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Ask HN: What are some of the best university courses available online for free?

399 points by curious16 3y ago

The course topics can be anything.

Tepix 3y ago
The Science of the Solar System (Planetary Astronomy) by Caltech Professor Mike "plutokiller" Brown https://www.coursera.org/learn/solar-system https://www.coursera.org/learn/solar-system I really liked this course. Here's the blurb: Learn about the science behind the current exploration of the solar system in this free class. Use principles from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology to understand the latest from Mars, comprehend the outer solar system, ponder planets outside our solar system, and search for habitability in our neighborhood and beyond. This course is generally taught at an advanced level assuming a prior knowledge of undergraduate math and physics, but the majority of the concepts and lectures can be understood without these prerequisites. The quizzes and final exam are designed to make you think critically about the material you have learned rather than to simply make you memorize facts. The class is expected to be challenging but rewarding. It is also taught at Caltech, see https://mikebrown.caltech.edu/teaching/science-solar-system https://mikebrown.caltech.edu/teaching/science-solar-system
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yawboakye 3y ago
gilbert strang's linear algebra https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D. he has a few other linear algebra themed courses on there. very good because (1) he’s an incredible teacher, and (2) linear algebra is beautiful
- te_chris 3y ago
  Came here to say this. Go through the actual course methodically though - readings, summaries, problems solutions. It's incredible. Miles ahead of coursera equiv. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06sc-linear-algebra-fall-2011/pages/resource-index/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06sc-linear-algebra-fall-2011...
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- gamedna 3y ago
  Having taken his class in person, I would like to second this. The man is a beautiful thinker and he presents linear algebra in a way that is extremely comprehensive and approachable.
- xupybd 3y ago
  His lectures helped me through my engineering degree. My lecturers made it hard to understand, Gilbert's teaching made it easy to understand.
juujian 3y ago
I am quite a fan of Andrew Ng's courses on machine learning. Well made, improved over time as he got more experienced, and he is just a likable guy frankly.
daviddaviddavid 3y ago
Jeremy Siskind's jazz piano courses taught out of Fullerton College. https://jeremysiskind.com/jazzclass/ https://jeremysiskind.com/jazzclass/ This is a bit of a cheat because these courses are not free ($50USD for California residents and around $400 for non-CA residents) but they are so good that I had to mention them. I am nearing the end of the Level II course and have learned so much stuff. They force you to do so many things that you otherwise would not do. Basically, ever week you have to post a video demonstrating what you learned from the previous week. And the video is in a public discussion forum with the other students so there is this incentive to do an extra good job. And he gives great feedback on your assignments.
- savorypiano 3y ago
  Hey, I appreciate this post and gave a re-upvote. Is this course more about composition or performance? I realize jazz is about improv which is a skill I'd like to have.
  - daviddaviddavid 3y ago
    Hey thanks, it is very hands on and focused more on performance than composition. It covers comping, soloing, playing in different substyles, pretty much everything if you take both courses. Sometimes the units fly by too quickly and you need to note to yourself to revisit a topic and apply it in all 12 keys or apply it to a bunch of Real Book tunes. I knew I'd pay for recommending a paid course but it's really great and the price is a steal given that Berklee Online courses are around $1500 and private lessons w someone of this teacher's calibre might be $100/hr. I'm not affiliated w the teacher/college at all other than being a student.
tlhenvironment 3y ago
This one is really amazing: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible by Christine Heyes, learnt so much! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyuvTEbD-Ei0JdMUujXfyWi https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyuvTEbD-Ei0JdM...
j_crick 3y ago
I really liked The Theoretical Minimum lectures on classical and quantum mechanics by Leonard Susskind (suggestion: google up the guy, he’s cool) at Stanford. You can buy books, but the lectures are all free on YouTube. Classical mechanics playlist can be found here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47F408D36D4CF129 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47F408D36D4CF129 and then there’s quantum mechanics available too, should be easily discoverable. And also there’s just https://theoreticalminimum.com/ https://theoreticalminimum.com/ Not sure if they qualify to be a “true” uni course though, because in this case nobody’s gonna give you assignments and grades :)
- beezlebroxxxxxx 3y ago
  ViaScience also has a great playlist on the 'story' of quantum mechanics. I don't have much background in the field or physics in general, but the presentation and explanations in the series are (to the degree possible) followable and an incredible example of straight-forward, no frills, presentation with excellent visualizations. There are long digressions into the actual math and equations as well, though if you're just interested in the history you can skip those. Simply as a story of problem solving and imagination the story of quantum mechanics is fascinating in its own rite. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL193BC0532FE7B02C https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL193BC0532FE7B02C
  - cybertronic 3y ago
    That's the one I was searching for. Thank you!
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weinzierl 3y ago
I've heard only the best things about Andrew Ng's machine learning course but never came around to do it. It is pretty old by now and with the dramatic development in recent times I wonder how relevant it still is?
- ap916 3y ago
  Apart from the programming exercises being in Matlab (which nobody uses for ML nowadays), the course is still solid. The theoretical concepts and math that the course covers are still relevant and provide a good foundation for someone starting out.
  - Bostonian 3y ago
    Now it uses Python: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-introduction https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-in...
    - rahimnathwani 3y ago
      That's not the course OP is talking about. The good news is that someone converted the matlab/octave exercise templates into numpy, and published them as jupyter notebooks that can work with the course's auto-grader: https://github.com/dibgerge/ml-coursera-python-assignments https://github.com/dibgerge/ml-coursera-python-assignments
