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The 127 University lectures & courses videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 48 introductory, 39 intermediate, 32 for a general viewer, and 8 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a lecture. What they share is that a derivation is walked through at classroom pace instead of a conclusion being dropped. Channels you will keep seeing include MIT OpenCourseWare, Stanford, Jordan B Peterson.
14. Limbic System
Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on the limbic system as the emotional part of the nervous system, covering its role in decision making, links to the cortex and the functions of its subparts.
Thesis: Partial State in Dataflow-Based Materialized Views
Jon Gjengset's 2020 PhD dissertation presentation at MIT on partial state in dataflow-based materialized views, the idea behind the Noria database.
21. Chaos and Reductionism
Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on chaos and reductionism, which he calls one of the hardest of the course.
Lecture 3 - Before the Startup (Paul Graham)
Paul Graham's lecture in the 'How to Start a Startup' course, covering counterintuitive parts of startups and how to have ideas.
SICP / What is "Computer Science" ?
An excerpt from Hal Abelson's opening SICP lecture introducing computer science and contrasting declarative and imperative knowledge.
Lecture 7A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
Lecture 7A of the 1986 MIT 6.001 SICP course, with Gerald Sussman presenting the metacircular evaluator, part 1.
1 - L'énergie - Cours des Mines 2019 - Jancovici - [EN subtitles available]
Part 1 of Jean-Marc Jancovici's 2019 course at Ecole des Mines de Paris, on energy and its central role in the economy and climate.