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Except nobody really reads text anymore. If you want to deliver a powerful message pics and vids have the most bang for the byte.

necovek 6y ago
That's a really surprising sentiment to me. I despise videos when I want to learn something. Give me a nice text (+ pictures if a subject requires it) so I can follow at my own pace: slow down, skip or skim as needed.
- cycomanic 6y ago
  For me it depends a lot on what I want to learn. For some things (e.g. programming) text is much better. For other things (e.g. repair a part on a bike) text requires images, to really be able to quickly grasp what one has to do. Finally, for learning e.g. dance moves I really want a movie (or a live instructor). So like usual "it depends".
  - necovek 6y ago
    Yeah, it definitely depends for me too, but getting the nuances right from a video wouldn't work for me at all, even in a thing like dancing. Live instructor is an entirely different proposition (you can choose to focus on the bits that you care about, move around to get a better view, etc.). And I can stop them and ask for them to repeat, slow down or split their movement into more granular "part-steps". Videos are simply not that for me. Perhaps with actual 3D videos and improved tooling we might get there (eg. ability to zoom in on an instructor's hips in "infinite" resolution if you are having trouble following that particular bit of their motion). And I mean, you can sure learn from a video, but I just find it harder. Eg. I can go look at dance or basketball moves and try to reconstruct them, but it's usually a couple of core points that need to be taken in to achieve them that are much easier to grasp when broken into fundamentals. However, videos where the gist of the work is on the student, vs on the instructor, are much easier to make, which I believe is part of their popularity!
naniwaduni 6y ago
I think you're vastly underestimating the number of bytes it takes for a pic or vid to deliver that bang.
goatlover 6y ago
Nobody? You're not reading Hacker News posts and comments? Nobody is purchasing books anymore? There's no more blog posts or news articles? Writers no longer have jobs? Is that why GRR Martin can't finish Winds of Winter?

necovek 6y ago

That's a really surprising sentiment to me. I despise videos when I want to learn something. Give me a nice text (+ pictures if a subject requires it) so I can follow at my own pace: slow down, skip or skim as needed.

cycomanic 6y ago
For me it depends a lot on what I want to learn. For some things (e.g. programming) text is much better. For other things (e.g. repair a part on a bike) text requires images, to really be able to quickly grasp what one has to do. Finally, for learning e.g. dance moves I really want a movie (or a live instructor). So like usual "it depends".
- necovek 6y ago
  Yeah, it definitely depends for me too, but getting the nuances right from a video wouldn't work for me at all, even in a thing like dancing. Live instructor is an entirely different proposition (you can choose to focus on the bits that you care about, move around to get a better view, etc.). And I can stop them and ask for them to repeat, slow down or split their movement into more granular "part-steps". Videos are simply not that for me. Perhaps with actual 3D videos and improved tooling we might get there (eg. ability to zoom in on an instructor's hips in "infinite" resolution if you are having trouble following that particular bit of their motion). And I mean, you can sure learn from a video, but I just find it harder. Eg. I can go look at dance or basketball moves and try to reconstruct them, but it's usually a couple of core points that need to be taken in to achieve them that are much easier to grasp when broken into fundamentals. However, videos where the gist of the work is on the student, vs on the instructor, are much easier to make, which I believe is part of their popularity!

naniwaduni 6y ago

I think you're vastly underestimating the number of bytes it takes for a pic or vid to deliver that bang.

goatlover 6y ago

Nobody? You're not reading Hacker News posts and comments? Nobody is purchasing books anymore? There's no more blog posts or news articles? Writers no longer have jobs? Is that why GRR Martin can't finish Winds of Winter?