The most difficult part was detecting what frames in the video are slides, and extracting from those what is useful content to add to the document. I didn't want to just stick a screengrab of the slides in the text, I wanted it to read like an actual book, so it uses an AI model to take from the slides what is useful and ignores what is just repeated in the transcript.

Here is an output sample from an NIH video: https://lecturetobook.com/sample/sleep-book/book.html

Feedback welcome! This is my first side-project that has made it to launch.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980360

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I came up with this idea because I was enrolled in an online course and it was all videos. I spend all day long on the computer for work, so the last thing I want to do after work is spend more time staring at a screen. I wanted something that could take those videos and turn them into a readable format.

The most difficult part was detecting what frames in the video are slides, and extracting from those what is useful content to add to the document. I didn't want to just stick a screengrab of the slides in the text, I wanted it to read like an actual book, so it uses an AI model to take from the slides what is useful and ignores what is just repeated in the transcript.

Here is an output sample from an NIH video: https://lecturetobook.com/sample/sleep-book/book.html

Feedback welcome! This is my first side-project that has made it to launch.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965178

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I agree the system needs change but I don't have the answers for how to change it, hence why I said it's the million dollar question. Best we can do is try to make improvements.

I'm wondering at this point if you've ever hired for an engineering position before...

Lots of assumptions here, but we don't use keyword filtering.

> you'll filter out all geniuses who decided that 4 years at Amazon is enough for anybody and wants to make a move. Geniuses with 4 years of experience are probably working at Google for 400k+ salaries and are outside of our hiring range.

You have to prioritize time and when you get 500 people with < 5 years experience and 499 of them are not geniuses, it's not easy to find the needle in the haystack.

> I hate to put it in such stark terms, but if your assessment is ruling out good programmers and letting through bad programmer(s), its worthless. You need replace it with something that actually works.

It's a difficult balance because if it's made easier then it lets through more bad ones and if it's made harder it potentially filters out more good ones.

Basic requirement is at least 5 years of professional experience. Most of the people who apply don't have that. Then after that, a large number of people who make it to the coding test can't pass the first basic test, or struggle through it: generate a random string using only the standard libraries. If you can't do that then you are not a senior developer. Or they appear to be using ChatGPT and cheat through the test. etc. etc.

And memorizing algorithms wouldn't help you pass our assessment, it's actually easier than that in my opinion.

P.S. AWS has said they have resolved the issue for almost 2 hours now and we are still having issues with us-east-2a.