Crisis in Russia: How People Cope with Stress, and How It Is Reflected in their Electoral Behavior

source: Yale University   2016年10月6日
A talk hosted by Russian Studies on "Crisis in Russia: How People Cope with Stress, and How It Is Reflected in their Electoral Behavior" by Maxim Kiselev, Moscow State Lomonosov University Higher School of Business; Russian Academy for National Economy and Public Affairs Kingston University MBA Programme; Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology; and Noviy Disk Corp, Moscow.

Victor Burgin. The field of Representation. Malta March 28 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures   2016年10月28日
http://www.egs.edu Victor Burgin, Professor at The European Graduate School / EGS. Valetta/Malta. March 28 2016.
Victor Burgin is a British artist, cultural theorist and photographer. He studied Painting and Philosophy at The Royal College of Art, London (1962-1965) and Painting, Sculpture and Philosophy at Yale University, New Haven (1965-1967). He taught photography at Nottingham Trent University (1967-1973) and then at the Polytechnic of Central London (1973-1988). Burgin was a Professor of Art History and Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1988-2000) and currently holds the Emeritus Millard Chair of Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College, University of London.
Victor Burgin’s artistic work and his theoretical writings are often concerned with spatial and temporal relationships and with a tension between real (exterior) space and psychological (interior) space. Burgin claims: “To have an interest in the relation between real exterior space and psychological space is quite simply to be interested in the image. The ‘image’ is neither a material entity nor simply an optical event, an imprint of light on the retina, it is also a complex psychological process. It is in this sense that the image is defined as essentially ‘virtual’ in the phenomenological perspective that Deleuze derived from Henri Bergson. The ‘image-for-commerce’ is something that can be propped on an easel beside an auctioneer, something that can sit easily on the cover of a magazine, something that lends itself to becoming logo or brand. But the image is a different thing outside the circulation of commodities, outside the order of the spectacle – which is to say, outside of modern Western history. For example, in the Western tradition there are things – objects, ‘images’, whatever – and then there is the space between them, which is empty. In a certain Japanese tradition the space between – ma – is as tangible as any material thing and is as charged with sense. This is the place and the substance of the ‘image’ as I understand the term.”
In his works, Burgin also attempts to provide an answer to the question: how do memory and fantasy shape and distort real objects and actual space? This is why he also explores the relationship between words and images; a relationship that, according to Burgin, produces a “virtual” or “psychological” image. His work is influenced by many different theorists and philosophers, but the most important ones are Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Henri Lefebvre, Andrè Breton, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Roland Barthes.

Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference 2016 (AQC 2016)

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source: GoogleTechTalks    2016年10月20日
Sessions of the 2016 Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference held at Google's Los Angeles office from June 26-29, 2016

Opening Remarks: Why We Believe Quantum Annealing Will Succeed 17:29
What is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling? 32:28
Quantum vs. Classical Optimization - A Status Report on the Arms Race 38:17
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations and Quantum Annealing 33:20
Simulated Quantum Annealing Can Be Exponentially Faster Than Classical 36:55
Quantum Monte Carlo vs Tunneling vs. Adiabatic Optimization 36:46
Inhomogeneous Quasi-adiabatic Driving of Quantum Critical Dynamics 25:33
Quantum Annealing via Environment-Mediated Quantum Diffusion 25:30
An Optimal Stopping Approach for Benchmarking Probabilistic Optimizers 25:09
Driving Spin Systems with Noisy Control Fields: Limits to Adiabatic Protocol 26:14
Roadmap for Building a Quantum Computer 26:56
Building Quantum Annealer v2.0 31:03
Origin and Suppression of 1/f Magnetic Flux Noise 31:34
A Fully-Programmable Measurement-Feedback OPO Ising Machine with All-to-All Connectivity 29:43
The Quantum Spin Glass Transition on the Regular Random Graph 32:20
Scaling Analysis & Instantons for Thermally-Assisted Tunneling and Quantum MC Simulations 19:46
Towards Quantum Supremacy with Pre-Fault-Tolerant Devices 23:52
Parity Adiabatic Quantum Computing 37:01
Simulated Annealing Comparison Between All-to-All Connectivity Schemes 33:31
Floquet Quantum Annealing with Superconducting Circuit 20:08
Adiabatic Quantum Computer vs. Diffusion Monte Carlo 22:07
Classical Modeling of Quantum Tunneling 24:41
Avoiding Negative Sign Problem in Simulation of Quantum Annealilng 25:26
Boosting Quantum Annealer Performance via Quantum Persistence 22:47
Max-k-SAT, Multi-Body Frustration, & Multi-Body Sampling on a Two Local Ising System 18:58
Coupled Quantum Fluctuations and Quantum Annealing 26:40

Anirudh Sivaraman: Programming Line-Rate Routers

source: GoogleTechTalks    2016年10月12日
A Google TechTalk, 10/5/16, Presented by Anirudh Sivaraman
ABSTRACT: The evolution of network routers and switches has been driven primarily by performance. Recently, thanks in part to the emergence of large data centers, the need for better control over network operations, and the desire for new features, programmability of switches has become as important as performance. In response, researchers and practitioners have developed reconfigurable switching chips that are performance-competitive with line-rate fixed-function switching chips. These chips provide some programmability through restricted hardware primitives that can be configured with software directives.
This talk will focus on two abstractions for programming such chips. The first abstraction, packet transactions, lets programmers express packet processing in an imperative language under the illusion that the switch processes exactly one packet at a time. A compiler then translates this sequential programmer view into a pipelined implementation on a switching chip that processes multiple packets concurrently. The second abstraction, a push-in first-out queue, allows programmers to program new scheduling algorithms using a priority queue coupled with a program to compute each packet's priority in the priority queue. For the first time, these two abstractions allow us to program several packet-processing functions at line rate. These packet-processing functions include in-network congestion control, active queue management, data-plane load balancing, network measurement, and packet scheduling.
This talk includes joint work with collaborators at MIT, Barefoot Networks, Cisco Systems, Microsoft Research, Stanford, and University of Washington.
SPEAKER BIO: Anirudh Sivaraman is a PhD student at MIT working in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Before coming to MIT, he was an undergraduate in the Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT Madras and graduated with a BTech in 2010.http://web.mit.edu/anirudh/www/

