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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.
How to Speak
Patrick Winston's long-running MIT lecture on public speaking teaches heuristic rules for talks.
1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
The opening lecture of Robert Sapolsky's Stanford course on Human Behavioral Biology, explaining the course premise and how to avoid categorical thinking.
LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively
Larry McEnerney of the University of Chicago Writing Program gives a graduate-student session on writing effectively.
MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy (IAP 2017) - Zach Hartwig
Zach Hartwig of MIT introduces the key concepts of magnetic fusion energy and the state of fusion research.
Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)
Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky lectures on depression as a real biological disease.
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 01 "THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER"
The first episode of Michael Sandel's Harvard course on moral reasoning, opening with the trolley problem and the choice between killing one to save five.
Lec 1 | MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005
The first lecture of Gilbert Strang's MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra course, covering the geometry of linear equations.
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Randy Pausch's 2007 last lecture at Carnegie Mellon, given as he was dying of pancreatic cancer.
Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp
The first lecture of MIT's 6.001 (SICP) with Abelson and Sussman, giving an overview of the course and an introduction to Lisp.
Lecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
The first lecture of MIT's 1986 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, given by Harold Abelson, introducing Lisp and the idea of computer science as the study of process.
The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)
Part 1 of a lecture by physicist Albert Bartlett on the exponential function and its consequences for population growth, resource use and energy.
Lecture 1 | Machine Learning (Stanford)
The first lecture of Andrew Ng's Stanford CS229 Machine Learning course, giving an overview of the course.
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur
Harvard physicist Eric Mazur explains how he realized his students were memorizing rather than understanding, and how he changed his teaching.
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren's 2007 Berkeley lecture, when she was a Harvard law professor, on why middle-class families are under growing financial strain.
RL Course by David Silver - Lecture 1: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
The first lecture of David Silver's reinforcement learning course, introducing the field and its basic concepts.
Lecture 6: Version Control (git) (2020)
A lecture from MIT's Missing Semester course covering version control with git.
30 Essential Ideas you should know about ADHD, 1A Intro, Chronic Developmental Disability
The first clip from Russell Barkley's 30 Essential Ideas about ADHD series, introducing ADHD as a chronic developmental disability.
Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy
The first lecture in Bartosz Milewski's category theory series for programmers.
Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Douglas Hofstadter's Stanford Presidential Lecture argues that analogy is the core of cognition, illustrating how concepts, categorization and thought arise from analogy-making.
Lecture: 2017 Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background
The first lecture of Jordan Peterson's 2017 Maps of Meaning course, setting out the Cold War context for his theory of belief and culture.
Richard Feynman Computer Science Lecture - Hardware, Software and Heuristics
A lecture by Richard Feynman on how computers work, using the analogy of a filing clerk that becomes progressively dumber and faster.
Richard Feynman - The.Character of Physical Law - Part 1 The Law of Gravitation (full version)
The first of Richard Feynman's 1964 Cornell Messenger Lectures, The Character of Physical Law, focusing on the law of gravitation.
01 - Course Introduction & Relational Model (CMU Databases Systems / Fall 2019)
The first lecture of Andy Pavlo's CMU 15-445 Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2019), covering course introduction and the relational model.
Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction
The first episode of John Vervaeke's lecture series on the modern meaning crisis, tracing its history through philosophy, cognitive science, religion and psychology.