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Post by exe34 »

kragen wrote: post #167
exe34 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Read a book I wanted to say something flippant, but dang with the halo on my shoulder urges me otherwise. so here goes: books can also full of filler crap and useless and outright wrong material. just because it's a different medium doesn't make it any better for wasting time. in fact, a bad book can waste weeks of your life whereas a bad video on YouTube could waste about 10 minutes. ultimately I approve of any to…

Being a different medium does in fact make it much better for wasting time. Skipping a paragraph in a book takes 100 milliseconds. Referring back to a previous paragraph to understand a seeming contradiction does too. Pausing a book requires no effort, and no effort to return to the place where you were. Books can be excerpted and quoted, not just in other books, but also in conversation or in videos, in a way that v…

somehow I doubt that the person I was replying to would consider ebooks as a book.

videos can be viewed in double speed, and they can be rewound. they can be watched over and over if needed. they can describe/demonstrate information in ways that books can only project into 2 dimensions. a picture is worth a thousand words - well imagine 24 of those per second.

certainly with STEM subjects, nothing beats a good animation.

even for things like history/geography, I find animations and progressive disclosure to be much more engaging and easier to remember than dry words on a page.

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Post by sieabahlpark »

SomeoneOnTheWeb wrote: post #149
JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B wrote: post #147

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> open-source > OPENAI_API_KEY Choose one.

The service itself is open source ; but it relies on a closed source service. Both are not incompatible.

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Post by xivzgrev »

Pretty cool. The summary at first was helpful, but then delves into repeating itself. I tried it on John wick. Here’s the latter part of the summary.

The video calls out the cliché tropes and logical inconsistencies in "John Wick," showing how they detract from the film's emotional impact. The critique outlines the logical flaws in "John Wick," focusing on cliché tropes that undermine the film’s emotional depth. The video critiques the logical inconsistencies and clichés in "John Wick," highlighting how they reduce its emotional impact. The critique points out clichés and logical flaws in "John Wick." The video notes clichés and flaws in "John Wick." The video critiques "John Wick."

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Post by stong1 »

NewUser76312 wrote: post #162
stong1 wrote: post #128

Hi HN! I'm the author of this service. Thank you for your support. There may have been some temporary downtime due to residential proxy running out of bandwidth. I have purchased additional bandwidth. (I run this service for free.) There also may be some errors with particular videos because they are not accessible in certain regions. For now all requests to YouTube originate from United States, but open to change in…

Hey this is really cool, I literally had the same idea about a month ago but ultimately decided to not pursue it. Glad someone else did. A few quick Qs - 1) Do you use the available auto-generated transcripts from youtube? Or do you do any audio parsing? I know transcripts aren't always available. 2) Do you have any plans to monetize in some way, do you think it would be possible? It's definitely a neat product but a…

1.) We do no TTS of our own. We either use the original transcripts uploaded manually by the YouTuber or we use the auto-generated ones supplied by Google.

2.) No, I plan to keep it free as the operational costs are relatively minimal.

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Post by stong1 »

arccy wrote: post #163
stong1 wrote: post #128

Hi HN! I'm the author of this service. Thank you for your support. There may have been some temporary downtime due to residential proxy running out of bandwidth. I have purchased additional bandwidth. (I run this service for free.) There also may be some errors with particular videos because they are not accessible in certain regions. For now all requests to YouTube originate from United States, but open to change in…

how expensive is the bandwidth if you're buying from residential proxies?

Cheap. Less than $10/GB and since we only scrape metadata and transcripts, the traffic usage is low.

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Post by hiccuphippo »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #54
satvikpendem wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use SponsorBlock (be sure to enable all categories of blocking such as filler content, not just sponsors), DeArrow (de-clickbaits thumbnails and titles) and a video speed changer extension to enable much of your stated functionality, though of course not all. I've saved likely years of watching due to this combination.

When you need 4 extensions (counting ublock as well) to make a site useable, maybe it is time to reconsider what site you spend your time on?

There's an unsolved problem of some content only existing in youtube. Until that's solved, using 4 extensions is one of the best workarounds to making it usable.

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Post by zoogeny »

henry2023 wrote: post #24

What if we summarize all the information in the world into a few hundred volumes of human knowledge, then summarize those into a 10,000 pages book, then that into a 10 long form essays, then those into a 100,000 chars blog post, then that into a pamphlet and finally we summarize one more time into a single tweet.

This reminds me of the famous Library of Babel story, where the entire corpus of a language is imagined to live in a library. Like, every permutation of the characters of an alphabet for pages of a certain number of characters in books of a certain number of pages.

The reducto ab asurdum of this library is an alphabet of 0 and 1, a page size of 2 characters and a page count per book of 2.

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Post by pas »

flemhans wrote: post #81
henry2023 wrote: post #24

What if we summarize all the information in the world into a few hundred volumes of human knowledge, then summarize those into a 10,000 pages book, then that into a 10 long form essays, then those into a 100,000 chars blog post, then that into a pamphlet and finally we summarize one more time into a single tweet.

Not a single tweet, but 10 brief sentences, as per the AI overlords: 1. The universe is vast, mostly empty, and runs on fundamental laws that we barely understand but exploit well. 2. Life is a self-replicating, entropy-defying phenomenon that emerged through chemistry, evolved through selection, and adapts through intelligence. 3. Humans are social primates who dominate the planet through cooperation, tool-making, s…

can you please share the prompt? and in general reproduction steps? many thanks!
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