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

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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…

Totally agree!

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

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Some good ones from Stephen Boyd - helped me really grok the subjects. Signals and Systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gPuUVYImiQ&list=PLpGHT1n4-m... Linear Dynamical Systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf1264iFr-w&list=PL06960BA52...

This series on Finance Theory by Andrew Lo unfolded just during the 2007-08 crisis - so that's an added bonus as the lectures refer to ongoing events sometimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdHlfiOAJyE&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...

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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

More recently, the course was called "Drugs and the Brain". It was intended as a survey course so maybe slightly different topics than the one linked here.

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I'm currently doing an MIT OCW course called 'The Film Experience'. I've not seen someone talk about and analyze a work of art like this in a long time. Supreme lectures and the course material (assigned reading, videos) is wonderful as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFOsw1Vccac&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...

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The video series made by 3Blue1Brown are fantastic. He crafts visual math videos using an animation engine he has developed to provide great explanations for understanding concepts more deeply. Beyond the technical, his presentation style and insight makes them very motivational to follow.

Series on linear algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...

Animation engine: https://github.com/3b1b/manim

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

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Walter Lewin’s MIT lectures on Physics. Quite sad to see that they’ve been removed from MIT OpenCourseWare [1]. [1]: https://news.mit.edu/2014/lewin-courses-removed-1208

MIT threw out the baby with the bathwater. No courseware anymore for anyone because of an online sexual harassment event.

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

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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…

Full series of videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5E4E56893588CBA8

After clicking through a few random lectures, this seems fantastic. I wish I'd found this during my physics B.Sc.

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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…

This is an opinion. I am not saying Andrej is overrated. I find Daniel Burke video series more useful https://youtube.com/@mrdbourke
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