PlatoEdu
Learning and science
video learning flashcards
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How HN took it
19 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 4 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score +0.34.
Idea: 10 for, 3 againstExecution: 3 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Generated questions are relevant and clear.
From 1 comment
This is amazing! I tried a couple of videos and the questions seem pretty relevant and answerable (is there a better word for how a question is worded clearly and the provided…
yogurtboy on HN
Clean, useful interface.
From 1 comment
I love this new Plato app, it’s useful and I educational. The interface is also very clean
sidwrestler on HN
Useful complement to passive video watching.
From 1 comment
When I saw Anki/Duolingo in the bio I assumed it was for language learning, but this is a great idea! I too often watch these kinds of videos without really retaining a lot. This…
snordgren on HN
Objections
Much YouTube educational content is shallow or clickbait not worth remembering.
From 2 comments
This. I don't think most educational content on YouTube is worth remembering (or the best way to spend your time in the first place). So I'd be cautious about an app that helps…
KeplerBoy on HNPapers, textbooks, tech talks, university lectures. That's where you'll find actual knowledge and not in high production value videos which have to be financially viable for…
KeplerBoy on HN
Recommendations include clickbait or opinionated videos.
From 1 comment
Who chooses the videos? It seems ... opinionated. For example, under 'Physics', we have "The big lie about carbon capture', 'Why (toilet) flushing isn't for everyone', 'The…
jacknews on HN
Requests
Support longer videos beyond the 30 minute limit.
From 3 comments
Oh 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…
schmorptron on HNThe 30 minute limit is unfortunate, but otherwise it looks good. Thanks for sharing!
willmeyers on HN> 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…
dayjaby on HN
Support non-English captions and videos.
From 2 comments
I like the idea. I’m learning European Portuguese, so I added a video but unfortunately got an error that there were no subtitles. The subtitles for the video in question are…
hellcow on HNImpressive. This is a cool idea. Some improvements: - I tried with a Spanish video, and it told me it didn't have subtitles. - Would be supper cool to get them exported to Anki!…
corderop on HN
Export flashcards to Anki.
From 1 comment
Impressive. This is a cool idea. Some improvements: - I tried with a Spanish video, and it told me it didn't have subtitles. - Would be supper cool to get them exported to Anki!…
corderop on HN
Support m.youtube.com URLs.
From 1 comment
Amazing, thank you. It even works great for music videos, I never appreciated the poetic lyrical context of Pantera before. )) Small bug, the service requires a youtube.com URL…
dotancohen on HN
Questions
How does the video-to-questions pipeline work?
From 1 comment
so how does this worK? you take the video and extract captions from it? and feed it to GPT? i am sorry, can you clarify?
vivzkestrel on HN
Which spaced repetition algorithm is used?
From 1 comment
What algorithm do you use for spaced repetition?
husarcik on HN
How is YouTube terms of service handled for transcripts?
From 1 comment
How do you deal with YouTube Terms of Service for extracting transcripts?
wahnfrieden on HN
Alternatives named
Anki
From 1 comment
When I saw Anki/Duolingo in the bio I assumed it was for language learning, but this is a great idea! I too often watch these kinds of videos without really retaining a lot. This…
snordgren on HN
Duolingo
From 1 comment
When I saw Anki/Duolingo in the bio I assumed it was for language learning, but this is a great idea! I too often watch these kinds of videos without really retaining a lot. This…
snordgren on HN
Readlang
From 1 comment
I believe readlang has similar functionality.
realty_geek on HN
edutube.app
From 1 comment
really cool. A while back I've build this database of 1000+ hand-selected educational YouTube videos, so I'm going to try out a few of them to put in this tool :)…
sebastianvoelkl on HN