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

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Post by credit_guy »

The Historical Jesus by Bart Ehrman, on Great Courses. Bart Ehrman has written a number of books on the historical Jesus, and the birth of Christianity, but I found the course to be better than the books.

You might not like it if you are a believer in Jesus, although Bart Ehrman tries not to challenge any belief. The flip side is that you might not like it if you are a non-believer, since he spends a certain amount of time trying to massage the message so that not to offend believers. Still, I think you'd enjoy the course more as a non-believer.

It's a history course. It shows how historians can extract valuable information given little (and often time contradictory, and sometimes forged) historical data. You can take these lessons then and try to apply them everywhere. It's going to change the way you perceive history.

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

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Post by blowski »

ronyfadel wrote: post #139
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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As others said, the root comment was flagged for being a shallow dismissal (all it said was "overrated").

You can see them by enabling "showdead" on your profile, or you can go here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34592145

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

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Post by docgonzo »

A series on the Peloponnesian War from the Great Courses. Heard but not seen. I had been listening to some series on Greek history that seemed to culminate with this "civil" war. There are fascinating lessons about how democracies can fail. The lecturer (Ken Harl) is amazing and gets excited to the point he's almost shouting (not in a bad way) by the end of lectures. Some highlights include the Athenian democracy voting itself out of existence, multiple betrayals, and a cameo from Socrates. I got a copy from my local library at the time ~ 2014. https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/peloponnesian-war

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

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Post by gadiyar »

lejoko wrote: post #174

Perry 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.

+1 to this. I came across this course in a past thread in HN and worked my way through the lectures around end-2020. Took me 3 months but I really enjoyed this series.

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

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Post by lysecret »

ww520 wrote: post #32

Gilbert Strang's lectures on Linear Algebra [1]. Prof Strang is an amazing lecturer with a unassuming style. He's the expert on Linear Algebra and makes the topic so much approachable. Ken Joy's lectures on Computer Graphics [2]. Prof Joy is another amazing lecturer, making the Computer Graphics topics seeming easy. Stanford CS221 Learn AI (2019) by Percy Liang and Dorsa Sadigh. Both professors are great lecturers. A…

Absolutely love the first one. His explanation of SVD had a big impact on me and my dad is now teaching it in his math class haha

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Post by hectorlorenzo »

pharmakom wrote: post #144
ronyfadel wrote: post #139

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I did not know that. It is amazing how perception of HN changes drastically once you turn this flag on. It is not as extreme as "turning into a completely different website" but certainly it becomes less interesting. There is a sizeable amount of toxicity.
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