Hamming, Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (March 28, 1995)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN regularly recommends Hamming's lecture series as a fascinating, wisdom-rich course on how to approach hard technical problems and a career, often preferred to the book.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

securitylectures

Topic

learning to learn and doing science

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2020

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From the original HN conversations

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• I love programming, but never got the hang of Mathematics due to various reasons. Failed a big project as a solo programmer long time ago, when I was 17, because I could not create the necessary mathematical model and no help was available, with everything …

• If your are interested in learning hard subjects, I highly recommend Richard Hamming's wonderful course The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn [1], and the related book [2] [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

• Sapolsky - Biology of Human Behavior 25 lectures [LINK] It's accessible to laymen, no prior knowledge needed. It covers so many different fields and levels of knowledge ("buckets" Sapolsky calls them), different ways of explaining human behaviour. By the signals in their brain, or the …