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Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#142Jordan 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...
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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 statist…
I have this thing when lecturers are engaging that I have even more trouble believing them going forward if they make an error. I came to that point about the cycle synchronization in his lecture series and I had to stop. Not entirely because of the error, but because the phenomenon he cited was controversial well before he gave those lectures. That tells me he was not one to a) update his beliefs b) predisposed to f…
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#144Andrej 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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#145Andrej 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?
#146David MacKay’s “Information Theory, Pattern Recognition, and Neural Networks”
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLruBu5BI5n4aFpG32iMbdWoRV...
I find it more approachable than the book, and taken as a whole I think he makes a compelling argument for a Bayesian world-view.
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#147The Theoretical Minimum, a physics course (multiple, actually) by Leonard Susskind @ Stanford.
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#148Philosophy of Science by Jeffrey Kasser
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#149Yale open courses are pretty good:
https://oyc.yale.edu/physics
https://oyc.yale.edu/introduction-psychology/psyc-110
The intro-psych lectures are part of my morning walking routine.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#150I have always been fascinated by how better to communicate ideas. I swear 90% of the brilliant Ideas I have seen go to waste because the idea wasn't convincingly presented. It drives me insane when I know exec teams will ignore things because a presenter missed the mark a bit.
"How to Speak" - MIT OpenCourseWare - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY