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125 videos · ranked by HN recommendations · showing 49–96
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lecture#971Real Analysis, Lecture 1: Constructing the Rational Numbers
HarveyMuddCollegeEDU
“his teaching style is phenomenal”
5 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
lecture#983Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4
Marc Levoy
“It's short and fun, I recommend it to all HN readers.”
5 HN recommenders · 2019–2026
lecture#985Nuclear 101: How Nuclear Bombs Work Part 1/2
Belfer Center
“I highly recommend the "Nuclear 101: How Nuclear Bombs Work" lectures by Matthew Bunn”
4 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
lecture#1022Hamming, Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (March 28, 1995)
securitylectures
“I highly recommend Richard Hamming's wonderful course The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn [1]”
3 HN recommenders · 2016–2020
course#1046Ses 1: Introduction and Course Overview
MIT OpenCourseWare
“The course is excellent.”
5 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
lecture#1105Raft lecture (Raft user study)
Diego Ongaro
“The 2 videos do an excellent job of explaining both the Paxos and Raft algorithms and the key differences between them.”
4 HN recommenders · 2013–2025
lecture#1228Entanglement and Complexity: Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
“Mr.Susskind has a Stanford lecture on this topic detailing the physics in his own unique & awesome way”
4 HN recommenders · 2015–2023
lecture#1238Lecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)
YC Root Access
“Amazing set of speakers and pretty timeless advice for starting a startup”
3 HN recommenders · 2014–2024
lecture#1266Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer
The University of Chicago
“I find his viewpoint helpful as it’s very much Machiavellian and not focused on demonizing the Other.”
9 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
lecture#12852012 Burnett Lecture Part 1 Keynote Speaker: Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.
UNC Learning Center
“Educate yourself by watching this”
4 HN recommenders · 2013–2022
lecture#1291Lecture 19: Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths
MIT OpenCourseWare
“Please watch this MIT intro”
4 HN recommenders · 2016–2021
lecture#1300Lecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)
Stanford
“The presentation is clear and it simplifies in just the right places to give you the foundations.”
3 HN recommenders · 2011–2024
lecture#13292. Behavioral Evolution
Stanford
“This entire lecture series on Human Behavioral Biology is worth watching from the beginning”
3 HN recommenders · 2016–2021
lecture#1341How to Find Product Market Fit - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Stanford Online
“Peter Reinhardt from Segment has a must-watch talk for anyone interested in this topic”
4 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
lecture#1350Building Your Own Dynamic Language
Stanford
“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
lecture#1357Lecture: Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God
Jordan B Peterson
“You can be a hardline atheist and still get tons of value out of these lectures.”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
course#1384Lec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
MIT OpenCourseWare
“Professor keeps everything simple and direct because this class is designed for beginners with no or little programming experience.”
4 HN recommenders · 2010–2012
course#1549Lecture 1: Introduction to Power and Politics in Today’s World
YaleCourses
“Yale's Power and Politcs was created by Ian Shapiro is an excellent zoom out into global politics and how how the modern world was made.”
3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021
lecture#1565Donald B. Gillies Lecture: Dr. Michael Stonebraker
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
“There's a lot more, I highly recommend the talk!”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
talk#1579Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air with David MacKay
Harvard University
“The author also gave a talk a few years ago that is very approachable[2].”
3 HN recommenders · 2015–2017
lecture#1582Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Stanford Iranian Studies Program
“a talk where he explores various physical and environmental factors that influence human actions”
3 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
lecture#1607Lecture 1: Probability and Counting | Statistics 110
Harvard University
“I have used and can vouch for the high quality of all of them”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
lecture#1627Lecture 1 | Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
Stanford University School of Engineering
“I will suggest two brilliant courses from Stanford”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
lecture#165323. Language
Stanford
“If you want to understand better how the brain works, I really recommend watching the whole course.”
