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Financial Markets (www.youtube.com)
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Institution: Yale.
Lecturer: Robert Shiller.
University Course Code: ECON 252.
Subject: #econ #economics #finance.
Description: An overview of the ideas, methods, and institutions that permit human society to manage risks and foster enterprise. Description of practices today and analysis of prospects for the future. Introduction to risk management and behavioral finance principles to understand the functioning of securities, insurance, and banking industries.

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Institution: Cambridge
Lecturer: Petar Velickovic
University Course Code: seminar
Subject: #math #machinelearning #neuralnetworks
Description: Deriving graph neural networks (GNNs) from first principles, motivating their use, and explaining how they have emerged along several related research lines.

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Institution: Personal Project
Lecturer: N J Wildberger
University Course Code: na
Subject: #stats
Description: A brief introduction to Probability and Statistics. This short course will be aimed at advanced first year undergraduates, with good algebraic skills and some knowledge of calculus. We will discuss probabilities and odds, random variables, probability distributions (both discrete and continuous), for example the Binomial, Poisson and normal distributions, mean and variance and mention the Central Limit Theorem.

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Institution: Yale
Lecturer: Prof. Donald Kagan
University Course Code: CLCV 205
Subject: #history #ancientgreece
Description: This is an introductory course in Greek history tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age to the end of the classical period. Students read original sources in translation as well as the works of modern scholars.

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Institution: MIT
Lecturer: Prof. David Hsu
University Course Code: MIT 11.165
Subject: #climate #polisci #politicalscience
Description: This class is about figuring out together what cities and users can do to reduce their energy use and carbon emissions. Many other classes at MIT focus on policies, technologies, and systems, often at the national or international level, but this course focuses on the scale of cities and users. It is designed for any students interested in learning how to intervene in the energy use of cities using policy, technology, economics, and urban planning.

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Group Theory (www.youtube.com)
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Institution: Berkeley
Lecturer: Richard E Borcherds
University Course Code: Math 250A
Subject: #math #grouptheory
Description: This is an experimental online course on mathematical group theory, corresponding to about the first third of the Berkeley course 250A (introductory graduate algebra). The level is for first year graduate students or advanced undergraduates. The topics covered are roughly the parts of group theory that a mathematician not specializing in groups might find useful.

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Abstract Algebra (www.youtube.com)
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Institution: Harvard
Lecturer: Benedict Gross
University Course Code: Math E-222
Subject: #math #abstractalgebra
Description: Algebra is the language of modern mathematics. This course introduces students to that language through a study of groups, group actions, vector spaces, linear algebra, and the theory of fields.

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Institution: MIT
Lecturer: Prof. Manolis Kellis
University Course Code: MIT 6.047
Subject: #biology #computationalbiology #machinelearning

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A Series of lectures from Professor G. William Domhoff, from the University of California.

It covers how the corporate rich came to become the dominant power in America, as well as how they function, communicate, and form their networks with one another.

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  • Institution: Missouri State Outreach
  • Lecturer: Dr. David M. Mitchell
  • University Course Code: Eco 155
  • Subject: Principles of Macroeconomics
  • Pre-requisite Knowledge: ?
  • Permalink/Archived Resources: ?

I haven't watched the full list yet and I'm not an expert (that's why I'm watching a course on fundamentals), so I'm not sure how good it is.

Videos of classes 7, 9, 22, 25 and 30 are missing.

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I have found the European Graduate School to be the best source of free video lectures on Philosophy I have found. They of course slant towards Continental philosophy. You get in person lectures and sometimes lecture series from the contemporary greats from Slavoj Žižek, Derrida, Baudrillard, Butler, and many others. https://youtube.com/@egsvideo?si=qqeB6s3msY6ivXsi

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Based on the outcome of this discussion I would like to put together an easily fillable template that folks will use when they submit. What information do y'all think should be included in each post? In the same vein, what information should be in the title versus the post body?

Some things that immediately come to mind:

  • Institution
  • Lecturer
  • University Course Code (e.g. BIO 101)
  • Subject
  • Pre-requisite Knowledge
  • Permalink/Archived Resources
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A little dated, unfortunately, but I love this course. I've watched it through at least four times over the years. Maybe I'm weird, but the subject matter is just fascinating to me.

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