Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free? • Hacker News Board

jplatzek wrote: post #3

I am quite fond of the three molecular biology courses from MIT on edx [1][2][3]. Not only are the lectures great, but they also have spaced repetition built in. The exercises are often great counterfactual questions that encourage deep understanding. [1] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-1-dna-repl... [2] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-2-transcri... [3] https://www.edx.org/course/m…

Edx should be promoted around the world as the greatest gift the internet delivered!

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Post by jabroni_salad » Wed, Apr 12, 2023, 1:44 PM UTC

Negotiating Salary by the havard business school: https://pll.harvard.edu/course/negotiating-salary

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Post by beezlebroxxxxxx » Wed, Apr 12, 2023, 1:45 PM UTC

j_crick wrote: post #17

I really liked The Theoretical Minimum lectures on classical and quantum mechanics by Leonard Susskind (suggestion: google up the guy, he’s cool) at Stanford. You can buy books, but the lectures are all free on YouTube. Classical mechanics playlist can be found here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47F408D36D4CF129 and then there’s quantum mechanics available too, should be easily discoverable. And also there’s ju…

ViaScience also has a great playlist on the 'story' of quantum mechanics. I don't have much background in the field or physics in general, but the presentation and explanations in the series are (to the degree possible) followable and an incredible example of straight-forward, no frills, presentation with excellent visualizations. There are long digressions into the actual math and equations as well, though if you're just interested in the history you can skip those. Simply as a story of problem solving and imagination the story of quantum mechanics is fascinating in its own rite.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL193BC0532FE7B02C

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Post by pkoird » Wed, Apr 12, 2023, 1:47 PM UTC

rodolphoarruda wrote: post #23

Human Behavior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C... Innovation https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sts-081-innovation-systems-for-s...

I simply cannot recommend Sapolsky enough! The man is wonderful. And not just his course, his books are deliciously insightful as well. My only gripe with him is that he speaks continuously without enough pauses. Probably a sign that he knows the materials like the back of his hands but I wish he'd take some time to rest and allow the mortals to catch up.

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Post by TheAceOfHearts » Wed, Apr 12, 2023, 1:54 PM UTC

Andrej Karpathy has an introduction to AI series on YouTube that deserves an honorable mention.

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Post by ap916 » Wed, Apr 12, 2023, 1:59 PM UTC

weinzierl wrote: post #18

I've heard only the best things about Andrew Ng's machine learning course but never came around to do it. It is pretty old by now and with the dramatic development in recent times I wonder how relevant it still is?

Apart from the programming exercises being in Matlab (which nobody uses for ML nowadays), the course is still solid. The theoretical concepts and math that the course covers are still relevant and provide a good foundation for someone starting out.