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Data Compressor from Scratch [video]

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Re: Data Compressor from Scratch [video]

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Post by acobster »

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Re: Data Compressor from Scratch [video]

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Post by gary_bernhardt »

jeremy_wiebe wrote: post #5
zolotarev wrote: post #2

This screencast is temporarily free through 2017-07-19.

Looks like the free lunch is over already. It's still the 19th where I am and all I see is a "subscribe" overlay.

Sorry, that's fixed now. I accidentally had it cutting off at midnight UTC. I just pushed expiration out by another day (and it's now judged by Pacific time, and the page says that explicitly for good measure).

Re: Data Compressor from Scratch [video]

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Post by gravypod »

gary_bernhardt wrote: post #7
jeremy_wiebe wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like the free lunch is over already. It's still the 19th where I am and all I see is a "subscribe" overlay.

Sorry, that's fixed now. I accidentally had it cutting off at midnight UTC. I just pushed expiration out by another day (and it's now judged by Pacific time, and the page says that explicitly for good measure).

Is there a student discount to your lectures? It's hard to squeeze $30 into the ramen noodle budget.

Re: Data Compressor from Scratch [video]

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Post by agumonkey »

gary_bernhardt wrote: post #7
jeremy_wiebe wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like the free lunch is over already. It's still the 19th where I am and all I see is a "subscribe" overlay.

Sorry, that's fixed now. I accidentally had it cutting off at midnight UTC. I just pushed expiration out by another day (and it's now judged by Pacific time, and the page says that explicitly for good measure).

Very nice of you to fix this; is this a regular thing you do (freeing one video) ?

ps: as usual, your video (compression) was a joy to watch, you should be a Khan Academy partner, or host a university or be a mars overlord. Something like that

Re: Data Compressor from Scratch [video]

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Post by gary_bernhardt »

agumonkey wrote: post #9
gary_bernhardt wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, that's fixed now. I accidentally had it cutting off at midnight UTC. I just pushed expiration out by another day (and it's now judged by Pacific time, and the page says that explicitly for good measure).

Very nice of you to fix this; is this a regular thing you do (freeing one video) ? ps: as usual, your video (compression) was a joy to watch, you should be a Khan Academy partner, or host a university or be a mars overlord. Something like that

The code to make screencasts free has been in for a while, but I rarely used it with the computation series because most of them didn't make sense in isolation. These new ones do make sense alone, so I'll probably do this more.

I don't work with distributors at all because they tend to (a) want some level of control over content and/or the legal right to modify and reuse it, (b) offer unfavorable royalty rates, and (c) have mixed quality levels between the works they host. I like that DAS is a comparatively small body of work that people know by name and trust to be good.

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