THE VIDEO SHELF · godel escher bach
MIT Godel Escher Bach Lecture 1
The first lecture of an MIT course on Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, covering themes like self-reference, recursion and incompleteness. The full lecture series is on YouTube.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a companion to reading the dense book.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- jasonofthel33t
- Topic
- godel escher bach
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2021
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 personally found it 'heavy'. There's a lot to think about and take in. As it's not like reading typical technical books or papers. There's a great charm/fun and cleverness once things fall into place. There's an excellent MIT course for it. All the Lectures …
dugditches on Hacker News · 2017-05
In Show HN: 100M Books – Open a new tab, discover a new bookMIT had a course on the book with recordings on YouTube. They’re great to watch as you work through the book: [VIDEO]
azhenley on Hacker News · 2019-11
In Gödel, Escher, Bach> "...interesting trend in our discourse..." > "...more and more moralizing and virtue signaling. So much ... "motivation porn"..." > "..aspirational message - imagine yourself rich, happy, driving a Lamborghini.." > "...too many people have come to see reading as a lofty..." > "reading is …
xtiansimon on Hacker News · 2021-02
In The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.