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No, not yet. It's something we may do in the future.
LLM-written clones of free software into proprietary seem to be a growing trend now. With manim, it's probably legal (I think MIT license?), but in general, it makes the world a worse place.
This sort of thing makes me depressed. The videos are LLM slop. You're a confused student. You do a web search. You run into something like this. It looks high-quality and professional. It is dogshit which no one can understand. The result is a confused learner who feels bad about themselves. At the same time, thousands of low-quality resources overwhelm good content. Integrating with an existing resources like MOOCu…
Who is signing off on the correctness?
We are. We're confident in the quality of the teaching and the accuracy of the content in these videos. Our videos are not some MP4 files sitting on a disk. We see our content like software. We review it, version-control it, and maintain it.
That narrator drives me nuts though. There too many “like” “you know” “so” “down here”. Comes off grating, I don’t think I could listen to multiple hours of this.
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We are. We're confident in the quality of the teaching and the accuracy of the content in these videos. Our videos are not some MP4 files sitting on a disk. We see our content like software. We review it, version-control it, and maintain it.
Who is "we"?
We're two PhD students and close friends since our undergraduate years.
I'm Sina: https://sinaatalay.com
And my co-founder, Apo: https://geduk.io
Content is interesting and seems accurate to me. That narrator drives me nuts though. There too many “like” “you know” “so” “down here”. Comes off grating, I don’t think I could listen to multiple hours of this.
This sort of thing makes me depressed. The videos are LLM slop. You're a confused student. You do a web search. You run into something like this. It looks high-quality and professional. It is dogshit which no one can understand. The result is a confused learner who feels bad about themselves. At the same time, thousands of low-quality resources overwhelm good content. Integrating with an existing resources like MOOCu…
There are some incorrect premises here. "The videos are LLM slop." - No, they're not. Watch them. "It's dogshit that no one can understand." - That's not true. Try it.
- The voice is clearly TTS, which I think really loses something. Not having variation or stressing particular parts with intonation is a big deal in teaching. The beginning of lecture 5 has a pause in a weird spot (surface).
- The intro to the first lecture is already unnatural: "And that's of course now we're going to start working with functions of more than one variable."
- The scaffolding in lecture 1 is off to a bad start. The lecture tries to rope the student in with a question, but the question uses the notion and notation of a vector that has not been introduced yet. This reeks of a prompt "use a (motivating) question to introduce the topic", but a question that cannot be understood by a student does not help.
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LLM-written clones of free software into proprietary seem to be a growing trend now. With manim, it's probably legal (I think MIT license?), but in general, it makes the world a worse place.
All we want to do is innovate. We simply can't open source this because we're rewriting and rebuilding it every day.
That's very clear. That's why we have spyware, ad tech, WWII-era German chemical weapons, the East India Company, Oracle's business model, fintech, ...
Ask anyone 40 years older. Regrets focus on time with family and meaningful work. Few people think: "Did I innovate enough?"
> We simply can't open source this because we're rewriting and rebuilding it every day.
I don't quite see the logical connection in this sentence.
Everything I've worked on in the past 15 years is open-source. I suspect you'd:
- Be able to find modest amounts of funding to do this in the open space (e.g. within the academy, as a teaching professor, adjunct, or similar) -- enough to sustain yourself, but without a promise of riches
- Be able to "innovate," make more E($), and do less harm in corporate America
This sort of thing makes me depressed. The videos are LLM slop. You're a confused student. You do a web search. You run into something like this. It looks high-quality and professional. It is dogshit which no one can understand. The result is a confused learner who feels bad about themselves. At the same time, thousands of low-quality resources overwhelm good content. Integrating with an existing resources like MOOCu…
There are some incorrect premises here. "The videos are LLM slop." - No, they're not. Watch them. "It's dogshit that no one can understand." - That's not true. Try it.
I'd provide feedback on how to make this better, but to be frank, I don't want to see this made better. I'd like open education made better. I'm on the other side here. Even if I did, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't listen.
In my career, I've done both open and closed models (more of the former in recently, more of the latter early career). I'm open to both, but education should be open, for a whole slew of reasons I can enumerate.
This sort of thing makes me depressed. The videos are LLM slop. You're a confused student. You do a web search. You run into something like this. It looks high-quality and professional. It is dogshit which no one can understand. The result is a confused learner who feels bad about themselves. At the same time, thousands of low-quality resources overwhelm good content. Integrating with an existing resources like MOOCu…