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

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Post by pgayed »

In the category of finance, Bob Shiller’s enthusiasm for financial history and his amusement with the limitless quirks and excesses of markets.

Financial markets with Bob Shiller (Yale 2008):

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8F7E2591EE283A2E

Financial markets with Bob Shiller (Yale 2011):

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FB14A2200B87185

Smart-as-a-whip, scathing rationality of John Geanakoplos in his financial theory course.

Financial Theory with John Geanakoplos (Yale 2011):

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEDC55106E0BA18FC

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

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Post by CTmystery »

meany wrote: post #5

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…

In the Great Courses vein, I really loved "great ideas of philosophy". Another favorite is "a history of freedom".

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

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Post by yobbo »

modeless wrote: post #54

Geoff Hinton's legendary Coursera course on neural nets. It came out around the same time as AlexNet winning the ImageNet competition which sparked the current deep learning revolution. At the time it was cutting edge to the point where he introduced a previously undescribed optimization method (RMSProp) that was subsequently used in papers, citing the lecture slides as their reference! But still accessible to anyone…

Somewhere on Hinton's webpage, there's a series of mp4 lectures. They introduce general neural networks, and then lead into restricted boltzman machines, which he worked on. Probably one of the best introductions to RBMs.

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

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Post by JDEW »

lab11 wrote: post #56

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.

Sorry, can't resist: you probably mean pi radians (and by convention you don't even need the word radians). Pi degrees would imply your outlook barely changed at all.

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

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Post by jkellermann »

I'm currently hooked up the "Pharmakologie Athlet" [1]. It's a full fledged, german language university lecture on pharmacology by Prof. Dr. rer. nat Stefan Frank. During COVID times, he decided to put his complete curriculum on Youtube.

Althou I have no medical background, I somehow manage to keep the pace with all the old biochemistry knowledge I picked up in grammar school 25 years ago. But it's a tough ride :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLlboeliKwkpEUJQF45d3A

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

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Post by braingenious »

cat_food wrote: post #29
braingenious wrote: post #7

A long time ago I found a free UC Berkeley class, I think it was Psych 117: Drugs and Human Behavior that was absolutely phenomenal, but I can’t seem to find it anymore.

By David Presti. That was a fabulous course.

Seriously! It came up in conversation recently and I ended up buying a copy of Pharmako/Poeia out of nostalgia. I wish I’d archived those recordings.

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

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Post by rex_lupi »

jkellermann wrote: post #87

I'm currently hooked up the "Pharmakologie Athlet" [1]. It's a full fledged, german language university lecture on pharmacology by Prof. Dr. rer. nat Stefan Frank. During COVID times, he decided to put his complete curriculum on Youtube. Althou I have no medical background, I somehow manage to keep the pace with all the old biochemistry knowledge I picked up in grammar school 25 years ago. But it's a tough ride :) [1…

If only I knew German! I'm looking for good lectures to self-teach myself pharmacology.
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