2016-08-31

Existentialism Talk by Jordan B Peterson (University of Toronto)


source: Jordan B Peterson    2016年8月28日
University of Toronto PSY
Course Information: http://jordanbpeterson.com/Psy230H

On Human Values - Interpreting Non-Violence: “A conversation with Judith Butler, Paul North, and Jason Stanley”


source: Yale University    2016年6月30日
Tanner Lectures on Human Values - Interpreting Non-Violence
A conversation with Judith Butler, University of California Berkeley; Paul North (Yale University); and Jason Stanley (Yale University)

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California Berkeley. She served as founding director of the Critical Theory Program at Berkeley and is currently co-chair of an emerging International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs. Her published works include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990); Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (1993); Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (1997); Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (2004); Undoing Gender (2004); Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging (with Gayatri Spivak, 2008); Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009); Is Critique Secular? (with Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, and Saba Mahmood, 2009); Sois Mon Corps (with Catherine Malabou, 2011); Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012); Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (with Athena Athanasiou, 2013); and most recently, Senses of the Subject (2015) and Notes toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015). Future projects include study of messianic gestures in Kafka and Benjamin, philosophical fictions in Freud’s work, and gender in translation.
Butler has received the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities, the Adorno Prize from the City of Frankfurt in honor of her contributions to feminist and moral philosophy, and the Brudner Prize from Yale University for lifetime achievement in gay and lesbian studies. In 2014, she was awarded the diploma of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Cultural Ministry and in 2015 she was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and appointed to the International Board of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.

Scott Milner | New Polymers for Solar Power || Radcliffe Institute


source: Harvard University    2016年2月23日
As part of the 2015–2016 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Scott T. Milner RI ’16 discusses current trends in solar power, how solar cells work, and how polymer-based materials may offer an attractive alternative to silicon.

Hacking Consciousness (Spring 2014 at Stanford University)

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source: Stanford    2014年8月1日
Renowned quantum physicist, John Hagelin (PhD, Harvard), presents the thesis that consciousness is a unified field that contains nature's programming code and transcending through meditation is a pathway to hack / access consciousness.
Recordings of the Hacking Consciousness course at Stanford University, Spring 2014.

Consciousness, a Quantum Physics Perspective 1:15:24
Consciousness & Physiology I 1:40:02
Consciousness & Physiology II 1:47:47
Consciousness & Architecture 1:26:58
The Hacked and Highjacked Body 2:20:49
We Create Our Reality 1:19:48

