University Lectures & Courses Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 3

lecture#2456

Peter Singer - ordinary people are evil

Jeffrey Kaplan

“I think the video is the best short exposition but you could try reading the paper the video is about”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

lecture#2459

Sacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Lex Fridman

“Check the lecture, its fantastic imo.”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

lecture#2465

Lecture 1 | Convex Optimization I (Stanford)

Stanford

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

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2022

course#2542

Episode 1: Introduction - The Mechanical Universe

caltech

“Hands down best: David Goodstein, CalTech,”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

lecture#2581

Lecture by Douglas Hofstadter: Albert Einstein on Light; Light on Albert Einstein

Uppsala universitet

“that I often revisit”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

course#2633

1.1 - Course outline

LaintalAy

“If anyone wants to get into the nitty-gritty details of GPS / GNSS, there's a good series of lectures (course) available from Standford University”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

lecture#2754

Rick Roderick on Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies [full length]

The Partially Examined Life

“here's an excellent presentation summarizing the idea”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

lecture#2778

The Myth of the Robber Barons with Burt Folsom

Foundation for Economic Education

“Burton Folsom on the myth of robber barons and the great american entrepreneurs of the 19th century.”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2020

lecture#2779

Dr. Robert Sapolsky's lecture about Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity

Aprendiendo Juntos

“Here's a lecture by Robert Sapolsky where he goes into some theories involving schizotypal individuals”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

lecture#2909

1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018

MIT OpenCourseWare

“I've been enjoying a playlist of blockchain lectures by Gary Gensler”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

lecture#2993

Lecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford)

Stanford

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

2 HN recommenders · 2009–2026

course#3138

Introduction to Investing and Finance - Lesson 1 by Martin Shkreli

Mr Martin Shkreli

“has an excellent set of youtube tutorials on reading 10-k and 10-q forms to compile DCF valuation models”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#3141

Recent Developments in Deep Learning

Google TechTalks

“There's a great Google Tech Talk by Geoff Hinton that serves as a slightly technical introduction to Deep Learning if anyone's interested”

3 HN recommenders · 2010–2026

lecture#3228

International Colloquia #26: Fusion Reactor First Wall Cooling

MIT MechE Lectures & Colloquia

“This is the best recent video I've seen, about SPARC and ARC.”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

lecture#3236

Dispelling the Myths of Nuclear Energy (Live Lecture)

Illinois EnergyProf

“Not only is it solvable, it's basically been solved for years.”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

lecture#3340

Trends in Deep Learning Hardware: Bill Dally (NVIDIA)

Paul G. Allen School

“Quite an interesting video IMO.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

lecture#3477

Lecture 1 | Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

Stanford University School of Engineering

“The Stanford course is pretty good.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

lecture#3598

Computer Security 161 Cryptocurrency Lecture

Nicholas C Weaver

“fantastic overview of what cryptocurrency and Blockchain actually is”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

course#3613

CS231n Winter 2016: Lecture1: Introduction and Historical Context

Andrej Karpathy

“I will suggest two brilliant courses from Stanford”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

lecture#3621

Anton: A Special-Purpose Machine That Achieves a Hundred-Fold Speedup in Biomolecular Simulations

NC State

“There is brilliant video by the hedge fund manager DE Shaw about molecular dynamics simulation. Its very accessible and I found it very interesting”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

lecture#3653

Lecture 7A: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 1

MIT OpenCourseWare

“But mostly it just makes me happy - it's infectious and weird.”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

lecture#3662

Lecture 1B | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

MIT OpenCourseWare

“I don't think it's possible to do any better than this”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2017

lecture#3680

Richard Feynman - The.Character.of.Physical.Law - Part 2 (full version)

Tinkerin' Thinkers

“Feynman is so good at explaining these concepts that you don't even need any formal training to understand them.”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2018

lecture#3737

Richard Feynman Messenger Lectures at Cornell The Character of Physical Law Part 1 The Law of Gravitation

TalkReelTV

“If you struggle with calculus, I found Herb Gross to be partucularly good”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

lecture#3940

14. Limbic System

Stanford

“Good presentations.”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

talk#4017

Thesis: Partial State in Dataflow-Based Materialized Views

Jon Gjengset

“a shorter talk from a few years earlier at”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

lecture#4336

21. Chaos and Reductionism

Stanford

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

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

lecture#4511

Lecture 3 - Before the Startup (Paul Graham)

YC Root Access

“build things you are interested in with people who are also interested in those things.”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

lecture#4786

SICP / What is "Computer Science" ?

LarryNorman

“Computer Science is a terrible name for this business. First of all, its not a science.”

1 HN recommenders · 2008–2014