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  • i remember finding this site awhile ago. they also have a list of cool podcasts to listen to
    by goodboyjojo
  • I can't even find the CS50 on it...I doubt the whole quality of this list.
    by terrycody
  • Search for "computer science". I found several CS50...
    by gabrielsroka
  • Have the LLMs digested these courses already? If so, How would we evaluate that claim ?
    by aanet
  • Too bad that most Coursera courses are now behind a paywall. First they were free without certification, after a few years they removed the access to quizzes and tests but you could still audit for free. Now, you have to pay.
    by AlexeyBrin
  • If anyone responsible for the site's CSS happens to see this, the fixed height in pixels of #header causes the nav bar links to be partially obscured making them more difficult to click. My current window's width is 1600.
    by S04dKHzrKT
  • too many ads on this page, and the links go to more pages with ads and mostly to a website that only has "samples" of the courses for free

    a repository of free online courses would be great, but despite the good intentions, this site is not it

    Unfortunately, the promise of free online university courses is a thing of a the past. EDX and Coursera got bought out and are now money-making online ed sites.

    by insane_dreamer
  • A lot of these are just links to coursera. And quite a few are not from universities (saw a few by PWC)
    by wodenokoto
  • There are so many things I wish I had time to learn about. I don't need my learning resources, I need a way to jack in and have them uploaded to my brain.
    by shostack
  • Do you wish you had time to learn about them? Or do you wish you just knew them? Having them uploaded to your brain might make you know about them, but is much different from having time to learn them. This is important if for you, like for me, learning itself is a large part of the enjoyment
    by pastel8739
  • The book Make It Stick by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel is helpful. tl;dr of it is:

    - lots of low-stakes quizzing and practice

    - spaced repetition

    - reflect on what you've learned and what you could do better next time, and apply these lessons in different contexts

    - interleave practice of different but related topics

    - try to solve a problem before being taught the solution

    - distill the underlying principles to different problems

    - remember that if learning is easy, you probably aren't engaging you brain very much

    This will help streamline the process, but obviously there's just a limit to what you can take in.

    by helterskelter
  • This is just an excuse for not learning and getting it done. You do have a way to upload to your brain, it is just a slow bandwidth connection that takes time. If you don't have time you have to make time by not reading the news, not reading social media, not watching stupid videos.
    by teliosix
  • https://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks - none of the free textbooks that i tried worked? i picked a few from the CompSci category
    by mparnisari
  • When you say they didn't work, what does that mean? Opened 10-20 and they all opened as a PDF or a webpage(albeit some don't have HTTPS certificates).
    by mym1990
  • I went to that site, said "awesome!", bookmarked it, and left the tab open in the background for an hour or so, and then noticed my laptop was warm.

    That page was taking over 6GB

    by gcanyon
  • https://openstax.org/higher-education

    ^^ Good resource for textbooks

    by helterskelter
  • The Stanford iTunesU classes have been truncated to a few seconds. So Susanna Braund's Aeneid course (which was brilliant) is gone. Same thing with their Hannibal course. I don't know that they're available elsewhere. Apple dropped iTunesU (2021?) and Stanford didn't have a backup.
    by CalChris
  • Are they not available at archive.org or YouTube ?
    by orsenthil