Performing matter: greatest hits and new findings - Dr Zoe Laughlin - UCL Lunch Hour Lectures

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年10月18日
Speaker: Dr Zoe Laughlin, UCL Institute of Making - Tuesday 11th October 2016 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1.55pm (term time)
Materials ‘perform’, and ‘stuff’ is constantly getting up to ‘things’ all the time, just to exist and make up the world of objects. Experience some of the most wondrous matter on Earth during Dr Zoe Laughlin’s demo-led exploration of materials, as you witness the inanimate becoming animate and material science performing.
Free to attend, live stream or watch online
More info : http://events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl
Join the conversation on Twitter at #UCLLHL

Spanish Language and Literature by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil    2013年11月29日
A lecture delivered by Wesley Cecil PhD. at Peninsula College on the development and influence of the Spanish language from the spread of the Indo-European language family to the present.

The Upper-Class Bias of the 2016 Election Issues | C. Nicole Mason

source: Big Think    2016年9月30日
Has the oldest problem in the book become taboo again? C. Nicole Mason expresses concern over a nation-wide moral failure that is leaving the U.S.'s most vulnerable to struggle in silence. Mason's latest book is "Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America" (http://goo.gl/AOsgVz).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/c-nicole-m...

Transcript - The issue I see in the election right now is that we’re not having the conversations that matter to people and families across the country. We have moved so far away from the bread and butter issues that families want to talk about. So we haven’t heard a lot about poverty. We haven’t heard a lot in this election about bringing and making sure that we have a strong social safety net not only for low income families but for middle class families who are still fragile or straddling between being financially secure and close to the edge in terms of falling into poverty. And we’re just not having those conversations. We’re talking about things that matter but when we talk about building a society where all people have a fair shot we’re not talking about the issues that will make the difference for them.
We don’t talk a lot about white poverty and I think we should because I think if we talked a lot more about the way poverty impacts different groups I think we would not see it as an issue that’s out there and doesn’t impact me or it’s a black issue or a Latino issue. We would see it as an issue of lack and people not having the resources that they need to be able to live a quality and a productive life. What we know though is that black and Latino people are more likely to live in poverty and white people are also poor. But we’re not, again we’re not talking about those conversations. And we’re not even writing about those conversations so when we’re not talking about rural communities and rural whites. Those people are invisible in media and culture when we talk about poverty. And so until we can really wrap our minds around the magnitude of who’s living in poverty and what poverty – the face of poverty and what it really looks like we’re not really going to be able to make policies that will reach the people who are really impacted or affected by it. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/E6IFzK.

Folk Psychology by Kane B

source: Kane B    2016年9月11日
"Folk psychology" refers to our capacity to explain and predict the behaviour of other people by attributing mental states to them. This video examines the theory-theory, which claims that folk psychology is literally a theory, analogous to scientific theories.

Education as a Human Right: An Evening with Hanan Al Hroub

source: HarvardEducation    2016年9月22日
Speaker: Hanan Al Hroub, recipient, 2016 Global Teacher Prize, Varkey Foundation; teacher, Samiha Khalil Secondary School, Palestine
Discussant: Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.’84, Ed.D.’88, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education and director, International Education Policy Program and the Global Education Innovation Initiative, HGSE
Introduction: James E. Ryan, dean and Charles William Eliot Professor, HGSE
In this Askwith Forum, Hanan Al Hroub, winner of the 2016 Global Teacher Prize, will speak about her experiences as a Palestinian educator and her unique approach to instruction.
This forum is in conjunction with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School.

Body-worn video - The independent witness

source: Cambridge University    2016年9月28日
Body-worn cameras are fast becoming standard kit for frontline law enforcers, trumpeted by senior officers and even the US President as a technological ‘fix’ for what some see as a crisis of police legitimacy. Evidence of effectiveness has, however, been limited in its scope.
Now, new results from one of the largest randomised-controlled experiments in the history of criminal justice research, led by the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology, show that the use by officers of body-worn cameras is associated with a startling 93% reduction in citizen complaints against police.

How to Live to 100 with Lynda Gratton

source: The RSA    2016年9月26日
How to live to 100 with professor Lynda Gratton. What will your 100-year life look like? Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Offsetting the excess of negative debate about longevity, Lynda Gratton takes a fundamentally different approach - seeing long life as an opportunity for a fundamental restructuring of finances and careers, and of relationships and leisure – in other words, for a redesign of life.
Watch Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you straight to the heart of the event! Loved this snippet? Watch the full replay: https://youtu.be/yOph34orYns

Wittgenstein & Metaphilosophy (Minerva)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年9月25日
Ludwig Wittgenstein is a philosopher's philosopher: he had much to say about how philosophy should be done. Peter Hacker explains Wittgenstein's metaphilosophical views, talks about the mind, and expresses his pessimism about contemporary philosophy. Peter Hacker is a Wittgenstein expert, and an Emeritus Research Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford.
This is from an episode of the podcast Minerva. The host is Joshi Gottlieb. You can find the podcast here:http://www.minerva-podcast.com.

