Julius O. Smith III: Legendary Professor of DSP (CCRMA, NeXT, Shazam, GeoShred) | WolfTalk #034

Well, I would start with my books.

With Claude Fable, I just put exercises on all the new concepts.

So the prompt was, go through my online book, and everywhere a new concept is introduced, make sure that there are questions at the end to test your understanding.

And so...

And it's all, of course, explained there.

And then I have links to all the sources that I think are the best sources.

I have an automatic linking system.

And it's also explicitly designed to start at the high school level because at Karma, that was important.

Not everyone had had calculus.

I could not rely on any kind of engineering curriculum.

I had to take people from the high school level forward.

So we started with complex numbers.

And digital filters, we just kept them in the time domain as long as we could.

And so that was a unique opportunity to make a curriculum that starts at the lowest level that I had ever seen.

So for people who need that, but for engineers, anyone who has an engineering degree, well, you should read all the standard textbooks and you should know what they are.

You should read whatever the latest and greatest books are that they're using in your school.

In my day, it was Oppenheimer and Schaefer and Rabiner and Gold.

And Oppenheimer and Schaefer updated year after year after year.

They have so many editions.

And they have workbooks.

So just take the MIT curriculum, right? And they even probably have a lot of great courses in their OpenCourseWare offerings.

I took their linear algebra course there from Lang.

That was really great.

So there's so much.

And you can also just ask Claude or Astro, whoever your favorite LLM is, you just say, put together a course for me.