The complete transcripts (and the midterms, and the final exam plus answers) are in the downloadable zip file, but the books aren't, of course.
― StanM, Sunday, 2 October 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
alright done w/ the first class
I majored in econ + took a very similar class in 2008 (tho it was in a foreign language...) so a lot of this is refresher but I still think I'll be learning stuff along the way, esp if I actually read the textbook
lol @ all the talk about yale finance students
I went to the wall street protest w/ a yale grad tonight, incidentally
― iatee, Monday, 3 October 2011 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
starting lecture 1 now
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
dang first 45 mins are
administrative
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
one of the kind of weirdly alientating aspects of the harvard intro to comp sci is the frequent references to the fact that ~this is harvard~ and ~you will all be important people~ because ~this is harvard~
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
no one really pays attention to those parts, except of course for the kids who go on to be insanely successful
― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
weirdly alientating aspects
obviously i did not go to harvard
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
thread concept after mention of problem sets
I will not be doing any problem sets.
Didn't know this would start over the weekend, will bring ipod tomorrow and grab the lecture at work!
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
one good thing about watching these is that you realize that ivy league college courses are pretty much exactly the same as city college courses
― iatee, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
except for the first class where they do the "look to your neighbor, look to your other neighbor - one of you will be president" thing
― iatee, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
2nd lecture time
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
2nd lecture is better than 1st
― remy bean, Thursday, 6 October 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
this is gonna scare off a lot of people, isn't it?
he misspelled 'regression'
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't let the math scare anyone off, and if you're not a math person I would skip much of the 2nd part of this lecture, maybe? though I think there are some concepts that are important. I imagine a lot of the math for this is done in detail w/ a TA.
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
I've gotta catch up.
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 October 2011 09:34 (twelve years ago) link
i decided to take intro to compsci instead :D
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
i got through the first yesterday and maybe 10 mins of the second. hopefully can wrap up this weekend. i like him, he's a pretty good lecturer.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 6 October 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
it's mathy but it's not as complicated as it seems - he tosses up a bunch of Greek letters and assumes you know what they mean, but if you actually look into their definition, it's (usually) simple. if anyone wants to go over it we can.
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
gah I need to catch up on this
― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
are you really willing to lower your standards for a 2nd tier university course?
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Thursday, October 6, 2011 9:42 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
wooo
who is teaching intro to compsci?
― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
I want to take compact but 3 of these at once seems unrealistic. I have free time but not thattt much free time.
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee
at the end of the day, how good can sitting and listening to someone talk about finance for an hour be, no matter how good their credentials?
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
err 'compsci' rip Steve Jobs your ghost will live forever in our ilx typos
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
compsci is being taught by Malan... I don't think I know him
man has that class changed since I took it (it was all Pascal, for one thing!)
― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
/one good thing about watching these is that you realize that ivy league college courses are pretty much exactly the same as city college courses― iatee/at the end of the day, how good can sitting and listening to someone talk about finance for an hour be, no matter how good their credentials? --funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja)
― iatee/
at the end of the day, how good can sitting and listening to someone talk about finance for an hour be, no matter how good their credentials? --funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja)
i dunno i like econ so 'pretty good'?
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
(it was all Pascal, for one thing!)
― the tax avocado (DJP), Thursday, October 6, 2011 2:17 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
ha!
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
somewhere in my dad's photo albums is a picture of me at age 8 on a old ass Texas Instruments computer in my grandpa's basement with a pascal book and a BASIC book
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
ok good, sure, but how about "educational"?
i have a feeling that the learning in classes like this happens in the problem sets.
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
right i mean
are people not doing those?
i'm doing them
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
nah IMO the problem sets are just testing your applied math skills, don't (always) need the math to understand 'the big picture', tho you do need to be able to follow a graph
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
hoos can you link them? I couldnt even find em last night.
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think my math skills are strong enough to do them :(
― remy bean, Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
lecture 2 problem set
http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/financial-markets/content/sessions/lecture02.html/
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
that problem set is not working
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
I forgot to bring my ipod to work again. :( Can't do the sessions at home b/c home computer currently non-fxn-al.
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Thursday, 6 October 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, October 6, 2011 3:52 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
weird, yeah i see that--i got them yesterday
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
i'll scan what i've got and post
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
i am home sick today and would love to do some math problems, it beats grading
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B14F8TksSbscZTYxNGUwOWMtMDk5MC00NDBjLTk5ODAtZjhjNWI0NTk3YzJi&hl=en
the pdf is upside down lol sorry
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
u can ctrl+s to dl the pdf or ctrl+p to print f yall i
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
5. Suppose that as a Yale graduate you can expect to earn $150,000 per year on average from your job after taxes starting next year, and extending until you retire in 50 years.
