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Collection of Richard Feynman talks on the scientific method, learning, and CS

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His answer on why he does not believe in Computer Science is pretty convincing. What I would love to have happened is a professor telling me that what I am going to be learning is not exactly science. Nobody did, so I spent a couple of years trying to scientify things.

That's funny because one of the first things my first CS professor said (paraphrased): computer science is very poorly named--it isn't a science and it isn't about computers.

I was not that lucky. But I later watched a couple of videos from SICP and it made sense. :)

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I'm so terribly bored by the same Feynman lectures reposted again and again to either YC, Facebook, or Reddit. Do a search and they come up again and again. I wish there were more lectures by others spread around. Say John Bardeen, for example.

Yeah! Feynman should write some new stuff already!

no no no, just recognize that all that is awesome with physics doesn't begin and end with Feynman! Share the love!
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