The Art of Forecasting, Part Two: The World of Consciousness, with John L. Petersen

source: New Thinking Allowed     2015年12月1日
John L. Petersen, one of the world’s foremost futurists, is founder and president of the Arlington Institute. He is author of Out of the Blue: How to Anticipate Wild Cards and Big Future Surprises, Strategies for 2012, and The Road to 2015: Profiles of the Future. He has worked for National War College, the Institute for National Security Studies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council staff at the White House. He also serves as chairman of the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation.
Here he begins by discussing the use of dreams by futurists. He suggests that it might be useful to establish a large database of people’s dreams in order to scan it for emerging trends. To do this, one needs a methodology to interpret dream symbolism. He mentions that certain individuals seem to have dreams that are accurate depictions of future events – as if information is coming to them backwards through time. He also discusses research on precognitive remote viewing, stating that it works best over short time frames. In addition, he maintains that he has found some channeled information to be very useful in his profession. He also points out that some future development will be so dramatic that they are almost impossible for us to imagine. We may, for example, consciously control the future evolution of the human species.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). His master’s degree is in criminology. He serves as dean of transformational psychology at the University of Philosophical Research. He teaches parapsychology for ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living through the Holmes Institute. He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities. His American Indian name, chosen at age eight, is Soaring Eagle.
(Recorded on November 16, 2015)

Suman Chakraborty: Computational Fluid Dynamics (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd     2012年2月21日
Mechanical - Computational Fluid Dynamics by Dr. Suman Chakraborty, Department of Mechanical & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics and Principles of Conservation 58:20
02 Conservation of Mass and Momentum: Continuity and Navier Stokes Equation 59:04
03 Navier Stokes Equation (Contd.) 56:41
04 Energy Equation and General Structure of Conservation Equations 58:36
05 Classification of Partial Differential Equations and Physical Behaviour 57:01
06 Classification of Partial Differential Equations and Physical Behaviour (Contd.) 58:36
07 Approximate Solutions of Differential Equations: Error Minimization Principles 58:45
08 Approximate Solutions of Differential Equations: Variational Principles 59:22
09 Weighted Residual Approach and Introduction to Discretization 58:54
10 Fundamentals of Discretization: Finite Element Method 56:59
11 Fundamentals of Discretization: Finite Difference and Finite Volume Method 57:57
12 Fundamentals of Discretization: Finite Volume Method (Contd.) 58:27
13 Finite Volume Method:Some Concept Basics 56:04
14 Finite Volume Method: Boundary Condition Implementation 58:30
15 Finite Volume Method:Discretization of Unsteady State Problems 55:53
16 Important Consequences of Discretization of Unsteady State Problems 54:07
17 Important Consequences of Discretization of Time Dependent Diffusion 1:00:30
18 Discretization of Hyperbolic Equations: Stability Analysis 56:35
19 PART1:Stability of Second Order Hyperbolic Equations 57:23
20 PART 1: Mid-Semester Assessment Review (Questions and Answers) (Contd.) 58:25
21 Solution of Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations 58:40
22 Solution of Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations: Elimination Methods 57:57
23 Solution of Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations: Elimination Methods (Contd.) 59:12
24 Elimination Methods: Error Analysis 58:58
25 Iterative Methods for Numerical Solution of Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations 58:00
26 Iterative Methods for Numerical Solution of Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations 55:36
27 Iterative Methods: Further Examples 58:48
28 PART1:Combination of Iteration & Elimination Techniques 57:52
29 Gradient Search Methods (Contd.) 57:51
30 Discretization of Convection-Diffusion Equations: A Finite Volume Approach 57:58
31 Discretization of Convection-Diffusion Equations: A Finite Volume Approach (Contd.) 58:27
32 Discretization of Convection- Diffusion Equations: A Finite Volume Approach (Contd.) 58:51
33 Discretization of Convection -Diffusion Equations: A Finite Volume Approach (Contd.) 58:44
34 Discretization of Convection-Diffusion Equations: A Finite Volume Approach ( Contd.) 57:55
35 Discretization of Navier Stokes Equations 59:34
36 Discretization of Navier Stokes Equations ( Contd.) 1:00:27
37 Discretization of Navier Stokes Equations ( Contd. ) 57:59
38 PART 1 : Discretization of Navier Stokes Equations (Contd.) PART 2 : Fundamentals 59:03
39 Unstructured Grid Formulation (Contd.) 58:33
40 What is there in implementing a CFD Code 56:31
41 Introduction to Turbulence Modeling 58:31
42 Introduction to Turbulence Modeling (Contd.) 58:47
43 End Semester Questions Review 58:11

