[rayalez]

Hey, everyone! I'm the founder of lumiverse.io, it's pretty incredible to see our website on the front page of HN!

I want lumiverse to become an awesome community where people can discover and discuss great educational videos.

We've launched only recently, the site is still in active development, I'm improving it every day. If you have any feedback - please let me know =)

(Also feel free to contact me at [e-mail])

[BadCookie]

The site could benefit from a quick explanation of what it is. I watched the neural networks videos and got curious what the deal was with lumiverse generally, but found no quick answer to that question. You don't have an About Us page (that I could easily find), for example. Edit: Even a tagline next to your logo might do the trick.

[rayalez]

Thank you for the feedback! You're right, I definitely should do that, now adding an about page is next on my todo list)

[iammyIP]

nice work, i am interested in this kind of information, but i am no big fan of the edutainment video format, i prefer text or a university lecture. some feedback about the first video:

- why the music? should this be information or an awfully mixed guitar rap song with the worst flow ever? i can't stand the use of elevator music in these kind of videos and also regard this kind of video production as an act of disrespect towards music in general.

- why not use more descriptive variable names, e.g. hours and score instead of x and y? the mystification of these kind of things comes partially from generalised abstraction and undescriptive variable names. since you already use a real world example, why not reflect it with the variable names?

- less speed, more pauses in general do good for demystification of such a topic, the typical 10-second-attention-span youtube-edutainment-video-style might not really fit here

- the drawings and the general flow are nice and well done

[adenadel]

This website curates content, so you would have to go to the content creator with this sort of input (http://www.welchlabs.com/).

[themartorana]

I think this is just a matter of learning styles. This speaks to one kind of learner, maybe not others. I personally learn by doing - no lecture, no matter how slow or fast is going to "teach" me - it may lay groundwork, but I learn in the (virtual) trenches.

[oceanstone]

Personally, I liked the music. Maybe the music could be optional. Might be a cool feature to add, if there's time.

[pbz]

Feedback: 1) the videos go a tiny bit too fast in certain areas, but one can pause and rewind so that's not a problem 2) the background music is too loud/strong which makes it too distracting, I have to focus more than necessary on the spoken words; I'd cut the volume of the background music in half. Otherwise, pretty awesome videos :)

[ldesegur]

The music has to go. As a human, I can't focus with ambient noise. The rest is spot on. Keep up the great work.

[n0us]

Thanks for the videos, they really clarified a lot of these concepts for me and were easy to follow in spite of having not done much calculus in the past few years.

One suggestion: What if you embedded the ipython notebooks that go along with each video into the page so that people could follow along? Even if it is static html like you see here http://blog.fperez.org/2012/09/blogging-with-ipython-noteboo... and not an actual hosted notebook.

[rayalez]

I'm glad they were useful! The author of these videos is Stephen Welch(http://www.welchlabs.com/), he makes really fantastic tutorials.

Embedding notebooks is an interesting idea, I'll experiment with implementing it.

[amelius]

Nice work!

It would be cool if there were pointers to recommended videos/courses from other organizations (Stanford, MIT, etcetera) for further learning.

PS: I would have wished my college classes had such relaxing background music :)

[adminu]

Well, i got to the frontpage of lumiverse and was catched by quite some intresting looking videos. Good job there. But i have to say, the video player could use some improvements. I switched to youtube when i could because the video player resets its volume after each video and it is kind of hard to use.

[rayalez]

Oh, thank you for letting me know, I will work on that.

[EC1]

Really happy I came across this, been searching for a website like this for a long time. Thanks!