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#2Everything by MIT Open Course Ware
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#3I am quite fond of the three molecular biology courses from MIT on edx [1][2][3]. Not only are the lectures great, but they also have spaced repetition built in. The exercises are often great counterfactual questions that encourage deep understanding.
[1] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-1-dna-repl...
[2] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-2-transcri...
[3] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-3-rna-proc...
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#4Big fan of steve brunton's control bootcamp series. Helped me through my control systems courses greatly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeN...
Great for robotics, or anything where you need to control complex physical systems, from f1 cars to 3d characters in games
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#5The one I've enjoyed watching more than once: Death with Shelly Kagan, Yale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2J7wSuFRl8&list=PLEA18FAF1A...
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#6Cryptography I by Dan Boneh (Stanford University)
Programming Languages by Dan Grossman (University of Washington)
Both are on Coursera.
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#7edx.org,
ocw.mit.edu
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#85.111x Chemistry by Catherine Drennan on MiT OCW.
CS3510 Algorithms Georgia Tech on Youtube.
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#9edx CS50
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#10Cryptography I by Dan Boneh (Stanford University) Programming Languages by Dan Grossman (University of Washington) Both are on Coursera.
Big +1 to Cryptography I. I didn't finish it completely, but the first ~half satisfied my curiosity about the theory I wanted to know, without getting to a lot of the practical details that I don't need to remember day-to-day.
Dan and Victor also wrote a course book: http://toc.cryptobook.us/