The best lecture series I have seen till date ( and I have seen lectures by top professors across great institutions in multiple countries) is Classical Physics by V. Balakrishnan from IIT Madras, India [1]. Only people who have thought about concepts deeply over a lifetime can deliver such truly delightful lectures. If you have an hour to spare, just listen to the first lecture [2] and it will profoundly impact your outlook on science (and physics in particular)
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#122Intro 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...
Pavlo has multiple series depending on your level of understanding. His advanced lectures are particularly satisfying as well as his interview series.
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#123My favourite ones are already linked: Sapolsky, Feynman, SICP. So here are some lesser known ones to signal boost:
Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar, I wanted to understand Bitcoin's secp256k elliptic curve on finite fields: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6N5qY2nvvJE8X75VkXglSrVh...
The Maths of General Relativity by ScienceClic, I wanted to understand clearly Einstein's field equations (what the hell is a Ricci tensor) without having to read a book: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu7cY2CPiRjVY-VaUZ69bXHZr...
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#124Lectures[0], after which you will read more than one book on category theory
[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI...
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#125Norman Wildberger's "Wild Linear Algebra" series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIljB45xT85BhzJ-oWNug... His geometry-centric approach to linear algebra was exactly what I needed to finally grok the subject. Topics like matrix multiplication and discriminants went from "why are they defined like this? it makes no sense?" to "of course that's how you multiply matrices because it's the only logical answer". It'…
His series that introduces mathematics from first principles was slightly mind-blowing to me. I don't know if it's good or not, but I kept watching!
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#126Vera F. Birkenbihl – all her lectures!
(She also held lectures in the US in the 70s, but I couldn't find any recordings in English.)
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#127Thanks to bring this topic to the top. Now it's gold mine for me!
I loved the CS253 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1y1iaEtjSYiiSGVlL1cH... made by Feross Aboukhadijeh
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#128Earlier 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.
Hmmm... feeding your body is overrated, will you stop eating now? ;)
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
By David Presti. That was a fabulous course.
Seriously! It came up in conversation recently and I ended up buying a copy of Pharmako/Poeia out of nostalgia. I wish I’d archived those recordings.
I've found this https://archive.org/details/ucb-2006-presti
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#130The best lecture series I have seen till date ( and I have seen lectures by top professors across great institutions in multiple countries) is Classical Physics by V. Balakrishnan from IIT Madras, India [1]. Only people who have thought about concepts deeply over a lifetime can deliver such truly delightful lectures. If you have an hour to spare, just listen to the first lecture [2] and it will profoundly impact your…
Full series of videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5E4E56893588CBA8