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

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Post by 4mitkumar »

Not sure about best but MIT 9.13 The Human Brain, Spring 2019 by Nancy Kanwisher Congress to mind. It's a broad introduction to "core perceptual and cognitive abilities of the human mind and asks how they are implemented in the brain. Key themes include the representations, development, and degree of functional specificity of these components of mind and brain."

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60IKRN_pFpt...

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

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Post by TheFlyingFish »

bajsejohannes wrote: post #95

Ben 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…

Couldn't agree more. His series on networking is also fantastic. Hugely leveled-up my understanding of how computers talk to each other. It's almost Euclidean how he builds it up, with each segment applying the principles from the previous one.

He's a fantastically gifted teacher and has a very deep understanding of the material, which is just a killer combination.

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

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Post by 2devnull »

Many bests in this thread, but here’s a few nobody else has posted:

Stanford course on NLU was pretty good for basic overview https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ_Jrc_nRJY (2019, so a bit dated now.)

Was recently enjoying Paul Cantor on Shakespeare and politics: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCiopo73uhXPiA3yJV_rg72Q

Not a series per se but I always enjoy hearing John Mearsheimer present his ideas: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TsonzzAW3Mk

A nice debate with terry eagleton and roger scruton, who has many really excellent lectures on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qOdMBDOj4ec

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

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Post by 93po »

Ajahn Brahm's videos on the Buddhist Society of Western Australia (BSWA) Youtube channel. From what I remember of them (I watched them mostly around 2010 time frame): his talks aren't religious, rarely touch on spirituality, and are more very logically laid out conversations and anecdotes about being happier by embracing things like unconditional love and kindness. A few months of listening to his videos really made a massive difference in how I view the world, and a big difference in my own happiness because I am better at accepting people for all their flaws and difficulties and poor actions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jniaUr_7438 is the one I share most often - Dealing with difficult people

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

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Post by braingenious »

dataoverflow wrote: post #129
braingenious wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Cool!

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

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Post by cat_man »

I've only watched about five of the videos on it, but Keenan Crane's intro to computer graphics series is pretty great (he's a CS professor at Carnegie Mellon):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9_jI1bdZmz2emSh0UQ5i...

He makes excellent use of visuals and well-crafted examples to get core concepts across without getting bogged down in details that aren't well-suited to a lecture format.

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

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Post by foooobaba »

cranium wrote: post #36

Human 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...

+1 very easy to follow too.
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