Open nickhill opened 5 years ago
Ojimadu
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5 years ago Hi @nickhill, I think you're new around here, welcome. :) Instead of transcripts I would suggest a summary with key points of these videos would be better. Having just transcripts are of very little value so I suggest you channel the energy to writing summaries of the videos and have channel where they can be published. If the it's good enough, I would help get the marketing team to publish on the official blog.
nickhill
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5 years ago Thanks for the welcome and the feedback, Ojimadu -
yes, perhaps you are right, and I had thought summaries were the way to go myself, initially.
However, I likely did not explain the issue well, and disagree somewhat with your statement re: "...transcripts of of very little value...".
In trying to follow this research and figure out what was being said, I found myself having to repeatedly replay the videos and then transcribing the results. The videos only contain the text of the current speaker's name, so no visual clues are provided as to what is being uttered.
As time went on, and I needed to review some topic, or see how it had evolved, textual searches became quite helpful, as well as timestamps and maintaining a separate list of terms.
Additionally, at Devcon2, several people noted that, though they would not spend the time to listen to these videos they would like to conduct searches on the contents thereof. So this seemed like a way to provide something useful.
Also - Vlad ( and at times, others) is really difficult to understand as he
is a bit of a mumbler - between the mumbling and
the (understandably) sheer number of repetitions where he must say things
like '...consensus mechanism.....' and
'... sharding theory...' and 'atomicity' etc... well, it takes plenty of
effort to converge/guess an english word.
And, at first, I didn't realize there exists Google's best guess text for
closed captions... things are a bit quicker for me at this point.
(still, grepping the transcripts for my '
I agree, summaries would be nice, and textual searches are nice as well. The point of the textual searches may become moot anyway, as the scheme(s) mature. At that point folks will likely prefer the summaries and a well-written synopsis.
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Hi @nickhill https://github.com/nickhill, I think you're new around here, welcome. :) Instead of transcripts I would suggest a summary with key points of these videos would be better. Having just transcripts are of very little value so I suggest you channel the energy to writing summaries of the videos and have channel where they can be published. If the it's good enough, I would help get the marketing team to publish on the official blog.
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dckc
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5 years ago Youtube provides transcripts (at least in some cases) but making those easier to search could be valuable. I know I would like an easy way to search the RChain weekly debriefs.
What I did meanwhile is https://github.com/rchain/bounties/wiki/Weekly-Debrief-Index .
And now we have blog items such as
https://blog.rchain.coop/rchain-update-94-feedback-from-rcon3/ https://blog.rchain.coop/rchain-debrief-93-rcon3/ https://blog.rchain.coop/rchain-debrief-92-rcon3-week/
So perhaps you could contribute blog items that summarize the Casper research meetings.
Hmm... CR-45.txt is quite interesting. Did you by chance run it by the meeting participants? There's a risk of mis-representing what people said.
Benefit to RChain
Those interested in understanding RChain Casper development may benefit from text files generated from the Casper Research videos containing speaker attributions, best-guesses as to URLs mentioned and so on. A list of terms with explanations derived from various readings and videos might also prove helpful.
Budget and Objective
Please make the issue SMART: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely.
Estimated Budget of Task: per video, measuring response to the idea Estimated Timeline Required to Complete the Task: variable, 2-25 hours, depending on vid length and pith How will we measure completion? completed files uploaded to here? On of the more complex examples posted below, Casper Research number 45, from March 26, 2018
CR-45.txt