lectures/ideas: 09/08/16

2016-09-08

Correlates of Anomalous Cognition with Edwin C. May

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年8月15日
Edwin C. May, PhD, was involved in the military intelligence psychic spying program, popularly referred to as Stargate, for over twenty years. During the last decade, he was the director of research for that program. In this context, he produced over a hundred scientific publications. His academic training was in experimental nuclear physics. He is coauthor of ESP Wars: East and West and also Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory. He is the coeditor of a two volume anthology titled Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science.
Here he delineates physical, physiological, and psychological correlates associated with remote viewing and precognition. He notes that psychological correlates, so far, are the least reliable. Physiological correlates are relatively unstable. Some very interesting physical correlates are associated with geomagnetic activity and local sidereal time. He focuses on presentiment research, i.e., precognition that is detected by changes in electro-dermal activity. He also emphasizes that psychological research shows us how easily humans can be misled or deceived.

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 17, 2016)

Slavoj Žižek - Ecology: The New Opiate of the Masses (1-7)

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source: Eidos84 2011年2月12日

Heidegger & the Truth of Being by Richard Capobianco

source: Philosophical Overdose 2013年2月3日
Heidegger's well-known expression 'the truth of Being,' which dates to the 1930's, has its origins in his work during the 1920s and especially in his elucidations of Aristotle's "Metaphysics". Heidegger's understanding of Being as manifestive and therefore as true, leads him to critique all later philosophical positions on the proper locus of 'truth.' The presentation examines these early issues in his work—but only by way of bringing back into view what has been lost sight of in many contemporary readings of Heidegger, namely, that the core matter of Heidegger's thinking (including his discussion of Ereignis) is the manifestness of Being.
This talk was given by Richard Capobianco at the Catholic University of America in 2011.

Defining the Humanities: Italian Renaissance

source: Stanford 2016年8月1日

The Sharing Economy with Rachel Botsman

source: The RSA 2016年8月19日
The Sharing Economy with collaborative economy expert Rachel Botsman. The sharing economy has grown rapidly in the last 5 years, and is now popularized by big players such as Airbnb and Uber. What steps need to be taken now to unlock its full social potential and to ensure it remains an economic model that empowers not exploits?
Watch Rachel Botsman, collaborative economy expert, 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/rmybVwtY554
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Arianna Huffington: "The Sleep Revolution" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年8月4日
Arianna Huffington stopped by YouTube HQ to discuss her latest book "The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time."
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, author of 15 books, and has been named to both the Forbes Most Powerful Women list and Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people.
Arianna Huffington's "The Sleep Revolution" is available now on Google Play at http://goo.gl/cz2kLl
Talk moderated by Erin Schaefer

About "The Sleep Revolution"
We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, and this has profound consequences – on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What is needed is nothing short of a sleep revolution. Only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives.
In "The Sleep Revolution", Arianna shows how our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted compromises our health and our decision-making and undermines our work lives, our personal lives -- and even our sex lives. She explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She takes on the dangerous sleeping pill industry, and all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep, and harness its incredible power.
In today's fast-paced, always-connected, perpetually-harried and sleep-deprived world, our need for a good night’s sleep is more important – and elusive -- than ever. "The Sleep Revolution" both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities, and our world.

Why the Internet Is the Greatest Achievement of Any Civilization, Ever | Virginia Heffernan

source: Big Think 2016年8月3日
Cast off your Luddite gloom. The Internet is simply the greatest thing to ever happen to the world. It incorporates every element of art, culture, and ingenuity, taking humanity to a wholly new era. Heffernan's book is "Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art" (http://goo.gl/Ertv9O).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/virginia-h...

Transcript - I see the Internet as the great masterpiece of human civilization, to which we're all contributing all the time the nearly four billion of us with wireless access across the globe. And the reason I call it art is that the building blocks of this enterprise, the Internet, seem obscure, it seems like this must be the tubes or code or a complex surveillance state or operation of various huge tech companies. In fact what we're looking at and interacting with are ancient forms, including text and short form text that for centuries has been known as lyric poetry. And two-dimensional images that bear are a lot of resemblance to frescoes and even cave drawings that we now see the same tropes being resurrected on first Flickr and then Instagram and Snapchat. We see on YouTube we see performance and it music that might have belonged to the ancient Greeks. And, of course, we see music in the form of digitized music, MP3s, Lossless music streaming on title. So it's very difficult to me to see it as not art.
These are exactly the building blocks of civilization, the artifacts that have determined civilization, an increasing civilization. So rather than see us as going to more coarseness and barbarism with the Internet I see this as increasing civility, increasing organization and a natural progress of civilization. Read Full Transcript Here: http://goo.gl/tRX98d.

