31 Hamming, Learning to Learn: You and Your Research, 6 June 1995

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people recommend it as the capstone of Hamming's course and as career advice about working on important problems.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Hamming on Hamming: Learning to Learn

Topic

research and career advice

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I prefer Richard Hamming’s series: [VIDEO] “ I have given a talk with this title many times, and it turns out from discussions after the talk I could have just as well have called it "You and Your Engineering Career," or even "You and Your …

• This reads a lot like Hamming's talk You and Your Research applied to programming. It's the last lecture in a wonderful 31-lecture course, about maths, computers, physics, technology, illustrated through Hamming's life. He'd spend his lunch hours chatting with people at Bell Labs, asking them …

• “If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you working on it?” — Richard Hamming [VIDEO]