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SkipperCat 3y ago
I really enjoyed the free content on Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/ https://www.udacity.com/). I'm not sure if it's "university" but their content was presented well and I came away learning new things about math, python and ML.
asicsp 3y ago
University of Helsinki provides free courses on Python, Java, Data Analysis and so on: https://www.mooc.fi/en/ https://www.mooc.fi/en/
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lucretian 3y ago
Justice https://pll.harvard.edu/course/justice?delta=0 https://pll.harvard.edu/course/justice?delta=0
rodolphoarruda 3y ago
Human Behavior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D&index=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C... Innovation https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sts-081-innovation-systems-for-science-technology-energy-manufacturing-and-health-spring-2017/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sts-081-innovation-systems-for-s...
- pkoird 3y ago
  I simply cannot recommend Sapolsky enough! The man is wonderful. And not just his course, his books are deliciously insightful as well. My only gripe with him is that he speaks continuously without enough pauses. Probably a sign that he knows the materials like the back of his hands but I wish he'd take some time to rest and allow the mortals to catch up.
  - animal_spirits 3y ago
    I will thirdly recommend this course! Very fun and informative
isaacfrond 3y ago
Open Yale course on the philosophy of death is great. https://oyc.yale.edu/death/phil-176 https://oyc.yale.edu/death/phil-176
jabroni_salad 3y ago
Negotiating Salary by the havard business school: https://pll.harvard.edu/course/negotiating-salary https://pll.harvard.edu/course/negotiating-salary
TheAceOfHearts 3y ago
Andrej Karpathy has an introduction to AI series on YouTube that deserves an honorable mention.
- 7373737373 3y ago
  https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
sampo 3y ago
Databases by prof. Widom, from Stanford. Currently the course is at edX, and split into 5 mini-courses. Everything in the course is well thought out and apparently polished and perfected over years of teaching practice and experience. There is nothing useless in the video lectures, and the course homework probes every topic from the lectures. https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ydatabases-databases https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ydatabases-databases Songwriting, at Coursera, from Berklee College of Music. The guy just sits in a dark room, and explains the process of writing lyrics to songs. He just explains it very well. https://www.coursera.org/learn/songwriting-lyrics https://www.coursera.org/learn/songwriting-lyrics
- rjbwork 3y ago
  Seconding Widom's course. It's a fantastic primer on databases. I did it during the first run, back in like 2011 or 2012 or so. I can't imagine it's gotten any less relevant in the intervening years.
- BSOhealth 3y ago
  I probably owe much of my 10 year software eng career to Jennifer Widom’s open courses on databases that I went through in 2011-2012. I was writing out unions and other queries on yellow notepads while working phones in tech support, devoured the courses, and really boosted my path.
- sn9 3y ago
  Thirding Widom's course! It's my go-to recommendation for anyone wanting a strong foundation in SQL.
sbuccini 3y ago
"The Making of Modern Ukraine" by Timothy Snyder: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz_1Mx1MaO6sw_ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz... As Prof. Snyder mentions in his introductory lecture, it is kind of wild that there are zero other classes, at any American university, focusing specifically on Ukraine given its importance in the current geopolitical climate. Prof. Snyder is a great lecturer and the dynamics that shape Ukraine are fascinating and useful for understanding European history more broadly.
miketery 3y ago
Cryptography I by Dan Boneh. https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto (note even though it says crypto it is NOT related to blockchain crypto).
- criddell 3y ago
  It is related, but only in the sense that crypto currencies are built on cryptography primitives.
  - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
    Adding to this, before "crypto" became a household term that meant, roughly, "blockchain stuff" it was instead a general term for "cryptography". It's what is (perhaps was) meant when people say not to "roll your own crypto"[0] because it's so easy to get wrong. [0] Since 2021 this phrase has been expanded to "roll your own crypto scam" and it's only used as an ethical statement. Don't "roll your own crypto scam" because it's wrong. (Okay, maybe this part is just a joke and people don't really say that. It's hard to say for sure.)
    - sorokod 3y ago
      crypto on google trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=crypto&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=crypto&h...
photochemsyn 3y ago
Herb Gross's ultra-classic old-school chalkboard delivery of "Calculus of Complex Variables, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra" should not be missed: https://youtu.be/BOx8LRyr8mU https://youtu.be/BOx8LRyr8mU It turns out he also produced a complete series on the precursor material, "Single Variable Calculus" as well, which I only just now discovered: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-single-variable-calculus-fall-2010/resources/lecture-1-analytic-geometry/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-si... This professor has a great delivery and a ton of enthusiasm for the subject material, (but you can't just watch it, to absorb it you have to take notes, maybe recreate the examples in Python or something).
- frob 3y ago
  That cold open joke is amazing. I miss MIT.
- frob 3y ago
  Also, that is the best definition of the real numbers I have seen so far
- uptownfunk 3y ago
  Herb Gross! Love that series. Brings me back to my old days. I actually wrote him an email and he wrote back so kindly >> Thank you for taking the time to write to me. It is greatly appreciated. I am extremely pleased that work I did over 40 years ago is now available to help others. I hope you will keep me posted on your progress. I wish I could be more helpful to you. However you might find it a bit strange to know that the five years I spent at MIT were a pleasant diversion from my career work. More specifically the rest of my teaching career was spent in helping “math phobic” adult learners at community colleges and in prisons learn to cope successfully with arithmetic and basic algebra. I retired at the age of 75 in 2003 so that I could develop my own website where I am posting my videos, power point presentations and other written material in arithmetic and algebra for anyone to use free of charge. In fact I would be delighted if you found time to look at it and let me know what you think about it. You should feel free to comment in my guestbook if you so desire. The bad news is that I have virtually no knowledge in the areas of more advanced mathematics. However part 3 of Calculus Revisited which was just posted last week by OCW does have introductory lectures in differential equations, complex variables and linear algebra. I wish I could be more helpful to you but my hope is that the material that is posted on OCW will give you a good background in your pursuit of higher mathematics knowledge. I wish you the very best and look forward to hearing from you again, especially if you ever feel that my input can be of help to you. With warmest regards and best wishes, Herb
