It's gotta be an exceptionally awesome video to beat written text though. I'll take mediocre text over good video any day.
And so are his other neural net videos.
He keeps bringing you back to first principles, again and again, does not let a single doubt remain, and the code is very accessible and practical.
The intersection between those who can teach and those who truly understand the deepest essence of a subject is much smaller than we would hope. People like Feynman, Tanenbaum, Sussman, Susskind, and now Karpathy are exceedingly rare. Each of them is a gift for generations to come. So, when you find one whose style resonates with the way you think, I suggest watching their videos multiple times. :)
* yt-dlp
* whisper
(whisper is surprisingly good for a lot of educational videos)
Even better is to connect text to images. but that's less of a simple trick (although I do have the code).
You don't need to skim through the 4 hour video long to see it's full of whys and hows and explanations and demonstrations that massively dwarf the blog post. It's basically a mini course.
Programming is an interactive process, so transcribing the video to text also removes a lot information. The video isn't just an audio form of what could've been a long text tutorial. You're watching someone do something.
And those ideas absolutely can't be communicated in concise writing, I have to waste my life on listening to talking heads?
Whether you have the preference for it or not is not up for debate here.
So not all 4 hours are worth watching? :)
Different people learn in different ways. I wouldn’t call any of it a waste.