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> materials that were much better Do you have few examples?

jacobolus 24d ago
Personally I like books, but there are also many, many lecture videos on YouTube, some of them excellent (though I think they could still be better with bigger production teams and higher budgets). For college-level technical subjects, there are also e.g. many MIT lectures on OCW. If you have a specific topic in mind, I urge you to search around. (Making a long list of my own book/website/video recommendations about various topics here seems a bit off topic and out of scope.)
- thaumasiotes 24d ago
  > For college-level technical subjects, there are also e.g. many MIT lectures on OCW. There are? I know an OCW course includes "lecture notes" pdfs. Does it have the lectures too? For example, the course "distributed systems" is available on OCW as 6.824, from spring 2006: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-824-distributed-computer-systems-engineering-spring-2006/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-824-distributed-computer-syste... MIT has renumbered the course, but it's still around: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ . Don't be fooled by the URL; it's now 6.5840. And a series of lectures is available too: https://www.youtube.com/@6.824/videos https://www.youtube.com/@6.824/videos . They're from spring 2020. They link to the course website for spring 2020, which is great. But it doesn't link to them, and OCW doesn't know about any of this, as far as I can tell. The 6.824 lecture series is pretty hard to discover, too, because it's uploaded by an account dedicated solely to that one course, which isn't related to any other MIT lecture videos.
  - jacobolus 23d ago
    Some OCW courses have lecture videos, while others do not.
    - thaumasiotes 23d ago
      Is 6.824 one that does, or one that doesn't?
      - jacobolus 23d ago
        From your OCW link, you can see the Spring 2006 version of the course has syllabus, lecture notes, readings, lab assignments, and 2 quizzes available, but no videos. Separately, videos of the 2020 version of the course are on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbsvGQk9_UB https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-W...

Personally I like books, but there are also many, many lecture videos on YouTube, some of them excellent (though I think they could still be better with bigger production teams and higher budgets). For college-level technical subjects, there are also e.g. many MIT lectures on OCW. If you have a specific topic in mind, I urge you to search around. (Making a long list of my own book/website/video recommendations about various topics here seems a bit off topic and out of scope.)

thaumasiotes 24d ago
> For college-level technical subjects, there are also e.g. many MIT lectures on OCW. There are? I know an OCW course includes "lecture notes" pdfs. Does it have the lectures too? For example, the course "distributed systems" is available on OCW as 6.824, from spring 2006: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-824-distributed-computer-systems-engineering-spring-2006/ https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-824-distributed-computer-syste... MIT has renumbered the course, but it's still around: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ . Don't be fooled by the URL; it's now 6.5840. And a series of lectures is available too: https://www.youtube.com/@6.824/videos https://www.youtube.com/@6.824/videos . They're from spring 2020. They link to the course website for spring 2020, which is great. But it doesn't link to them, and OCW doesn't know about any of this, as far as I can tell. The 6.824 lecture series is pretty hard to discover, too, because it's uploaded by an account dedicated solely to that one course, which isn't related to any other MIT lecture videos.
- jacobolus 23d ago
  Some OCW courses have lecture videos, while others do not.
  - thaumasiotes 23d ago
    Is 6.824 one that does, or one that doesn't?
    - jacobolus 23d ago
      From your OCW link, you can see the Spring 2006 version of the course has syllabus, lecture notes, readings, lab assignments, and 2 quizzes available, but no videos. Separately, videos of the 2020 version of the course are on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbsvGQk9_UB https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-W...