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
srs
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
I should bring this p-set to occupy wall street
― iatee, Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
i see that problem #3 is 10th grade level
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
posting to ilx, otoh
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 October 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
will we really need one thread per week? or is it better to keep it all in one.
― iatee, Sunday, 9 October 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
#1 was pretty familiar stuff to me. I did Econ O-level back in 1977, on the face of it not much is different, just the way it's done is 'nothing like it now'...
So, shall indeed continue.
― Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 09:09 (twelve years ago) link
anyone watch lecture 3 yet? "why do people hate finance workers? idgi" seems sorta quaint in 2011. also in 2008 tho.
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
that bit in the first lecture where he talks about the questionable morality of being a financial markets profiteer was interesting in how ambivalent he was--"you'll have to sort of...decide for yourself."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, realistically, like 75% of the the people in that classs want to go into finance
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
so I mean maybe OWS signs woulda been kinda dickish
but the extent that he defends the financial industry in lecture 3 is kinda amazing, curious how he's giving this lecture today, ya know?
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
nah def
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
OKAY have ipod, have headphones, am listening to lect 1 and will catch up.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
lecture 2 will be kinda confusing w/o the chalkboard
but it will be kinda confusing w/ the chalkboard, I'd just zone out for those parts unless you want to go over the math
― iatee, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I have video too, just not much going on r now.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
Done lecture 2.
Onto three?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 09:02 (twelve years ago) link
Okay I'm on the last leg of Lesson 3 and...I don't like this class. It's boring and SLOW and then when it's not SLOW, it's about MATH. Fucking A, this guy is the WORST speaker, I put the lecture on headphones for my entire commute and I feel like I only learned...2 or 3 things?? Over AN HOUR. We could have done moral hazard and risk management in 12 minutes.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Thursday, 20 October 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
I don't begrudge the time, exactly, but I am very very bored.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Thursday, 20 October 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, if this is as complex as it gets, I'm so getting a degree at some point.
― Mark G, Friday, 21 October 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
ilx downtime ruined the schedule of these things. what are people on? I'm on week 4. for both classes.
― iatee, Friday, 21 October 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
I just finished finance lecture 3 and started 4 and then turned it off. I know we were supposed to discuss things and have questions but by the time I get home at night and to a computer, the lecture was 10 hours ago.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 21 October 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I got to the end of 3 lectures and own 2 books, dammit.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 October 2011 08:23 (twelve years ago) link
"The real financial technology that works to eliminate risk is that which works to spread them out, to pool them & share them among many different people. The ideal that theory suggests--the perfect financial system--would have all of our risks pooled completely. Nobody suffers alone. If anything happens to me and my livelihood, it's spread out over the whole world."
huh.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 October 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
That's the theory.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 October 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
The audio is so damn low, I've got everything turned up all the way and I have a hard time hearing.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 October 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol I still haven't started in on this yet
it's likely going to have to wait until I am done with immediate gigs, so like 2 weeks
― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
catching up can be done pretty quickly
laurel, lecture 4 is another one that would be nonsense without the visuals
I would ignore the early math and just try to understand the graph used in the lecture
― iatee, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, October 24, 2011 10:54 AM Bookmark
Yeah, I remember this line was real mind lightning for me
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link
howzit?
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 January 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
lol I never started this
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
I'm willing to keep it up if there is interest
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
I mostly got sidetracked from going to OWS every night
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
so anyone else want to keep this one up?
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
I'm on week 5
after j17 i might be back in
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
I'm on week 5 now!
OK, slow. But I got a new phone with better sound and screen.
― Mark G, Monday, 25 June 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
I highly recommend listening to the one with guest-lecturer Carl Icahn just so you can hear him talking about how the execs of most companies are idiot frat boys who didn't rock the boat.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 25 June 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Think that's 7. Soon come.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
i'm doing the yale one now.
standford also doing something similar this semester http://venturelab.stanford.edu/finance. sounds like fewer lectures but more substantial problems.
― caek, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 11:55 (eleven years ago) link
I worked through loads of these, but managed to lose most of the lectures I downloaded.
― Mark G, Sunday, 12 November 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link