plaguepilled 3y ago
Frederic Schuller's course of Gravity and Light, covering General Relativity. It has a few tactical gaps but it will give you everything you could ever practically need. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeEvEPtX_0S6vxxiiNPrJbLu9aK1UVC_ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeEvEPtX_0S6vxxiiNPrJbLu...
criddell 3y ago
I'm looking for a course that uses tools like WinDbg and ETW and memory dumps to diagnose crashes, hangs, etc... It would need to include an introduction to basic assembly language because without that you don't get very far with WinDbg. I'd like to learn about some of the stuff that Bruce Dawson talks about on his blog: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/
- hackart 3y ago
  There are 2 courses on WinDbg at : https://p.ost2.fyi/ https://p.ost2.fyi/ I took the Architecture 1001: x86-64 Assembly course at https://p.ost2.fyi/ https://p.ost2.fyi/ and enjoyed solving the last two labs.
  - criddell 3y ago
    Thanks for sharing this.
michelpp 3y ago
MIT OCW Signals and Systems is excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xaaeop7gJ8&list=PLADC1A1B7FA7FF7B6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xaaeop7gJ8&list=PLADC1A1B7F...
maigret 3y ago
Financial Markets by Robert Shiller https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-252 https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-252
avinassh 3y ago
Intro to Database Systems by Andy Pavlo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_otTrBTrjyohi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZX... MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbsvGQk9_UB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...
- 6ak74rfy 3y ago
  I can absolutely vouch for the 2nd course which is on distributed systems - it’s a gem. It also has lab exercises which are high quality stuff too.
  - fifilura 3y ago
    It looks interesting and relevant! Edit: link to course planning and labs https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html
- pcthrowaway 3y ago
  Syllabus and coursework for the database course: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/schedule.html https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/schedule.html It looks really good
- pocket_cheese 3y ago
  OMG I owe me pushing my career to the next level due to Pavlo's course! There's so many technical interviews where I've impressed my interviewer with explaining low-level details of how databases do things. Don't be fooled by the course name though, it's pretty rigorous but so rewarding and practical (especially if you are a data engineer). I give this course an A+ for teaching me about B+ trees in C++ :D
wintermutestwin 3y ago
Yale's American Revolution by Joanne Freeman https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDA2BC5E785D495AB https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDA2BC5E785D495AB Her enthusiasm, depth of knowledge and breadth of perspective make for a contagious, enlightening and thought provoking learning experience.
Dkuku 3y ago
MIT: Alexander and Ava Amini http://introtodeeplearning.com/ http://introtodeeplearning.com/
lamontcg 3y ago
Anyone found a good course on matrix calculus? The OCW course doesn't have any videos: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s096-matrix-calculus-for-machine-learning-and-beyond-january-iap-2022/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s096-matrix-calculus-for-mach...
lofatdairy 3y ago
More humanities than STEM but I'm a fan of damn near anything out of Yale's open courses. Personal recommendations are the Introduction to the Theory of Literature w/ Prof. Fry and the recent course on Ukrainian history. Both are fairly intro level in terms of structure but the details and depth don't suffer too badly for it. There's more interesting stuff like a class on Dante's Divine comedy so it really is mostly just a question of navigating the video library.
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Suppz 3y ago
"Awakening from the meaning Crisis" by John Vervaeke https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5e...
- iamgopal 3y ago
  Some introduction for uninitiated?
  - Suppz 3y ago
    We are experiencing a mental health catastrophe. Anxiety disorders, sadness, and despair are on the rise, and suicide rates are rising across North America, parts of Europe, and other parts of the world. This mental health crisis is caused and exacerbated by problems in the environment and the political system, which are in turn entwined with a deeper cultural historical catastrophe that I refer to as "The Meaning Crisis." It is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our daily lives. And there's a feeling of drowning in this old ocean of nonsense. And we need to figure out why this is the case. And what are we going to do about it? Mentioning a number of folks who have talked in ways that will supply us with the resources we require. We'll discuss ancient figures such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, as well as Jesus of Nazareth, Siddhartha Gautama, and the Buddha, as well as present significant figures. We'll discuss people like Carl Jung and Friedrich Nietzsche. We'll discuss Heidegger.
simonbarker87 3y ago
Harvards CS50 course changed my life. It was the first course that got through to me about how to code. Without that course and the enthusiasm of Professor David Malan I wouldn’t be where I am now and I’d be stuck falling back on an electrical engineering degree which bores me to tears. cs50.net
codemonkey-zeta 3y ago
All of Michael Sugrue's (former Princeton professor) lectures on YouTube are phenomenal. They single-handedly inspired me to study philosophy. His style is eloquent but off-the-cuff, he is so knowledgeable and ties together the history of philosophy so gracefully that all the lectures left me enraptured. Example: https://youtu.be/d-vcItYxM9U https://youtu.be/d-vcItYxM9U
rg111 3y ago
Related: 1. Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34591291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34591291 2. Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22826722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22826722 3. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042 4. Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245125 Found some mind-expanding, really edifying courses in these thread. There's also a website dedicated to MOOCs, and some underrated gems are there: Class Central. There was a recent list in freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coursera-free-online-courses-6d84cdb30da/ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coursera-free-online-cours...
