I liked listening to the Hardcore History podcast by Dan Carlin http://www.dancarlin.com
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#12Andrej Karpathy's "Neural Networks: From Zero to Hero".
https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
Just watch the first lecture and you won't be able to not watch the rest. It starts with making your own autograd engine in 100 lines of python, similar to PyTorch and then builds up to a GPT network. He's one of the best in the field, founder of OpenAI, then Director of AI at Tesla. Nothing like the scam tutorials that just copy-paste random code from the internet.
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#13Tim Roughgarden, Algorithmic game theory. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGCF-WLh2RJBqmxvZ0_i...
The lectures are a perfect complement to his book "Twenty lectures on algorithmic game theory".
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#14Harvard CS50.
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#15I quite enjoyed John Searle's Philosophy of the Mind course. [1] Searle obviously has strong opinions on the subject, but he does a good job of going through the history from Descartes onward about the big problems in the philosophy of mind and how various philosophers have grappled with them, and he's enjoyable to listen to. The lectures midway through on functionalism and computational theories of the mind would probably be especially interesting to the HN audience. Towards the end he explains his own ideas about consciousness (though I found them to be less compelling than the earlier lectures in the course).
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi7Va_4ekko&list=PL039MUyjHR...
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#16Algoritms I and II by Sedgewick, was offered on Coursera by Princeton University. Extremely good and interesting class on data structures and algorithms, with great auto-graded assignments as well.
the autograding is super well designed indeed. shooting for > 95% on the hw was great fun!
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#17Physics with Professer Matt Anderson
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#18Washington Street Studios' pottery playlist. Taught me a ton about ceramics. Sadly the lecturer Phil Berneburg has since passed away, but it's more or less the equivalent of the theoretical side of an undergraduate degree in ceramics.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS6Mrdpt53RyauAg8bGN-...
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#19Literally anything where someone points a camera at Noam Chomski and a question is asked.
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#20I quite enjoyed John Searle's Philosophy of the Mind course. [1] Searle obviously has strong opinions on the subject, but he does a good job of going through the history from Descartes onward about the big problems in the philosophy of mind and how various philosophers have grappled with them, and he's enjoyable to listen to. The lectures midway through on functionalism and computational theories of the mind would pr…
I took this course as an undergrad. It was in fact required for anyone studying CogSci.
Can you imagine being a religion major and being forced to take a class from an atheist scientist? It was like that. Searle believes that General AI is impossible from a philosophical prospective, and the final exam requires you to defend or argue against that position. But if you argue against it you get no better than a B.
I got a B.