I Trained My TikTok

Re:I Trained My TikTok by MarcelOlsz on Sunday May 15, 2022 @01:43PM (#31389339)

I don't care if your brain is hardwired into a TikTok video and you watch it 10,000 times. It's maximum 3 minutes. You're not learning anything in 3 minutes. You might learn something that is entirely self contained in 3 minutes, but you probably already learned that stuff in the 3rd grade. Taking something large and complex and narrowing it into a short clip doesn't do anything for anyone. I guess you get some information, but you're not getting knowledge, and there is no incentive to study. At best you are trying to arm-wrestle a lion and it's an uphill battle. I'd rather take a book and spend a weekend, then I might have a chance of grasping something.

>Why exactly would I retain information less from TikTok than from a Khan Academy video?

Unless you are watching some sort of structured course type thing that is broken down into... 100's of 3 minute videos? I don't see the point.

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Re:I Trained My TikTok by antiterra on Sunday May 15, 2022 @02:06PM (#31389546)

The maximum is 10 minutes these days, and multipart videos are common. This is approximately the length of the individual videos in Coursera, eg Andrew Ng’s course on machine learning.

I was in a computer science theory class at a prestigious university, and a number of otherwise extremely intelligent CS majors had a curious difficulty understanding the Pumping Lemma. They would ask the teacher to explain it. This happened a few times since attendance wasn’t mandatory and not everyone was present.

The resulting explanation from the instructor would absolutely fit into a three minute TikTok, plus it would be rewatchable. Unfortunately, there’s no video there that explains it today, but that could be remedied.

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Re:I Trained My TikTok by MarcelOlsz on Sunday May 15, 2022 @04:52PM (#31391010)

Hmm I guess that's fair, it still feels like a poor medium.

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