N. Viswanadham: Global Supply Chain Management (IISc Bangalore)

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source: nptelhrd    2013年8月26日
Management - Global Supply Chain Management by Prof. N. Viswanadham, Department of Management, IISc Bangalore. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Introduction to Global Supply Chain Networks Part- 1 51:03
02 Introduction to Global Supply Chain Networks Part -2 54:14
03 Zara- fast fashion 52:56
04 The Supply Chain Eco-System Framework 53:53
05 Supply Chain Eco-System Framework: Supply Chains & Resources 58:24
06 Supply Chain Eco-System Framework: Delivery services& Institutions 58:15
07 Metro Cash and Carry 51:50
08 Performance Analysis 54:54
09 Supply Chain Risk-part1 52:59
10 Supply Chain Risk-part2 51:28
11 Supply Chain Risk-part3 54:34
12 Mattel Toy Recalls and Supply Chain Management 51:43
13 Innovation in Emerging markets 55:29
14 Innovations in Supply Chain Ecosystem 52:09
15 Indian Telecom and Bharti Airtel 53:00
16 CEMEX-part1 51:16
17 CEMEX-part2 54:52
18 Governance 52:54
19 Governance of networked organizations 52:46
20 The Orchestration Governance Model 50:53
21 Orchestration-Examples 54:17
22 Li & Fung-part1 51:01
23 Li & Fung-part2 53:16
24 Supply Chain Design-part 1 52:07
25 Supply Chain Design-part 2 52:39
26 Green supply chain design-part 1 51:26
27 Green supply chain design-part 2 53:13
28 Green Supply Chain Ecosystem Analysis 52:36
29 GRIP Framework 53:09
30 Location Selection 49:29
31 Ecosystem Aware Location Analysis 52:48
32 Food supply chain in India 1:07:10
33 Food supply chain ecosystem - Grip frame work 1:24:31
34 Food Security in India 1:02:04
35 Smart Villages and Cities-part 1 51:14
36 Smart Villages and Cities-part 2 54:33
37 Overview of the Course 51:46
38 How to use the Video lectures 55:22

Arun K. Misra: International Finance (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd    2013年8月22日
Management - International Finance by Dr. Arun K. Misra, Department of Management, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 International Financial Environment 56:42
02 International Financial Transactions 54:08
03 Gold Standard 51:38
04 Purchasing Power Parity 50:04
05 Floating and Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes 54:54
06 Currency Boards and Currency Basket Systems 56:54
07 Features of Foreign Exchange Market 54:02
08 Exchange Rate Arithmetic 1:02:55
09 Understanding Merchant Rates 58:00
10 Foreign Exchange Forward Contracts 55:44
11 Value at Risk for Foreign Exchange Market 53:38
12 International Parity Conditions and Movement Exchange Rate 1:02:16
13 Exchange Rate Determination and Forecasting 58:26
14 Development of Foreign Exchange Market in India 59:38
15 Foreign Exchange Exposures : Transaction Exposure 56:30
16 Transaction Exposure Management 54:40
17 Foreign Exchange Futures Market for Transaction Exposure Management 54:39
18 Foreign Currency Options : Transaction Exposure Management 56:05
19 Interest Rate Swaps 56:03
20 Currency Swaps 55:42
21 Operating Exposure Assessment 58:33
22 Operating Exposure Management 57:22
23 International Capital Structure and Capital Assets Pricing Model 57:51
24 International Capital Budgeting 56:36
25 Evaluation of Foreign Direct Investment 59:08
26 Cross Listing of Shares : Depository Receipts 56:50
27 International Financial Integration 57:30
28 World Trade Organisation 53:21
29 India\'s Forex Reserves Composition and Determinants of Optimum Reserves 53:58
30 Movement of Exchange Rates in India 51:50
31 International Trade Theory 52:01
32 International Bond Market 54:32
33 India's Foreign Trade - Direction and Composition 51:18
34 Financial Stability 57:39
35 Test - I 58:19
36 Money and Forex Market Interaction : Indian Experience 58:10
37 Test - 2 56:15
38 Characteristics of Indian Foreign Exchange Market 56:13
39 Test - 3 54:01
40 Test - 4 55:24

DT Max and James Wood on David Foster Wallace | Mahindra Humanities Center

source: Harvard University     2012年12月13日
D.T. Max
Author of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story in conversation with James Wood
Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism, Harvard University
Cosponsored with The Harvard Advocate.

The twists and turns of the French Revolution - Tom Mullaney

source: TED-Ed    2016年10月27日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-caused...
What rights do people have, and where do they come from? Who gets to make decisions for others, and on what authority? And how can we organize society to meet people’s needs? Tom Mullaney shows how these questions challenged an entire nation during the upheaval of the French Revolution.
Lesson by Tom Mullaney, animation by Sashko Danylenko.

Does social science tell the truth? - Prof David Shanks - UCL Lunch Hour...

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures   2016年10月20日
Speaker: Professor David Shanks, UCL Psychology and Language Sciences - Thursday 13th October 2016 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1.55pm (term time)
There is now abundant evidence that only around half of all published findings in the social sciences are true, and research even suggests that some entire bodies of work are based on non-existent effects. Join Professor David Shanks as he discusses a range of remedies that could make social science research more credible and robust.
Free to attend, live stream or watch online
More info : http://events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl
Join the conversation on Twitter at #UCLLHL

Çağlar Güven: Systems Thinking (Middle East Technical University)

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source: METUOpenCourseWare     2015年1月6日
IE398 - Systems Thinking [Prof. Dr. Çağlar Güven]
For Lecture Notes: http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.ph...
OpenCourseWare: [ http://ocw.metu.edu.tr ]
Youtube Channel: [ http://www.youtube.com/METUOpenCourse... ]

Lecture 1.1 [There are some problems in the sound of lecture] 42:13
Lecture 1.2 49:33
Lecture 1.3 42:09
Lecture 2.1 49:09
Lecture 2.2 48:06
Lecture 2.3 14:03
Lecture 3.1 47:17
Lecture 3.2 50:05
Lecture 3.3 23:47
Lecture 4 47:58
Lecture 5.1 49:20
Lecture 5.2 50:55
Lecture 5.3 44:02
Lecture 6.1 47:26
Lecture 6.2 53:39
Lecture 7.1 45:40
Lecture 7.2 45:55
Lecture 7.3 27:01
Lecture 8.1 47:53
Lecture 8.2 48:39
Lecture 9.1 42:33
Lecture 9.2 42:35
Lecture 10 46:40
Lecture 11 44:57
Lecture 12 44:53
Lecture 13 51:45

German Language and Literature by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil    2013年10月25日
A lecture on the history and development of the German language and culture. Part of the Languages and Literatures series delivered at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil PhD. Covers the astonishing cultural coherence and influence of the German language and its influence on the modern world.

