I wrote this course, an introduction to using the command line: https://www.coursera.org/learn/unix
It was really nice. I can recommend!
Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera
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#102Unstuck to your categories, Jonathan Biss's course on Beethoven's sonatas is fantastic.
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#103Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris (Project-Centered Course) https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer and then part 2: https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2 [Both courses are free] These are fantastic courses, by far the best MOOCs I have ever taken. I went into them knowing nothing about computer architecture, and by the end of the first course I was able to design a full…
I have to also mention nandgame.com here. Similar idea, but all presented as an interactive, browser-based game. Start with nand gates and build up to a functioning computer. You never get to tetris, but it's great and super easy to start playing/learning. Delightful.
http://nandgame.com/
You‘re welcome.
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#104Robert Sedgewick's courses, including Algorithms Part 1 and Part 2. https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~250165
Can't recommend enough. I am currently doing this and loving it.
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#105I really enjoyed the course on the Science of Exercise - https://www.coursera.org/learn/science-exercise.
I always wondered if there was a comprehensive way to understand how different fitness regimes and diets actually help or don't help. This course was amazing and helped my understand the fundamentals. A bit technical - goes into the basics of biology, but even without that information, this was a great course. The instructor is Dr. Robert S. Mazzeo, who has been studying, researching and teaching in the field of exercise science for over 40 years.
I have actually applied several of the principles in my workout regime and started to see the effects over the last few months. I highly recommend this one.
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#106I wrote this course, an introduction to using the command line: https://www.coursera.org/learn/unix
Oh! Speaking of command line and the basics, this one from MIT is amazing. Covers all the basics.
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education - https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
Contents: Course overview + the shell, Shell Tools and Scripting Editors (Vim), Data Wrangling, Command-line Environment, Version Control (Git), Debugging and Profiling, Metaprogramming, Security and Cryptography
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#107Coursera is great but you're going to miss a lot of opportunities by limiting yourself to just that platform. For instance, it hasn't been widely advertised, but you can essentially take Steven Pinker's 2020 course at Harvard on Rationale: https://stevenpinker.com/classes/rationality-gened-1066 There's upwards of 20 hours of video on this course alone. You don't get that kind of depth from most Coursera MOOCs. Furthe…
Looks great! Is this the rationality often mentioned (and propagated) on LessWrong, Slate Star Codex and similar?
Yes it is
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#108I am taking the Modelling series( https://www.coursera.org/learn/basic-modeling ) and Discrete optimization( https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization ). Great way to get your feet wet in the world of NP-hard problems.
Discrete optimization is the best course for me. It's really challenging one. I spend about a month for getting A score for all tasks - but it's rewarding experience.
I miss professor Pascal. I hope he will create a second course!
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
not that good of a course, from someone who already did it
Care to explain why? Anyone else who did it care to chime in?
I'm doing it along with Ng's newer courses at the moment and I really like that he focuses on all the basics mathematically as well and not only conceptually which gives you a deeper understanding machine learning imo. However as others have said, the audio quality is subpar and personally I find it hard to motivate myself for the programming challenges in Octave. So my suggestion would be to just view the videos and take notes and then do the newer courses and their challenges.
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#110Let me recommend you an udacity course instead. This is hands down the best course I've ever taken in my life: AI for Trading https://www.udacity.com/course/ai-for-trading--nd880 Includes an introduction to finance/markets, and goes into strategies, multi-factor models, and deep learning. Great projects too!
Wait, how did you make both notes in org and HTML? Can you write org mode notes and compile them to HTML? Is that it? Or did you really write it twice? (I've never used Emacs)
Org makes it very easy to export to multiple formats (including HTML). Definitely worth exploring, and definitely worth using emacs for :-)