gamedna 3y ago
MIT's 16.687 - Private pilot ground school. If you want to become a private pilot or start your career, this is the place to begin. The professors are approachable and the content is comprehensive. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/16-687-private-pilot-ground-school-january-iap-2019/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/16-687-private-pilot-ground-scho... all of the videos for the lectures are available on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63cUdAG3v311Vl72ozOiK25 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63cUdAG3v31...
- albrewer 3y ago
  Thanks for this, I haven't flown in 14 years and was looking to get back into it. This is perfect for a refresher.
jpamata 3y ago
A series of distributed systems courses from UIUC at coursera where you learn about systems design, distributed algorithms, and has you build projects like a distributed DB, implementing algorithms like gossip protocols, etc. in C++: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing
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_448 3y ago
This course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZn0GhwjjD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZn0GhwjjD4 Also similar courses on the topic from Yale and MIT. And, all the courses by Aswath Damodaran on YouTube.
kwere 3y ago
Quantopian introduction to quantitative trading https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRFLF1OxMm_UL7WUWM31iynp0jMVf_vLW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRFLF1OxMm_UL7WUWM31i... MIT 18.S096 Topics in Mathematics w Applications in Finance https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63ctJIEC1UnZ0btsphnnoHR https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63ctJIEC1Un... Aswath Damodaran on corporate finance, valuations, investment philosophies https://www.youtube.com/@AswathDamodaranonValuation/videos https://www.youtube.com/@AswathDamodaranonValuation/videos khan academy, a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. https://www.khanacademy.org/ https://www.khanacademy.org/
abrakad 3y ago
This one From Yale is really good. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0
hugolundin 3y ago
Stanford, The Fourier Transform and its applications: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1780FAF4A29FE679 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1780FAF4A29FE679 Helped me through signals and systems. The lecturer is fantastic.
Donovan-Shahly 3y ago
CS50 is Harvard's introduction to computer science course. It's pretty good. https://cs50.harvard.edu https://cs50.harvard.edu
chognguyen57 3y ago
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gmreads 3y ago
Everything by MIT Open Course Ware
jplatzek 3y ago
I am quite fond of the three molecular biology courses from MIT on edx [1][2][3]. Not only are the lectures great, but they also have spaced repetition built in. The exercises are often great counterfactual questions that encourage deep understanding. [1] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-1-dna-replication-and-repair https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-1-dna-repl... [2] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-2-transcription-and-transposition https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-2-transcri... [3] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-3-rna-processing-and-transl https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-3-rna-proc...
- phonescreen_man 3y ago
  Edx should be promoted around the world as the greatest gift the internet delivered!
  - Entinel 3y ago
    It was before they sold it to 2U. Such a shame what it has turned into.
- agumonkey 3y ago
  Thanks a lot, I was on a path to learn bio/med (there's a coursera bioinformatics minimooc too). Anybody in computational biology btw ? slack, irc.
RugnirViking 3y ago
Big fan of steve brunton's control bootcamp series. Helped me through my control systems courses greatly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeNNR20Mz-VpzgfQs5zrYi085m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeN... Great for robotics, or anything where you need to control complex physical systems, from f1 cars to 3d characters in games
- ultrasounder 3y ago
  Thanks for the recommendation
- jti107 3y ago
  can second this...also recommend his books
dusted 3y ago
The one I've enjoyed watching more than once: Death with Shelly Kagan, Yale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2J7wSuFRl8&list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2J7wSuFRl8&list=PLEA18FAF1A...
- krembo 3y ago
  I've started to watch this per your recommendation and one question that popped into my mind with the first few classes, is how does this theory of dualism that differs the soul from the body, withstands the ChatGPT era, where computers start to show signs of consciousness. ie- If consciousness is also a matter of physical matter that can be replicated by machines, is the human soul a real spiritual thing, or created by physical connections in the brain, which is recently simulated by vector and by the amount of parameters in the model.
  - dusted 3y ago
    I wrote something about consciousness as the result of computation (an idea I'm sure is not new, and somewhat related to attention schema theory, even if I disagree with the author of that on determinism), it's a little bit of a mess as I setup the assumptions, but I still think gets the idea across (as did Shelly to some degree, though his primary interest was the implication for the value of such a life, which I continue to fail entirely to make sense of in the continued text, which I don't recommend reading). http://dusted.dk/pages/thoughts/OnConsciousness.html http://dusted.dk/pages/thoughts/OnConsciousness.html You might find it interesting because Shellys lectures inspired me a lot when writing it, and because it touches on the same subject as your are thinking about.
AntoniusBlock 3y ago
Cryptography I by Dan Boneh (Stanford University) Programming Languages by Dan Grossman (University of Washington) Both are on Coursera.
- DavidPiper 3y ago
  Big +1 to Cryptography I. I didn't finish it completely, but the first ~half satisfied my curiosity about the theory I wanted to know, without getting to a lot of the practical details that I don't need to remember day-to-day. Dan and Victor also wrote a course book: http://toc.cryptobook.us/ http://toc.cryptobook.us/
bobosha 3y ago
edx.org, ocw.mit.edu
sss111 3y ago
5.111x Chemistry by Catherine Drennan on MiT OCW. CS3510 Algorithms Georgia Tech on Youtube.
smiley1437 3y ago
edx CS50
ulyssseV 3y ago
This website has a long story of teaching tech. Almost every french programmer have made their first step thanks to them. It started with PHP about 15 years ago as leSiteDuZero and became https://openclassrooms.com/en/courses https://openclassrooms.com/en/courses (now available in English) in my opinion the best place to get started on any professional topic. programing language, Career, Management.

