The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019) • Hacker News Board

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by samtho » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC

bluGill wrote: post #15

INTPenis wrote: post #13

I just thought the other day that we won't need schools as much in the future. Teachers could just record material, or use pre-recorded material, to teach students online. And then young people could take jobs earlier, in their teens, and learn about the world and find out what their interests are instead of regurgitating the same answers for the same old assignments over and over. Find an interest, turn it into a jo…

Who dreams of being a trash collector? Taking trash to the landfill. That is why your dreams will fail: there are unexciting things that need to be done for society to function.

Not everyone has specific dreams, rather their dream may be being in an essential role, part of a good team, etc. Anecdotally, I've met a number of people working in solid waste and every single one of them loved their job with one citing specifically that they are done before 1pm every day and have an entire afternoon to spend with their family or with their hobbies.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by alex_anglin » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 2:25 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #7

inglor_cz wrote: post #3

Well, I had a toilet problem a week ago. Looking it up on YouTube, I found a plumber who demonstrated a solution. Five minutes of work and the problem was resolved. IDK how much I saved, but at least 2000 CZK (approx. 80 dollars). Not to mention that I didn't have to wait for the plumber to arrive, which would take a few days, probably.

This kind of thing should be on Wikipedia. Too bad they don't really host videos.

I've had WikiHow help me out in similar ways to GP a couple of times. Wasn't watching videos though.

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Post by csa » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 2:26 PM UTC

bluGill wrote: post #15

INTPenis wrote: post #13

I just thought the other day that we won't need schools as much in the future. Teachers could just record material, or use pre-recorded material, to teach students online. And then young people could take jobs earlier, in their teens, and learn about the world and find out what their interests are instead of regurgitating the same answers for the same old assignments over and over. Find an interest, turn it into a jo…

Who dreams of being a trash collector? Taking trash to the landfill. That is why your dreams will fail: there are unexciting things that need to be done for society to function.

There are many high school students who would love to be earning a decent income as a trash collector rather than sitting in a modified prison doing stuff that won’t impact their life in any positive way.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by trentnix » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

inglor_cz wrote: post #3

Well, I had a toilet problem a week ago. Looking it up on YouTube, I found a plumber who demonstrated a solution. Five minutes of work and the problem was resolved. IDK how much I saved, but at least 2000 CZK (approx. 80 dollars). Not to mention that I didn't have to wait for the plumber to arrive, which would take a few days, probably.

I fixed our garage refrigerator just a few weeks ago thanks to YouTube. The freezer side was cooling fine, but the refrigerator side was not cooling at all. When I opened the refrigerator door, I could feel cold air venting into the refrigerator from the freezer just fine, but it would never get cold and would eventually beep with a high temperature error. Meat had spoiled, drinks were hot, and my wife started looking online for a replacement.

A little searching and digging led me to videos about replacing fans and motors and messing with the refrigerator hardware. That required pulling the refrigerator apart, which was well beyond my ambition. Finally, I stumbled on a video that described my problem exactly. It turns out that the air return vent had become blocked by ice, so when the refrigerator was closed air wasn't being pulled into the refrigerator side. When I opened the door, the open door caused air to move just fine.

I took out a couple of shelves, found the return vent, chipped away at the ice blocking the return, and things have been working great ever since.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by jhickok » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 2:31 PM UTC

senectus1 wrote: post #2

Funny this link just popped up, I was just marvelling at my 13 yr old son's self taught progression at programming. He's taken about 2 years to get from batch scripts to c# and unity... mostly via youtube videos. https://cyb3rgames.itch.io/trench-warfare Kids these days love to learn via self paced youtube *note, if you're going to let your kids watch youtube, either put your own anti-advert features in on your netwo…

My son is getting interested in programming-- any resources that you found helpful?

Also, that game is super cool! Pass on my compliments!

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Post by BurningFrog » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 2:33 PM UTC

bluGill wrote: post #15

INTPenis wrote: post #13

I just thought the other day that we won't need schools as much in the future. Teachers could just record material, or use pre-recorded material, to teach students online. And then young people could take jobs earlier, in their teens, and learn about the world and find out what their interests are instead of regurgitating the same answers for the same old assignments over and over. Find an interest, turn it into a jo…

Who dreams of being a trash collector? Taking trash to the landfill. That is why your dreams will fail: there are unexciting things that need to be done for society to function.

Lots of people dream of making good money without studying for years.

Trash collection just needs to pay enough, and those people will do the work.

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Post by lkbm » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 2:36 PM UTC

kiba wrote: post #9

There are all sort of wonderful educational videos on youtube, but it's like leading a horse to water. The hard part is now getting them to drink. That said, I do credit part of my education to Youtube University. I learned more about virology in details that I never thought about before. Still, I haven't yet complete the virology lectures.

I don't think YouTube replaces school for most people, but it makes it possible for someone who wants to learn something to do that much more more easily than before. School forces kids to learn a little bit about a wide-ish swath of subjects. Youtube enables them to go deeper on whatever it is they're interested in.

Finding and signing up for a class or lessons is a big, expensive hurdle, and then you might discover you hate the subject or the teacher. If you can quickly and easily dip into a dozen subjects and try videos from hundreds of creators, you can rapidly try and reject things until you find one that strikes you and stick with it.

The Internet in general does this, but YouTube is a big part of it, especially things where visuals are useful—woodworking is a good example, but there are so so many things to learn if you can jut find a subject and a teacher that catches your interest.

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Post by kmfrk » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 2:40 PM UTC

inglor_cz wrote: post #3

Well, I had a toilet problem a week ago. Looking it up on YouTube, I found a plumber who demonstrated a solution. Five minutes of work and the problem was resolved. IDK how much I saved, but at least 2000 CZK (approx. 80 dollars). Not to mention that I didn't have to wait for the plumber to arrive, which would take a few days, probably.

Don't forget the flip side of this, which is that manuals are increasingly useless if not just entirely non-existent for a variety of products. And the companies that make videos for their products instead of manuals usually don't have the greatest photography and editing skills.

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Post by polyterative » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 2:49 PM UTC

dchoi315 wrote: post #8

senectus1 wrote: post #2

Funny this link just popped up, I was just marvelling at my 13 yr old son's self taught progression at programming. He's taken about 2 years to get from batch scripts to c# and unity... mostly via youtube videos. https://cyb3rgames.itch.io/trench-warfare Kids these days love to learn via self paced youtube *note, if you're going to let your kids watch youtube, either put your own anti-advert features in on your netwo…

I definitely can relate, software engineering is one of those fields that can definitely be learned on one's own time for free, and now I'm working at an internship at a startup!

my story too, was able to land a good job withoud any degree

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Post by showerst » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 3:01 PM UTC

INTPenis wrote: post #13

I just thought the other day that we won't need schools as much in the future. Teachers could just record material, or use pre-recorded material, to teach students online. And then young people could take jobs earlier, in their teens, and learn about the world and find out what their interests are instead of regurgitating the same answers for the same old assignments over and over. Find an interest, turn it into a jo…

I don't think Youtube is all that great for learning the kind of structured basics they teach in school.

Many people are self-motivated enough to watch videos on woodworking or sports or video game production. Less so for algebra or grammar, but these are important base skills.

This is part of why all the online course websites have such abysmal completion rates.