Can the Stanford compiler course be self-taught given the online material? What's missing?

I've seen it available on Coursera. And a lot of the current material is available online. But I tried the Coursera one awhile ago and got stuck.

I'm finishing a CS degree but there's no dedicated compiler course here.

ruang

·5 years ago·discuss

I like Peter Thiel's quote: A-B testing only works if you have a billion years (from Darwin)

ruang

·6 years ago·discuss

Is linear algebra useful to learn for distributed systems?

I'm taking graph theory next semester and wondering what else might be useful. I took a distributed systems course already and we used no math at all.

ruang

·6 years ago·discuss

These are great. I wonder why he didn't just handwrite the notes. These are much better, but they seem like they would take a long time unless you can type latex quickly.

ruang

·6 years ago·discuss

What kind of math is involved in building a faster database? Genuinely curious. I would guess maybe linear algebra, indirectly.