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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 GuB-42 »

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…

> when you pause videos, there's a bunch of stuff that obscures the video

I really hate the YouTube app for that. Where did they get the idea that it is a good thing? And it is not even an attempt at monetization, they don't show ads, they still do it on premium, they just make it hard for you to see what's on screen.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by bittercynic »

TonyTrapp wrote: post #90
bittercynic wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Ya, I see what you mean.

  www.youtube.com##.ytp-chrome-bottom
blocks all that stuff, but then you lose access to things like choosing quality and turning subtitles on and off.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by Workaccount2 »

creamynebula wrote: post #84
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.

I'm actually looking for an out right now to respin my luck somewhere else. Right now I engineer by proxy, i.e. I do a design, document, or ECO and my boss stamps it (which frankly isn't too different than the other engineers, he ultimately stamps their stuff too).

I have prodded my boss about it and he more or less said that after our recent acquisition by parent company and parent parent company, things are very corporate by the book. It seems right now we're in a state where they are getting full engineering work at a 50-60% discount and I am getting to do engineering work despite being hired as a clock punching lab grunt.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by Workaccount2 »

weaksauce wrote: post #75
Workaccount2 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I have. The problem is that I really do love electronics. I am a decent C programmer, for embedded applications at least. I have never written an actual PC program though besides tutorial stuff. A friend of my did a crash course boot camp for js, and did eventually get a good job out of it. Maybe I should think about doing the same.

you might want to check out the odin project... seems fairly high quality. or if that's not your jam i'm sure you could find a book or a course on something like coursera or udemy with varying success.... https://www.theodinproject.com/

This is a good resource, thanks!

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by drumttocs8 »

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…

As a college-educated engineer, I guarantee that you learned much more than I ever did during my formal training. The only useful things I've learned for my job was learned after college, when I actually had to know stuff to be successful!

With that said, if you really like engineering, you can eventually get the PE with enough years' experience and get that pay increase. It may be worth it to you.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by tluyben2 »

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 have the same thing and for me a mix is great but I read very fast so if the info is dense I prefer reading and where this really goes wrong is money; when I do not remember a linux cli kata, now the first hits are often videos with an intro, outro etc: makes no sense. It is one line I want to copy paste! Or at least see to remember. Very wasteful but I get why it is.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by PicassoCTs »

Its great at answering the How-To-Questions in small snippets. But when it comes to the in depth questions, the Why Questions, you still have to return to university-lectures, although those are hosted on the platform.

Education and Instruction still have the vast time difference in dimension.

And its hard to push yourselves through the desert of ignorance to in depth knowledge-which is why online univerty-courses have such a low completion ratio, compared to the traditional "forced to be there"-lectures and tutorials.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by viburnum »

trentnix wrote: post #24
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 lookin…

Thanks! I’m pretty sure I have the same issue!

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by shireboy »

This has been evident to me personally in two areas especially: car repair and gardening. I routinely look up repairs for my vehicles on YT and often find they are more approachable than if I’d just relied on a chiltons guide. The “tacit knowledge” of things like “you got to reach around from this angle to access the oil filter” or “when it makes this sound, it’s often this part” is incredible. And it’s struck me before that it really is a new phenomenon that all this detailed knowledge video is available instantly.

Gardening reveals a gotcha that I’ve thought I’d like to solve with my own content though. Often content is presented with no followup. Ie “top 10 ways to get rid of squash vine borers” regurgitates the same things as lists online, with very little I’ve seen saying “these worked, these didn’t”. Since it’s often a longer term endeavor with lots of variables, there’s little content that follows gardening techniques through. I’ve thought if I started a garden channel, I’d like to do time lapse videos following real random controlled trials with various techniques to see and demonstrate what works. Maybe a way to have a very boring channel, but it’s what I’d like to see.

Re: The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)

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Post by exporectomy »

zh3 wrote: post #73

Unfortunately it's being killed by the obnoxious advertising, which is growing far faster than the value of the content (it's already past my personal tipping point). At some point we can hope that hosting is cheap enough we can all host our own videos, that search engines will find our content (without any favouritism) and that such an outcome will actually be legal.

I use two Chrome plugins to eliminate all time-using Youtube ads:

uBlock Origin

SponsorBlock for YouTube. This uses crowdsourced info to skip advertising within videos as well as into/outro/subscription begging, etc. I don't think I've head a single "click subscribe and ring the bell icon" since I installed it. All that crap's a distant memory.

I think there are still overlay banner ads but they can be ignored more easily.

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