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Nice to see this here. I’m the developer who made this. The idea for this started when I was chatting with co-creator, Dave Charney and we asked, “I wonder if a

by bfeist 4mo ago

Nice to see this here. I’m the developer who made this. The idea for this started when I was chatting with co-creator, Dave Charney and we asked, “I wonder if all the questions kids could ask of astronauts have already been asked.” If you select “About this project”, there are technical details on how we did it.

dfamorato 4mo ago
I really really really love the implementation here, super fast search, amazing filtering and showcasing the video, definitely will address the curiosity of young (and old like myself) . Congratulations on the amazing delivery. Truly great solution
dnnddidiej 4mo ago
This is fun. The question -> video flow could be so useful for many other things.
- pulkitsh1234 4mo ago
  YouTube PM if you are seeing, this is your "AI project". Instead of just filtering user asked questions. We could probably just use an LLM to find interesting sections in video which has answer to a particular question.
  - dnnddidiej 4mo ago
    What is PM? I am hoping it is someone elses AI project lol.
    - pulkitsh1234 4mo ago
      Product Manager
FlyThruTheSun 4mo ago
Awesome project, I just read the "About this project" section and extremely impressed! This is one of those projects I love as an adult and will be using, but I really wish I could have had this when I was a kid. Killer job!
Syzygies 4mo ago
Yes, I was going to guess semantic embedding from playing around and seeing the search responses. Thank you for "About this project". I'd love to extract just the foreign language from Pimsleur foreign language lessons, for faster review before trips. Your pipeline has many elements in common for what would be required.
pulkitsh1234 4mo ago
Thanks for making this..I was trying to accurately find timestamps in a video from a transcript sometime back, was not aware that this is called "phoneme alignment" and whisperx already solves this !
somenameforme 4mo ago
One thing occurs to me about the debate between apps and web-apps. This site is really cool, but it also seems likely to be one of the endless semi-hobby sites that you check it out again after a few years and it's 404. The one thing nice about 'offline' apps is that they're always there. It'd be amazing to have a downloadable version of this. It seems it should be doable, excepting bandwidth costs if it takes off!
- bfeist 4mo ago
  Unfortunately it’s almost a TB of video. The project is opensource so you could run the pipeline to grab all the videos yourself. https://github.com/bfeist/ask-an-astronaut https://github.com/bfeist/ask-an-astronaut

by bfeist 4mo ago

dfamorato 4mo ago

I really really really love the implementation here, super fast search, amazing filtering and showcasing the video, definitely will address the curiosity of young (and old like myself) . Congratulations on the amazing delivery. Truly great solution

dnnddidiej 4mo ago

This is fun. The question -> video flow could be so useful for many other things.

pulkitsh1234 4mo ago
YouTube PM if you are seeing, this is your "AI project". Instead of just filtering user asked questions. We could probably just use an LLM to find interesting sections in video which has answer to a particular question.
- dnnddidiej 4mo ago
  What is PM? I am hoping it is someone elses AI project lol.
  - pulkitsh1234 4mo ago
    Product Manager

FlyThruTheSun 4mo ago

Awesome project, I just read the "About this project" section and extremely impressed! This is one of those projects I love as an adult and will be using, but I really wish I could have had this when I was a kid. Killer job!

Syzygies 4mo ago

Yes, I was going to guess semantic embedding from playing around and seeing the search responses. Thank you for "About this project". I'd love to extract just the foreign language from Pimsleur foreign language lessons, for faster review before trips. Your pipeline has many elements in common for what would be required.

pulkitsh1234 4mo ago

Thanks for making this..I was trying to accurately find timestamps in a video from a transcript sometime back, was not aware that this is called "phoneme alignment" and whisperx already solves this !

somenameforme 4mo ago

One thing occurs to me about the debate between apps and web-apps. This site is really cool, but it also seems likely to be one of the endless semi-hobby sites that you check it out again after a few years and it's 404. The one thing nice about 'offline' apps is that they're always there. It'd be amazing to have a downloadable version of this. It seems it should be doable, excepting bandwidth costs if it takes off!

bfeist 4mo ago
Unfortunately it’s almost a TB of video. The project is opensource so you could run the pipeline to grab all the videos yourself. https://github.com/bfeist/ask-an-astronaut https://github.com/bfeist/ask-an-astronaut