Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as career and research advice on choosing important problems and doing first-class work.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

securitylectures

Topic

research career advice

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

11

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• It's been posted here before, but Hamming's talk "You and Your Research" is one for the ages. [VIDEO] Hamming passed in 1998, this talk was given about three years earlier. So much sage advice as compiled over a very long and fruitful career.

• Richard Hamming developed error-correcting codes while working along side Shannon at bell labs, his book The Art and Science of Engineering: Learning to Learn and the associated lectures he gave at the naval postgraduate academy are tremendous [VIDEO]

• Richard Hamming: You and Your Research It's on picking the right problems. When I heard him give it I was shocked that he criticized Einstein for working on a unified field theory (of course unlike me, he was actually qualified to offer such criticism). His …