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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...
Fun fact: Robert Morris is one of the founders of YCombinator and also the creator of the Morris worm!
If you would like to sample it before patronising either of those two businesses, it seems to have been uploaded on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNINJcoBa_A&list=PLOxODW9vlV...
Washington 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-...
Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. [0] gives you invaluable understanding about much more than just Ukraine. MIT 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering, Fall 2005 [1] - the aircraft they focus on is the Space Shuttle. Amazingly demystifying. Some of the actual early designers talk there. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8&list=PLh9mgdi4rN... [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiYhQtGpRhc&li…
An hour with Bryan will teach you more about computer history and system design than most anything else.
I particularly like the monktoberfest series, and the Joyent years.
[1] https://youtu.be/JSntf0iKMfM?list=PLlnFrNM93wqz37TUabcXFSNX2...
[2] https://youtu.be/SAIFs_Mx8D8?list=PLlnFrNM93wqyay92Mi49rXZKs...
[3] https://youtu.be/e9khXFSU6r4?list=PLlnFrNM93wqzeZvsE_GKes91C...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_a_Machine · https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52090/52090-h/52090-h.htm
Not sure best ever, but I really enjoyed “The Other Side of History” (available from Great Courses Plus now Wonderium). I found the deep dive into daily life through history helped me better understand the common threads that all humans experience. Course Description: Imagine you're a Greek soldier marching into battle in the front row of a phalanx. Or an Egyptian woman putting on makeup before attending an evening p…
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.