3 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
talk#1694Stanford Seminar - Concatenative Programming: From Ivory to Metal
Stanford Online
“Jon Purdy has a great talk about this too”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
lecture#1762Lecture 1 | The Theoretical Minimum
Stanford
“And he's entertaining as hell.”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
lecture#1769The "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
Gabriel Robins
“I often times revisit Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture[1] to act as a memento mori[2].”
4 HN recommenders · 2016–2021
lecture#17752017 Personality 01: Introduction
Jordan B Peterson
“the original Personality Lectures (2017) of Jordan Peterson are really great.”
3 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
lecture#1804Efficient Bayesian inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo -- Michael Betancourt (Part 1)
MLSS Iceland 2014
“it was a fantastic primer on the basic concepts and motivations of mcmc, and later hmc”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2024
course#1838Google Python Class Day 1 Part 1
Google for Developers
“recommend it to anybody that thinks they need to learn programming”
3 HN recommenders · 2011–2018
lecture#1845Hamming, "n-Dimensional Space" (April 14, 1995)
securitylectures
“This was an eye opener to me.”
3 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
lecture#1860Lecture 7: Introduction to Galois Fields for the AES by Christof Paar
Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar
“this is a pretty good introduction (yes, it's for AES, but the principles are the same)”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
lecture#191117. Succinct Structures I
MIT OpenCourseWare
“Erik Demaine [1] gave two good lectures on succinct data structures [2] in the 2012 MIT 6.851 Advanced Data Structures course”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
lecture#1947Ron Vale (UCSF, HHMI) 1: Molecular Motor Proteins
Science Communication Lab
“This shows how they look.”
3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
lecture#19481. Introduction, Finite Automata, Regular Expressions
MIT OpenCourseWare
“Sipser also has corresponding lectures that are available for free on YouTube here”
4 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
lecture#1963Lecture 1: Introduction to Information Theory
Jakob Foerster
“It was very enjoyable for me to learn the material from his lectures.”
3 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
lecture#201226. Chernobyl — How It Happened
MIT OpenCourseWare
“This is a presentation to students by an MIT professor that goes over exactly what happened, the sequence of events, mistakes made, and so on.”
3 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
lecture#2031Lec 1 | MIT 6.042J Mathematics for Computer Science, Fall 2010
MIT OpenCourseWare
“the professor tells relatable stories to motivate the new concepts”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
lecture#2062CS480/680 Lecture 19: Attention and Transformer Networks
Pascal Poupart
“I would also recommend Pascal Poupart's talk [1] on Attention and Transformers.”
3 HN recommenders · 2023
lecture#2228MIT Godel Escher Bach Lecture 1
jasonofthel33t
“They’re great to watch as you work through the book”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
lecture#2242Special Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls
MIT OpenCourseWare
“the talk is that good!”
2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
talk#2249Category Theory by Tom LaGatta
AI Council
“Milewski's YouTube lectures gets mentioned a lot, but I couldn't make much sense of them before watching Tom LaGatta's more informal and conversational presentation”
3 HN recommenders · 2014–2017
lecture#2267Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Classical Mechanics (Stanford)
Stanford
“He is a very good explainer.”
3 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
lecture#2285Arithmetic, Population and Energy - FULL LENGTH
kip399
“it shows a common blindspot in a way that is both clear, enlightening and frightening.”
3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
lecture#2375"Understanding Burnout," Prof. Christina Maslach (U.C. Berkeley)
Thriving In Science
“There is this excellent talk by Maslach, "Understanding Burnout" which dispels most misunderstandings”
2 HN recommenders · 2016–2019
lecture#2393Terence Tao: The Cosmic Distance Ladder, UCLA
UCLA
“Tao’s oft given talk about the cosmic distance ladder has always been my favorite thing he has done.”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
course#2397Practical Deep Learning for Coders: Lesson 1
Jeremy Howard
“The lectures are super hands on - Jeremy actually fires up a jupyter notebook and runs code which often surprises him”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
lecture#24222017 Personality 18: Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I
Jordan B Peterson
“For anybody interested in personality research, I warmly recommend this lecture series, by the way.”
2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
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