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31 Hamming, Learning to Learn: You and Your Research, 6 June 1995

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The final lecture of Richard Hamming's Learning to Learn course, from 1995, based on his well-known talk 'You and Your Research'. It covers how to do important work and build a career.

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HN people recommend it as the capstone of Hamming's course and as career advice about working on important problems.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2020–2024

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yesenadam · 2021-06 · Strong recommendation

This reads a lot like Hamming's talk You and Your Research applied to programming. It's the last lecture in a wonderful 31-lecture course, about maths, computers, physics, technology, illustrated through Hamming's life. He'd spend his lunch hours chatting with people at Bell Labs, asking them if they were working on the most important problems in their field, and if not, why not?! [VIDEO]

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teddyh · 2020-12 · Strong recommendation

I prefer Richard Hamming’s series: [VIDEO] “ I have given a talk with this title many times, and it turns out from discussions after the talk I could have just as well have called it "You and Your Engineering Career," or even "You and Your Career." But I left the word "Research" in the title because that is what I have most studied. ”

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Tangurena2 · 2024-01 · Recommendation

It is a great book, and it includes an amazing essay by him titled You and Your Research [0][1] - which explains why it is important to "always be learning". 0 - [LINK] 1 - [VIDEO] (lecture version)

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