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

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Post by jmmcd »

atoav wrote: post #51
dev_0 wrote: post #30

Earlier 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…

The YouTube comment trope is out of date - YouTube comments nowadays are great. At least on the videos I watch.

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

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Post by pgayed »

engineerguy’s reproduction of Michael Faraday’s 1848 Chemical History of a Candle [0]:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2UCpOfRuMDR-wlv...

This was a set of lectures given by Faraday for the Royal Institution’s “Christmas lectures for young people”.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_History_of_a_Cand...

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

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Post by lll-o-lll »

lab11 wrote: post #56

Not even a second of thought: Sussman's & Abelson's SICP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB... especially the section on streams ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGKLILLy0I&list=PLE18841CAB... ) It changed my outook on programming by pi degrees and I feel it is more needed then ever.

Yeah this one is so much fun. I feel like I really grew as a programmer from this course. Scheme is the perfect teaching language because each concept being taught can be demonstrated in its pure form so you really “get it”. I had been a professional developer for 10 years or so when I went through this course, and it profoundly changed how I thought about code.

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

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Post by RupertEisenhart »

Kiro wrote: post #106
atoav wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This leads to exactly the kinds of asymmetry that trolls take advantage of, basically a form of Brandolini's Law[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law

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

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Post by vichle »

Kiro wrote: post #106
atoav wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There will never be 100% consensus on which content is worth watching on any topic, does that mean that you never consider watching anything?

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

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Post by apgwoz »

JDEW wrote: post #85
lab11 wrote: post #56

Not even a second of thought: Sussman's & Abelson's SICP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB... especially the section on streams ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGKLILLy0I&list=PLE18841CAB... ) It changed my outook on programming by pi degrees and I feel it is more needed then ever.

Sorry, can't resist: you probably mean pi radians (and by convention you don't even need the word radians). Pi degrees would imply your outlook barely changed at all.

> Pi degrees would imply your outlook barely changed at all.

And what if the OP knew nothing of maths before the course? A mistake it was, but I think you’re overindexing on (potentially) a brain fart.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

yobbo wrote: post #84
modeless wrote: post #54

Geoff Hinton's legendary Coursera course on neural nets. It came out around the same time as AlexNet winning the ImageNet competition which sparked the current deep learning revolution. At the time it was cutting edge to the point where he introduced a previously undescribed optimization method (RMSProp) that was subsequently used in papers, citing the lecture slides as their reference! But still accessible to anyone…

Somewhere on Hinton's webpage, there's a series of mp4 lectures. They introduce general neural networks, and then lead into restricted boltzman machines, which he worked on. Probably one of the best introductions to RBMs.

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

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Post by Kiro »

vichle wrote: post #115
Kiro wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There will never be 100% consensus on which content is worth watching on any topic, does that mean that you never consider watching anything?

That would be great. My ever-expanding backlog gives me anxiety so I'm always looking for an escape hatch. A small comment like that is enough to give me peace and lose the FOMO.
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