K. C. Sivakumar: Linear Algebra (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd       2015年2月5日
Mathematics - Linear Algebra by Dr. K. C. Sivakumar, Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 Introduction to the Course Contents. 26:47
Mod-01 Lec-02 Linear Equations 35:10
Mod-01 Lec-03a Equivalent Systems of Linear Equations I: Inverses of Elementary Row-operations 40:48
Mod-01 Lec-03b Equivalent Systems of Linear Equations II: Homogeneous Equations, Examples 43:58
Mod-01 Lec-04 Row-reduced Echelon Matrices 48:23
Mod-01 Lec-05 Row-reduced Echelon Matrices and Non-homogeneous Equations 47:19
Mod-01 Lec-06 Elementary Matrices, Homogeneous Equations and Non-homogeneous Equations 49:14
Mod-01 Lec-07 Invertible matrices, Homogeneous Equations Non-homogeneous Equations 50:58
Mod-02 Lec-08 Vector spaces 34:43
Mod-02 Lec-09 Elementary Properties in Vector Spaces. Subspaces 48:16
Mod-02 Lec-10 Subspaces (continued), Spanning Sets, Linear Independence, Dependence 43:25
Mod-03 Lec-11 Basis for a vector space 48:48
Mod-03 Lec-12 Dimension of a vector space 48:31
Mod-03 Lec-13 Dimensions of Sums of Subspaces 52:11
Mod-04 Lec-14 Linear Transformations 50:10
Mod-04 Lec-15 The Null Space and the Range Space of a Linear Transformation 51:04
Mod-04 Lec-16 The Rank-Nullity-Dimension Theorem. Isomorphisms Between Vector Spaces 41:45
Mod-04 Lec-17 Isomorphic Vector Spaces, Equality of the Row-rank and the Column-rank I 47:34
Mod-04 Lec-18 Equality of the Row-rank and the Column-rank II 36:08
Mod-05 Lec19 The Matrix of a Linear Transformation 40:27
Mod-05 Lec-20 Matrix for the Composition and the Inverse. Similarity Transformation 47:04
Mod-06 Lec-21 Linear Functionals. The Dual Space. Dual Basis I 49:20
Mod-06 Lec-22 Dual Basis II. Subspace Annihilators I 38:53
Mod-06 Lec-23 Subspace Annihilators II 50:08
Mod-06 Lec-24 The Double Dual. The Double Annihilator 47:34
Mod-06 Lec-25 The Transpose of a Linear Transformation. Matrices of a Linear 45:22
Mod-07 Lec-26 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of Linear Operators 40:11
Mod-07 Lec-27 Diagonalization of Linear Operators. A Characterization 47:01
Mod-07 Lec-28 The Minimal Polynomial 42:38
Mod-07 Lec-29 The Cayley-Hamilton Theorem 47:21
Mod-08 Lec-30 Invariant Subspaces 39:19
Mod-08 Lec-31 Triangulability, Diagonalization in Terms of the Minimal Polynomial 51:30
Mod-08 Lec-32 Independent Subspaces and Projection Operators 48:42
Mod-09 Lec-33 Direct Sum Decompositions and Projection Operators I 48:49
Mod-09 Lec-34 Direct Sum Decomposition and Projection Operators II 46:40
Mod-10 Lec-35 The Primary Decomposition Theorem and Jordan Decomposition 38:51
Mod-10 Lec-36 Cyclic Subspaces and Annihilators 50:49
Mod-10 Lec-37 The Cyclic Decomposition Theorem I 49:56
Mod-10 Lec-38 The Cyclic Decomposition Theorem II. The Rational Form 46:12
Mod-11 Lec-39 Inner Product Spaces 44:44
Mod-11 Lec-40 Norms on Vector spaces. The Gram-Schmidt Procedure I 53:21
Mod-11 Lec-41 The Gram-Schmidt Procedure II. The QR Decomposition. 43:09
Mod-11 Lec-42 Bessel's Inequality, Parseval's Indentity, Best Approximation 41:53
Mod-12 Lec-43 Best Approximation: Least Squares Solutions 50:37
Mod-12 Lec-44 Orthogonal Complementary Subspaces, Orthogonal Projections 50:01
Mod-12 Lec-45 Projection Theorem. Linear Functionals 47:24
Mod-13 Lec-46 The Adjoint Operator 48:21
Mod-13 Lec-47 Properties of the Adjoint Operation. Inner Product Space Isomorphism 52:37
Mod-14 Lec-48 Unitary Operators 48:17
Mod-14 Lec-49 Unitary operators II. Self-Adjoint Operators I. 42:11
Mod-14 Lec-50 Self-Adjoint Operators II - Spectral Theorem 41:08
Mod-14 Lec-51 Normal Operators - Spectral Theorem 46:09

How smart are orangutans? - Lu Gao


source: TED-Ed     2016年8月30日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-smart-a...
Along with humans, orangutans belong to the Hominidae family tree, which stretches back 14 million years. But it’s not just their striking red hair that makes orangutans unique among our great ape cousins. Lu Gao shares some amazing facts about these incredibly intelligent great apes from Asia.
Lesson by Lu Gao, animation by Anton Bogaty.

Richard Rorty on the Compatibility of Science & Religion


source: Philosophical Overdose    2013年5月2日
In this talk, Richard Rorty discusses the ethics of belief and the apparent conflict between religion and science. Unsurprisingly, Rorty, following both James and Dewey, provides a pragmatist or relativist account. He argues that because science and religion are not actually competing to describe the one true way the world "really" is in itself, apart from all human needs and interests, there's no real underlying logical inconsistency. Rorty suggests that we give up on the realist's correspondence theory of truth and instead take the pragmatist route, where science and religion are simply understood as tools which have different purposes: one involves predicting and controlling nature, the other with finding meaning. In the process, Rorty discusses other attempts to reconcile science and religion, including Paul Tillich's distinction between literal and symbolic truth (i.e. scientific beliefs are literally true, while religious beliefs are only symbolically true), as well as William James' infamous pragmatist lecture The Will to Believe, which itself was a response to William K. Clifford's evidentialist epistemology which maintained that it's always wrong and intellectually irresponsible to believe something upon insufficient evidence.
This lecture was given at West Valley College.

Mary Roach: "Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War" | Talks at Google


source: Talks at Google    2016年7月21日
Bestselling science writer Mary Roach visited Google's office in Cambridge, MA to discuss her book "Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War".
In "Grunt", Roach tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. She dodges hostile fire with the USMC Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. In east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on a nuclear submarine. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks?
Mary Roach is also the author of "Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void", "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex", "Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife", "My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places", and "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers". Her writing has appeared in Outside, Wired, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine, among others.

Jim Gaffigan: Self-Awareness Is Essential in Comedy and in Life


source: Big Think    2016年7月18日
Whether you're on stage or just meeting new people, comedian Jim Gaffigan believes that self-awareness is the key to winning over your audience. The "Jim Gaffigan Show" plays on TV LAND (http://goo.gl/5m8uKB).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/jim-gaffig...

