Stephen Ressler's lectures on technology, engineering and architecture in the ancient world:
https://stephenjressler.com/the-great-courses/
Very Spartan in presentation, yet very substantial.
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?
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
After clicking through a few random lectures, this seems fantastic. I wish I'd found this during my physics B.Sc.
For those not in the know NPTEL has a boatload of high quality STEM content. Often they will be the only place you can find the more advanced courses on certain less popular STEM courses.
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#233Brad Osgood's The Fourier Transform and its Applications https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE261 Osgood is such an engaging lecturer and his explanations are crystal clear. Eigenchris' youtube series on tensors is great https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJHszsWbB6hrkmmq57lX8... He also has video series on Tensor calculus, General Relativity and a few other topics. Its an incredible labor of love.
Second this one, I remember being enthralled in undergrad just going through these lectures. I should give it another watch through since there was a lot I didn't understand the first go around
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#234Brad Osgood's The Fourier Transform and its Applications https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE261 Osgood is such an engaging lecturer and his explanations are crystal clear. Eigenchris' youtube series on tensors is great https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJHszsWbB6hrkmmq57lX8... He also has video series on Tensor calculus, General Relativity and a few other topics. Its an incredible labor of love.
+1 on the eigenchris stuff. They start a little rough as he’s still learning how to present online, but improve quickly, and he has that knack for explaining things clearly that some people seem to be born with.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#235Marc Levoy's Lectures on Digital Photography:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7HrM-fk_Rc&list=PL7ddpXYvFX...
>This is one of 18 videos representing lectures on digital photography, from a version of my Stanford course CS 178 that was recorded at Google in Spring 2016.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#236Human Behavioral Biology, a Stanford course taught by Robert Sapolsky. It's a thorough look on some of our behaviors through the lens of hormones, neural/nervous system, and how evolution shaped us. Also, Pr Sapolsky is a great speaker with a complete deadpan humor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...
That Sapolsky class is one of my favs as well.
Anything I have watched from Open Yale has been fantastic too. I feel like they have done a great job of curation and not just creating a list of random new class recordings.
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#237Walter 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
They are on YouTube and I would have contributed this but couldn't judge the value.
MIT physics 801 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro203puVhQsmC...
MIT physics 802 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro2314mKyUiOI...
MIT physics 803 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyQSN7X0ro22WeXM2QCKJ...
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#238Richard Hamming's Learning to Learn: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#239Not even a second of thought: Sussman's & Abelson's SICP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB... especially the section on streams ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGKLILLy0I&list=PLE18841CAB... ) It changed my outook on programming by pi degrees and I feel it is more needed then ever.
Awesome, thanks for sharing
Re: Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen?
#240Not sure best ever, but I really enjoyed “The Other Side of History” (available from Great Courses Plus now Wonderium). I found the deep dive into daily life through history helped me better understand the common threads that all humans experience. Course Description: Imagine you're a Greek soldier marching into battle in the front row of a phalanx. Or an Egyptian woman putting on makeup before attending an evening p…
The Great Courses are a real gem. It's a shame they continue to shorten and clickbaitify their lecture series.