M. D. Atrey: Cryogenic Engineering (IIT Bombay)

V. K. Tripathi & Vijayshri: Plasma Physics: Fundamentals and Applications (IIT Delhi)

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source: nptelhrd 2013年4月25日
Physics - Plasma Physics: Fundamentals and Applications by Prof. V. K. Tripathi, Prof. Vijayshri, Department of Physics, IIT Delhi. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Introduction to Plasmas 56:55
02 Plasma Response to fields: Fluid Equations 53:25
03 DC Conductivity and Negative Differential Conductivity 59:54
04 RF Conductivity of Plasma 59:08
05 RF Conductivity of Plasma Contd 56:44
06 Hall Effect, Cowling Effect and Cyclotron Resonance Heating 58:18
07 Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Plasma 58:36
08 Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Plasma Contd 59:33
09 Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Inhomogeneous Plasma 57:40
10 Electrostatic Waves in Plasmas 59:14
11 Energy Flow with an Electrostatic Wave 59:13
12 Two Stream Instability 58:12
13 Relativistic electron Beam- Plasma Interaction 57:48
14 Cerenkov Free Electron Laser 1:00:51
15 Free Electron Laser 58:51
16 Free Electron Laser: Energy gain 54:48
17 Free Electron Laser: Wiggler Tapering and Compton Regime Operation 56:28
18 Weibel Instability 58:21
19 Rayleigh Taylor Instability 57:32
20 Single Particle Motion in Static Magnetic and Electric Fields 57:53
21 Plasma Physics Grad B and Curvature Drifts 50:41
22 Adiabatic Invariance of Magnetic Moment and Mirror confinement 57:59
23 Mirror machine 58:45
24 Thermonuclear fusion 57:19
25 Tokamak 58:00
26 Tokamak operation 58:54
27 Auxiliary heating and current drive in tokamak 55:57
28 Electromagnetic waves propagation in magnetise plasma 56:25
29 Longitudinal electromagnetic wave propagation cutoffs, resonances and faraday rotation 58:12
30 Electromagnetic propagation at oblique angles to magnetic field in a plasma 54:50
31 Low frequency EM waves magnetized plasma 58:35
32 Electrostatic waves in magnetized plasma 1:00:18
33 Ion acoustic, ion cyclotron and magneto sonic waves in magnetized plasma 57:05
34 VIasov theory of plasma waves 58:52
35 Landau damping and growth of waves 59:09
36 Landau damping and growth of waves Contd 56:33
37 Anomalous resistivity in a plasma 58:30
38 Diffusion in plasma 56:48
39 Diffusion in magnetized plasma 49:11
40 Surface plasma wave 57:09
41 Laser interaction with plasmas embedded with clusters 56:12
42 Current trends and epilogue 59:44

Artificial Intelligence by Deepak Khemani (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd 2014年5月5日
Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence by Prof. Deepak Khemani, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Artificial Intelligence: Introduction 56:03
02 Introduction to AI 51:55
03 AI Introduction Philosophy 44:12
04 AI Introduction 53:19
05 Introduction Philosophy 35:12
06 State Space Search Intro 54:03
07 Search-DFS and BFS 54:11
08 Search DFID 51:10
09 Heuristic Search 55:49
10 Hill Climbing 44:28
11 Solution Space Search,Beam Search 42:40
12 TSP Greedy Methods 52:26
13 Tabu Search 38:18
14 Optimization I (Simulated Annealing) 48:14
15 Optimization II (Genetic Algorithms) 53:39
16 Population Based Methods for Optimization 51:07
17 Population Based Methods II 58:25
18 Branch and Bound,Dijkstra's Algorithm 56:07
19 A* Algorithm 49:32
20 Admissibility of A* 51:23
21 A* Monotone Property,Iteractive Deeping A* 46:31
22 Recursive Best First Search,Sequence Allignment 49:46
23 Pruning the Open and Closed Lists 50:24
24 Problem Decomposition with goal Trees 48:12
25 AO * Algorithm 47:03
26 Game Playing 44:07
27 Game Playing Minimax Search 45:59
28 Game Playing AlphaBeta 47:46
29 Game Playing SSS 50:13
30 Rule Based Systems 47:32
31 Inference Engines 41:09
32 Rete Algorithm 49:27
33 Planning 50:23
34 Planning FSSP,BSSP 53:30
35 Goal Stack Planning Sussman's Anomaly 50:10
36 Non Linear Planning 45:54
37 Plan Space Planning 50:50
38 Graph Plan 47:50
39 Constraint Satisfaction Problems 52:00
40 CSP Continued 49:25
41 Knowlege Based Systems 53:21
42 Knowledge Based Systems PL 49:39
43 Propositional Logic 48:56
44 Resolution Refutation for PL 40:59
45 First Order Logic (FOL) 52:46
46 Reasoning in FOL 49:18
47 Backward Chaining 53:10
48 Resolution for FOL 46:06