3 Tools for Innovation: Crowdsourcing, Constraints, Reading | Peter Diamandis

source: Big Think    2016年9月29日
The CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation lays out three tools to boost innovative ideas and re-draw the frontiers of business and creativity.
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/peter-diam...

Transcript - When I think of innovation and I teach this at Singularity University and Abundance 360, we focus on this at XPRIZE. Innovation is when an individual has an idea from reading a book or having a problematic experience and then takes that idea and shares it with somebody. And that person builds on the idea and shares it back and it’s a going back and forth. It comes from that building of ideas rapidly and rapid experimentation. Burt Rutan taught me something. He said the day before something is truly a breakthrough it’s a crazy idea. And so I ask CEOs all the time where inside your company are you trying crazy ideas? And if you’re not trying crazy ideas, if you’re trying sort of incremental ideas you’re stuck in incrementalism. You’re never going to innovate, you’re never going to expand. And so innovation really is this rapid experimentation of trying 100 ideas, 99 are failing and one works. And then you build on that one. You try over and over again. So, you know, the traditional way of solving a problem, a grand challenge, has been as a philanthropist or as a company you grab a chunk of money, you grab an innovator, you give it to them and say fix this problem. Very traditional but pretty linear.
What we do at the XPRIZE is we say here’s a chunk of money. I don’t care where you went to school, what you’ve done before, your race, creed or color, man or woman. It doesn’t matter. If you solve this problem you win. And so what we do in this sense is we’re running hundreds of experiments in parallel. And so while the Ansari XPRIZE had 26 teams from seven countries, some of our competitions have thousands of teams that have registered. And it’s sort of this Darwinian competition going on where crazy ideas get a chance to see the sunlight and get experimented with. And you only pay the winner. And so it’s really a wonderfully new and fresh mechanism of innovation.

Philosophy of Photography - Realism and Transparency by Kane B

source: Kane B   2016年9月16日
This video examines Kendall Walton's transparency thesis, which claims that when we look at a photograph of an object, we do not simply see a representation of the object; rather we "see through" the photograph to the object itself. I consider (a) how transparency relates to the realism of photography, (b) Walton's arguments for transparency and (c) various criticisms of transparency, in particular focusing on the objection that Walton's view rests on a faulty account of perception.

Partially Examined Life Ep 140-141 Aftershow on Simone de Beauvoir

source: The Partially Examined Life    2016年8月31日
Featuring Jennifer Hansen from St. Lawrence University, comedian Danny Lobell (Modern Day Philosophers podcast), Luke Johnson (Noetic) and PEL listeners Alex, Tiffany, and Brittany. Listen starting with http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/.... Recorded 6-26-16,

Blurring the Boundaries Between the Social and Commercial Sectors

source: Harvard University   2016年9月30日
This seminar explores how gender is enacted by founders of social ventures. In particular, Lakshmi Ramarajan looks at how female social venture founders conform to cultural beliefs about gender-appropriate activities and how this conformity may be reinforced or disrupted by characteristics of the environment in which they are embedded. She argues that the trend towards the use of commercial activities in social ventures is inconsistent with cultural beliefs about gender for female founders of social ventures. Using data on 590 new U.S.-based social ventures during 2007-2008, Ramarajan examined the conditions under which commercial activities are more or less likely to be used by female founders. Results show that female founders of social ventures are less likely to use commercial activities than male founders and that the social venture founders’ local community context moderates this effect in two ways: the prevalence of women-run businesses in the social venture founder`s local community weakens the enactment of gender, while the influence of gender on the use of commercial activities is stronger when the intended beneficiaries of the social ventures are local.

Religion, Conflict, and Terrorism in the Public Conciousness

source: Arizona State University, Tempe Campus 2016年9月9日
September 7, 2016
This September will be fifteen years since the attacks of 9/11. How has our view of the relationship between religion, politics and conflict changed since then? Does this change how we remember the attacks, and what they represent in the public consciousness? How we study the wars and conflicts that resulted, and what this means for U.S. policy?
How has our view been impacted by lone wolf and organized terrorist attacks in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere, and how does the rise in nativism impact our responses? Have we moved any closer to peace? Can we?
The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict and the Center on the Future of War special panelists included:
• John Carlson, associate director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, associate professor of religious studies, and author of "From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence and America"
• Anand Gopal, journalist and author of "No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War Through Afghan Eyes"
• Daniel Rothenberg, co-director of the Center on the Future of War and co-editor of "Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy"
• Delia Saenz, associate professor of psychology, former vice provost for diversity and inclusion, with expertise in intergroup relations and social identity
Linell Cady, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, moderated the discussion, asking each of the panelists to respond briefly to a series of questions.

