r/Harvard • u/Reasonable_Buddy_927 • 8d ago

by jove he's right hello I am brigading your subreddit to say that Joe Blitzstein is the goat and STAT110 is amazing

every (open sourced btw) lecture, some interesting insight or famous problem on probability/counting, completely self contained book and course outside of a single variable calculus pre req., so intuitive and really focuses on developing understanding (story proofs etc.). what a legend, someone buy him a big box of chocolates plz.

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u/vmlee & Retired HGC Exec 8d ago

u/joeblitzstein

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u/telecasterdude 8d ago

Also his STAT210 course is just as good (although significantly harder!)

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u/Smoofness1234 8d ago

Shoutout Joe

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u/cloverhunter95 7d ago

Is he the goat or is he actually the car behind the door?

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u/joeblitzstein Joe Blitzstein 5d ago

I showed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggDQXlinbME in class recently when were were discussing Monty Hall, and it showed a letter someone wrote to Marilyn vos Savant saying "You are the goat!", and I pointed out that the meaning of "goat" has changed since then....

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u/joeblitzstein Joe Blitzstein 5d ago

Thanks so much for your appreciation! I'm very happy that people from many countries around the world have been enjoying and learning a lot from my lectures. :)

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u/CustardInternal 7d ago

Honestly, we need more shout outs of the great ones. Joe is in that, for sure.

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u/stecas 7d ago

This dude took me straight to blissville during every lecture back in the day.

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u/joeblitzstein Joe Blitzstein 5d ago

thanks, glad it wasn't blotchville

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u/starsfromvenus 6d ago

is this an ok intro stats course for someone who never took stats in highschool and isnt particularly good at math, but prefers more abstract thinking?

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u/Reasonable_Buddy_927 6d ago

Imo you need good experience with set theory (intro discrete math course) and ur golden, everything else is explained well by him. Joe explains set theory too but tbh it’s gonna be hard to understand unlesss you’ve seen it b4.