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Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by RealityVoid »

zozbot234 wrote: post #9
herodotus wrote: post #5

Too bad they host their course videos on Youtube. It has become painful to use. I don't understand why they cannot host them on their own server.

> It has become painful to use. I've found the opposite, despite advertisements. For one thing, Youtube provides very good auto-generated captions and makes it easy to watch a sped-up version of the video. This saves way more time than would be taken up by looking at ads. Of course people should still host their own videos but I see this as more like a backup, in case YouTube goes rouge somehow.

I think the proper word is "rogue" - but your points are spot on.

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by FabHK »

herodotus wrote: post #5

Too bad they host their course videos on Youtube. It has become painful to use. I don't understand why they cannot host them on their own server.

You can use youtube-dl (a wonderful command line utility available eg on home-brew) to easily download the videos at your desired quality and and watch from your HD whenever/however you like.

https://youtube-dl.org

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by angry_octet »

RealityVoid wrote: post #11
zozbot234 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It has become painful to use. I've found the opposite, despite advertisements. For one thing, Youtube provides very good auto-generated captions and makes it easy to watch a sped-up version of the video. This saves way more time than would be taken up by looking at ads. Of course people should still host their own videos but I see this as more like a backup, in case YouTube goes rouge somehow.

I think the proper word is "rogue" - but your points are spot on.

But it's (unintentionally?) clever, because the product they keep pushing on you is called YouTube Red, i.e. YouTube Rouge.

(How they came up with this name, given the existence of porn site Red Tube, I'll never know.)

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by bogomipz »

pjmlp wrote: post #4

And as a continuation of it, with a little of Active Oberon and non-UNIX OSes along the way, https://www.systems.ethz.ch/node/1447 https://lec.inf.ethz.ch/syscon/2019/

The "Advanced Operating Systems" looks fantastic! Do you or perhaps anyone else know if there are any video lectures for this similar to Onur's "Computer Architecture" class?

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by pjmlp »

bogomipz wrote: post #16
pjmlp wrote: post #4

And as a continuation of it, with a little of Active Oberon and non-UNIX OSes along the way, https://www.systems.ethz.ch/node/1447 https://lec.inf.ethz.ch/syscon/2019/

The "Advanced Operating Systems" looks fantastic! Do you or perhaps anyone else know if there are any video lectures for this similar to Onur's "Computer Architecture" class?

Sadly no. I just decided cross check some old links to see what they would be doing nowadays.

I guess someone else would need to jump in.

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by noir_lord »

FabHK wrote: post #12
herodotus wrote: post #5

Too bad they host their course videos on Youtube. It has become painful to use. I don't understand why they cannot host them on their own server.

You can use youtube-dl (a wonderful command line utility available eg on home-brew) to easily download the videos at your desired quality and and watch from your HD whenever/however you like. https://youtube-dl.org

Works great for music as well...allegedly.

Some genres are very popular on YouTube but not elsewhere (relatively), New Retro Wave been an example that comes to mind, good programming music.

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by somebodythere »

I've been following Onur's Design of Digital Circuits. I even bought a Basys 3 FPGA to do the labs. It's really helped me break down the black box that is the CPU I program as a software dev (I finally understand Spectre and Meltdown), and I'm learning basic FPGA dev as a nice bonus.

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by tanderson92 »

noir_lord wrote: post #18
FabHK wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use youtube-dl (a wonderful command line utility available eg on home-brew) to easily download the videos at your desired quality and and watch from your HD whenever/however you like. https://youtube-dl.org

Works great for music as well...allegedly. Some genres are very popular on YouTube but not elsewhere (relatively), New Retro Wave been an example that comes to mind, good programming music.

It also works for Facebook (!), though FB keeps changing the API / keys so make sure to keep an updated youtube-dl.
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