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The whole series is on Youtube, awesome.

The course was also the basis for his book _The Art of Doing Science and Engineering_ (1997). At first it takes some getting used to as you have the feeling it may be outdated, but it's about teaching a style of thinking. It's great.

I know, I didn't realize he was alive in the 90s! Hearing him (sarcastically) say "now having 10 parameters isn't unusual, correct?" makes me wish he could've seen the 60B-parameter curve fitting we're doing nowadays.

The whole lecture series was about giving students a style of thinking that might hopefully prepare them for the future, without focusing on special knowledge (there were other courses for that).

Two of the lectures were spent on building intuition for very high dimensionality (this one), and another on neural networks, because he thought there was a big chance they were going to be important. In the early 90s, not bad.

I think he already knew something about it... it talks about AI. Maybe at the time 100k to 1M dimensions? A bright mind like his, could very good extrapolate to 2024.

Yes sir! I've just bookmarked the series... Priceless!