What does it mean to be a migrant in your own country?


source: University of Oxford   2016年7月20日
Dr Indrajit Roy studies the lives of circular and internal migrants, people who move around their own countries usually in search of work. Such internal migrants do not move permanently, but instead are coming and going constantly. So their patterns of movement change what we think about the nature of the city as an entity. In places where citizenship rights like the right to vote or social entitlements are tied to place of birth, they are often denied such rights. The aim of this project is to understand the lives of internal migrants and to encourage governments to think about local service provisioning for people who are mobile.

Dr Roy is an ESRC Future Research Leader in Oxford University’s Department of International Development and a member of the International Migration Institute.
www.imi.ox.ac.uk

An Introduction to Thinking


source: Wes Cecil   2015年8月12日
I delivered this lecture for a local group this summer. A reflection on some of the factors that form our thought processes and why, on average, we find thinking so difficult.
Image is "Procynosuchus BW" by Nobu Tamura

Differential Geometry for Computer Science (Spring 2013) by Justin Solomon and Adrian Butscher at Stanford U

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source: Justin Solomon     2013年4月2日
CS 468: Differential Geometry for Computer Science
Slides: http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/...

Lecture 1: Introduction (camera died 19 minutes in!)  18:51
Lecture 2: Differential Geometry of Curves 1:18:17
Lecture 3: Discrete Curves 1:18:05
Lecture 4: Surfaces I 1:16:29
Lecture 5: Surfaces II 1:13:41
Lecture 6: Discrete Surfaces 1:12:06
Lecture 7: Extrinsic Curvature 1:10:29
Lecture 8: Computing Curvature 1:18:21
Lecture 10: Geodesic Computation 1:17:40
Lecture 9: Intrinsic Geometry of Surfaces 1:14:55
Lecture 11: Covariant Differentiation 1:15:06
Lecture 12: Finite Elements and the Laplacian 1:16:53
Lecture 13: Exterior Calculus 1:14:35
Lecture 14: Discrete Exterior Calculus 1:19:06
Lecture 15: Isometries, Rigidity, and Curvature 1:15:16
Lecture 16: Isometry invariance and spectral techniques 1:19:07
Lecture 17: Surface deformation: Theory 1:13:29
Lecture 18: Surface Deformation: Practice 1:17:55
Lecture 19: Conformal Geometry 1:15:16

Rajiv Tiwari: Theory & Practice of Rotor Dynamics (IIT Guwahati)

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source: nptelhrd    2014年4月9日
Mechanical - Theory & Practice of Rotor Dynamics by Prof. Rajiv Tiwari, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 Introduction 50:29
Mod-01 Lec-02 A Brief History of Rotor Dynamics 51:34
Mod-01 Lec-03 The State of the Art of Rotor Dynamics 53:49
Mod-02 Lec-01 Simple Rotor Models with Rigid Bearings 53:05
Mod-02 Lec-02 Jeffcott Rotor Model 46:56
Mod-02 Lec-03 Variant of Jeffcott Rotor Model 50:31
Mod-03 Lec-01 Rigid Rotor Mounted on Simple Anistropic Springs as Bearings 51:56
Mod-03 Lec-02 Rigid Rotor Mounted on Complex Anisotropic Bearings 50:22
Mod-03 Lec-03 Flexible Shaft with a Rigid Disc Mounted on Anistropic Supports 54:44
Mod-04 Lec-01 Gyroscopic Effects : Synchronous whirl of a Rotor Systems with a thin Disc 51:20
Mod-04 Lec-02 Gyroscopic Effects : Synchronous and Asynchronous pure wobbling motions 46:14
Mod-04 Lec-03 Gyroscopic Effects : Asynchronous whirl of a Rotor system with a thin Disc 57:15
Mod-04 Lec-04 Gyroscopic Effects : Asynchronous whirl analysis with Dynamic Approach 49:25
Mod-05 Lec-01 Torsional Vibrations: Simple Rotor Systems 51:08
Mod-05 Lec-02 Three Disc Rotor System 46:48
Mod-05 Lec-03 Transfer Matrix Approach I 50:53
Mod-05 Lec-04 Transfer Matrix Approach II 43:36
Mod-05 Lec-05 Transfer Matrix Approach III 51:39
Mod-05 Lec-06 Geared and Branched Systems 52:07
Mod-05 Lec-07 Continuous System and Finite Element Method 51:12
Mod-05 Lec-08 Finite Element Method 1:39:14
Mod-05 Lec-09 Finite Element Analysis 52:19
Mod-05 Lec-10 Finite Element Analysis III 53:00
Mod-06 Lec-01 Influence Coefficient Method 50:22
Mod-06 Lec-02 Transfer Matrix Method I 50:04
Mod-06 Lec-03 Transfer Matrix Method II 48:38
Mod-06 Lec-04 Transfer Matrix Method III 56:11
Mod-06 Lec-05 Continuous System Approach 50:06
Mod-06 Lec-06 Finite Element Method I 52:15
Mod-06 Lec-07 Finite Element Method II 52:12
Mod-06 Lec-08 Finite Element Method III 53:36
Mod-07 Lec-01 Instability in Rotor Systems: Bearings 1:12:09
Mod-07 Lec-02 Fluid-Film Bearings 47:25
Mod-07 Lec-03 Internal Damping & Asymmetrical Shaft 50:48
Mod-07 Lec-04 Steam Whirl and Seals 50:15
Mod-07 Lec-05 Subcritical Speed Whirl 51:29
Mod-08 Lec-01 Introduction to Rigid Rotor Balancing 49:13
Mod-08 Lec-02 Dynamic Balancing of Rotors: Rigid Rotor Balancing 52:52
Mod-08 Lec-03 Dynamic Balancing of Rotors:Flexible Rotor Model Balancing 50:42
Mod-08 Lec-04 Dynamic Balancing of Rotors:Influence Coefficient Method for Flexible Rotor 55:53
Mod-09 Lec-01 Common Faults & Vibration signatures 49:08
Mod-09 Lec-02 Condition Based Monitiring 45:25

