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How to Speak
MIT OpenCourseWare
Documented HN sourceHN 21.0
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HN treats it as the canonical, near-universally recommended lecture on giving talks and presentations.
History of computing
Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
TNMoC · Discussed on HN from 2021 to 2026
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- 01apollo 11
- 02agc
- 031202 alarm
Robert Wills of TNMoC explains the Apollo Guidance Computer hardware and software, then walks through the Apollo 11 landing procedure step by step, including the 1202 alarms.
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Explains how the LEM could land itself.
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Documented HN sourceHN 21.0
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HN treats it as the best starting point for really understanding backprop and neural nets, because Karpathy explains the why with intuition and builds everything in code.
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AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)
AT&T Tech Channel
Documented HN sourceHN 19.0
Quick Take
HN repeatedly calls it the clearest introduction to waves and transmission-line behavior, better than modern explainers.