Nand2Tetris (part 1)
Came here to post this, part 1 is an absolutely amazing overview of computer organization. Part 2 is decidedly more difficult, but very good as well.
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#52Intro to finance - Gautam Kaul
I am not sure if they still offer this course for free. I took it in 2011 and I really like it’s homework assignments. Gautam is also hilarious in his teaching style.
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#53Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd.
https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/CVX101/Win...
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#54I really liked Geoff Hinton's Neural Networks for Machine Learning (https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks). It goes into a lot of depth (much more so than Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course) and is fairly challenging.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Probabilistic Graphical Models, Daphne Koller – the first course in the specialization has a very good and engaging start, but the gap between lectures and problems widens quickly after that (maybe that's why the author boasts about a "challenging" course "not for everyone"). I'm hesitant to take the next course of the specialization.
PGM was brutal... At Stanford straight As students were happy just to pass...
It's indeed dense and packed with many intermediate intuitions.
On the other hand, I still feel that the course is often unnecessarily brutal and could use better explanations.
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#56Nand2Tetris (part 1)
Seconded, with part 2. I didn’t major in compsci, so I had never learned how computers work in any deep sense, and this was really eye opening. It takes you through how to build a cpu and then how a succession of binary instructions produces interesting behavior, and then how you can layer abstractions on top, like assembly language and stack operations, and then how to compile code down to those binary instructions and what has to happen at the OS level for this code to run.
It’s also opened my eyes to how much more I still have to learn!
You can do parts 1 and 2 at the same time, btw.
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#57Ethical hacking. This guy is pretty legit, first class: install Kali Linux.
https://www.udemy.com/learn-ethical-hacking-from-scratch/
Andrew Ng. Machine Learning (Stanford) (youtube free)
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#58I loved Coursera’s Statistical Molecular Thermodynamics course taught by Chris Cramer from U. Minnesota. Mind expanding. Some calculus.
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#59The Theoretical Minimum lecture series on theoretical physics by Leonard Susskind. Covers the basics in a very approachable way. I wish this had been available when I studied physics.
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#60Learning how to learn, Barbara Oakley, Coursera. By far and away the best learning course I've taken in my life as well, I wish it had been available before I had completed my formal education.
And if you've never taken any MOOC before this is a great one to start with because: it's only four weeks long and it's free.