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

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Post by nerusskyhigh »

ww520 wrote: post #32

Gilbert Strang's lectures on Linear Algebra [1]. Prof Strang is an amazing lecturer with a unassuming style. He's the expert on Linear Algebra and makes the topic so much approachable. Ken Joy's lectures on Computer Graphics [2]. Prof Joy is another amazing lecturer, making the Computer Graphics topics seeming easy. Stanford CS221 Learn AI (2019) by Percy Liang and Dorsa Sadigh. Both professors are great lecturers. A…

Can you articulate on the first one? In the last semester I tutored for a Linear algebra course which used his book and it was a nightmare. Ideas seems to be presented in reverse order and a lot of students ended up having trouble understanding basic concepts.

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Post by krackers »

avinassh wrote: post #35

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...

>Andy Pavlo

His opening lectures always have a surprise in them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m72mt4VN9ik

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

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Post by vlz »

Stanfords "Programming Paradigms" for learning how code gets compiled to bits and bytes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps8jOj7diA0

Not the most sexy topic but it goes to a low level and gives you a clear picture of how memory is laid out, how functions translate to instructions from C, C++, then goes on to use Scheme and Python to show further paradigms.

The presentation is clear and it simplifies in just the right places to give you the foundations.

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

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Post by olau »

cranium wrote: post #36

Human Behavioral Biology, a Stanford course taught by Robert Sapolsky. It's a thorough look on some of our behaviors through the lens of hormones, neural/nervous system, and how evolution shaped us. Also, Pr Sapolsky is a great speaker with a complete deadpan humor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...

This would be my choice too. He's a good storyteller.

Although like all good storytellers, don't believe everything he says. I looked up a couple of his more bizarre anecdotes, and they usually turn out not to be true. The one example I can remember is women living close together sync'ing up their menstrual period. That turned out to be probably a case of the researchers underestimating the intricacies of the statistics necessary to show that cyclic phenomenon of not quite the same length adjust towards each other.

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

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Post by jnsaff2 »

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&list=PL35721A60B...

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

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Post by trash3 »

aliqot wrote: post #33
dev_0 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Alright, I'll bite. What makes you feel that way, and what do you prefer for the same subject matter instead? I don't know of many people posting this type of content in a raw format to youtube.

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