I believe readlang has similar functionality.
Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
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Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#82Oh my god, this is something I've wanted to make or see made for a while now! I'll definitely be using this, the design looks straight forward and good too! Any way to self-host to get around the 30 minute video limit?
Yes! The 30 min limit was just a heuristic to make simplify some parts of the generation (almost always captions exist, so no need to run whisper, and 30 min is 4-5k tokens so very little chance of going over and needing multiple generations)
Pm me (email in bio) and I can enable longer videos for you
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#83Seems a great application of AI as part of a structured app, instead of just a chatbot.
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#84I love this, great work! One note: After submitting a video and answering the questions, the "New Videos to Watch" section appears to be videos similar to the one I uploaded, but may have not been uploaded to PlatoEdu. My expectation was that these were videos others had already uploaded and for which questions had already been generated. So I was surprised when I clicked on one and it started uploading. Had I known…
Yep, still working out UX kinks!
Having the user wait for generations was kinda a pain when I was using it myself, but the upload mean that's its now "instant" when you get to questions. I'll try to fix this today or tomorrow!
I'm thinking that it should generate the video content immediately but not add it to your account and instead ask the user.
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#85This 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 :)
Pm me (email in bio) I can send you some scripts and point you in the right direction!
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#86so how does this worK? you take the video and extract captions from it? and feed it to GPT? i am sorry, can you clarify?
Pretty much! I'm working on doing some fancier stuff with knowledge tracing but was out of scope for the mvp
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#87timestamps on the transcript should be clickable to seek to that time in the video
I think there was some weirdness with resetting the iframe of the YouTube video when I first tried that, but I'll try to figure out a workaround!
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you!! Yes, this is actually something I've been thinking about quite a bit, I actually built out the playlist feature just this morning because it's easier to "show" how Plato works, but I basically just wrote some scripts to get some good enough videos for the demo If you have any good channel suggestions I'd love to add them :)) One of the things I have on the backburner for now is building a BERT classifier…
> classifier to decide whether the video is Educational, Edu-tainment, or not educational at all I'm a bit surprised to only see like 3 questions for a 14 minute video of quantum mechanics. For educational videos with very dense information, is there a way to raise the questions per video rate? Looking forward to see MIT OpenCourseware videos supported. Right now they are too long :D
Working on that soon! That's actually also one of the reasons I'm limiting to 30 min, 5 questions definitely isn't enough for 1 hour video but I have some fixes in the work for it!
Pm me (email in bio) and I can add some MIT OCW videos and turn on support for longer videos to your account
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#89I'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?
It depends on the question. I do not have a list of sources.
Re: Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos
#90I'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.
I’ve been doing something similar. If I read a blog post / paper, etc. where I learn a lot on a topic I’m interested in, I will catalogue a pdf of it in Obsidian with a tag and an optional note. This makes it easy to access information locally very quickly and I find I learn a lot more because if I forget something, I open up the resource, read the doc and, come out learning a little more. A kind of convoluted versio…
I don't even save the sources, I'll just assume I'll always have access to the internet and that I'll be able to find what I need when I'm thinking about it.