Northrop Frye's "The Bible and English Literature" https://heritage.utoronto.ca/frye/full-lectures
Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
So strange. It was the best book I’ve read about the topic. It’s been a while, but I don’t recall anything not presented in the right order. Going from linear equations to a geometric interpretation of the rows, then to linear combination of the columns. Then Gauss-Seidel to LRU. I liked his approach of “ideas first, rigor later”. I think after reading this book, you can easily grab a book with more formalism, if you…
A bit everywhere. One thing that really bothered me is that you have to wait until chapter 3 to introduce the notion of vector spaces. I know that it is not an easy concept to grasp, but once you manage to understand it a lot of previous things become trivial. When I was first introduced to the idea of solving linear equations, we already had the idea of space vectors and basis, so solving a system of equations was j…
That sounds about right. I read the book and watched the lectures after I graduated. And it was just fun.
The thing is that the ideas stuck and I was very grateful for that.
But we can be lucky that there are so many approaches out there to pick from.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#103Physics for future presidents by Richard Muller of UC belt Berkley.
I watched this after my Physics degree and took a bunch away from it. It's brilliant in the way it brought theory down to Earth.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#104"Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy" by Alex Filippenko.
If you have any interest in astronomy, cosmology, astrophysics or just want to understand the world we live in in a greater context, then watch ist. It is worth your time, and blows every astronomy TV show out of the water.
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#105Jordan Peterson’s personality and its transformations. A lecture he taught at the University of Toronto, highly recommended for a densely packed lectures on wisdom.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQBlN8DUor7SKWCw...
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Let me help you there. Have you considered writing: "I think this lecture series is overrated, because $SERIES_A and $SERIES_B is much better, because ..." Or you could explain why you dislike the communication style, the pace or anything else that others could also relate to. This way we can just guess, and guessing includes bad options like "dev_0 just had a petty conflict with the lecturer" or "dev_0 tried themsel…
I think the comment provided value. I was about to start watching it but now I won't and I don't really care why they think that. The fact that someone thinks it's so overrated that they need to comment on it is enough.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#107Practical deep learning for coders (2022 edition)
By Jeremy, who is the founding researcher at fast.ai.
Three things I love about this series 1. Jeremy seems like a power user of Jupyter notebook and uses them beautifully to run the lectures. The book on fastai is also written in Jupyter notebooks. 2. The lectures are super hands on - Jeremy actually fires up a jupyter notebook and runs code which often surprises him 3. I love how he describes he deep dives into a specific Kaggle competition. Describes in great detail his own attempts at getting up the leaderboard. It's almost like watching a poker player reveal her decision process before they make a move.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SF_h3xF3cE&list=PLfYUBJiXbd...
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#108MIT's Herbert Gross Calculus - done with a chalkboard and a camera. classic. https://www.openculture.com/2011/01/vintage_mit_calculus_les...
I've found the supplementary notes and worked exercises (sometimes introducing material) are a key part.
Herb describes the textbook as the heart/building block of the course. Unfortunately, with the textbook out of print (4ed), and later editions being reorganized, the readings chapter/section don't match up, and don't seem to cover the same content (going by the exercises), It's hard to get full coverage.
Yet, the resources at MIT and Herb himself (commenting on the youtube channel), said that any calculus text will do. I'd just like to sure of not having any gaps (or, worse, misconceptions) - that's my purpose in revisiting calculus.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#109"Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy" by Alex Filippenko. If you have any interest in astronomy, cosmology, astrophysics or just want to understand the world we live in in a greater context, then watch ist. It is worth your time, and blows every astronomy TV show out of the water.
Link to YT playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncSF2QwpCB9C3FBF...
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bit everywhere. One thing that really bothered me is that you have to wait until chapter 3 to introduce the notion of vector spaces. I know that it is not an easy concept to grasp, but once you manage to understand it a lot of previous things become trivial. When I was first introduced to the idea of solving linear equations, we already had the idea of space vectors and basis, so solving a system of equations was j…
That sounds about right. I read the book and watched the lectures after I graduated. And it was just fun. The thing is that the ideas stuck and I was very grateful for that. But we can be lucky that there are so many approaches out there to pick from.
You probably already know about them, but just in case: have you watched 3b1b's videos about Linear Algebra? Those did open my mind and improved my understanding of linear algebra.