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The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by scrollaway »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #17
polygotdomain wrote: post #10

I think the article is overthinking it a little bit, and I think it comes down to accessibility, enthusiasm, and to a certain degree a rapid pace in terms of content. There's no doubt that YouTube has made a number of these topics far more accessible. The inclusion of videos along side typical text searches means that it's just as easy to click on an article as it is one of those videos. There's also typically a mult…

Youtube deserves no credit: they do nothing to make educational videos more discoverable, they cannot even categorise them properly! My 'feed' is filled with videos I already watched and typically the only way I discover new content is linked from HN or other sites. Neither does Youtube treat their educational creators well - as far ad they are concerned, 'influencer' reviewing funny viseos has more value than educat…

You're using YouTube wrong. I dunno.

For me, YouTube serves me up so much educational content i want to watch that there is over 100 hours of content in my Watch Later. And i do very often go through the videos it gives me but it never ends.

YouTube is a tool, you have to do a bit of curation so it learns what you like and dislike, and then it just delivers an unending firehose of content matching that. And if what you like is educational content, boy is there a lot of it available.

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Post by hugey010 »

varrock wrote: post #19
spaetzleesser wrote: post #5

I think it also has a huge effect on sports. Especially the ones that aren’t on TV. When I did martial arts in the 90s it was super hard to find recordings of good Muay Thai or kickboxing fights. So you had to figure out things for yourself very slowly instead of seeing how the world class guys do it. Today’s youth can watch the best in the sport from all history and learn things way faster. So I expect the next gene…

Also, the ability to observe professional athletes in high definition. When I was first getting into tennis, I found it incredibly useful to see the best in the world practicing 4k 60fps [0]. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMa5xHfJlBg

As a part-time tennis pro. The combined benefits of watching the best in the world and then comparing it to a video of yourself playing is tremendous for most people.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by amelius »

aantix wrote: post #34
amelius wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Does Wikipedia allow for the embedding of Youtube videos? It'd be nice to embrace an existing library of video content. The reverse relationship exists - Google readily displays Wikipedia content for specific searches.

Google is acting as a silo, and imho not an example of good stewardship wrt the organization of the world's data.

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Post by topkai22 »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #37

I am essentially a self-taught EE thanks to the internet. There is no shortage of engineers posting educational content, and no shortage of extremely knowledgeable engineers willing to directly help you with problems. I've done dozens of projects and even brought one to market. I guess the flipside, in my experience it doesn't count as anything in the professional world. Since I back doored engineering, I am currentl…

My wife’s business has a number of self taught engineers. As management (everyone management started as an engineer), they have full faith in these people and love them. However, it causes them no end of pain that they never got their degrees as client contracts often require a credential to bill at higher rates.

For the ones that are willing, they’ll gladly sponsor a degree pursuit and pay them more at completion, but the business environment puts a lot of pressure on creating a pay ceiling on uncredentialed employees

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by senectus1 »

jhickok wrote: post #25
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!

here is a handful from his history:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL7FCx3MrwKGYFEs91Lz0yg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYuQIa9lgjvDiZryUVtFGw

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYbK_tjZ2OrIZFBvU6CCMiA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIWlCE2kt0RXCJLRp8HjhiQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLyVUwlB_Hahir_VsKkGPIA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk_n3tLHEeCW3oYwea7-8dg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG08EqOAXJk_YXPDsAvReSg

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Post by bena »

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.

A while back, the car I had had a bad blower motor. I looked it up, found a video that showed where and how to replace it. I got the part online and was able to do it myself.

It was a fairly simple replacement too. The motor was actually situated under the dash on the passenger side and was about as difficult as installing/replacing a computer fan.

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Post by bluGill »

snek_case wrote: post #36
bluGill wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But is what you learned correct? Anyone can claim to be an expert and put together a lecture. That doesn't mean what they are teaching is correct.

There are many lectures and conference talks from university professors who are at the top of their field on YouTube. You might be able to find better content than what's available in your local university class. For example, Robert Sapolsky's lecture series on Human Behavioral Biology at Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C... Stanford and MIT both have lots of lectures on YouTube.

Oh I know, but there are also a lot of people making claims to expertise they don't have and spreading lies. Some of them are real experts in other fields and so have respect there.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by uniqueid »

It's a shame that nobody but Youtube can afford to host videos at a loss year after year. I could vent for an hour about why I dislike the company: they are a privacy abomination; their moderation is incompetent; the way they monetize is unethical. If there were a worse steward than Youtube to store the bulk of humanity's video, I can't think of who it would possibly be.

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Post by jimbob45 »

uniqueid wrote: post #49

It's a shame that nobody but Youtube can afford to host videos at a loss year after year. I could vent for an hour about why I dislike the company: they are a privacy abomination; their moderation is incompetent; the way they monetize is unethical. If there were a worse steward than Youtube to store the bulk of humanity's video, I can't think of who it would possibly be.

At some point in the future, YouTube competitors will probably become cost effective - probably 30-50 years in the future.

If you've ever imagined someone coming from the future with futuristic technology, it would probably look something like YouTube. It's a piece of technology we effectively can't replicate that we're entirely beholden to because removing our dependence on it would set us back decades socially, technologically, and functionally.

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