https://www.deepexcel.net/

I think you could conceive of abstraction from other forms, maybe something like platonic forms as a base instead of language (again probably not in humans, but in others)

One thing that worked well for me is having two separate profiles, one for educational and one for everything else. That way the education one didn't get as polluted with the most addictive recommendations

(little self-promotion) One thing I found to be useful was to try to focus on learning more actively, so I built a tool that turns educational videos into mini-courses where it will ask you questions about the content and then use spaced repetition to help you actually remember the information.

One of the other parts is to ensure that the suggestions/feed is focused solely on education, and that you don't fall into the addicting videos trap... (I have the v1 but still working to make this better)

But I think if the addiction is bad enough as in the post, it's probably a better idea to go cold turkey

(link is https://www.platoedu.org)

https://www.platoedu.org/videos/oSCRZkSQ1CE/watch

It's not really giving summaries but gives topic/section timestamps and highlights what was discussed.

(Main focus is actually making mini-courses off of YouTube videos but I found the section summaries really useful for figuring out which parts to watch)

https://www.platoedu.org/videos/oSCRZkSQ1CE/watch

It's not really giving summaries but gives topic/section timestamps and highlights what was discussed

(for example: The Transformer Model (21:06 - 24:48) - Introduction of the Transformer model as a more efficient alternative to recurrent models for language processing)

The main focus is actually creating Anki-like spaced repetition questions/flashcards for videos and lectures you watch to retain knowledge, but I found the section information quite helpful for finding which parts of the video contain the info relating to topics/concepts

https://future-sf.com/fiction/1700/

There was an open source project (https://github.com/abi/screenshot-to-code) that I borrowed the prompt from and made a custom GPT for myself where I just drag and drop the image. It’s not perfect but it’s pretty great overall!

Here are the prompts: https://github.com/abi/screenshot-to-code/blob/main/backend/...

But some other topics it may be enough for purposes that you would want to use something like Plato for (history, etc)

I think it's kind of similar with Plato, the value you get is going to be really correlated to the quality of videos you put in (I'm working on making the suggestions here be better quality right now too)

But I do think that there is still value to something like Duolingo, if it get's you to do at least a bit of learning over doom scrolling that's a good thing (even if it's much less effective than other methods). I think the problem comes up when something like Duolingo pretends to be better than it is and convinces people that otherwise WOULD be using the better techniques to learn, that's a bad thing, but if it's a replacement to nothing that's probably a net good

(also I actually did use Duolingo to learn German (B1-ish), and it helped as a starting point for vocab and simple grammar, I learned the most with friends and time in Germany but I don't think I would've been able to take advantage of that time without Duolingo... but your milage vary)

For some things where you want to learn but don't want to/have time to put in full effort premade cards are better than nothing. For example, I ended up learning German to B1 level from Duolingo (+ friends/time in germany) because using Duolingo was pretty low effort, even if it wasn't the fastest most effective way of learning.

I think this is probably true for most things you may want to learn about outside of your job, school, or really strong reasoning behind it. Perfect is the enemy of good as they say

(Shameless plug: I made a tool that makes spaced repetition questions for educational YouTube videos/podcasts that you watch, usually I was forgetting everything and wasn't really that invested to spend the time making decks for everything I watch, so I landed on this! https://www.platoedu.org)

Pm me (email in bio) and I can add some MIT OCW videos and turn on support for longer videos to your account

Having the user wait for generations was kinda a pain when I was using it myself, but the upload mean that's its now "instant" when you get to questions. I'll try to fix this today or tomorrow!

I'm thinking that it should generate the video content immediately but not add it to your account and instead ask the user.

Pm me (email in bio) and I can enable longer videos for you