mebibytes. [2] Roughly 40 gigs of video.) [1] http://pastebin.com/RXzTpbGt [2] Average obtained by downloading 50 videos, and averaging those. E…