Sebastian Wernicke: 1000 TEDTalks, 6 words

Translator: Schubert Malbas Reviewer: Jam Cipres

There's currently over a thousand TED Talks on the TED website.

Kasalukuyang may isang libong TEDTalks sa website ng TED.

And I guess many of you here think that this is quite fantastic,

At sa tingin ko marami sa inyo dito

na iniisip na kahanga-hanga ito --

except for me, I don't agree with this.

maliban sa akin. Hindi ako sang-ayon.

I think we have a situation here.

Tingin ko kami may problema tayo dito.

Because if you think about it, 1,000 TED Talks,

Dahil kung iisipin, 1,000 TEDTalks,

that's over 1,000 ideas worth spreading.

yan ay isang libong ideya na kailangang isiwalat.

Paano

How on earth are you going to spread a thousand ideas?

mo naman gagawin iyon?

Even if you just try to get all of those ideas into your head

Kahit na subukan mong ipasok ang lahat ng ideya sa iyong ulo

sa pamamagitan ng panonood ng isang libong bidyo sa TED,

by watching all those thousand TED videos,

mangangailangan ka ng

it would actually currently take you over 250 hours to do so.

higit sa 250 oras upang tapusin ito.

And I did a little calculation of this.

At gumawa ako ng simpleng kalkulasyon.

At ang masamang dulot nito sa ekonomiya kada isang tao

The damage to the economy for each one who does this is around $15,000.

ay aabot ng $15,000.

So having seen this danger to the economy,

Kaya dahil sa dalang panganib nito sa ekonomiya,

inisip ko, kailangan ng solusyon sa problemang ito.

I thought, we need to find a solution to this problem.

Ito ang naisip kong diskarte.

Here's my approach to it all.

Sa kasalukuyang sitwasyon,

If you look at the current situation, you have a thousand TED Talks.

may isang libong TEDTalks.

Each of those TED Talks has an average length of about 2,300 words.

Kada TEDTalk ay may haba

na aabot sa 2,300 salita.

Kapag pinagsama-sama mo sila

Now take this together, and you end up with 2.3 million words of TED Talks,

may 2.3 milyong salita sa TEDTalks,

na higit sa laman ng Bibliya ng makatatlong beses.

which is about three Bibles-worth of content.

(Laughter)

Siyempre itatanong mo,

The obvious question here is, does a TED Talk really need 2,300 words?

kailangan bang 2,300 salita ang haba ng isang TEDTalk?

Hindi ba't may mas maiikli?

Isn't there something shorter?

I mean, if you have an idea worth spreading,

Hindi ba, kung may ideya kang nais isiwalat,

tiyak na kaya mo itong sabihin nang mas maikli

surely you can put it into something shorter than 2,300 words.

kumpara sa 2,300 salita.

The only question is, how short can you get?

Ang tanging tanong ay, gaano kaikli?

Ano ang pinakakaunting bilang ng salita

What's the minimum amount of words you would need to do a TED Talk?

upang makabuo ng isang TEDTalk?

Habang iniisip ko ito,

While I was pondering this question,

I came across this urban legend about Ernest Hemingway,

napag-alaman ko ang urban legend tungkol kay Ernest Hemingway,

na di-umano'y nagpahayag ng katagang ito:

who allegedly said that these six words here:

"Binibenta: sapatos ng sanggol, hindi pa nasusuot,"

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn,"

ang pinakamahusay na nobela niya.

were the best novel he had ever written.

And I also encountered a project called Six-Word Memoirs

Nalaman kong may proyektong "Six-Word Memoirs" (mga talambuhay na binubuo ng 6 na salita)

kung saan ang mga kabilang dito ay pinakiusapang

where people were asked, take your whole life

sumulat ng 6 na salita na maglalahad ng kanilang buong buhay, tulad nito:

and please sum this up into six words, such as these here:

"Tunay na pag-ibig natagpuan, nag-asawa ng iba."

"Found true love, married someone else."

O "Nabubuhay sa kawalan; labis na nakapanlulumo"

Or "Living in existential vacuum; it sucks."

I actually like that one.

Nagustuhan ko ang isa na iyon.

