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Friday Fun Thread for January 27, 2023

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Any recommendations for good YouTube posts of full college lecture courses?

In the past I've enjoyed YaleCourses posts of Philosophy of Mind with Searle; Dante in translation with Mizzota; introduction to the old testament with Hayes; Marx's Capital with Harvey.

I'd be interested in anything in the literature, especially classical antiquity or 20th century anglophone; economics; history, especially Islamic or Chinese on a broad scale.

I enjoyed this yale course on Game Theory

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6EF60E1027E1A10B

Not on YouTube, but I found this economics course to be quite good:

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/economics-3rd-edition

You can purchase it on Audible for 15 bucks and it's well worth the money. Timothy Taylor is a great lecturer and is very enthusiastic about his trade.

Not sure if this is exactly what you're after, but I enjoyed this series (also found here) about the evolution of Atheism in the context of Christian Europe, primarily pre-Enlightenment era roots. If you've read Dominion by Tom Holland you'll be familiar with some of the broad strokes, but I found the specific examples given of skeptics/atheists from that time period (both the real ones and the ones depicted in the fiction of the time) especially interesting.

Not related to what you are looking for, but for a youtube lecture series;

Stanford CS224W: Machine Learning with Graphs, was very useful for me (For cryptocurrency/ML research). It's an excellent introduction to Graph Neural Networks and the associated links include lecture slides, notes, exams, and Jupyter Notebooks to code along with. The code is written using the PyGeometric library which is the best library for graph-based learning, a lot of the other courses online use outdated libraries and god forbid tensorflow.

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