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MIT Fast Code Seminar

50 points by signa11 4y ago

patrec 4y ago
Is this MIT internal only, or can anyone subscribe to this mailing list?
gumby 4y ago
A shame the videos weren't simply posted, but I imagine that's a thankless bureaucratic task. Would be great if someone could make a simple workflow everybody could use in such situations.
- patrec 4y ago
  I wonder if the truth is not more depressing (they don't want to get sued under ADA).
  - gumby 4y ago
    I wonder if automatic transcription would suffice. I don’t think YouTube has been sued on these grounds.
    - patrec 4y ago
      But Berkeley has been, and as a result thousands of hours of high quality course content has been permanently removed. > In 2016, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) received letters of complaint stating that UC Berkeley’s MOOC media content was riddled with accessibility issues including low-color contrast, missing and inaccurate (automatically generated) audio and video captions, and screen-reader accessibility issues — all violations of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/uc-berkeley-removing-educational-videos-from-public-access-citing-captioning-costs/ https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/uc-berkeley-removing-educati...
      - gumby 4y ago
        Automatic transcription has improved tremendously in the six years since that complaint. In my experience (I use it) it's almost as good as a human transcription.
        patrec 4y ago
        It has, but I wonder if that's enough to effectively neutralize the perceived legal risks right now (I'm pretty optimistic it will sooner or later).
legerdemain 4y ago
Where's the content here? Clicking around, almost all event pages only include an abstract or a Zoom invite. There aren't even any specific papers mentioned in most cases, just a suggestion to email the organizers for a video recording.
- felixr 4y ago
  Looks like only some of the talks have a link to slides. The links visually blend into the other link in the title column. [edit: some of the talks also can be found elsewhere when searching for the title]
  - legerdemain 4y ago
    By my count, six out of about 60 talks have linked slides.

50 points by signa11 4y ago

Is this MIT internal only, or can anyone subscribe to this mailing list?

A shame the videos weren't simply posted, but I imagine that's a thankless bureaucratic task. Would be great if someone could make a simple workflow everybody could use in such situations.

patrec 4y ago
I wonder if the truth is not more depressing (they don't want to get sued under ADA).
- gumby 4y ago
  I wonder if automatic transcription would suffice. I don’t think YouTube has been sued on these grounds.
  - patrec 4y ago
    But Berkeley has been, and as a result thousands of hours of high quality course content has been permanently removed. > In 2016, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) received letters of complaint stating that UC Berkeley’s MOOC media content was riddled with accessibility issues including low-color contrast, missing and inaccurate (automatically generated) audio and video captions, and screen-reader accessibility issues — all violations of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/uc-berkeley-removing-educational-videos-from-public-access-citing-captioning-costs/ https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/uc-berkeley-removing-educati...
    - gumby 4y ago
      Automatic transcription has improved tremendously in the six years since that complaint. In my experience (I use it) it's almost as good as a human transcription.
      - patrec 4y ago
        It has, but I wonder if that's enough to effectively neutralize the perceived legal risks right now (I'm pretty optimistic it will sooner or later).

legerdemain 4y ago

Where's the content here? Clicking around, almost all event pages only include an abstract or a Zoom invite. There aren't even any specific papers mentioned in most cases, just a suggestion to email the organizers for a video recording.

felixr 4y ago
Looks like only some of the talks have a link to slides. The links visually blend into the other link in the title column. [edit: some of the talks also can be found elsewhere when searching for the title]
- legerdemain 4y ago
  By my count, six out of about 60 talks have linked slides.