Andrej 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…
I've watched some of his videos in the past, extremely humbling experience. Thank you for sharing this, it deserves a top spot on this thread.
The best lecture series I have seen till date ( and I have seen lectures by top professors across great institutions in multiple countries) is Classical Physics by V. Balakrishnan from IIT Madras, India [1]. Only people who have thought about concepts deeply over a lifetime can deliver such truly delightful lectures. If you have an hour to spare, just listen to the first lecture [2] and it will profoundly impact your…
I agree. His entire family has had storied research careers and highly regarded in their fields. Radha Balakrishnan, his wife, is a retired theoretical physicist, their son Hari Balakrishnan is a professor of CSAIL at MIT and daughter Hamsa Balakrishnan is a professor of aeronautics at MIT.
imagine being born in that family and sucking at research.
Gilbert Strang's lectures on Linear Algebra [1]. Prof Strang is an amazing lecturer with a unassuming style. He's the expert on Linear Algebra and makes the topic so much approachable. Ken Joy's lectures on Computer Graphics [2]. Prof Joy is another amazing lecturer, making the Computer Graphics topics seeming easy. Stanford CS221 Learn AI (2019) by Percy Liang and Dorsa Sadigh. Both professors are great lecturers. A…
Can you articulate on the first one? In the last semester I tutored for a Linear algebra course which used his book and it was a nightmare. Ideas seems to be presented in reverse order and a lot of students ended up having trouble understanding basic concepts.
I think for someone more interested in the formal side of things, Strang is definitely a little weird. I bounced right off it, and to this day don't really know what the rows are supposed to be about. Axler was perfect for me. But for developing an intuition for the nitty gritty operations, I think Strang is probably pretty good.
Not even a second of thought: Sussman's & Abelson's SICP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB... especially the section on streams ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGKLILLy0I&list=PLE18841CAB... ) It changed my outook on programming by pi degrees and I feel it is more needed then ever.
in my opinion as far as learning programming is involved Brian Harvey's SICP lectures are superior
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I did not know that. It is amazing how perception of HN changes drastically once you turn this flag on. It is not as extreme as "turning into a completely different website" but certainly it becomes less interesting. There is a sizeable amount of toxicity.
Yes. That's one cost of having a large, open, optionally-anonymous internet forum. We can't stop such posts but consigning them to a separate partition seems to work ok.
I 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…
I 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…