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I use "YouTube Captions Search" Chrome extension. This allows the following workflow: - I am on a YouTube video view - I click on "Closed Captions" (CC) in th

I use "YouTube Captions Search" Chrome extension. This allows the following workflow: - I am on a YouTube video view - I click on "Closed Captions" (CC) in the YouTube player. - The extension icon in Chrome's toolbar becomes red. - I click on the extension icon - A search text field appears - I type a word or a sentence - There is an area with timestamps and sentences containing the words I search This is useful in two ways: 1. For videos I have already watched that I know contain a segment of interest to me and I want to re-listen to that segment. I go to the video, type the words, click on the timestamp and it takes me straight to the timestamp of interest. 2. Discovery: when I'm learning about something specific and there's a one hour video and I want to know if they're addressing my specific question. I type the words and see how many times they're talking about the topic (density). I read the sentences, and then click on the timestamps directly before committing to the video. So when I'm actively learning about a topic, I might have a backlog of ten videos, this speeds up things enormously. One more hack: I use "Video Speed Controller"[1] to speed up videos up to 16x. For talks that don't have a link to the slides, I'll use the 16x video as a "presentation slides". One hour becomes about 4 minutes long and I just look at the slides on the screen. If I like the treatment of the topic, I'll watch the video. If not, I won't. This allows me again to have a backlog of 20 videos to watch, go through them really fast, discard the ones that do not have a deep enough treatment of the topic of interest, and only commit to the videos that do. - [0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-captions-search/kimbeggjgnmckoikpckibeoaocafcpbg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-captions-s... - [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...

fudged71 6y ago
I’ve been interested in making a list of keywords and key phrases that can highlight the ‘meat’ of instructional YouTube videos. Which words/phrases have been useful for you to search?
- Jugurtha 6y ago
  I work at a company and we do consulting for enterprise. We make machine learning products. I need to learn whatever needs to be learned to deliver value to customers (domain + making product). We also build https://iko.ai https://iko.ai, a machine learning platform to simplify our work. I need to learn whatever needs to be learned to make that product.
  - fudged71 6y ago
    Okay so you look at domain-specific keywords. I’m interested in general terms that mark important parts. “The key here is...” “pay attention to...” “the most common mistake” etc
    - Jugurtha 6y ago
      I look for what comes after "the key here is ...". Indication of where the key lies means nothing to me if the key is nowhere to be found in a video/article. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". Most content is useless mostly not because of malice, but simply because people who put content about what interests me mostly never have worked on actual real world projects. They'll write about experiment tracking and ML project management and will just snatch the marketing brochure of whatever library pushed out by some company at a summit, never having used that library for actual work, heck never having run the getting started, to notice the cracks. They'd have relevant content if they had. Oh, well. Nobody "got time" for that, need to churn out a Medium post/YouTube video.
      - fudged71 6y ago
        Any keywords (general or specific) are just markers for you to review the content. If it’s a bad video/creator you’ll notice that and move on to another video.

fudged71 6y ago

I’ve been interested in making a list of keywords and key phrases that can highlight the ‘meat’ of instructional YouTube videos. Which words/phrases have been useful for you to search?

Jugurtha 6y ago
I work at a company and we do consulting for enterprise. We make machine learning products. I need to learn whatever needs to be learned to deliver value to customers (domain + making product). We also build https://iko.ai https://iko.ai, a machine learning platform to simplify our work. I need to learn whatever needs to be learned to make that product.
- fudged71 6y ago
  Okay so you look at domain-specific keywords. I’m interested in general terms that mark important parts. “The key here is...” “pay attention to...” “the most common mistake” etc
  - Jugurtha 6y ago
    I look for what comes after "the key here is ...". Indication of where the key lies means nothing to me if the key is nowhere to be found in a video/article. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe". Most content is useless mostly not because of malice, but simply because people who put content about what interests me mostly never have worked on actual real world projects. They'll write about experiment tracking and ML project management and will just snatch the marketing brochure of whatever library pushed out by some company at a summit, never having used that library for actual work, heck never having run the getting started, to notice the cracks. They'd have relevant content if they had. Oh, well. Nobody "got time" for that, need to churn out a Medium post/YouTube video.
    - fudged71 6y ago
      Any keywords (general or specific) are just markers for you to review the content. If it’s a bad video/creator you’ll notice that and move on to another video.