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18 pointssambaumann1y ago6 comments

Interactive map to explore locations documented by creator Tom Scott (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A)

Source at: https://github.com/sam-baumann/tom-scott-map

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danirod1y ago

For anyone who liked Tom Scott videos, YouTube has been recently recommending to me (and to many others, it seems) an emerging channel from a creator called Chris Spargo [1], who seems to capture the essence of Tom Scott videos, even with the same schedule so far. A small video of a couple of minutes that explains a concept or talks about the history of something, and is recorded in different places.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisSpargo

mondov1y ago

Very cool. I was trying to find some places that should be there but aren't or some that shouldn't but are and didn't find any, so good job. Did you only use gpt to extract place names or did you do some other checking as well? btw the embed feature is amazing.

sambaumannOP1y ago

I would say GPT correctly identified the locations of about half the videos - I probably could have bumped that up a bit with a bit more prompt engineering, but there are also a good chunk of them where that wasn't able to be inferred from the metadata. There were a few where I had to kina play GeoGuessr to find where it was.

I did do a manual check of everything to add in any GPT missed, and double check the ones that it did get.

mondov1y ago

I thought GPT would have identified correctly more of them. I guess manual checking is really the only reliable option then. well done

HelloUsername1y ago

But where in Russia is this field? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-IEVMwBEfo

tetris111y ago

This is really handy - I got into Tom Scott videos quite late and it was always eery seeing him talk about places I would routinely pass through

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danirod1y ago

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisSpargo

mondov1y ago

sambaumannOP1y ago

I did do a manual check of everything to add in any GPT missed, and double check the ones that it did get.

mondov1y ago

I thought GPT would have identified correctly more of them. I guess manual checking is really the only reliable option then. well done

HelloUsername1y ago

But where in Russia is this field? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-IEVMwBEfo

tetris111y ago

This is really handy - I got into Tom Scott videos quite late and it was always eery seeing him talk about places I would routinely pass through

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