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Nice idea. Would like to see extended to broader topics. For example on talks about history.

I built something with a broader dataset but a different ranking technique, basically a bunch of cruder custom ranking rules.

https://www.findlectures.com

Seems quite popular right now!

Oops, back up now!

The links in search result don't work on Android (neither Chrome nor Firefox).

Do you mean history outside of tech? Or history of (software / CS) tech? A lot of times my favorite talks are historical perspective (tech) talks, so I would also like to get more of those in there. A "history" topic filter would be sweet even on the talks I'm already searching but categorizing by topic is not something I've tackled here yet.

I mean "regular history". About ancient civilizations, bronze age collapse, Napoleon, the Russian revolution, things like that. It is a personal preference for me to listen to such talks, but I think there could be interest in many other topics as well. I have come to the conclusion that apart from literature, talks in academic settings are more likely to be interesting, compared with documentaries produced for television.

Cool. The hard part is collecting the list relevant talks, the easy part is ranking them. If there is a way to get the right set of academic history talks it wouldn't be that hard to go from there.

I haven't watched much historical lectures, but I do enjoy documentaries and historical fiction. Another idea I've kicked around is a site that organizes a bunch of historical documentaries and historical fiction into a geo-timeline visualization. And include the ability for people to comment on and discuss the historically accuracy of the films. But that's a different project...

What kind of stuff do you listen to at the moment? Where do you go to find these kind of talks?

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