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> It's a transcript of the video at the top.

Which is not obvious at all if you have JavaScript disabled by default, since it only shows up as a blank space, which could also be a blocked ad or an image which failed to load correctly.

The first few times I saw one of these transcripts with video at the top (IIRC, it was on Practical Engineering, not this site), I thought it sounded odd but didn't get that it was a transcript. Only later did I find out that there were videos (and they're great).

Wow that wasn't clear to me either, thanks for pointing it out

Yes, reading transcripts is a terrible way of ingesting information in my opinion.

But at least you can scan and read through it instead of having to sit through an entire video :)

and thank you for doing it, at least!

next, you'll be expected to turn that into an outline, index cards, and then a full term paper lest you be ridiculed for your work on the internet!

Then go watch the video? What are you asking for here?

I'm not asking for anything. Just commenting that transcripts of videos make for bad blog posts. I'm not interested in watching the video.

Ah, not interested in the video, that clarifies it, thanks.