I’m watching Demis Hassabis’ talk, and I must say that it’s super irritating that the camera is essentially focused on the speaker, and every once in awhile cuts to the slides. I don’t care about watching the speaker talk. At all. I can hear the speaker just fine. Can I please just see the slides? Better yet, show the slides with an inset of the speaker in one of the corners of the slide.
This is especially irritating when the camera is focused on the speaker while he’s describing elements of the slides. Case in point, at 13:52 of the Hassabis video, he’s explaining the meaning of a graph on his slide, but the whole time the camera is just focused on the speaker, making the presentation difficult to understand. I find myself having to memorize what was said, and then skip back in the video to a point where they actually showed the slide to see what he’s talking about. Come on.
Agh, I feel like a jerk complaining about a free resource. Don’t mind me, just griping.
The Startup School videos from one year (2008?) are great, because omnisio synced the slides with the videos. Then Youtube bought omnisio and killed it, and I’m not sure there is another video product that does slide/video syncing.
You’re providing valuable feedback about something that probably bothered every viewer of the Hassabis video, so don’t apologize!
It’s a shame that the best talk (imho) was the one that included the most interaction with the slides. I searched for the slides online but couldn’t find them (his publications are at http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~demis/ but no slides).
I’m watching Demis Hassabis’ talk, and I must say that it’s super irritating that the camera is essentially focused on the speaker, and every once in awhile cuts to the slides. I don’t care about watching the speaker talk. At all. I can hear the speaker just fine. Can I please just see the slides? Better yet, show the slides with an inset of the speaker in one of the corners of the slide.
This is especially irritating when the camera is focused on the speaker while he’s describing elements of the slides. Case in point, at 13:52 of the Hassabis video, he’s explaining the meaning of a graph on his slide, but the whole time the camera is just focused on the speaker, making the presentation difficult to understand. I find myself having to memorize what was said, and then skip back in the video to a point where they actually showed the slide to see what he’s talking about. Come on.
Agh, I feel like a jerk complaining about a free resource. Don’t mind me, just griping.
“show the slides with an inset of the speaker in one of the corners of the slide.”
this really needs to be a universal standard practice for presentations.
The Startup School videos from one year (2008?) are great, because omnisio synced the slides with the videos. Then Youtube bought omnisio and killed it, and I’m not sure there is another video product that does slide/video syncing.
You’re providing valuable feedback about something that probably bothered every viewer of the Hassabis video, so don’t apologize!
It’s a shame that the best talk (imho) was the one that included the most interaction with the slides. I searched for the slides online but couldn’t find them (his publications are at http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~demis/ but no slides).
The best talk now has slides!
http://chris.ill-logic.com/systems-neuroscience/
Enjoy, everyone!
I find it disturbing that the camera appears to be wiggling around (at least during Eliezer’s talk), and so I’m skipping the visuals entirely.