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The course topics can be anything.

The Science of the Solar System (Planetary Astronomy) by Caltech Professor Mike "plutokiller" Brown https://www.coursera.org/learn/solar-system https://www.coursera.org/learn/solar-system I really liked this course. Here's the blurb: Learn about the science behind the current exploration of the solar system in this free class. Use principles from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology to understand the latest from Mars, comprehend the outer solar system, ponder planets outside our solar system, and search for habitability in our neighborhood and beyond. This course is generally taught at an advanced level assuming a prior knowledge of undergraduate math and physics, but the majority of the concepts and lectures can be understood without these prerequisites. The quizzes and final exam are designed to make you think critically about the material you have learned rather than to simply make you memorize facts. The class is expected to be challenging but rewarding. It is also taught at Caltech, see https://mikebrown.caltech.edu/teaching/science-solar-system https://mikebrown.caltech.edu/teaching/science-solar-system

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yawboakye 3y ago

gilbert strang's linear algebra https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49CF3715CB9EF31D. he has a few other linear algebra themed courses on there. very good because (1) he’s an incredible teacher, and (2) linear algebra is beautiful

te_chris 3y ago
Came here to say this. Go through the actual course methodically though - readings, summaries, problems solutions. It's incredible. Miles ahead of coursera equiv. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06sc-linear-algebra-fall-2011/pages/resource-index/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06sc-linear-algebra-fall-2011...
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gamedna 3y ago
Having taken his class in person, I would like to second this. The man is a beautiful thinker and he presents linear algebra in a way that is extremely comprehensive and approachable.
xupybd 3y ago
His lectures helped me through my engineering degree. My lecturers made it hard to understand, Gilbert's teaching made it easy to understand.

juujian 3y ago

I am quite a fan of Andrew Ng's courses on machine learning. Well made, improved over time as he got more experienced, and he is just a likable guy frankly.

daviddaviddavid 3y ago

Jeremy Siskind's jazz piano courses taught out of Fullerton College. https://jeremysiskind.com/jazzclass/ https://jeremysiskind.com/jazzclass/ This is a bit of a cheat because these courses are not free ($50USD for California residents and around $400 for non-CA residents) but they are so good that I had to mention them. I am nearing the end of the Level II course and have learned so much stuff. They force you to do so many things that you otherwise would not do. Basically, ever week you have to post a video demonstrating what you learned from the previous week. And the video is in a public discussion forum with the other students so there is this incentive to do an extra good job. And he gives great feedback on your assignments.

savorypiano 3y ago
Hey, I appreciate this post and gave a re-upvote. Is this course more about composition or performance? I realize jazz is about improv which is a skill I'd like to have.
- daviddaviddavid 3y ago
  Hey thanks, it is very hands on and focused more on performance than composition. It covers comping, soloing, playing in different substyles, pretty much everything if you take both courses. Sometimes the units fly by too quickly and you need to note to yourself to revisit a topic and apply it in all 12 keys or apply it to a bunch of Real Book tunes. I knew I'd pay for recommending a paid course but it's really great and the price is a steal given that Berklee Online courses are around $1500 and private lessons w someone of this teacher's calibre might be $100/hr. I'm not affiliated w the teacher/college at all other than being a student.

tlhenvironment 3y ago

This one is really amazing: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible by Christine Heyes, learnt so much! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyuvTEbD-Ei0JdMUujXfyWi https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNeyuvTEbD-Ei0JdM...

j_crick 3y ago

I really liked The Theoretical Minimum lectures on classical and quantum mechanics by Leonard Susskind (suggestion: google up the guy, he’s cool) at Stanford. You can buy books, but the lectures are all free on YouTube. Classical mechanics playlist can be found here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47F408D36D4CF129 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL47F408D36D4CF129 and then there’s quantum mechanics available too, should be easily discoverable. And also there’s just https://theoreticalminimum.com/ https://theoreticalminimum.com/ Not sure if they qualify to be a “true” uni course though, because in this case nobody’s gonna give you assignments and grades :)

beezlebroxxxxxx 3y ago
ViaScience also has a great playlist on the 'story' of quantum mechanics. I don't have much background in the field or physics in general, but the presentation and explanations in the series are (to the degree possible) followable and an incredible example of straight-forward, no frills, presentation with excellent visualizations. There are long digressions into the actual math and equations as well, though if you're just interested in the history you can skip those. Simply as a story of problem solving and imagination the story of quantum mechanics is fascinating in its own rite. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL193BC0532FE7B02C https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL193BC0532FE7B02C
- cybertronic 3y ago
  That's the one I was searching for. Thank you!
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weinzierl 3y ago

I've heard only the best things about Andrew Ng's machine learning course but never came around to do it. It is pretty old by now and with the dramatic development in recent times I wonder how relevant it still is?

ap916 3y ago
Apart from the programming exercises being in Matlab (which nobody uses for ML nowadays), the course is still solid. The theoretical concepts and math that the course covers are still relevant and provide a good foundation for someone starting out.
- Bostonian 3y ago
  Now it uses Python: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-introduction https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-in...
  - rahimnathwani 3y ago
    That's not the course OP is talking about. The good news is that someone converted the matlab/octave exercise templates into numpy, and published them as jupyter notebooks that can work with the course's auto-grader: https://github.com/dibgerge/ml-coursera-python-assignments https://github.com/dibgerge/ml-coursera-python-assignments
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SkipperCat 3y ago

