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📣 YoraiLevi

How do you find advanced topics and courses?


Everywhere I look there are beginner or under detailed courses that just barely introduce advanced topics without meddling any deeper.

Even University, Google, YouTube or curated email listing do not seem to provide any new value nowadays.

How do you find advanced topic? What sources do you recommend?

  👤 ArtWomb Accepted Answer ✓
Stanford CS 324 Advances in Large Foundations

https://stanford-cs324.github.io/winter2023/

Extremely tapped in resource. And I can tell you exactly how I discovered it: The Midjourney Discord. There are a few world class gpu programmers in there, particularly in channels like #finetuning_stablediffusion. And the visual inspiration is very au courrant ;)

👤 otras
As another comment mentioned, there are a number of college courses that are available on line for free. Pick a subject area, then see if you can find the course websites for a few different universities' versions of the class. As a rough heuristic, just pick the top N CS schools in some ranking and google " ". If they don't have the videos, try the course site from previous years too (2020 is a good one for lectures being on Youtube).

For example, "cmu databases" leads to CMU's Intro to Database Systems, which has all lectures online: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2022/ . "cmu advanced databases" leads to https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2023/

👤 gtirloni
https://sci-hub.se

https://scholar.google.com

👤 bjourne
I've found lots of good and free courses from both Coursera and Udacity. Maybe you are not looking in the right places?
👤 markus_zhang
MIT/Berkeley/CMU courses?
👤 tmaly
Honestly, I find them mentioned in comments in HN over the years.

Have one on buildings your own stable diffusion model queued up.

👤 surprisetalk
Conference talks are often good starting points for rabbit-holes.

You can also find university courses of any rigor on YouTube

👤 warrenm
Define "advanced topics"