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What's the best (offline) lecture series you've attended?


It could be tech related or otherwise. But, the lectures should not be available online.

I want to make a list of lecture notes that I need to collect whenever I meet alums from various colleges.

Please include University/Lecturer name if you recall.

For online accessible lectures, there is another question currently active at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34591291

  👤 Tomte Accepted Answer ✓
I simply loved my Syntax seminar/lecture. My major was computer science, but my minor was linguistics.

We learned German grammar, basically. But not prescriptive rules, but drawing C-trees and F-trees, constituent parts of a sentence and its functional relations. Writing down functional equations.

At one point we were discussing the phrase "every third ice cream" for a whole meeting.

I've recently came across my old notes and the lecturer's script, and I really want to revisit that.

👤 DamonHD
Robin Milner's Calculus of Communicating Systems, Comp Sci, Edinburgh Univeristy, late 1980s.

Colin ???, Non-standard logics, AI, Edinburgh Univeristy, late 1980s.

👤 mikewarot
I was in chemistry class at Rose-Hulman circa 1982, and the professor explained an abstract situation with a P/N junction, using only the equilibrium equations from chemistry. I was immersed in the details, when he backed out of the abstraction, and said... that's how diodes work!

Then he did junction transistors.

I'll never forget that feeling of awe, but I've forgotten the details.