So if a novel can be put into six words

Kaya kung ang isang nobela ay mailalagay sa 6 na salita

and a whole memoir can be put into six words,

at isang buong talambuhay ay maisusulat sa 6 na salita,

you don't need more than six words for a TED Talk.

hindi na kailangan ng higit sa 6 na salita kada TEDTalk.

We could have been done by lunch here.

Tapos na sana tayo dito bago pa magtanghalian.

Ibig sabihin...

(Laughter)

And if you did this for all thousand TED Talks,

Kung may isang libong TEDTalks,

you would get from 2.3 million words down to 6,000.

mababawasan ang 2.3 milyong salita at magiging 6,000.

Kaya sabi ko maganda ito.

So I thought this was quite worthwhile.

Sinimulan kong humihingi ng tulong sa lahat ng mga kaibigan,

So I started asking all my friends,

please take your favorite TED Talk and put that into six words.

na magbigay ng 6 na salita sa kanilang paboritong TEDTalk.

So here are some of the results that I received.

Ito ang ilan sa mga resulta. Tingin ko maganda naman ang kinalabasan.

Halimbawa, ang talumpati ni Dan Rosas tungkol sa pagganyak

I think they're quite nice.

For example, Dan Pink's talk on motivation, which was pretty good,

na nakakaaliw, kung hindi mo pa ito napapanood:

"Bitawan ang karot. Bitawan ang pamalo. Magdulot ng kahulugan."

if you haven't seen it: "Drop carrot. Drop stick. Bring meaning."

'Yon mismo ang tinutukoy niya sa loob ng 18 at kalahating minuto.

It's what he's basically talking about in those 18,5 minutes.

Ang ilan naman, tinukoy ang kapuna-puna sa mga tagapagsalita,

Or some even included references to the speakers,

gaya ng istilo ni Nathan Myhrvold,

o ni Tim Ferriss,

such as Nathan Myhrvold's speaking style, or the one of Tim Ferriss,

na napakabagal minsan.

which might be considered a bit strenuous at times.

Ang hamon dito ay, kung gagawin ko sa maayos na paraan,

The challenge here is, if I try to systematically do this,

marami akong makukuhang buod,

I would probably end up with a lot of summaries,

ngunit mababawasan naman ang bilang ng mga kaibigan ko.

but not with many friends in the end.

Kaya naghanap ako ng ibang stratehiya,

So I had to find a different method, preferably involving total strangers.

'yong mga hindi ko kakilala.

Buti nalang may website na Mechanical Turk,

And luckily, there's a website for that, called Mechanical Turk,

na maari kang maglagay ng mga tungkulin

which is a website where you can post tasks

na hindi mo nais gawin mag-isa,

that you don't want to do yourself,

gaya ng "Mangyari lamang na magbigay ng 6 na salita na patungkol sa text na ito."

such as "Please summarize this text for me in six words."

Hindi ko hinayaang magkaroon ng boluntaryo mula sa mahihirap na bansa upang makilahok dito

And I didn't allow any low-cost countries to work on this,

ngunit natagpuan ko na maari akong magbayad ng 10 singko sa bawat 6 na salitang buod

but I found out I could get a six-word summary for just 10 cents,

na sa tingin ko ay sulit naman.

which I think is a pretty good price.

Sa kasamaang-palad,

Even then, unfortunately,

hindi posible na maisabuod ang lahat ng TEDTalk.

it's not possible to summarize each TED Talk individually.

Because if you do the math, you have a thousand TED Talks,

Dahil kung bibilangin mo, may isang libong TEDTalks,

10 singko bawat isa;

you pay 10 cents each;

you have to do more than one summary for each of those talks,

kailangan mo ng higit sa isang buod kada talk,

because some of them will probably be, or are, really bad.

dahil ilan sa mga ito ay maari o tunay ngang hindi kahanga-hanga.

So I would end up paying hundreds of dollars.

Posibleng magbayad pa ako ng daan-daang dolyar.

So I thought of a different way,

Kaya nag-isip ako ng ibang paraan

by thinking, well, the talks revolve around certain themes.

sa pamamagitan ng pagtukoy ng iilang mga tema.

