many great suggestions but i can't believe no one has mentioned the original SICP lectures yet :)! (and a thing i always enjoy in it is the transformation to the expressions of the students as more magic is revealed)
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#22The Reith Lectures are a good yearly lecture series.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9
Also John McWhorter lectures are usually very interesting and fun to listen to.
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#23The Unanswered Question by Leonard Bernstein (very famous conductor) was super fun in my opinion.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKiz0UZowP2V0mwtNv1lc1_...
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#24Physics for future presidents by Richard Muller of UC belt Berkley.
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#25Walter Lewin’s MIT lectures on Physics. Quite sad to see that they’ve been removed from MIT OpenCourseWare [1].
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#26Leonard Susskind Stanford Physics Lectures:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6i60qoDQhQGaGbbg-4aS...
Seminar on Macroeconomics, Randall Wray:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnw-449iRxO-BbfN55FdO...
Modern Money and Public Purpose:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zEbo8PIPSc&list=PLoGqI16J4b...
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#27Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar: https://www.youtube.com/@introductiontocryptography4223. This is a great introductory cryptography course which is perfect to complement the great textbook from the same author.
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#28Probably McElreath's Statistical Rethinking, or Stanfords famous Neural Net course on youtube
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#29A 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.
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#30Andrej 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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