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Hamming, Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (March 28, 1995)

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What it is

The introductory lecture of Richard Hamming's capstone course, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn. It focuses on style of thinking and on educating rather than training, using technical material only as illustration.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN regularly recommends Hamming's lecture series as a fascinating, wisdom-rich course on how to approach hard technical problems and a career, often preferred to the book.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 3 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “Recently, after watching R.W. Hamming lectures and reading his book”

    Hamming's lectures helped commenter try learning mathematics again

    hydandata, 2016-02 · Strong recommendation · in “Why There Is No Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers”

  2. “I highly recommend Richard Hamming's wonderful course The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn [1]”

    Hamming's course on learning hard subjects

    charlysl, 2018-09 · Strong recommendation · in “How to teach yourself hard things”

  3. “every one of them is fascinating.”

    Fascinating lectures showing how Hamming thinks, from computers to codes

    yesenadam, 2019-02 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Best Online Courses?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: richard hamming, learning, engineering, research, career advice

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