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Which is the best course you have completed on any topic under the sun?

by curious16 on 2/13/23, 2:01 PM with 7 comments

• by giantg2 on 2/13/23, 5:07 PM

  Not an actual course, but this how-to book was great. Concise but still provides enough details and technical info. It also has a list of solid resources at the end.

  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/598841.A_Guide_to_Cannin...

• by warrenm on 2/13/23, 3:42 PM

  Absolutely the top two classes I ever took were in college

  - Introduction to Terrorism (took is spring '00 - before terrorism got "cool"). Not "introduction to be a terrorist", but an investigation of the socio-religio-economic drivers of terrorism around the world (with a primary focus on Latin America and southeast Asia). This included defending a target against a range of terrorist actions (my group chose an embassy that backed to a river or harbor)

  - Counterterrorism (fall '06; taught by a former member of the Israeli Mossad). The big assignment in this class was to plan a terror attack on the school.

• by max_ on 2/14/23, 8:51 AM

  Introduction to renormalization.[0] Might be useful if your into data science.

  [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXnZ-HFoOz8&list=PLF0b3Thojz...