In the spirit of the wildly popular What are you listening to? thread, I thought this could be a place to share any documentaries, lectures, talks, symposiums, demonstrations, etc that people found interesting. Anything educational goes. Okay I’ll start:
This is a course titled “Learning to Learn”, lead by the late Richard Hamming at the US Naval Postgraduate School. Mr. Hamming made a number of important contributions in the fields of mathematics, computer science, and communications. The lectures are very unique - a lot of personal stories from Mr. Hamming mixed with insightful introductions to many technical subjects. He’s an intense guy and I found these lectures to be quite inspiring.
SuperCollider is a very powerful DAW / Audio programming environment. The SuperCollider website describes it as a:
Platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition
Here is a series of introductory SuperCollider video tutorials by Eli Fieldsteel. Mr. Fieldsteel also has some of his livestreamed SuperCollider courses available on his YouTube channel.
Great clip @dag2099 thanks for posting. Prof Laithwaite was often on TV in Britain when I was growing up and as you can see he had a gift for clear demonstration and explanation of science. I remember he delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on TV one year. (Every year around Christmas the BBC broadcasts a series of 4 or 5 live lectures by an eminent scientist aimed at young people. Humour, audience participation and explosions are encouraged! I still watch every year )
Richard Hamming also gave us the Hamming distance function (metric) for comparing two binary data strings. While comparing two binary strings of equal length, Hamming distance is the number of bit positions in which the two bits are different.
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