Frederick Schuller's Lectures on Geometrical Anatomy of Theoretical Physics, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPH7f_7ZlzxTi6kS4vCmv.... A meticulously organized series covering the math concepts needed to understand the ideas of modern physics. Not for the faint of heart, but well worth the effort.
Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
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#172Dan Boneh's "Cryptography I".
https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto
Was one of the best basic lecture I have seen on the crypto topic.
I have enjoyed several lectures in my studies but some things I just understood after the good and interesting explanations in this course. Really amazing. Still waiting for the the Crypto 2 course.
If you understand german I recommend you math lessons by Christian Spannagel https://www.youtube.com/@pharithmetik. Makes some less interesting topics enjoyable.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#173Dan Boneh's "Cryptography I". https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto Was one of the best basic lecture I have seen on the crypto topic. I have enjoyed several lectures in my studies but some things I just understood after the good and interesting explanations in this course. Really amazing. Still waiting for the the Crypto 2 course. If you understand german I recommend you math lessons by Christian Spannagel https://w…
I've been waiting for the Crypto 2 course for over ten years. He keeps scheduling it and then postponing it.
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#174Perry G Mehrling, Economics of Money and Banking.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking
He helped me understand what money really is. He explains pretty complex things that most people have a hard time understanding, in a very simple way. I got the recommandation from another similar thread here on Hacker News.
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#176Earlier 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.
Hmmm... feeding your body is overrated, will you stop eating now? ;)
Not a bad idea. I fast regularly and it makes me feel great.
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#178Dan Boneh's "Cryptography I". https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto Was one of the best basic lecture I have seen on the crypto topic. I have enjoyed several lectures in my studies but some things I just understood after the good and interesting explanations in this course. Really amazing. Still waiting for the the Crypto 2 course. If you understand german I recommend you math lessons by Christian Spannagel https://w…
I've been waiting for the Crypto 2 course for over ten years. He keeps scheduling it and then postponing it.
Yes seems that we will not see it in the near future...
By fun I sometimes go through the project of the cs255 course: https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/cs255/
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#179Ben Eater building an 8-bit computer. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2... This series teaches you so much about how a computer works from the ground up. Although I had already learned that you can build a CPU with only NAND-gates, this is what really made it click. It's also densely packed with facts and techniques (debugging, using an oscilloscope, ...). It's quite refreshing compared to…
I’m building that one now. I did the 6502 project first which was a long weekend project. That also gets you familiar with making ROMs without needing to build the programmer yourself. (Then again building the programmer is also educational, and you could use that skill to program the ROM for the 6502 without buying the programmer and using their suspicious looking but totally fine software that goes with it.)
I’m on the output module of the 8-bit computer, adding a register so you can store the number being output. Next is adding the bus to connect all the modules. (I end up listening to something else while making a bunch of wires, and that will take a lot of wires. I’m trying to make it look nice like Ben does.)
It got me to set up a dedicated electronics workstation and I went ahead and got myself a soldering station (more for future projects but it was useful for making a USB power cable and adding resistors to LEDs to save space) and oscilloscope (useful for seeing the glitches I’m currently having; plus it’s fun).
I’m getting into PCB design (KiCad). Started designing one for the 6502 project but I’m pausing that while I work on the 8 bit cpu project. There are definitely issues with the 8 bit project being on breadboards and/or how it’s currently hooked up such as the fact that some parts have some glitches due to poor power distribution and floating input pins that I’ll be working on. There are some good tips on /r/beneater subreddit.
I also just picked up the book he based the lectures on, to round things out. Of course, learning from Ben Eater and doing it in real life is the point where theory meets practice and you start making things in the real world.
https://www.youtube.com/@weirdboyjim James Sharman is probably worth a look for taking a home brew CPU to the next level, like his pipelined CPU which is also moved to PCBs. He also works on other things such as audio, video, etc.
There are also a ton of other system builders on YouTube making home brew Z80 and other CPU projects. Ben talks about SPI interface but I also found out how to use SPI to read/write from SD cards (John’s Basement: https://youtube.com/@JohnsBasement )
This channel is adding a cassette interface to Ben Eater’s 6502 project. I want to do that and is what actually made me decide to get an oscilloscope. https://youtube.com/@GregStrike
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#180Distributed Systems lecture series by Martin Kleppmann
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKd45zvjcDFUEv_ohr_HdUFe...