I would like to see one of these that produces an outlined summary then has timestamps as citations for the outline's individual entries.
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#52I tried with a few Thunderf00t videos. He has good analysis, but the guys repeats everything too many times. Many are about silly impossible "inventions" / scams, but this is an experiment that he published in Nature Chemistry: https://tldw.tube/?v=LmlAYnFF_s8 " High speed camera reveals why sodium explodes! --> " Coulombic explosion. (Sodium and water reaction) "
That was the first thing that came to my mind, all his 20 minutes videos contains at best 2 minutes of information.
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#53What 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…
Or ask the original creator if he can publish the script used.
Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
#54What 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.
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?
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#55Earlier 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?
What a silly point of view. Instead what should they do? Post comments like this on HN?
They clearly enjoy watching and digesting information from YouTube- the biggest platform for this. But people need to make money from it hence the ailment these these plugins remedy
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#56What 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.
Like "the book"?
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I love the DeArrow experience. The problem with clickbait on YouTube is that even good creators are compelled to use it because it works. Whether it's due to the algorithm or just human behaviour I don't know. There's a little blue button next to the video titles to toggle it on and off and it's very interesting to compare the community title and thumbnail with the original. Good original titles are often left largel…
Tom Scott and LTT did research on this and you are absolutely correct. It just “works” for engagement. Even those who are already your top viewers.
Re: TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
#58That's pretty useful. I think yt itself is experimenting with similar feature as I see some videos have AI summaries in the official app.
Yeah. "Some." I've seen one in the past two months.
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#59Change the prompt to "in bullet points" to increase the value by about 80%.
(And add "by section" to get to 100%!)
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#60This is so fun!
Could you make it compatible with openrouter please? I see you use the openai binding that allows you to specify a different base_url so that would work out of the box and integrates well with the .env
``` from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="", ) ```