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If you want to know how to do something, like put some
RJ45 plugs on a bit of CAT5 cable, or make a Pavlova,
there a a smorgasbord of YouTube videos to show you.
The
problem with these though is that many of them aren’t
very good. There are lengthy bits where nothing
interesting is happening,
just as much time is spent on
the
easy bits as the hard bits, etc., but worst of all, there’s
often very little holistic view of the task, how many
steps
there are, and how far you are through it, such as you
get,
at a glance, from a traditional instruction manual with a
page of numbered photos, each of which has a paragraph
of text next to it, describing a step in the process.
Thus, this idea is for a converter, to analyse YouTube
instructional videos, transcribing the spoken bits into
written instructions and identifying, through analysis of
the images and the spoken sentence structure, which
key
frames should be grabbed as images. The output would
be
a neat page of images with accompanying text such as
you
might find in a real instruction manual.
Safer clipping for [8th]'s ShitZu
https://www.youtube...watch?v=DMydVdwmuws
[MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 23 2018]
[link]
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The problem with instructional videos is they rarely, if ever, show any relevance to the watcher's situation. This is because they are recorded under near-optimal conditions. |
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A case in point is the instructional DVD supplied with a set of pet clippers. |
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The subject of the video was a medium-sized, very placid dog. It may have been awash with benzdiazepines, who knows ? But it just sat there, quite calmly, staring into the middle distance, while the presenter dextrously clipped, trimmed, combed and coiffured the pooch. |
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Compare this with the real world situation of a small, strong, wriggly dog that doesn't like keeping still, doesn't want its coat trimmed, and resents being held still. The absolute minimum number of people needed is four; one to wield the clippers, two to try and hold the dog while avoiding the snapping, very sharp little white teeth, and a fourth to stand by with gauze pads, bandages, tourniquets, and a phone with the paramedics on speeddial. |
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Forty minutes of stress and struggle; amount of dog clipped, less than 3%. Two participants retired hurt. |
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You can keep your instructional videos ... |
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the likes is an insufficient barometer, roughly speaking? |
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No it isn't. Not for tortoises, anyway; it's a bugger getting the works back in, and they never go properly afterwards. |
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Do you say that from personal experience ? |
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Odd. I just had to wire up an RJ45 the other day and
of course relief upon YouTube to show me the
correct wiring scheme. |
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//Forty minutes of stress and struggle// I think I've found
_exactly_ the appliance you need, [8th] - I have furnished a
link by way of illustration. |
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"I wish I had died not seeing that." |
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We wish you had died too. But we're not worried, because the GM foods being covertly introduced into the supply chain by huge multinational corporations will soon reduce you to a mindless dribbling imbecile. |
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No-one will notice, of course. |
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I think the main problem is that YouTube consists largely of
videos made by ordinary people. What we should really do is
put the BBC in charge of it. Admittedly there would only be
about 25-30 new videos per year, but they'd be much better
produced. |
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Given the size of the BBC licence fee, it might well work out quite a bit cheaper to have the whole design team come round to your house and do the job for you, while you watch and take notes. |
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Those may very well be the wisest words you have ever
typed, [Ian]. |
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Why not Martin Jarvis ? Or Brian Perkins ? |
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Because neither of them is David Attenborough. |
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One nice thing about the internet is that you can get
feedback. Where you click it to get a copy the page
could ask: |
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Did you actually build it? |
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If so, Can we transport you to our Maker survey where you
can give us tips on how to do better. |
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Then you have computer programs winnow in on the most
effective document-from-youtube style. This improves
things. |
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Yeh, what's with those surveys that ask you about your future? |
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Someone been letting the air out of the
croissants.... Either that, or the digital mice have
finally broken in. |
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I look forward to seeing the instruction manual version of
Max's link. |
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The croissants have gone feral! Methinks the soup
dragon may need to be awakened. |
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Top down shouldn't really work, although it is good for just 'strait' giving of informing info or a fully working, old guard, crippling technology. If you want truth, though, then local/bottom up is the only way to go. |
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In counterpoint, Ian, once the robots take most of
the jobs, all we’ll have left to entertain ourselves
with is the pointless cultural crap, religion, soap
operas, and bad art. |
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I saw your ‘our robot future’ video and wasn’t sure
that you had anything new to say that hadn’t
already been observed. Furthermore it was
presented outside of any real context. You were
like a guy playing a violin in a subway station.
Doesn’t matter how good or bad you are, it’s a
subway station regardless. |
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Some of your videos I really had no idea what you
were getting at at all and couldn’t therefore make
any sense of continuing on watching more. |
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It was also extraordinarily dry. |
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If you do another I’d suggest a good copy editor
first. |
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