Benjamin Bratton. Design, Philosophy and A.I. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures   2016年9月26日
http://www.egs.edu Benjamin H. Bratton, is an American theorist, sociologist and professor of visual arts, contemporary social and political theory, philosophy, and design.
Design, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2016.
His research deals with computational media and infrastructure, design research management & methodologies, classical and contemporary sociological theory, architecture and urban design issues, and the politics of synthetic ecologies and biologies.
Bratton completed his doctoral studies in the sociology of technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara​, and was the Director of the Advanced Strategies Group at Yahoo! before expanding his cross-disciplinary research and practice in academia. He taught in the Department of Design/Media Art at UCLA from 2003-2008, and at the SCI Arc​ (Southern California Institute of Architecture)​ for a decade, and continues to teach as a member of the Visiting Faculty. While at SCI Arc, Benjamin Bratton and Hernan Diaz-Alonso co-founded the XLAB courses, which placed students in laboratory settings where they could work directly and comprehensively in robotics, scripting, biogenetics, genetic codification, and cellular systems​. Currently, in addition to his professorship at EGS, Bratton is an associate professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Dieg​o, where he also directs the Center for Design and Geopolitics, partnering with the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology​.

Creating a Social Movement for Health | Jos de Blok | RSA Replay

source: The RSA   2016年9月20日
Creating a Social Movement for Health with Jos de Blok, Founder and CEO, Buurtzorg. Recently the NHS set out a bold new vision for its future. A particular focus of interest is on the potential of social movements to organize and lead change, as opposed to traditional top-down programmes. Social movement theory offers a grass-roots model of healthcare, one which mobilises communities and empowers patients and citizens to manage their own health.What exactly are social movements and what does it take to start one? How can innovative local ideas be scaled up? Join us at the RSA for a discussion between Helen Bevan, Chief Transformation Officer, Horizons Team, NHS England; Jos de Blok, founder and CEO, Buurtzorg; Alan Higgins, Director of Public Health, Oldham Council and Halima Khan, Executive Director of HealthLab, NESTA.

The Art of Forecasting, Part One: The Era of Exponential Growth, with John L. Petersen

source: New Thinking Allowed    2015年11月27日
John L. Petersen, one of the world’s foremost futurists, is founder and president of the Arlington Institute. He is author of Out of the Blue: How to Anticipate Wild Cards and Big Future Surprises, Strategies for 2012, and The Road to 2015: Profiles of the Future. He has worked for National War College, the Institute for National Security Studies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council staff at the White House. He also serves as chairman of the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation.
Here he points out that everything is connected to everything else. He notes that we are living in an extraordinary, unprecedented time where the rate of change of many phenomena is growing exponentially, and furthermore these developments converge with each other in unexpected ways. The basic framework for keeping track of such accelerating, complex trends is systems theory. Scenario building is also an important tool for futurists. An important trend to watch is that human capabilities are increasing in many domains. He also describes a methodology to help organizations prepare for potential surprises. He anticipates a major phase transition for humanity so that the future will be very different than the past has ever been.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). His master’s degree is in criminology. He serves as dean of transformational psychology at the University of Philosophical Research. He teaches parapsychology for ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living through the Holmes Institute. He has served as vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and is the recipient of its Pathfinder Award for outstanding contributions to the field of human consciousness. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities. His American Indian name, chosen at age eight, is Soaring Eagle.
(Recorded on November 16, 2015)

Daniel Dennett Interview on Mind, Matter, & Meaning

source: Philosophical Overdose     2015年6月27日
An interesting interview with Daniel Dennett discussing various philosophical issues having to do with mind and meaning. Some of the topics discussed include consciousness, science, materialism, computation, meaning/purpose in biology, emergence & reductionism, the intentional stance, evolution, philosophical zombies, the self, and free will.
This interview was given by Robert Pollie from a podcast called the 7th Avenue Project. For more information, go to www.7thavenueproject.com.

C. Balaji: Design and Optimization of Energy Systems (IIT Madras)

# playlist of the 40 videos (click the up-left corner of the video)

source: nptelhrd    2011年11月23日
Mechanical - Design and Optimization of Energy Systems by Prof. C. Balaji, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Introduction to Optimization 50:13
02 System Design and Analysis 38:36
03 Workable system 40:51
04 System simulation 52:21
05 Information flow diagrams 36:32
06 Successive substitution method 49:57
07 Successive substitution method contd... 45:57
08 Successive substitution method and Newton-Raphson method 41:23
09 Newton-Raphson method contd... 40:04
10 Convergence characteristics of Newton-Raphson method 43:51
11 Newton-Raphson method for multiple variables 46:55
12 Solution of system of linear equations 48:10
13 Introduction to Curve fitting 46:00
14 Example for Lagrange interpolation 44:56
15 Lagrange interpolation contd... 45:43
16 Best fit 48:39
17 Least Square Regression 47:40
18 Least Square Regression contd..... 48:16
19 Least Square Regression contd..... 45:02
20 Non-linear Regression (Gauss - Newton Algorithm) 54:59
21 Optimization- Basic ideas 49:24
22 Properties of objective function and cardinal ideas in optimization 45:16
23 Unconstrained optimization 29:57
24 Constrained optimization problems 44:30
25 Mathematical proof of the Lagrange multiplier method 45:32
26 Test for Maxima/ Minima 49:11
27 Handling in-equality constraints 39:44
28 Kuhn-Tucker conditions contd... 51:30
29 Uni-modal function and search methods 51:10
30 Dichotomous search 49:18
31 Fibonacci search method 54:29
32 Reduction ratio of Fibonacci search method 50:06
33 Introduction to multi-variable optimization 50:42
34 The Conjugate gradient method 42:15
35 The Conjugate gradient method contd... 43:21
36 Linear programming 52:38
37 Dynamic programming 51:41
38 Genetic Algorithms 54:52
39 Genetic Algorithms contd... 58:16
40 Simulated Annealing and Summary 1:19:51