I really enjoyed the free content on Udacity (https://www.udacity.com/ https://www.udacity.com/). I'm not sure if it's "university" but their content was presented well and I came away learning new things about math, python and ML.

asicsp 3y ago

University of Helsinki provides free courses on Python, Java, Data Analysis and so on: https://www.mooc.fi/en/ https://www.mooc.fi/en/

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lucretian 3y ago

Justice https://pll.harvard.edu/course/justice?delta=0 https://pll.harvard.edu/course/justice?delta=0

rodolphoarruda 3y ago

Human Behavior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D&index=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C... Innovation https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sts-081-innovation-systems-for-science-technology-energy-manufacturing-and-health-spring-2017/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sts-081-innovation-systems-for-s...

pkoird 3y ago
I simply cannot recommend Sapolsky enough! The man is wonderful. And not just his course, his books are deliciously insightful as well. My only gripe with him is that he speaks continuously without enough pauses. Probably a sign that he knows the materials like the back of his hands but I wish he'd take some time to rest and allow the mortals to catch up.
- animal_spirits 3y ago
  I will thirdly recommend this course! Very fun and informative

isaacfrond 3y ago

Open Yale course on the philosophy of death is great. https://oyc.yale.edu/death/phil-176 https://oyc.yale.edu/death/phil-176

jabroni_salad 3y ago

Negotiating Salary by the havard business school: https://pll.harvard.edu/course/negotiating-salary https://pll.harvard.edu/course/negotiating-salary

TheAceOfHearts 3y ago

Andrej Karpathy has an introduction to AI series on YouTube that deserves an honorable mention.

7373737373 3y ago
https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

sampo 3y ago

Databases by prof. Widom, from Stanford. Currently the course is at edX, and split into 5 mini-courses. Everything in the course is well thought out and apparently polished and perfected over years of teaching practice and experience. There is nothing useless in the video lectures, and the course homework probes every topic from the lectures. https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ydatabases-databases https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ydatabases-databases Songwriting, at Coursera, from Berklee College of Music. The guy just sits in a dark room, and explains the process of writing lyrics to songs. He just explains it very well. https://www.coursera.org/learn/songwriting-lyrics https://www.coursera.org/learn/songwriting-lyrics

rjbwork 3y ago
Seconding Widom's course. It's a fantastic primer on databases. I did it during the first run, back in like 2011 or 2012 or so. I can't imagine it's gotten any less relevant in the intervening years.
BSOhealth 3y ago
I probably owe much of my 10 year software eng career to Jennifer Widom’s open courses on databases that I went through in 2011-2012. I was writing out unions and other queries on yellow notepads while working phones in tech support, devoured the courses, and really boosted my path.
sn9 3y ago
Thirding Widom's course! It's my go-to recommendation for anyone wanting a strong foundation in SQL.

sbuccini 3y ago

"The Making of Modern Ukraine" by Timothy Snyder: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz_1Mx1MaO6sw_ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz... As Prof. Snyder mentions in his introductory lecture, it is kind of wild that there are zero other classes, at any American university, focusing specifically on Ukraine given its importance in the current geopolitical climate. Prof. Snyder is a great lecturer and the dynamics that shape Ukraine are fascinating and useful for understanding European history more broadly.

miketery 3y ago

Cryptography I by Dan Boneh. https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto (note even though it says crypto it is NOT related to blockchain crypto).

criddell 3y ago
It is related, but only in the sense that crypto currencies are built on cryptography primitives.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
  Adding to this, before "crypto" became a household term that meant, roughly, "blockchain stuff" it was instead a general term for "cryptography". It's what is (perhaps was) meant when people say not to "roll your own crypto"[0] because it's so easy to get wrong. [0] Since 2021 this phrase has been expanded to "roll your own crypto scam" and it's only used as an ethical statement. Don't "roll your own crypto scam" because it's wrong. (Okay, maybe this part is just a joke and people don't really say that. It's hard to say for sure.)
  - sorokod 3y ago
    crypto on google trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=crypto&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=crypto&h...

photochemsyn 3y ago

Herb Gross's ultra-classic old-school chalkboard delivery of "Calculus of Complex Variables, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra" should not be missed: https://youtu.be/BOx8LRyr8mU https://youtu.be/BOx8LRyr8mU It turns out he also produced a complete series on the precursor material, "Single Variable Calculus" as well, which I only just now discovered: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-single-variable-calculus-fall-2010/resources/lecture-1-analytic-geometry/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-si... This professor has a great delivery and a ton of enthusiasm for the subject material, (but you can't just watch it, to absorb it you have to take notes, maybe recreate the examples in Python or something).

frob 3y ago
That cold open joke is amazing. I miss MIT.
frob 3y ago
Also, that is the best definition of the real numbers I have seen so far
uptownfunk 3y ago
Herb Gross! Love that series. Brings me back to my old days. I actually wrote him an email and he wrote back so kindly >> Thank you for taking the time to write to me. It is greatly appreciated. I am extremely pleased that work I did over 40 years ago is now available to help others. I hope you will keep me posted on your progress. I wish I could be more helpful to you. However you might find it a bit strange to know that the five years I spent at MIT were a pleasant diversion from my career work. More specifically the rest of my teaching career was spent in helping “math phobic” adult learners at community colleges and in prisons learn to cope successfully with arithmetic and basic algebra. I retired at the age of 75 in 2003 so that I could develop my own website where I am posting my videos, power point presentations and other written material in arithmetic and algebra for anyone to use free of charge. In fact I would be delighted if you found time to look at it and let me know what you think about it. You should feel free to comment in my guestbook if you so desire. The bad news is that I have virtually no knowledge in the areas of more advanced mathematics. However part 3 of Calculus Revisited which was just posted last week by OCW does have introductory lectures in differential equations, complex variables and linear algebra. I wish I could be more helpful to you but my hope is that the material that is posted on OCW will give you a good background in your pursuit of higher mathematics knowledge. I wish you the very best and look forward to hearing from you again, especially if you ever feel that my input can be of help to you. With warmest regards and best wishes, Herb

