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    Lectures worth a weekend

    Curated by HackerTube · 9 videos · 9 hr 8 min

    These are the university lectures and classic talks that HN commenters recommend again and again, often with the words 'drop what you're doing.' Each entry is a single lecture, usually the first of a full course, so you can sample a great teacher and keep going if it clicks. The list opens with Feynman, moves through physics, math, computing and machine learning, then turns to people, ethics and writing.

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      Richard Feynman - The.Character of Physical Law - Part 1 The Law of Gravitation (full version)

      Tinkerin' Thinkers · 1.4M views · 15 years ago

      The first of Feynman's 1964 Cornell Messenger Lectures, building from planetary motion to what a physical law is, clear enough that commenters say no formal training is needed.

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      28:03

      AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)

      AT&T Tech Channel · 474K views · 14 years ago

      J.N. Shive's Bell Labs wave machine demonstration, which HN calls the best introduction to waves of any sort, done with a contraption rather than equations.

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      39:49

      Lec 1 | MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005

      MIT OpenCourseWare · 4.9M views · 17 years ago

      Gilbert Strang's opening lecture on the geometry of linear equations, HN's default answer to how to learn linear algebra properly.

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      1:12:56

      Lecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

      MIT OpenCourseWare · 995K views · 17 years ago

      Abelson opens SICP by arguing that computer science is not about computers, the lecture one commenter says turned them from a UX designer into a programmer.

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      1:08:40

      Lecture 1 | Machine Learning (Stanford)

      Stanford · 2.7M views · 18 years ago

      Andrew Ng's first CS229 lecture, recommended on HN as the original and more rigorous version of the course that taught a generation machine learning.

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      1:28:13

      RL Course by David Silver - Lecture 1: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

      Google DeepMind · 1.9M views · 11 years ago

      The AlphaGo lead's introduction to reinforcement learning, praised for clear explanations that pair well with Sutton and Barto's textbook.

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      57:15

      1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology

      Stanford · 21M views · 15 years ago

      Robert Sapolsky's first lecture on how genes, hormones and environment shape behavior, a series HN commenters keep calling the best course they have ever taken.

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      54:56

      Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"

      Harvard University · 43M views · 17 years ago

      Michael Sandel opens his Harvard ethics course with the trolley problem and a hall full of students arguing, a series HN says everyone should watch.

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      1:21:52

      LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively

      UChicago Social Sciences · 9.3M views · 12 years ago

      Larry McEnerney's session on writing for what readers value, which many HN users say changed how they write well beyond academia.