So what if I don't let people summarize individual TED Talks to six words,

Sa halip na ipagawa sa kanila

ang 6 na salita bawat TEDTalk,

binigyan ko sila ng 10 TEDTalks ng sabay-sabay

but give them 10 TED Talks at the same time

at humiling ako, "Mangyari lamang na ibuod ang mga ito sa 6 na salita."

and say, "Please do a six-word summary for that one."

Mababawasan ang gastos ko ng 90 porsiyento.

I would cut my costs by 90 percent.

Kaya sa halagang $ 60,

So for $60,

I could summarize a thousand TED Talks into just 600 summaries,

ang isang libong TEDTalks

ay naging 600 na buod,

which would actually be quite nice.

na talagang sulit na.

Some of you might actually right now be thinking,

May iba sa inyo siguro na iniisip,

nakakabaliw ang manood ng 10 TEDTalks at ibuod ang mga ito sa 6 na salita,

it's downright crazy to have 10 TED Talks summarized into just six words.

pero sa katunayan ay hindi ganoon.

But it's actually not,

because there's an example by statistics professor Hans Rosling.

may halimbawa si Hans Rosling, propesor ng istatistika.

Marahil napanood niyo na ang isa sa kanyang talumpati o higit pa.

I guess many of you have seen one or more of his talks.

Siya ay may 8 talks online,

He's got eight talks online,

at lahat ng iyon ay maisasalarawan sa 4 na salita,

and those can basically be summed up into just four words,

because that's all he's basically showing us, our intuition is really bad.

dahil ang pinapakita lang talaga niya,

na maling-mali ang ating inaakala.

Napatunayan niyang mali tayo.

He always proves us wrong.

So people on the Internet, some didn't do so well.

Kaya 'yong mga tao sa Internet, pangit ang kinalabasan ng ilan sa kanila.

And when I asked them to summarize the 10 TED Talks at the same time,

Nang humingi ako ng buod para sa 10 TEDTalks,

parang minadali lang nila.

some took the easy route out.

Nagbigay lang sila ng pangkalahatang komento.

They just had some general comment.

There were others -- and I found this quite cheeky --

May iba, medyo mapangahas ang dating sa akin.

They used their six words to talk back to me

Ginamit nila ang 6 na salita bilang mensahe sa akin

at pinahiwatig kung sobra lang ba ang paggamit ko ng Google.

and ask me if I'd been too much on Google lately.

(Laughter)

And finally also, I never understood this,

At 'yong iba naman, at hindi ko talaga maintindihan ito,

some people really came up with their own version of the truth.

nagbigay ng sarili nilang bersyon ng katotohanan.

Wala ni isang TEDTalk na naglalaman nito.

I don't know any TED Talk that contains this.

But, oh well.

Gayunpaman,

In the end, however, and this is really amazing,

at tunay ngang kahanga-hanga,

for each of those 10 TED Talk clusters that I submitted,

na para sa bawat 10 TEDTalks na pinagsama-sama ko,

may mga natanggap akong makabuluhang buod.

I actually received meaningful summaries.

Ito ang ilan sa mga paborito ko.

Here are some of my favorites.

Halimbawa, sa TEDTalks na patungkol sa pagkain,

For example, for the TED Talks about food,

sabi nung isa: "Pagkaing nakahuhubog ng katawan, utak at kapaligiran,"

someone summed this up into: "Food shaping body, brains and environment,"

na sa palagay ko ay napakaganda.

which I think is pretty good.

O kaligayahan: "pagsusumikap tungo sa kaligayahan =

Or happiness: "Striving toward happiness = moving toward unhappiness."

pagkilos tungo sa kalumbayan."

Kaya ito ako ngayon.

So here I was.

I had started out with a thousand TED Talks

Nagsimula sa isang libong TEDTalks

and I had 600 six-word summaries for those.

na may 600 na buod.

Sa simula, maganda siyang pakinggan,

Actually, it sounded nice in the beginning,

ngunit masyadong marami pa din ang 600 na buod.

but when you look at 600 summaries, it's quite a lot, it's a huge list.

Ang haba ng listahan.

