References and better videos link indication

[edgarriba]

Hi ! congrats for the course !

I walked randomly to the activation functions section and I realized that you use for the triplet loss one of the figures in our paper without any reference: http://www.bmva.org/bmvc/2016/papers/paper119/paper119.pdf

How do you handle references so that I can help and add it ? Couldn't find it.

Besides, I would like to propose to add next to the videos links an emoji indicating 🎥 or 📺
At first I thought it was an hyperlink instead of a video url until a friend told me that the videos where so cool too :)

[lbourdois]

Hi ! :)

Alfredo has indicated on our Slack that he should normally spend this month taking a look at the project so when he sees your message, he will probably reply in more detail than I can.

Nevertheless what I can say is that the main resource for this course is the videos rather than the website.
The videos are the recordings of the courses given by Yann, Alfredo and the various guest speakers.
The texts that can be found on the website are lecture notes that the students have taken during the courses in order to offer a kind of summary of the videos.

Thus it is better to rely on the videos than on the notes on the site. Videos often contain more anecdotes, informations, etc...
And as you may have pointed out, the students did not for example source their notes, unlike Yann for example.
Your paper is cited in the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj1fh3BvqSU see at 1h00min30s) and in the pdf available on the course drive (see slide 16 of https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1l3A1c_9RGdJclFJjejzWfLDsfJ95w7r8).

But otherwise I agree with you that it would be good to integrate the references on the site as well. It might take a long time if you have to modify the fifty web pages for one language and then spread the modification over all the other languages 😅.

I also really like your suggestion to add emojis to indicate that the link is to a video 😎.

[edgarriba]

Cool. Just let me know if you need some help with that - with some guidance I could try it.

[Atcold]

Hello everyone.

Thanks @edgarriba for letting me know there are improving options for the material.
All @lbourdois pointed out is correct.
The videos and notebooks are the main product of ours.
Transcriptions, translations, and subtitles are there for the viewer convenience.

I haven't touched GitHub since last year.
I'm barely making it through this semester (400+ students and 2 courses), and I've been unable to handle this project as well (where we have 500 interpreters to manage). Moreover, I've been crafting brand new content instead of sleeping.

I'd be happy to delegate improvement strategy making and limit myself to approve and / or comment on a given solution.