Stanford — Best Videos According to Hacker News

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1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology

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“Best course I've ever done.”

15 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

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Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)

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“This is the quintessential video for understanding clinical depression.”

14 HN recommenders · 2009–2026

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Lecture 1 | Machine Learning (Stanford)

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“I'd suggest going back to the original youtube[1] and course materials[2].”

11 HN recommenders · 2008–2020

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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

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“Great speech, very worth watching for those who haven’t seen it.”

9 HN recommenders · 2009–2023

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Analogy as the Core of Cognition

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“No discussion about concepts, analogy and metaphor is complete with a mention of”

7 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

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Demystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind

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“I highly highly recommend this talk by Leonard Susskind”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

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How We've Scaled Dropbox

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“I found the Dropbox lecture [1] at Stanford one of the most riveting things ever.”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

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Building Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned

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“It's from 2010, but the fundamentals probably haven't changed.”

4 HN recommenders · 2012–2022

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Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores

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“explains the history, philosophy, successes, and failures of the Self project”

3 HN recommenders · 2010–2025

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Lecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)

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“The presentation is clear and it simplifies in just the right places to give you the foundations.”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2024

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2. Behavioral Evolution

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“This entire lecture series on Human Behavioral Biology is worth watching from the beginning”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

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Building Your Own Dynamic Language

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“There's a talk by Ian Piumarta that tries to get to the core of what the VPRI guys feel is important.”

3 HN recommenders · 2009–2014

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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)

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“I try to watch it once a year, especially with grad students and postdocs. Gets better each time.”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2023

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23. Language

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“If you want to understand better how the brain works, I really recommend watching the whole course.”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

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Lecture 1 | The Theoretical Minimum

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“And he's entertaining as hell.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

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Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)

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“He is a very good explainer.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

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Lecture 1 | Convex Optimization I (Stanford)

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“These lectures are fantastic after you've mastered the basics of linear algebra”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2022

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Lecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford)

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“the lecturer eases you into the most important concepts with an understanding of how to engineer readable, reusable code”

2 HN recommenders · 2009–2026

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The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?)

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“Here's a researcher presenting the results of their study as well as discussing several others[1].”

2 HN recommenders · 2010–2017

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14. Limbic System

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“Good presentations.”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

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Parsing with Derivatives

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“he also gave a great talk on parsing with derivatives”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

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21. Chaos and Reductionism

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“acknowledging irreducible complexity irrespective of scale as he did so clearly in one of his Stanford lectures”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2024