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Alright, I'll bite. What makes you feel that way, and what do you prefer for the same subject matter instead? I don't know of many people posting this type of content in a raw format to youtube.
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Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#162engineerguy’s reproduction of Michael Faraday’s 1848 Chemical History of a Candle [0]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2UCpOfRuMDR-wlv... This was a set of lectures given by Faraday for the Royal Institution’s “Christmas lectures for young people”. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_History_of_a_Cand...
The Royal Institution's channel has a bunch of good stuff on astrophysics, cosmology, physics, math and more:
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#163Lots of great answers here. Outside of the usual HN domain, I’ll add James Sheehan’s Stanford course on the history of the international system in the 20th Century:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-the-interna...
I come back to it over and over because it’s fractally interesting, from discussions of nation-state grand strategy to how FDR made strategic use of a martini.
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#164The Theoretical Minimum, a physics course (multiple, actually) by Leonard Susskind @ Stanford. https://theoreticalminimum.com/
Can vouch for the quantum mechanics one. Perfectly understandable while introducing heavy math machinery.
The great thing about Susskind's lectures is, imho, that he allows himself to get slightly confused by his own explanations, of course, to fully recapture himself and the audience a few moments later.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#165Humanities: anything by Michael Sugrue
He also has a podcast “The Idea Store”:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-idea-store/id15759...
He can speak off-the-cuff on any philosophical school of thought or historical period. The clarity of the lectures is amazing.
What a stone-cold badass.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#166Norman Wildberger's "Wild Linear Algebra" series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIljB45xT85BhzJ-oWNug... His geometry-centric approach to linear algebra was exactly what I needed to finally grok the subject. Topics like matrix multiplication and discriminants went from "why are they defined like this? it makes no sense?" to "of course that's how you multiply matrices because it's the only logical answer". It'…
His YouTube channel also has a bunch of other playlists. Most relevant for this topic would be the History of Mathematics course he taught at UNSW ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL55C7C83781CF4316 )
It covers many different fields in a shallow, introductory way (which keeps it quite approachable to non-experts). It's following a textbook, but he of course gives his own idiosyncratic takes on things.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#167Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#168Walter Lewin’s MIT lectures on Physics. Quite sad to see that they’ve been removed from MIT OpenCourseWare [1]. [1]: https://news.mit.edu/2014/lewin-courses-removed-1208
MIT threw out the baby with the bathwater. No courseware anymore for anyone because of an online sexual harassment event.
As others have noted, drug against Parkinson, could result in hypersexuality.
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/mit-cuts-ties-wit...
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#169I absolutely loved Bob Brier's "The History of Ancient Egypt". It really kindled a love of the subject ever since I saw the lectures. Audible is probably the best legal way to get access to them now, but here's an amazon link https://www.amazon.com/History-Ancient-Egypt-Bob-Brier/dp/15...
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#170Talks on the Mill CPU architecture:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFls3Q5bBInj_FfNLrV7g...
See also:
https://millcomputing.com/docs/
Ivan Godard is a pretty good speaker, and his discussion of how the Mill CPU works is very insightful if you are at all interested in modern CPUs work.
I don't know that we'll ever see Mill CPUs in wide use (I've been focusing on RISC-V), but there are so many interesting ideas presented in this video series. Ideas that will leave you asking: "Why do we do things the way we do now?" over and over again. One of the most interesting ideas is how the Mill CPU architecture takes into account the 2D nature of silicon lithography.