plaguepilled 3y ago

Frederic Schuller's course of Gravity and Light, covering General Relativity. It has a few tactical gaps but it will give you everything you could ever practically need. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeEvEPtX_0S6vxxiiNPrJbLu9aK1UVC_ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeEvEPtX_0S6vxxiiNPrJbLu...

criddell 3y ago

I'm looking for a course that uses tools like WinDbg and ETW and memory dumps to diagnose crashes, hangs, etc... It would need to include an introduction to basic assembly language because without that you don't get very far with WinDbg. I'd like to learn about some of the stuff that Bruce Dawson talks about on his blog: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/ https://randomascii.wordpress.com/

hackart 3y ago
There are 2 courses on WinDbg at : https://p.ost2.fyi/ https://p.ost2.fyi/ I took the Architecture 1001: x86-64 Assembly course at https://p.ost2.fyi/ https://p.ost2.fyi/ and enjoyed solving the last two labs.
- criddell 3y ago
  Thanks for sharing this.

michelpp 3y ago

MIT OCW Signals and Systems is excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xaaeop7gJ8&list=PLADC1A1B7FA7FF7B6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xaaeop7gJ8&list=PLADC1A1B7F...

maigret 3y ago

Financial Markets by Robert Shiller https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-252 https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-252

avinassh 3y ago

Intro to Database Systems by Andy Pavlo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_otTrBTrjyohi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZX... MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems by Robert Morris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbsvGQk9_UB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...

6ak74rfy 3y ago
I can absolutely vouch for the 2nd course which is on distributed systems - it’s a gem. It also has lab exercises which are high quality stuff too.
- fifilura 3y ago
  It looks interesting and relevant! Edit: link to course planning and labs https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html
pcthrowaway 3y ago
Syllabus and coursework for the database course: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/schedule.html https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/schedule.html It looks really good
pocket_cheese 3y ago
OMG I owe me pushing my career to the next level due to Pavlo's course! There's so many technical interviews where I've impressed my interviewer with explaining low-level details of how databases do things. Don't be fooled by the course name though, it's pretty rigorous but so rewarding and practical (especially if you are a data engineer). I give this course an A+ for teaching me about B+ trees in C++ :D

wintermutestwin 3y ago

Yale's American Revolution by Joanne Freeman https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDA2BC5E785D495AB https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDA2BC5E785D495AB Her enthusiasm, depth of knowledge and breadth of perspective make for a contagious, enlightening and thought provoking learning experience.

Dkuku 3y ago

MIT: Alexander and Ava Amini http://introtodeeplearning.com/ http://introtodeeplearning.com/

lamontcg 3y ago

Anyone found a good course on matrix calculus? The OCW course doesn't have any videos: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s096-matrix-calculus-for-machine-learning-and-beyond-january-iap-2022/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s096-matrix-calculus-for-mach...

lofatdairy 3y ago

More humanities than STEM but I'm a fan of damn near anything out of Yale's open courses. Personal recommendations are the Introduction to the Theory of Literature w/ Prof. Fry and the recent course on Ukrainian history. Both are fairly intro level in terms of structure but the details and depth don't suffer too badly for it. There's more interesting stuff like a class on Dante's Divine comedy so it really is mostly just a question of navigating the video library.

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Suppz 3y ago

"Awakening from the meaning Crisis" by John Vervaeke https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5e...

iamgopal 3y ago
Some introduction for uninitiated?
- Suppz 3y ago
  We are experiencing a mental health catastrophe. Anxiety disorders, sadness, and despair are on the rise, and suicide rates are rising across North America, parts of Europe, and other parts of the world. This mental health crisis is caused and exacerbated by problems in the environment and the political system, which are in turn entwined with a deeper cultural historical catastrophe that I refer to as "The Meaning Crisis." It is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our daily lives. And there's a feeling of drowning in this old ocean of nonsense. And we need to figure out why this is the case. And what are we going to do about it? Mentioning a number of folks who have talked in ways that will supply us with the resources we require. We'll discuss ancient figures such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, as well as Jesus of Nazareth, Siddhartha Gautama, and the Buddha, as well as present significant figures. We'll discuss people like Carl Jung and Friedrich Nietzsche. We'll discuss Heidegger.

simonbarker87 3y ago

Harvards CS50 course changed my life. It was the first course that got through to me about how to code. Without that course and the enthusiasm of Professor David Malan I wouldn’t be where I am now and I’d be stuck falling back on an electrical engineering degree which bores me to tears. cs50.net

codemonkey-zeta 3y ago

All of Michael Sugrue's (former Princeton professor) lectures on YouTube are phenomenal. They single-handedly inspired me to study philosophy. His style is eloquent but off-the-cuff, he is so knowledgeable and ties together the history of philosophy so gracefully that all the lectures left me enraptured. Example: https://youtu.be/d-vcItYxM9U https://youtu.be/d-vcItYxM9U

rg111 3y ago

Related: 1. Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've seen? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34591291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34591291 2. Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22826722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22826722 3. Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042 4. Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245125 Found some mind-expanding, really edifying courses in these thread. There's also a website dedicated to MOOCs, and some underrated gems are there: Class Central. There was a recent list in freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coursera-free-online-courses-6d84cdb30da/ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/coursera-free-online-cours...

