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Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?

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Post by spike021 »

I graduated with my CS degree back in 2016, but admittedly really disliked the curriculum at my university and have lacked some crucial knowledge.

One of the series I've picked at and skimmed at times for reference and relearning some concepts is MIT OpenCourseware's 6.006 (and other courses) taught primarily by Erik Demaine. He's much better than any instructor I had at San Jose state university and I've learned things better. Even when I watch his lectures and feel like I'm still missing some points, it's very easy to go back and review examples of his.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?

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Post by ww520 »

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. Andrew Ng's ML class was great, but it was more academically tuned. CS221 is more on the practical side and is more updated as ML is progressing fast.

Micromouse 2021-2022 by UCLA [4]. It's a short series taught by graduate students and probably it's incomplete, but the content and teaching are amazing. I wish I had this kind of class when I was in school. The teaching and materials are very approachable and easy to understand. It shows how basic electronic components and basic circuitry work. It shows how to put them together and how to write simple programs to control the components. The end result is a robotic mouse that can traverse mazes with seemingly intelligence.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01YSK5gIEYQ&list=PL_w_qWAQZt...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Eh7RqggsU&list=PLoROMvodv4...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAWsHzw_h0iiz1EQEvQ9n...

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Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?

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Post by aliqot »

dev_0 wrote: post #30
stjo wrote: post #12

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…

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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.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?

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Post by cranium »

Human Behavioral Biology, a Stanford course taught by Robert Sapolsky. It's a thorough look on some of our behaviors through the lens of hormones, neural/nervous system, and how evolution shaped us. Also, Pr Sapolsky is a great speaker with a complete deadpan humor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...

Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?

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Post by kiwidrew »

Norman 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's only later that I discovered Wildberger has some ~strange~ very interesting ideas regarding imaginary numbers, but these ideas don't detract one bit from his presentation of linear algebra. Highly recommended viewing for anyone who is keen on neural networks and machine learning but struggles with understanding the underlying mathematics.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?

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Post by chrsig »

MIT 6.001, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

It really made...the interpretation of computer programs...click with me.

And there's a meta-circular evaluator designed to fit on the number of blackboards they had available. So that's cool.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-001-structure-and-interpretati...

Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?

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Post by ankit_mishra »

"Human Behavioral Biology" lecture serise by Robert Sapolsky at Stanford.

As a engineer with huge interest in learning how something works, understanding human brain and behavior, was a logical next step for me. The lectures are more about learning ways of analyzing the mind rather than learning any specific facts.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D

Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?

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Post by chrsig »

avinassh wrote: post #35

Intro to Database Systems by Andy Pavlo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZX... MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...

> MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris

Just looking at the playlist, I'm surprised at how many lectures are focused around actual distributed databases versus purely on theory or algorithms

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