Artificial Intelligence by Sudeshna Sarkar & Anupam Basu (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd 2008年10月14日
Computer Sc - Artificial Intelligence by Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar and Prof. Anupam Basu, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.

1 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 57:31
2 Intelligent Agents 56:12
3 State Space Search 59:02
4 Uninformed Search 59:58
5 Informed Search 59:59
6 Informed Search - 2 54:52
7 Two Players Games - I 58:25
8 Two Players Games - II 56:39
9 Constraint Satisfaction Problems - 1 52:48
10 Constraint Satisfaction Problems 2 53:05
11 Knowledge Representation and Logic 56:59
12 Interface in Propositional Logic 52:46
13 First Order Logic 55:19
14 Reasoning Using First Order Logic 59:20
15 Resolution in FOPL 59:03
16 Rule Based System 57:18
17 Rule Based Systems II 56:31
18 Semantic Net 57:06
19 Reasoning in Semantic Net 56:41
20 Frames 59:52
21 Planning - 1 51:58
22 Planning - 2 55:38
23 Planning - 3 54:03
24 Planning - 4 58:38
25 Rule Based Expart System 59:32
26 Reasoning with Uncertainty - I 1:00:56
27 Reasoning with Uncertainty - II 59:04
28 Reasoning with Uncertainty III 58:51
29 Reasoning with Uncertainty - IV 58:44
30 Fuzzy Reasoning - I 56:30
31 Fuzzy Reasoning - II 59:18
32 Introduction to Learning - I 56:15
33 Introduction to Learning - II 59:30
34 Rule Induction and Decision Trees - I 58:25
35 Rule Induction and Decision Trees - II 56:40
36 Learning Using neural Networks - I 1:00:46
37 Learning Using Neural Networks - II 48:45
38 Probabilistic Learning 59:38
39 Natural Language Processing - I 57:29
40 Natural Language Processing II 56:25

Hito Steyerl: Adorno's Grey - Samir Gandesha and Jaleh Mansoor

source: Simon Fraser University 2014年1月6日
October 16, 2013 - Audain Gallery: Grey on Grey Lecture Series
Hito Steyerl's installation Adorno's Grey (2012) features a single channel video set at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt where Theodor W. Adorno famously taught. It shows two conservators scraping the walls of a lecture hall, looking for the legendary grey that Adorno had his classroom painted in order to promote concentration. The "Busenattentat" (Breast Attack) incident that occurred during his 1969 lecture series, "Introduction to Dialectical Thinking", is narrated and interpreted over the forensic performance. Parallel to the excavation, Steyerl uncovers a constellation of artifacts from the histories of student protests, nude protests and monochrome painting. In her practice, Steyerl employs riddles, puns and word play as tools for ideological critique. In Adorno's Grey, she exercises the dialectical properties of grey within philosophy, aesthetics, pedagogy and politics.

Steyerl is a Berlin based filmmaker and author in the area of essayist documentary film/video, media art and video installation. She teaches New Media Art at University of the Arts, Berlin and her work has been included in the Venice Biennale (2013), Taipei Biennial (2010), dOCUMENTA (12) (2007) and Manifesta 5 (2004), among others.
Curated by Melanie O'Brian with Amy Kazymerchyk in collaboration with the School for the Contemporary Arts' Audain Visual Artist in Residence Program.
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