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by rcthompson 2227 days ago
I had a very similar situation in my linear algebra course: in hindsight, I would literally have been better off teaching myself the material than listening to the professor. To this day it's still the main weak spot in my math/stats knowledge base. I'm really interested to check out these lectures.
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Intermediate Stats writing out Chi-Squares by hand on exams literally ended my academic inclinations. I had been using software to do this for a while and something about the process of being forced spend hours memorizing how to by hand just to "earn" a letter rubbed me the wrong way. I absolutely know much more about Chi-squares then I'd ever need to, possibly an imprinting of the bad experience.
haven't watched but based on summary these seem more about pedagogy than the subject - that said there is a full course worth of videos taught by same professor that are pretty good
Oh yeah Gilbert Strang's original course is amazing , https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra...