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The answer will be a single number, 42.
Then summarize it one last time into a single bit. I like to think it'd be '1'.
Then this super-condensed 1 explodes and there is no information left, just noise
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#32Something that could be interesting is processing all videos in some subgenre, like say "game development", rank them by popularity, summarize them, and then analyze for patterns. This would be valuable information for anyone wanting to make a video with higher chances of being shown to people.
Or one could not do that and focus on quality instead.
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#33Got a chuckle from that recent commit message. I feel you
The commit in question https://github.com/stong/tldw/commit/0144a4e930425d308704de0...
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#35What 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.
I know you’re making a joke, but more seriously I think most yt videos have atrocious signal/noise ratios so information compression is likely very useful. Less so for many academic papers (although they have some pretty awful filler sometimes).
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#36Something that could be interesting is processing all videos in some subgenre, like say "game development", rank them by popularity, summarize them, and then analyze for patterns. This would be valuable information for anyone wanting to make a video with higher chances of being shown to people.
Or one could not do that and focus on quality instead.
That was actually my initial thought for what I would test with a tool like this. How much does quality matter?
Quality of course has many definitions, but in the light of this tool, the measurable quality could be "how much novel information does this video have?" I'd hope a trend that pops out is that content with more information around a focused topic would perform better. But as it is, I only have my personal preferences and my suggestions list (based on my personal preferences) to go by.
I'm not a content creator myself, but if I was, I might find this kind of analysis interesting enough to pay for.
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#37That's pretty useful. I think yt itself is experimenting with similar feature as I see some videos have AI summaries in the official app.
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#38What I'd really like is a service that edits down YouTube videos by removing all the stock footage and talking head crap, then speeding up the audio to fit over the remaining novel information—whether that's new battlefield footage, electron micrographs, demonstrations of machining techniques, or just elephant toothpaste. The talking head filler seems like it would be easy to recognize, but stock footage recognition…
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.
How did your viewing experience change after using DeArrow? I'm curious because DeArrow has a great reputation, yet my gut feeling tells me that I should avoid watching clickbait videos altogether.
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#39Earlier 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.
How did your viewing experience change after using DeArrow? I'm curious because DeArrow has a great reputation, yet my gut feeling tells me that I should avoid watching clickbait videos altogether.
Then you'd be in luck as it makes me less likely to click on those videos. I only watch them if I'm truly interested in the topic as shown by the revised thumbnail and title, which makes my viewing quality much higher on average.
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#40Idea hackneyed since LLM's appeared. Cool that implementation is open-source, though yt automatic captions are sometimes completely off-point, especially when people talking in the video don't have a diction of a tv show host. I wonder if an idea found it's niche after all? Do you guys summarise you videos to short texts and that leaves you satisfied? For me video is video, I can relax, sit and watch/listen to it. Wi…
2x video speed is still a lot slower than text.