Discrete Mathematical Structures by Kamala Krithivasan (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd     2007年12月4日
Computer Sc - Discrete Mathematical Structures by Prof. Kamala Krithivasan,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras

Lecture 1 - Propositional Logic 56:48
Lecture 2 - Propositional Logic (Contd.) 57:36
Lecture 3 - Predicates & Quantifiers 57:55
Lecture 4 - Predicates & Quantifiers (Contd.) 59:25
Lecture 5 -Logical Inference 59:16
Lecture 6 -Resolution Principles & Application to PROLOG 54:30
Lecture 7 - Methods of Proof 54:58
Lecture 8 - Normal Forms 58:09
Lecture 9 - Proving programs correct 54:09
Lecture 10 - Sets 55:13
Lecture 11 - Induction 53:20
Lecture 12 - Set Operations on Strings Over an Alphabet 58:22
Lecture 13 - Relations 57:58
Lecture 14- Graphs 55:37
Lecture 15 - Graphs (Contd.) 55:47
Lecture 16 - Trees 57:23
Lecture 17 - Trees and Graphs 56:46
Lecture 18 - Special Properties of Relations 57:04
Lecture -19 - Closure of Relations 56:51
Lecture 20 - Closure of Relations (Contd.) 57:01
Lecture 21 - Order Relations 55:53
Lecture 22 - Order and Relations and Equivalence Relations 57:13
Lecture 23 - Equivalence relations and partitions 56:20
Lecture 24 - Functions  55:02
Lecture 25 - Functions (Contd.) 56:09
Lectures 26 - Functions (Contd.) 57:50
Lecture 27-Pigeonhole Principle 56:59
Lecture 28 - Permutations and combinations 57:18
Lecture 29 - Permutations and Combinations(Contd...) 59:52
Lecture 30 - Generating Functions  58:13
Lecture 31- Generating Functions 56:19
Lecture 32 - Recurrence Relations 57:21
Lecture 33 - Recurrence Relations 55:58
Lecture 34-Recurrence Relations(contd..) 54:19
Lecture 35-Algebras 57:08
Lecture 36-Algebras(contd...) 57:27
Lecture 37-Algebras(contd...) 55:42
Lecture 38-Finite State Automaton 57:18
Lecture 39-Finite State Automaton(contd....) 56:45
Lecture 40-Lattices 57:04

Biometrics by Phalguni Gupta (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd    2013年5月23日
Computer - Biometrics by Prof. Phalguni Gupta, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lecture-01 Biometrics 53:28
Lecture-02 Biometrics 57:46
Lecture-03 Biometrics 48:47
Lecture-04 Biometrics 43:35
Lecture-05 Biometrics 51:37
Lecture-06 Biometrics 1:02:26
Lecture-07 Biometrics 45:27
Lecture-08 Biometrics 1:07:03
Lecture-09 Biometrics 54:26
Lecture-10 Biometrics 56:24
Lecture-11 Biometrics 56:16
Lecture-12 Biometrics 1:03:12
Lecture-13 Biometrics 56:45
Lecture-14 Biometrics 47:34
Lecture-15 Biometrics 44:07
Lecture-16 Biometrics 55:10
Lecture-17 Biometrics 47:32
Lecture-18 Biometrics 49:24
Lecture-19 Biometrics 29:42
Lecture-20 Biometrics 42:38
Lecture-21 Biometrics 53:09
Lecture-22 Biometrics 1:02:15
Lecture-23 Biometrics 1:32:02
Lecture-24 Biometrics 1:20:11
Lecture-25 Biometrics 1:08:36
Lecture-26 Biometrics 1:26:51