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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.
Real Analysis, Lecture 1: Constructing the Rational Numbers
The first lecture of Francis Su's Harvey Mudd real analysis course, covering the construction of the rational numbers.
Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4
The first lecture in an 18-part series on digital photography from Marc Levoy's Stanford CS 178 course, recorded at Google in 2016.
Nuclear 101: How Nuclear Bombs Work Part 1/2
Harvard Belfer Center lecture by Matthew Bunn explaining how nuclear bombs work, including fission and fusion weapons and which parts of bomb-making are hard.
Hamming, Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (March 28, 1995)
The introductory lecture of Richard Hamming's capstone course, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn.
Ses 1: Introduction and Course Overview
First session of MIT 15.401 Finance Theory I (Fall 2008) taught by Andrew Lo, giving a course overview and introducing core finance concepts.
Raft lecture (Raft user study)
John Ousterhout lectures on the Raft consensus algorithm, made for the Raft user study comparing how students learn Raft and Paxos.
Entanglement and Complexity: Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
Leonard Susskind lectures at Stanford on how gravity and quantum information theory have merged into a new way of thinking about physics.
Lecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)
The opening lecture of the How to Start a Startup course at Stanford, with Sam Altman covering ideas and products and Dustin Moskovitz discussing why to start a startup.
Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer
University of Chicago lecture in which John Mearsheimer argues the West, through NATO and EU expansion, bears primary responsibility for the Ukraine crisis.
2012 Burnett Lecture Part 1 Keynote Speaker: Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.
Russell Barkley gives the keynote at UNC's 2012 Burnett Seminar on ADHD.
Lecture 19: Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths
Erik Demaine's MIT 6.006 lecture introducing dynamic programming through Fibonacci numbers and shortest paths.
Lecture 1 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)
The first lecture of Stanford's CS107 Programming Paradigms, taught by Jerry Cain, giving an overview of the course.
2. Behavioral Evolution
Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky lectures on the evolution of behavior, including the Prisoner's Dilemma and tit-for-tat strategies in animals.
How to Find Product Market Fit - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Segment co-founder and CEO Peter Reinhardt recounts how his company found product-market fit, including how a product grew out of a small feature of another.
Building Your Own Dynamic Language
Ian Piumarta's 2007 Stanford EE380 lecture on building a dynamic programming environment from the ground up, from the Viewpoints Research Institute's work.
Lecture: Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God
Jordan Peterson's first lecture in his Biblical Series examines the idea of God as sovereignty and power abstracted from any individual ruler, and as the pattern inherent in human dominance hierarchies.
Lec 1 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008
First lecture of MIT 6.00, an introductory computer science course taught in Python by Eric Grimson and John Guttag.
Lecture 1: Introduction to Power and Politics in Today’s World
The opening lecture of Ian Shapiro's Yale course Power and Politics in Today's World, which examines political dynamics and institutions over the past quarter century, including inequality, declining unions and new forms of authoritarianism.
Donald B. Gillies Lecture: Dr. Michael Stonebraker
Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker gives the 2018 Donald B.
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air with David MacKay
David MacKay, scientific advisor to the UK energy department, gives a Harvard talk on sustainable energy at macro and micro scale, drawn from his book Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air.
Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
A 73-minute Stanford talk by Robert Sapolsky drawn from his book Behave.
Lecture 1: Probability and Counting | Statistics 110
Lecture 1 of Harvard's Statistics 110 with Joe Blitzstein, introducing sample spaces, the naive definition of probability, counting, binomial coefficients and the sampling table.
Lecture 1 | Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning
The first lecture of Stanford's Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning course, taught by Chris Manning and Richard Socher.
23. Language
Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on language, comparing human and animal communication, ape language projects like Koko and Kanzi, and how language is acquired.