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Preface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus
MIT OpenCourseWare · 4 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2017–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 105 other lecture videos tagged University lectures & courses, the mean is 4.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 4.5 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
80% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2017–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 32 minutes 6 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2011-05-06.
- Channel / speaker
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Verified runtime
- 32m 6s
- YouTube upload date
- 2011-05-06
- Hacker News mention years
- 2017–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other lecture videos in University lectures & courses. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable CalculusCurrent video | 4 | 4 | 80% | — | 32m 6s | 2011-05-06 |
| How to Speaklecture · MIT OpenCourseWare | 17 | 16 | 85% | No recorded overlap | 63m 43s | 2019-12-20 |
| MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy (IAP 2017) - Zach Hartwiglecture · MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center | 16 | 13 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 71m 40s | 2017-02-06 |
| 1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biologylecture · Stanford | 15 | 15 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 57m 15s | 2011-02-01 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Death and What Comes Next (2002)”. Its short rationale: Herb Gross is particularly good for struggling with calculus.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?”. Its short rationale: Herb Gross's explanations made calculus finally click.
The archive classifies this as a critical mention in “The Beauty of Calculus [video]”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.