Susmita Mukhopadhyay: Organizational Behaviour (IIT Kharagpur)

# playlist of the 41 videos (click the up-left corner of the video)

source: nptelhrd     2013年8月22日
Management - Organizational Behaviour by prof. Dr. Susmita Mukhopadhyay, Department of Management, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Understanding Organizational Behaviour 59:07
02 Effectiveness in Organizations 59:03
03 Social System and Organizational Culture 59:36
04 Social System and Organizational Culture (Contd.) 1:00:12
05 Individual differences and work behaviour 1:00:51
06 Personality 56:11
07 Personality (Contd.) 58:52
08 Attitudes 57:52
09 Attitudes (Contd.) 55:36
10 Attitudes (Contd. ) 59:05
11 Perceptions and Attributions 54:32
12 Perceptions and Attributions (Contd.) 59:17
13 Motivation 58:30
14 Motivation (Contd.) 1:01:22
15 Job Design, Work and Motivation 51:37
16 Job Design, Work and Motivation (Contd.) 54:28
17 Evaluation, Feedback and Rewards 58:07
18 Evaluation, Feedback and Rewards (Contd.) 55:39
19 Managing Misbehaviour 54:33
20 Stress 58:22
21 Counseling 54:58
22 Informal and Formal Groups 57:14
23 Teams and Teambuilding 1:02:06
24 Managing Conflict and Negotiation 58:39
25 Managing Conflict and Negotiation (Contd.) 56:33
26 Power and Politics 51:45
27 Empowerment and Participation 1:02:22
28 Assertive Behaviour and Transactional Analysis 1:06:41
29 Communication 56:41
30 Communication (Contd.) 1:02:50
31 Decision Making 59:04
32 Decision Making (Contd.) 47:05
33 Leadership 59:38
34 Leadership (Contd.) 49:04
35 Leadership (Contd.) 1:03:15
36 Organizational structure and Design 57:12
37 Organizational structure and Design (Contd.) 56:30
38 Organizational structure and Design (Contd. ) 57:44
39 Change and Innovation 55:08
40 Change and Innovation (Contd.) 1:02:41
41 Organizational behaviour across cultures 1:04:14

Vinayshil Gautam: Organisation of Engineering Systems and Human Resources Management (IIT Delhi)

# playlist of the 38 videos (click the up-left corner of the video)

source: nptelhrd    2013年9月17日
Management - Organisation of Engineering Systems and Human Resources Management by Prof. Vinayshil Gautam, Department of Management, IIT Delhi. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Introduction to the subject and the course 51:56
02 Understanding organizations: nature and functions 44:09
03 Understanding organizations: nature and functions contd 43:39\
04 Concerns of organising engineering business and systems 46:54
05 Concerns of organising engineering business and systems contd 49:39
06 Concerns of organising engineering business and systems contd.. 46:23
07 Structure and process issues in running organisations 46:14
08 Structure and process issues in running organisations contd. 49:56
09 Design issues in running organisations 47:16
10 Design issues in running organisations contd. 50:22
11 Operating organizations 44:04
12 Operating organizations Contd. 44:03
13 Operating organizations Contd.. 48:06
14 Cybernetics and systems framework 46:27
15 Cybernetics and systems framework Contd 49:11
16 Socio-technical systems 44:45
17 Socio-technical systems Contd. 50:28
18 Socio-technical systems Contd.. 48:30
19 Dealing with efficiency and excellence 51:07
20 Dealing with efficiency and excellence Contd. 49:02
21 Dealing with efficiency and excellence Contd.. 58:20
22 Man-machine relationship 49:52
23 Man-machine relationship Contd. 49:47
24 Longitudinal Thinking 48:16
25 Longitudinal Thinking Contd. 46:47
26 Concerns of recruitment, selection, skill formation and redeployment 45:47
27 Concerns of recruitment, selection, skill formation and redeployment Contd. 48:11
28 Concerns of recruitment, selection, skill formation and redeployment Contd.. 53:27
29 Developing teams and leadership 48:24
30 Developing teams and leadership Contd. 46:19
31 Understanding motivation 50:02
32 Understanding motivation Contd. 49:38
33 Elements of human resources planning 48:39
34 Elements of human resources planning Contd. 48:33
35 Elements of human resources planning Contd.. 41:53
36 Indian Industrial Law and managing industrial relations 46:57
37 Indian Industrial Law and managing industrial Contd. 42:50
38 Indian Industrial Law and managing industrial Contd.. 48:01

Altuğ Özpineci: Electromagnetism (Middle East Technical University)

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source: METUOpenCourseWare    2015年3月16日
PHYS110 - Electromagnetism
For Lecture Notes: http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/course/view.ph...
OpenCourseWare: [ http://ocw.metu.edu.tr ]
Youtube Channel: [ http://www.youtube.com/METUOpenCourse... ]

