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Here are 34 lectures for his Linear Algebra course he recorded in 1999: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010...
Along with Jacques Pepin's "deboning a chicken" .FLV video, these are among the greatest videos on the Internet.
Linear Algebra was a course in the first semester of freshman year when I was in uni (this wasn't in the US or in an english speaking country). It was famous for being a "filter" course, that made a lot of people quit the degree and switch to a different degree next year. It had a 94% failure rate, but I got to pass on the first attempt because Gil's free lectures of his LA course made me intuitively understand the s…
I had the same experience. I didn't understand the teaching from my university. Once I found his lectures it all clicked. I understood what we were doing. It was no longer wrote learning of algorithms to manipulate things with no meaning. I did very well in that paper.
Linear Algebra was a course in the first semester of freshman year when I was in uni (this wasn't in the US or in an english speaking country). It was famous for being a "filter" course, that made a lot of people quit the degree and switch to a different degree next year. It had a 94% failure rate, but I got to pass on the first attempt because Gil's free lectures of his LA course made me intuitively understand the s…
I took linear algebra about 20 years ago as a requirement for my CS degree. I had no clue whatsoever what it was for beyond just "solving systems of equations" - whatever that meant. The prof didn't impress upon us how it underpins all of machine learning (which, mind you, wasn't as much of a hot topic then that it is now). Our attempts at grokking its importance were largely met with a kind of "because it's importan…
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I had the same experience. I didn't understand the teaching from my university. Once I found his lectures it all clicked. I understood what we were doing. It was no longer wrote learning of algorithms to manipulate things with no meaning. I did very well in that paper.
Fwiw the word is “rote” not “wrote”
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Amazon printing service? I see they have one for photos/calendar and such. Do they have one for sending PDF's to print?
omg https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201834340 ah crap no pdf
There is a great book published in Russian "ЗАДАЧИ И ТЕОРЕМЫ ЛИНЕЙНОЙ АЛГЕБРЫ" (Problems and theorems in linear algebra), by Victor V. Prasolov. English translation was done by American Mathematical Society. Unfortunately, this translation is for the first edition of the book. Latest edition is available for free: http://prasolov.loegria.net/linalg.pdf (hint is you want to print it out, Amazon printing service is gre…
Amazon printing service? I see they have one for photos/calendar and such. Do they have one for sending PDF's to print?
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I have a feeling that the intellect gap at a lot of universities isn't as profound as one would expect and that one of the reasons that the students of the best unis do so well is because their educators can actually explain the course material. You can do more when you've got to spend less cognitive energy on trying to piece together the hieroglyphic puzzle that lesser professors throw at you because they believe th…
i find that in general (not always) the smarter people are, the better they understand precisely what you don't know, and what you need to know to understand what they are trying to tell you it's a bit like the old "the more I know, the more I know I don't know" but with an addition of "the more I know exactly what I know, and exactly what I don't" and it's then applied via theory-of-mind, "the more I know precisely…