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

#51
I've always wanted to do this for Wikipedia, it could even be a Wikimedia add-on.

However, I have recently transitioned towards becoming better at compiling information quickly rather than spending a chunk of my day memorizing facts that I am not quite sure will be useful.

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

#52

This is fantastic! Is there a way to donate? This is the kind of software I want to see in the world!

Pm me (email in bio) and I can come up with some sort of premium plan haha (I'm thinking unlimited time length for videos + podcasts/other material) but very open to suggestions!

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

#54

I've always wanted to do this for Wikipedia, it could even be a Wikimedia add-on. However, I have recently transitioned towards becoming better at compiling information quickly rather than spending a chunk of my day memorizing facts that I am not quite sure will be useful.

What do you use to compile information and do you keep track of sources?

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

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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 pl…

This is a problem I've had too, my current solution is to have multiple profiles on YouTube so whenever I click on a random video one it doesn't pollute my other education heavy account. Also just removing videos helps... but even then YouTube still pushes edu-tainment over harder educational videos. One of my ideas that's on the backburner is build a BERT classifier to separate between Educational, edu-tainment, and…

Multiple YT profiles is a smart hack! And also, great work on the app!

The YT algo is pretty good - it catches on to what I want to follow and magnifies (ie suggest more content on) that topic. But it never pushes me to educational videos.

I suspect educational videos are best to watch on Coursera. I know people who just open up Coursera and start listening on commutes, etc - instead of infi-scrolling.

The pedagogical (instruction techniques, content structure, etc) aspect in those vids is different. I wonder if there is inspiration for creators/topics from Coursera?

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

#56
This is very cool! I'm trying to do something technically similar by using LLMs to summarize the meeting transcript from youtube (https://parths-newsletter-78dbcb.beehiiv.com/).

Right now I'm doing this manually by copy/pasting into ChatGPT but I want to automate this aspect. I'm not very technical so any guidance you could provide would be helpful :)

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

#57
I like the idea. I’m learning European Portuguese, so I added a video but unfortunately got an error that there were no subtitles. The subtitles for the video in question are auto-generated, so maybe that’s the reason? Would be great if I could use this for foreign language studies.

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

#59

This is very cool! I'm trying to do something technically similar by using LLMs to summarize the meeting transcript from youtube ( https://parths-newsletter-78dbcb.beehiiv.com/ ). Right now I'm doing this manually by copy/pasting into ChatGPT but I want to automate this aspect. I'm not very technical so any guidance you could provide would be helpful :)

https://www.videogist.co was mentioned previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555629

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

#60
post #57

I like the idea. I’m learning European Portuguese, so I added a video but unfortunately got an error that there were no subtitles. The subtitles for the video in question are auto-generated, so maybe that’s the reason? Would be great if I could use this for foreign language studies.

Auto generated captions do work but unfortunately only English for now, it would be pretty easy to add other languages but I just haven’t had time to implement it yet. Feel free to pm me with the YouTube video I’ll try to see what’s the problem (email in bio)
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