University lectures & courseslecture
How to Speak
MIT OpenCourseWare
Documented HN sourceHN 21.0
Quick Take
HN treats it as the canonical, near-universally recommended lecture on giving talks and presentations.
Nutrition & diet science
Sugar: THE BITTER TRUTH
University of California Television (UCTV) · Discussed on HN from 2010 to 2024
Topics and ideas
- 01robert lustig
- 02fructose
- 03obesity
Robert Lustig of UCSF lectures on the biochemistry of sugar, arguing that fructose and lack of fiber drive the obesity epidemic via insulin. It is the widely viewed 90-minute talk that popularized the anti-sugar case.
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Peer-reviewed case for cutting out sugar
“This is one of the best nutritional videos I've ever seen.”Read the original HN comment
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Machine learning & deep learninglecture
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.
Electronics & circuit designlecture
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.