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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 ariwilson »

FlyMoreRockets wrote: post #51
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…

Tetris is another great example of how competitors are using YouTube to rapidly progress in skill. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-revol...

Jonas Neubauer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Neubauer), the elder statesman of the sport, openly shared and encouraged this behavior. Really an amazing community.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by snek_case »

bluGill wrote: post #48
snek_case wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I would say critical thinking, learning to distinguish good information from bad is a valuable life skill that is only getting more valuable with time. Something we should try to teach people about from a young age.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by grawprog »

Maybe I'm just one of those odd ones, as much as I love all the knowledge and learning videos on youtube and I can't deny I've learned a lot from them.

But, they seem to have replaced the written tutorial or instructions for a lot of things.

I'm one of those people, I learn better through reading. I learn alright through youtube videos, but I find I retain knowledge better through written descriptions and pictures.

I've found since youtube tutorials and knowledge videos really exploded in popularity, finding highquality written tutorials or instructions has become more difficult.

Even a lot of programming stuff is moving into video format, which honestly, I can't learn anything from those. I need to be able to work through something like that at my own pace, possibly work through different sections, maybe experiment to fully understand. Doing that with a video is much more difficult than something written.

Lately, i've been looking into stuff about blender, trying to find anything up to date in a non-video format is almost impossible. There's some great high quality written stuff for blender out there, but it's several years out of date and everything that's replaced it is in video format.

This all being said, I am still glad this all exists and there's so much information so easily available.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by creamynebula »

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…

Maybe if you bring the facts with a positive atittude to your employer they will be willing to recognize that you deserve a lead position, with matching salary, or at least something in between this and what you have now, even without a degree.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by jazzyjackson »

ttctciyf wrote: post #6
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.

My YT fix tale: friend was throwing out an LCD TV because of weird colours, like solarization. I asked him for it, spent an hour searching youtube and found a TV engineer video with a likely solution: unplug the data cable where it feeds into the screen and scrape it clean. 7 years later and the TV is doing daily duty as a monitor for watching streamed content. I clean the cable once or twice a year, and one time had…

The number of TVs thrown out because of a bad capacitor must be outrageous.

Did you hear the one about the ribbon cable that only worked with bright light shining on it?

https://hackaday.com/2016/01/22/fixing-broken-monitors-by-sh...

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by dfxm12 »

grawprog wrote: post #83

Maybe I'm just one of those odd ones, as much as I love all the knowledge and learning videos on youtube and I can't deny I've learned a lot from them. But, they seem to have replaced the written tutorial or instructions for a lot of things. I'm one of those people, I learn better through reading. I learn alright through youtube videos, but I find I retain knowledge better through written descriptions and pictures. I…

I don't think you're an odd one. YT has many disadvantages compared to written instructions, especially when it comes to coding. Just off the top of my head, YT has uneven video quality & when you pause videos, there's a bunch of stuff that obscures the video. So, it's hard to read text from a video, or even see something really specific (and maybe tacit) at times.

YT also doesn't allow for notes, no way to easy make an "offline" version, no way to compile its contents into your own knowledgebase, etc.

You can also read text at your own pace, which is really useful for learning things in steps, while videos go at their own.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by marcosdumay »

grawprog wrote: post #83

Maybe I'm just one of those odd ones, as much as I love all the knowledge and learning videos on youtube and I can't deny I've learned a lot from them. But, they seem to have replaced the written tutorial or instructions for a lot of things. I'm one of those people, I learn better through reading. I learn alright through youtube videos, but I find I retain knowledge better through written descriptions and pictures. I…

> I've found since youtube tutorials and knowledge videos really exploded in popularity

At some point Google decided to prioritize video content. I don't think anybody really likes doing those videos when the main media they are working with is text, but it's a choice of doing a video or never having anybody ever find you.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by marcosdumay »

ben_w wrote: post #74
swiley wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they so expensive to host yourself? Sure the picture quality won't be as great but with modern codecs it doesn't seem like it would be much worse than the average web page.

It’s not impossible, but I think it’s about 128 minute-views per GB and $0.01/GB? Which would make hosting e.g. Issac Arthur’s YouTube channel cost in the order of $200-$300 per video uploaded, which I would hope is small for him given how many volunteers he gets and the sponsor messages, but might discourage future versions of him from getting started. Scott Manley’s channel looks like typically more views and short…

> but might discourage future versions of him from getting started

The people getting started would have lower costs too.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by bittercynic »

dfxm12 wrote: post #86
grawprog wrote: post #83

Maybe I'm just one of those odd ones, as much as I love all the knowledge and learning videos on youtube and I can't deny I've learned a lot from them. But, they seem to have replaced the written tutorial or instructions for a lot of things. I'm one of those people, I learn better through reading. I learn alright through youtube videos, but I find I retain knowledge better through written descriptions and pictures. I…

I don't think you're an odd one. YT has many disadvantages compared to written instructions, especially when it comes to coding. Just off the top of my head, YT has uneven video quality & when you pause videos, there's a bunch of stuff that obscures the video. So, it's hard to read text from a video, or even see something really specific (and maybe tacit) at times. YT also doesn't allow for notes, no way to easy make…

It looks like youtube doesn't do that pause overlay at the moment. I tried just now in Chrome and Firefox with extensions disabled, and nothing got in the way of the paused video.

I used to have

  .ytp-pause-overlay
in my ublock-origin filters, but it appears it's no longer needed.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by TonyTrapp »

bittercynic wrote: post #89
dfxm12 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you're an odd one. YT has many disadvantages compared to written instructions, especially when it comes to coding. Just off the top of my head, YT has uneven video quality & when you pause videos, there's a bunch of stuff that obscures the video. So, it's hard to read text from a video, or even see something really specific (and maybe tacit) at times. YT also doesn't allow for notes, no way to easy make…

It looks like youtube doesn't do that pause overlay at the moment. I tried just now in Chrome and Firefox with extensions disabled, and nothing got in the way of the paused video. I used to have .ytp-pause-overlay in my ublock-origin filters, but it appears it's no longer needed.

They still show the player controls as an overlay the whole time as the video is paused. For me, turning the player controls from a bar below the video into an overlay that dynamically comes and goes is the defining moment when YouTube became unusable. It's simply impossible to read slides in some videos because you'd have to pause them to read all of it, but then the bottom part of the slide becomes unreadable. How was anyone able to arrive at the conclusion that this would be a smart thing to do for a video player?
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