(Laughter)

Kaya inisip kong isulong ang proyekto

So I thought, I probably have to take this one step further here

and create summaries of the summaries, and this is exactly what I did.

at lumikha ng buod ng mga buod -- ito mismo ang ginawa ko.

Kaya kinuha ko ang 600 buod,

So I took the 600 summaries that I had, put them into nine groups

pinagbuklod sila sa 9 na grupo

according to the ratings that the talks had originally received on TED.com

ayon sa mga rating na natanggap nila sa TED.com

and asked people to do summaries of those.

at humingi ng buod sa mga tao.

Siyempre, may ilang hindi pagkakaintindihan.

Again, there were some misunderstandings.

Halimbawa, nung pinagkumpol ko ang mga pinakamagagandang TEDTalk,

For example, when I had a cluster of all the "Beautiful" talks,

sabi nung isang tao na naghahanap lang ako ng pinakamagandang pick-up line.

someone thought I was just trying to find the ultimate pick-up line.

Gayunpaman, at tunay ngang kahanga-hanga,

But in the end, amazingly,

nagawa nila ang gusto ko.

again, people were able to do it.

Halimbawa, patungkol sa mga balyenteng TEDTalks:

For example, all the courageous TED Talks:

"Mga taong namamatay," o "Mga taong naghihirap," ayon sa isa,

"People dying" or "People suffering" was also one,

"na may matatagpuang simpleng solusyon."

"with easy solutions around."

O patungkol sa mga nakamamanghang TEDTalk:

Or the recipe for the ultimate jaw-dropping TED Talk:

"Mga larawan sa Flickr ng isang intergalactic at klasikong kompositor."

"Flickr photos of intergalactic classical composer."

'Yon naman talaga ang kakanyahan ng lahat ng ito.

I mean that's the essence of it all.

Now I had my nine groups, but, I mean, it's already quite a reduction.

Ngayon may siyam na grupo na lamang,

na malaking kabawasan na sa trabaho.

But of course, once you are that far, you're not really satisfied.

Siyempre, sa puntong ito, mahirap nang makuntento.

Gusto kong ituloy ito hanggang dulo, hanggang sa maisalang ang lahat,

I wanted to go all the way, all the way down the distillery,

na nagsimula sa isang libong TEDTalks.

starting out with a thousand TED Talks.

Ninais kong isabuod ang isang libong TEDTalks sa 6 na salita lamang --

I wanted to have a thousand TED Talks summarized into just six words --

99.9997 porsiyento na kabawasan sa orihinal na nilalaman.

which would be a 99.9997 percent reduction in content.

At magkakahalaga lang ito ng $99.50 --

And I would only pay $99.50 --

hindi aabot ng isang daang dolyar.

so stay even below $100 for it.

Kaya nagpagawa ako ng 50 iba't ibang pangkalahatang buod.

So I had 50 overall summaries done.

Ngayon 25 cents ang binayad ko

This time I paid 25 cents

dahil tingin ko mas mahirap ang trabahong ito.

because I thought the task was a bit harder.

And unfortunately, when I first received the answers --

Sa kasamaang-palad ang mga unang kong natanggap --

ito ang unang anim kong natanggap --

and here, you'll see six of the answers -- I was a bit disappointed.

nadismaya ako nang kaunti.

Because I think you'll agree, they all summarize some aspect of TED,

Dahil tingin ko sasang-ayon kayo na tinutukoy nila ang ilang aspeto ng TED,

ngunit parang kulang,

but to me, they felt a bit bland,

at ilang aspeto lang ng TED ang nakapaloob dito.

or they just had a certain aspect of TED in them.

Muntik na akong sumuko

So I was almost ready to give up

when one night, I played around with these sentences

nang isang gabi habang binabasa ko ang mga pangungusap

natagpuan ko ang isang napakagandang sagot.

and found out that there's actually a beautiful solution in here.

Ito 'yon,

So here it is,

a crowd-sourced, six-word summary of a thousand TED Talks

isang crowd-sourced na buod ng isang libong TEDTalks

at the value of $99.50:

sa halagang $ 99.50:

"Why the worry? I'd rather wonder."

"Hindi kailangang mag-alala. Sa halip ay mamangha"

Maraming salamat.

Thank you very much.

(Applause)

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