I like the idea, but seeing how many new accounts added fake comments makes me a bit suspicious :)
Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
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Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#22Is NLU really this reliable yet? I tried making some scripts like this with LLMs, and it seemed to do very poorly. So, I abandoned the effort.
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#23This is amazing! I tried a couple of videos and the questions seem pretty relevant and answerable (is there a better word for how a question is worded clearly and the provided answers seem clearly distinct and one of them is obviously correct), which is really hard to do by hand, much less by AI.
I know you've addressed the video selection in the playlists, but I would highly suggest doing something to get it to differentiate "educational entertainment" videos (I notice a lot of Real Engineering and Economics Explained and CGP Grey videos) and actual education videos: primary-source explainers from teachers and subject-matter experts. The information density in the latter is way higher, and I think people overestimate the educational value of the former.
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#24This is amazing! I tried a couple of videos and the questions seem pretty relevant and answerable (is there a better word for how a question is worded clearly and the provided answers seem clearly distinct and one of them is obviously correct), which is really hard to do by hand, much less by AI. I know you've addressed the video selection in the playlists, but I would highly suggest doing something to get it to diff…
> and I think people overestimate the educational value of the former.
I disagree. Some people might overestimate how in-depth the information is, but the educational value of these videos lies in giving someone a basic understanding of something they otherwise wouldn't have learnt about at all. The lower information density helps making the video easier to understand and thus easier to consume, compared to something like a Havard class.
If you want to learn something in-depth, an actual class, a book, etc. will of course always be better, but if that's neither required nor wanted, the infotainment is just fine.
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#25This is amazing! I tried a couple of videos and the questions seem pretty relevant and answerable (is there a better word for how a question is worded clearly and the provided answers seem clearly distinct and one of them is obviously correct), which is really hard to do by hand, much less by AI. I know you've addressed the video selection in the playlists, but I would highly suggest doing something to get it to diff…
"educational entertainment" videos are way too many, way too popular and binge-able - much more recommended by YT's AI. Actual education are much harder to discover on YouTube.
I have been wanting to build a YT front-end that lets me control how many "new" videos are recommended. New videos are the time-sinks.
Instead this new FE should make me re-watch so I absorb and retain better - maybe thru more Q&A like OP's platoedu or even make me write out some notes. Then I am forced to curate videos and maybe be more productive.
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#26Amazing, thank you. It even works great for music videos, I never appreciated the poetic lyrical context of Pantera before. ))
Small bug, the service requires a youtube.com URL and cannot handle an m.youtube.com URL, as happens when copying from a phone web browser or NewPipe. Perhaps you could support the mobile URL as well.
Thanks, great work!
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#27I want to make flash card form everything I look up this way.
Any particular type of content you’re thinking of? I’m currently working on adding podcasts since they’re pretty similar to YouTube videos, but I’m sure with some tuning I could see if it works for other things
> Any particular type of content you’re thinking of?
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#28Who chooses the videos? It seems ... opinionated. For example, under 'Physics', we have "The big lie about carbon capture', 'Why (toilet) flushing isn't for everyone', 'The scientific basis for miracles', etc.
Yeah it’s not ideal yet the suggestions under each category I just YouTube’s own category labels so often it didn’t give the best results, but it’s something I’m working on!
Perhaps log the videos that users upload and suggest the most common ones?
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#29Who chooses the videos? It seems ... opinionated. For example, under 'Physics', we have "The big lie about carbon capture', 'Why (toilet) flushing isn't for everyone', 'The scientific basis for miracles', etc.
Yeah it’s not ideal yet the suggestions under each category I just YouTube’s own category labels so often it didn’t give the best results, but it’s something I’m working on!
Perhaps allow the user to integrate with his YouTube history? Does YouTube have an API for that?
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#30really cool. A while back I've build this database of 1000+ hand-selected educational YouTube videos, so I'm going to try out a few of them to put in this tool :)
https://www.edutube.app/