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Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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This 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…

One point is if the end-user understand it is just infotainment and not a concrete guide.For example,People became "experts" on covid thorugh some videos that spread misinformation and became hardcore fanatics.This is just one example of many.

Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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If this works as I expect it to, it'll be something I've been hoping to see for a long time. Thank your for sharing it with us!

Do you have any specific type of content that you were trying to learn? Right now it's still pretty early/demo stage, but please pm me (email in bio), I'll see if I can tune it better to your use case!

Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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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? When the wife is mad and ranting, can you email me a summary at the end? With a quiz for the important parts.

Now that is a strong need haha, I think will have to be on the Plato premium + plan

Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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> Any particular type of content you’re thinking of? When the wife is mad and ranting, can you email me a summary at the end? With a quiz for the important parts.

Now that is a strong need haha, I think will have to be on the Plato premium + plan

You've got your first customer!

Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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This is awesome! Did you hand select all 1000? I wanted to hand select for the categories to get some better starting recommendations but it was taking too long so I was a bit lazy and just scripted it…

Yeah I literally hand-selected all of them to remain the quality of videos that I wanted

If you have a list of the IDs of the videos (and maybe categories) I can bulk add them! If you want to discuss a collab of some sort feel free to email me!

Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos

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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? When the wife is mad and ranting, can you email me a summary at the end? With a quiz for the important parts.

Oh god. I did take notes during my last break up.. Maybe I could review those too
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