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Nice idea. Would like to see extended to broader topics. For example on talks about history.

by mongol 8y ago

yaj54 8y ago
Do you mean history outside of tech? Or history of (software / CS) tech? A lot of times my favorite talks are historical perspective (tech) talks, so I would also like to get more of those in there. A "history" topic filter would be sweet even on the talks I'm already searching but categorizing by topic is not something I've tackled here yet.
- mongol 8y ago
  I mean "regular history". About ancient civilizations, bronze age collapse, Napoleon, the Russian revolution, things like that. It is a personal preference for me to listen to such talks, but I think there could be interest in many other topics as well. I have come to the conclusion that apart from literature, talks in academic settings are more likely to be interesting, compared with documentaries produced for television.
  - yaj54 8y ago
    Cool. The hard part is collecting the list relevant talks, the easy part is ranking them. If there is a way to get the right set of academic history talks it wouldn't be that hard to go from there. I haven't watched much historical lectures, but I do enjoy documentaries and historical fiction. Another idea I've kicked around is a site that organizes a bunch of historical documentaries and historical fiction into a geo-timeline visualization. And include the ability for people to comment on and discuss the historically accuracy of the films. But that's a different project...
  - christudor 8y ago
    What kind of stuff do you listen to at the moment? Where do you go to find these kind of talks?
garysieling 8y ago
I built something with a broader dataset but a different ranking technique, basically a bunch of cruder custom ranking rules. https://www.findlectures.com https://www.findlectures.com
- mongol 8y ago
  Seems quite popular right now!
  - garysieling 8y ago
    Oops, back up now!
    - mongol 8y ago
      The links in search result don't work on Android (neither Chrome nor Firefox).

Nice idea. Would like to see extended to broader topics. For example on talks about history.

by mongol 8y ago

Nice idea. Would like to see extended to broader topics. For example on talks about history.

Do you mean history outside of tech? Or history of (software / CS) tech? A lot of times my favorite talks are historical perspective (tech) talks, so I would also like to get more of those in there. A "history" topic filter would be sweet even on the talks I'm already searching but categorizing by topic is not something I've tackled here yet.

mongol 8y ago
I mean "regular history". About ancient civilizations, bronze age collapse, Napoleon, the Russian revolution, things like that. It is a personal preference for me to listen to such talks, but I think there could be interest in many other topics as well. I have come to the conclusion that apart from literature, talks in academic settings are more likely to be interesting, compared with documentaries produced for television.
- yaj54 8y ago
  Cool. The hard part is collecting the list relevant talks, the easy part is ranking them. If there is a way to get the right set of academic history talks it wouldn't be that hard to go from there. I haven't watched much historical lectures, but I do enjoy documentaries and historical fiction. Another idea I've kicked around is a site that organizes a bunch of historical documentaries and historical fiction into a geo-timeline visualization. And include the ability for people to comment on and discuss the historically accuracy of the films. But that's a different project...
- christudor 8y ago
  What kind of stuff do you listen to at the moment? Where do you go to find these kind of talks?

garysieling 8y ago

I built something with a broader dataset but a different ranking technique, basically a bunch of cruder custom ranking rules. https://www.findlectures.com https://www.findlectures.com

mongol 8y ago
Seems quite popular right now!
- garysieling 8y ago
  Oops, back up now!
  - mongol 8y ago
    The links in search result don't work on Android (neither Chrome nor Firefox).