Another neat trick is to use ctrl-x ctrl-e, this gets the command in a vim buffer (default editor for me). Edit the command and then :wq to reflect the changes

That's neat!

Fun fact: Robert Morris is one of the founders of YCombinator and also the creator of the Morris worm!

I remember hearing the Morris worm in news at the time, as an aspired virus and worm hacker. It has been so long ago.

Finance Theory I (Introduction to Finance) by Andrew Lo: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63B2lDhyKOs...

Especially great that they are recorded around the 2008 financial events, so some initial duration is spent on discussing those events.

Reminds me of 1st image of https://bonkersworld.net/guns-and-roses

Wish the videos were public too!

My (heretical?) opinion is that videos are a waste of time compared to text for the majority of content and the majority of people. There are some ideas that can be very nicely visualized and some people (e.g. dyslexics, non-native speakers) who struggle with text. For the rest I think text is better.

I disagree strongly with this opinion. Videos and text can play different roles in the comprehension of ideas.

My experience is that if I'm comfortable with a topic, text is far more effective as a medium to absorb knowledge from. For learning programming languages, for example, I've found it much more effective to read books that to sit for lectures or online videos.

However, for topics like complex mathematics or algorithms, especially with dense terminology, text often appears like an impenetrable wall of text for me. Good video lectures help me see through the professor's thought process and divide the problem in smaller, more comprehensible parts.

In my opinion, the strongest advantage of video content is that they include an element of guided attention. A good video can forcefully mute the secondary details and highlight the essence of a concept or process.

I can see how you can spend hours on videos and not learn a lot though. After getting an insight from a video, the concepts need to be practiced through exercises, which is active as compared to passive watching, else the advantages are lost because the information can be easily forgotten.

I find videos terrible for learning on their own. But combined with taking notes, reviewing them after, and using them to kick off a bit of reading or (better) experimentation, they can be an invaluable part of the learning process.

Much like traditional lectures, in fact.

I generally agree, but the video linked upthread was quite nice and compact: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UF9Iqmg94tk

Using my old 2015 Macbook Pro for this; OCLP allows enabling airplay receiver for unsupported macs.

I use shairport-sync on my old macs for this, installs with brew and has a launchd service and everything

As someone who is currently learning Rust, which is lower level than Java (used at work). Having studied C and using some portion of C++ at university has been immensely helpful.

I would recommend learning C, as it is a relatively small language; and focusing on understanding the underlying assembly which is generated by the compilers. (Compiler Explorer gotbolt.org)

You can also refer to Stanford CS107 lectures taught be Jerry Cain when you are somewhat comfortable with C.