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

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Post by jiggawatts »

Not exactly a lecture series, but Andrei Alexandrescu has had some fantastic keynote presentations at CppCon. I don't even program in C++ any more, but I've watched these more than once, they're entertaining, approachable, and inspiring:

Speed Is Found In The Minds of People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJJTYQYB1JQ

std::allocator Is to Allocation what std::vector Is to Vexation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIb3L4vKZ7U

An actual lecture series I've enjoyed watching is "The WE-Heraeus International Winter School on Gravity and Light", which covers General Relativity using modern mathematical approaches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G4SqIboeig&list=PLFeEvEPtX_...

Again, I haven't done physics in 20 years, but I've found it surprisingly easy to follow because it is so clearly presented.

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Post by dotsam »

Moral philosophy lectures by Johann Frick for UC Berkeley. Accessible, easy to follow, well produced: https://www.youtube.com/@johannfrick4318/videos

Not lectures, but exceptionally well structured and thoughtful conversations between Bryan Magee and leading philosophers from the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P2R57Axcf8&list=PLhP9EhPApK...

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Post by JonCox »

CS193p - Developing Apps for iOS, by Paul Hegarty.

It's a course taught at Stanford University, some of which they've released publicly for free. Here's the latest incarnation, which covers SwiftUI: https://cs193p.sites.stanford.edu

One of the earlier courses, back when it was all MVC + UIKit focussed, was how I learnt iOS dev and got a solid grasp of all the concepts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ipad-and-iphone-applic...

Absolutely fantastic lectures, I feel very lucky they were available. Thank you Paul if you're reading!

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

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Post by littlelady »

PennRobotics wrote: post #94

There are many great suggestions---some that I might argue are better than what I have to add (Lewin, Sapolsky, Sedgewick, Boyd)---but I have some to add that I enjoyed because they were extremely well-taught: * Donald Sadoway's Solid-State Chemistry lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL36EC6A6180271B0F * Anything by Patrick Winston, e.g. "AI": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63gFHB6xb-k…

I absolutely with anything by Patrick Winston! I put on his lectures whenever I need to feel inspired about my job. He's so engaging and has a great way of explaining things that leave students feeling motivated and curious. Additionally, his book "Make it Clear" has been a Godsend to my academic and my personal writing.

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

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Post by hadjian »

nerusskyhigh wrote: post #110
hadjian wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh yes, 3b1b is my favorite. All of them, but especially Fourier series.

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

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Post by ronyfadel »

stjo wrote: post #12

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

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Post by wsc981 »

paulcarroty wrote: post #14

Harvard CS50.

Related: CS50 Game Development.

Not hugely insightful or something, but if anyone wants to get into game dev, it’s a great start.

Through this course I can into contact with Lua & LÖVE and still enjoy both a lot (only in hobby projects).

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