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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 LeftHandPath »

willbw wrote: post #6
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.

Interested to hear how you think self-hosted video is superior to Youtube, I have found the opposite to be true in every circumstance (unless you are without adblocker for some reason).

I've actually started to hate YouTube so much (just for being terrible to content-creators and consumers, and supporting toxic videos (time watched is a ranking factor, promoting high-engagement "edgeline videos)), and so on and so forth) that I wanted to create a white-label HTML video player that would keep the benefits of a consistent, well-made UI but drop the publisher aspect of YouTube.

I don't think I ever will, but the world needs an alternative that has a good encoding/optimization (like switching to lower bitrates on slower connections), a unified interface (familiar no matter what site it's being used on) and that doesn't tempt users to write custom skins for the video player.

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by rptr_87 »

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?

Prof. Kubi, Berkeley univ has a very good course on Advanced OS. May be you will find this useful.

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/courses/cs194-24-...

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

LeftHandPath wrote: post #31
willbw wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interested to hear how you think self-hosted video is superior to Youtube, I have found the opposite to be true in every circumstance (unless you are without adblocker for some reason).

I've actually started to hate YouTube so much (just for being terrible to content-creators and consumers, and supporting toxic videos (time watched is a ranking factor, promoting high-engagement "edgeline videos)), and so on and so forth) that I wanted to create a white-label HTML video player that would keep the benefits of a consistent, well-made UI but drop the publisher aspect of YouTube. I don't think I ever wil…

And the player needs to fit into an ecosystem that will cover the bandwidth costs of the video it streams. I don't think that's a simple part of the system if one is seeking to avoid having any advertising (a good goal, that I'm absolutely for).

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

rdc12 wrote: post #29
tanderson92 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

youtube also breaks on youtube-dl, every few months. Fortunately it becomes very obvious when a breaking change has occurred.

I assume such breaks are created on purpose by YouTube to reduce downloads and similar undesirable (to YouTube) usage?

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by spai2 »

evancox100 wrote: post #30
somebodythere wrote: post #19

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.

Where did you find the lab material?

https://safari.ethz.ch/digitaltechnik/spring2019/doku.php?id...

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by Koshkin »

jhallenworld wrote: post #23

Wow, very DRAM centric view of computer architecture. Where is Tomasulo algorithm, for example.. Not as much about caches that I would expect.. Maybe there are other courses for this stuff.

To be fair, modern computer hardware and CPU in particular are so complex that any "computer architecture" course of a reasonable size will be far removed from the real stuff.

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by adamnemecek »

jackcodes wrote: post #37

I’m looking for almost exactly this, but an abstraction or two higher - software architecture. Almost like SICP but as a course where I can follow along in more bite size chunks with video lectures. Does anyone have a recommended course?

Maybe elements of computing systems?

Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019

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Post by jackcodes »

adamnemecek wrote: post #38
jackcodes wrote: post #37

I’m looking for almost exactly this, but an abstraction or two higher - software architecture. Almost like SICP but as a course where I can follow along in more bite size chunks with video lectures. Does anyone have a recommended course?

Maybe elements of computing systems?

I’m struggling to search for this, is it by a particular university or provider?
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