gamedna 3y ago

MIT's 16.687 - Private pilot ground school. If you want to become a private pilot or start your career, this is the place to begin. The professors are approachable and the content is comprehensive. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/16-687-private-pilot-ground-school-january-iap-2019/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/16-687-private-pilot-ground-scho... all of the videos for the lectures are available on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63cUdAG3v311Vl72ozOiK25 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63cUdAG3v31...

albrewer 3y ago
Thanks for this, I haven't flown in 14 years and was looking to get back into it. This is perfect for a refresher.

jpamata 3y ago

A series of distributed systems courses from UIUC at coursera where you learn about systems design, distributed algorithms, and has you build projects like a distributed DB, implementing algorithms like gossip protocols, etc. in C++: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing https://www.coursera.org/specializations/cloud-computing

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_448 3y ago

This course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZn0GhwjjD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZn0GhwjjD4 Also similar courses on the topic from Yale and MIT. And, all the courses by Aswath Damodaran on YouTube.

kwere 3y ago

Quantopian introduction to quantitative trading https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRFLF1OxMm_UL7WUWM31iynp0jMVf_vLW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRFLF1OxMm_UL7WUWM31i... MIT 18.S096 Topics in Mathematics w Applications in Finance https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63ctJIEC1UnZ0btsphnnoHR https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63ctJIEC1Un... Aswath Damodaran on corporate finance, valuations, investment philosophies https://www.youtube.com/@AswathDamodaranonValuation/videos https://www.youtube.com/@AswathDamodaranonValuation/videos khan academy, a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. https://www.khanacademy.org/ https://www.khanacademy.org/

abrakad 3y ago

This one From Yale is really good. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0

hugolundin 3y ago

Stanford, The Fourier Transform and its applications: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1780FAF4A29FE679 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1780FAF4A29FE679 Helped me through signals and systems. The lecturer is fantastic.

Donovan-Shahly 3y ago

CS50 is Harvard's introduction to computer science course. It's pretty good. https://cs50.harvard.edu https://cs50.harvard.edu

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gmreads 3y ago

Everything by MIT Open Course Ware

jplatzek 3y ago

I am quite fond of the three molecular biology courses from MIT on edx [1][2][3]. Not only are the lectures great, but they also have spaced repetition built in. The exercises are often great counterfactual questions that encourage deep understanding. [1] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-1-dna-replication-and-repair https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-1-dna-repl... [2] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-2-transcription-and-transposition https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-2-transcri... [3] https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-3-rna-processing-and-transl https://www.edx.org/course/molecular-biology-part-3-rna-proc...

phonescreen_man 3y ago
Edx should be promoted around the world as the greatest gift the internet delivered!
- Entinel 3y ago
  It was before they sold it to 2U. Such a shame what it has turned into.
agumonkey 3y ago
Thanks a lot, I was on a path to learn bio/med (there's a coursera bioinformatics minimooc too). Anybody in computational biology btw ? slack, irc.

RugnirViking 3y ago

Big fan of steve brunton's control bootcamp series. Helped me through my control systems courses greatly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeNNR20Mz-VpzgfQs5zrYi085m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeN... Great for robotics, or anything where you need to control complex physical systems, from f1 cars to 3d characters in games

ultrasounder 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendation
jti107 3y ago
can second this...also recommend his books

dusted 3y ago

The one I've enjoyed watching more than once: Death with Shelly Kagan, Yale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2J7wSuFRl8&list=PLEA18FAF1AD9047B0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2J7wSuFRl8&list=PLEA18FAF1A...

krembo 3y ago
I've started to watch this per your recommendation and one question that popped into my mind with the first few classes, is how does this theory of dualism that differs the soul from the body, withstands the ChatGPT era, where computers start to show signs of consciousness. ie- If consciousness is also a matter of physical matter that can be replicated by machines, is the human soul a real spiritual thing, or created by physical connections in the brain, which is recently simulated by vector and by the amount of parameters in the model.
- dusted 3y ago
  I wrote something about consciousness as the result of computation (an idea I'm sure is not new, and somewhat related to attention schema theory, even if I disagree with the author of that on determinism), it's a little bit of a mess as I setup the assumptions, but I still think gets the idea across (as did Shelly to some degree, though his primary interest was the implication for the value of such a life, which I continue to fail entirely to make sense of in the continued text, which I don't recommend reading). http://dusted.dk/pages/thoughts/OnConsciousness.html http://dusted.dk/pages/thoughts/OnConsciousness.html You might find it interesting because Shellys lectures inspired me a lot when writing it, and because it touches on the same subject as your are thinking about.

AntoniusBlock 3y ago

Cryptography I by Dan Boneh (Stanford University) Programming Languages by Dan Grossman (University of Washington) Both are on Coursera.

DavidPiper 3y ago
Big +1 to Cryptography I. I didn't finish it completely, but the first ~half satisfied my curiosity about the theory I wanted to know, without getting to a lot of the practical details that I don't need to remember day-to-day. Dan and Victor also wrote a course book: http://toc.cryptobook.us/ http://toc.cryptobook.us/

bobosha 3y ago

edx.org, ocw.mit.edu

sss111 3y ago

5.111x Chemistry by Catherine Drennan on MiT OCW. CS3510 Algorithms Georgia Tech on Youtube.

smiley1437 3y ago

edx CS50

ulyssseV 3y ago

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