Lecture 1.1 53:14
Lecture 1.2 39:36
Lecture 2.1 55:41
Lecture 2.2 46:40
Lecture 2.3 42:07
Lecture 3.1 49:05
Lecture 3.2 50:00
Lecture 4.1 47:40
Lecture 4.2 47:46
Lecture 4.3 38:38
Lecture 5.1 42:15
Lecture 5.2 33:42
Lecture 6.1 49:02
Lecture 6.2 45:59
Lecture 6.3 43:07
Lecture 7.1 44:18
Lecture 7.2 49:30
Lecture 8.1 47:41
Lecture 8.2 46:35
Lecture 8.3 51:46
Lecture 9.1 51:20
Lecture 9.2 33:59
Lecture 10.1 42:50
Lecture 10.2 54:36
Lecture 10.3 44:44
Lecture 11.1 46:28
Lecture 11.2 44:24
Lecture 12.1 47:40
Lecture 12.2 49:50
Lecture 12.3 42:57
Lecture 13.1 46:36
Lecture 13.2 44:17
Lecture 13.3 46:30
Lecture 14.1 52:48
Lecture 14.2 40:54
Lecture 15.1 49:36
Lecture 15.2 51:21
Lecture 15.3 41:03
Lecture 16.1 33:52
Lecture 16.2 45:07
Lecture 17.1 50:13
Lecture 17.2 46:26
Lecture 17.3 40:02
Lecture 18.1 53:36
Lecture 18.2 49:06
Lecture 19.1 52:19
Lecture 19.2 39:18
Lecture 19.3 46:34
Lecture 20.1 55:40
Lecture 20.2 42:37
Lecture 21.1 47:59
Lecture 21.2 47:20
Lecture 21.3 50:02
Lecture 22.1 31:14
Lecture 22.2 49:55
Lecture 23.1 51:02
Lecture 23.2 41:21
Lecture 23.3 45:07
Lecture 24.1 47:57
Lecture 24.2 41:17
Lecture 24.3 47:22

The PK Man and Mercurial Hermeneutics with Jason Reza Jorjani

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年9月25日
Jason Reza Jorjani is a philosopher and faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is author of Prometheus and Atlas.
Here he describes how he placed Jeffrey Mishlove’s study of Ted Owens, “the PK Man”, into a larger cultural and philosophical context. He defines Mercurial Hermeneutics as the art of interpreting the manifestations of the trickster archetype in the world. He suggests that this archetype, aka Hermes or Mercury, is the intelligence behind the psychokinetic demonstrations of Ted Owens and others (such as Uri Geller). He also maintains that the very same intelligence was behind the establishment of the Abrahamic religious traditions.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is a past vice-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology; and is the recipient of the Pathfinder Award from that Association for his contributions to the field of human consciousness exploration. He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.
(Recorded on June 27, 2016)

Plato’s best (and worst) ideas - Wisecrack

source: TED-Ed    2016年10月25日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/plato-s-bes...
Check out Wisecrack's YouTube channel here: https://goo.gl/A5vb5K
Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today’s thinkers like Plato. He created the first Western university and was teacher to Ancient Greece’s greatest minds, including Aristotle. But even he wasn’t perfect. Along with his great ideas, Plato had a few that haven’t exactly stood the test of time. Wisecrack gives a brief rundown of a few of Plato’s best and worst ideas.
Lesson by Wisecrack, animation by Aaron, Tom and Mathias Studios.

Arabic: Literature and Civilization by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil    2013年5月26日
A lecture by Wesley Cecil PhD. exploring the origins, development and influence of Arabic. Delivered at Peninsula College.

The Psychology (and Politics) of Disgust | Kathleen McAuliffe

source: Big Think   2016年9月23日
How easily grossed out are you? Your sensitivity to disgust reveals more about you than you'd probably be comfortable with, from how you'll vote in this election to your potential to be a cold-blooded killer. Kathleen McAuliffe's book is This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society goo.gl/qgOI62
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/kathleen-m...

Similar parts of the brain - there's a lot of overlap in how we process both visceral disgust and moral disgust. Psychopaths - needless to say they're these cold-blooded killers are over representative in many of our high security jails. And these individuals show damage to many of the same circuits that are involved in disgust. Another group of individuals, although they're not predatory but people with Huntington's disease it also damages some of the circuits that are involved in disgust. People with Huntington's disease tend not to be empathetic and they think that this is related to these circuits being damaged. And they're almost unique in that they experience almost no visceral disgust whatsoever. So somebody with Huntington's disease, for example, would think nothing of picking up feces with their bare hands. So there is this sort of very interesting interrelationship, at least in the brain, between visceral and moral disgust.
A little known fact is that conservatives are more disgust sensitive. There's a huge variation acrostic populations in how disgust sensitive people are. There's actually standardized scales that measure, for example, the questionnaire you fill out and it will ask you questions about like how revolted you would be If you stepped on dog poop or if you saw a cockroach on pizza or a dirty toilet. And as a result of filling out these questionnaires they've been able to look to see if there's parallels between how disgust sensitive someone is and how conservative they are. And indeed there is a correlation. And probably the reason for that is because, again, the conservatives if you kind of really breakdown their belief systems they tend to have conservative sexual values. So, for example, concepts like virginity pledges are ideas that they're fond of. They also tend to be more opposed to immigration and foreigners are a leading source, at least in centuries past, foreigners were a leading source of exotic germs for which we had no natural defenses. So it's speculated that that could be another factor behind why people who are more conservative in their political ideology why they tend to be opposed to immigration.
Conservatives also tend to be very tradition bound. They tend to be a little bit more rigid about following religious doctrine. And again, a lot of religious practices may help to protect against infection. So that's the leading theory as to why you see this association. But in general, even in large survey studies they've shown this link between germophobia and xenophobia. So, for example, there was a paper actually that's about to be published and I think they looked at 2000 Danes and 1200 Americans, representative samples from both countries. And they found that opposition to immigration increased in direct proportion to the disgust sensitivity of the individual.
Another group did a study of 25,000 Americans. The study was done at the time of the 2008 presidential election between John McCain, a more conservative candidate, of course, and Barack Obama. And they found that the more disgust sensitive the person the more likely they would vote for John McCain. And they actually showed the proportion of votes that went to McCain in each state. It was based on the average disgust sensitivity of the state based on individual respondents to the survey.