Jean-Luc Marion - Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice (1-7)

source: Eidos84   2010年9月8日
In this lecture, Jean-Luc Marion advances a phenomenological notion of sacrifice that is distinct from the notion of sacrifice typically discussed in Sociology or even Religious Studies. He argues that sacrifice restores the gift from the side of the givee, much as he has argued previously that forgiveness restores the gift from the side of the giver. He develops both notions within the framework of a phenomenology of givenness, advancing the thesis that sacrifice requires neither destruction, nor restitution, nor even exchange, and still less contract. Sacrifice surpasses all this because sacrifice does not arise as an economic notion (one that would make an economy of the gift), but rather from the gift itself. The function of sacrifice is only to permit acknowledgment of the giver and thereby the entire process of givenness, by reducing the given. Jean-Luc Marion is Professor in the Divinity School, the Department of Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. He is author of many books, including God Without Being, Cartesian Questions, and The Erotic Phenomenon.

Revising Logic (Graham Priest)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2013年5月20日
Can logic be revised? If so, can it be revised rationally? If so, how? Graham Priest addresses these and related philosophical questions in this talk regarding the nature of logic and valid reasoning. This talk was given at the MCMP conference on Paradox and Logical Revision (July 23-25, 2012). I don't own it.

Wuzzit? Digital Math Games in Elementary Classrooms

source: Stanford    2016年8月2日
From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Holly Pope from the Stanford Graduate School of Education examines the results of a pilot study in which third graders who played the digital math game Wuzzit Trouble showed increased mathematical thinking compared to those who did not play the game.

Reincarnation, Part Three: Identifying Past Lives, with Walter Semkiw

source: New Thinking Allowed    2015年12月23日
Walter Semkiw, MD, is founder and president of the Institute for the Integration of Science, Intuition, and Spirit. He is author of Born Again, Return of the Revolutionaries: The Case for Reincarnation and Soul Groups Reunited, and Origin of the Soul and the Purpose of Reincarnation.
Here he describes his own journey from a skeptical medical student to a student and scholar of reincarnation cases. He came to accept that he had a past lifetime during the American Revolutionary War period. He also describes the development of an intuitive methodology employing the guidance of trance channel, Kevin Ryerson, and his spirit entity known as “Ahtun Re”. Using this approach, he believes he has been able to identify the past lives of hundreds of contemporary individuals. He describes some remarkable “hits” that strengthened his confidence in this non-scientific approach. He also maintains that people tend to reincarnate in “soul groups” that connect over multiple lifetimes. In this context, he describes how he came to believe that the interviewer, Jeffrey Mishlove, was the psychologist and philosopher, William James, in a previous lifetime.

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 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.
(Recorded on November 22, 2015)

Robin Hanson: "The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the E...

source: Talks at Google    2016年8月25日
Robin Hanson, research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University, speaks to his upcoming book, "The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth." It's a unique look into the social and economic effects of whole brain emulation.
Hanson is a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University and an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. He is known as an expert on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the creation of DARPA's FutureMAP project and the Foresight Institute's Foresight Exchange. He invented market scoring rules like LMSR (Logarithmic Market Scoring Rule) used by prediction markets such as Consensus Point (where Hanson is Chief Scientist), and has conducted research on signalling. Hanson's blog Overcoming Bias receives over 50,000 visitors per month, with more than 8 million visitors since 2006
http://www.overcomingbias.com/

John Irving Bloom: "Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年8月9日
Veteran investigative journalist John Bloom tells the greatest satellite story you've never heard, with special guests Dr. Ray Leopold and Dan Colussy.
The Iridium satellite constellation--dreamed up by Dr. Ray Leopold and co. in the '90s--was intended to provide a cellular phone with signal at all ends of the Earth. As the dotcom bubble burst, and Motorola struggled to find buyers for its $5 billion project, the Iridium project was almost self-destructed out of orbit. But businessman Dan Colussy had other plans.

Writing 101: Choose Your Critics Wisely | Jacqueline Woodson

source: Big Think    2016年8月10日
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson talks us through her writing and editing process, and gives useful steps for how to handle criticism. Woodson's latest book is "Another Brooklyn" (http://goo.gl/0DMHUs).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/jacqueline...

Transcript - In terms of a criticism here's how I deal with it, and this is having written 32 books. The first time I ask people to read my work I say tell me only what you love about it. And they say I love a Jeremiah; I love that you've centered this book in Bushwick, whatever it is. And then I get all excited. I go back and write more. And then the next time I say ask me three questions. And then the three questions are why does he get killed? Why do they fall in love? Why does he end up in the witness protection program, whatever the questions they have that makes me go back and realize I haven't explained stuff enough and write more. It really is fragile when you first put your words out into the world and for someone to jump on them and start critiquing or criticizing them right off the bat can be devastating.
So even for me at this stage it has to be incremental and always starting with praise, lots and lots of praise and then getting to the nitty-gritty. And so I think it's important to show your work to people you trust and love. And I think it's important to read your work out loud, to hear it and hear where it feels safe and unsafe. Even with my editor when I get my manuscript back from her I go through the whole manuscript and I read all the places where she's like wow I love this; brilliant; awesome. And all of those praises kind of get me ready for her to ask the bigger questions. And it's important that the criticism be constructive because otherwise it's destructive. You want to just throw the book away and so the criticism should be kind of critiquing that asked questions, ask bigger questions, why does this happen; I'm curious about where this is going; at the end of this piece of dialogue what were you intending for the reader to get it, so that kind of thing so it doesn't make you feel so vulnerable. Read Full Transcript Here:http://goo.gl/3RxZH9.

S. Chakraborty: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Engineering (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd   2015年3月24日
Mechanical - Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Engineering by Prof. S. Chakraborty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Introductory Concepts 58:34
02 Introductory Concepts (Contd.) 54:42
03 Introductory Concepts (Contd. ) 55:20
04 Viscosity 56:07
05 Viscosity (Contd.) 57:26
06 Viscosity (Contd.) and Surface Tension 57:14
07 Surface Tension (Contd.) and Fluid Statics 57:40
08 Fluid Statics (Contd.) 57:23
09 Fluid Statics ( Contd.) 58:14
10 Fluid Statics (Contd.) and Fluid Under Rigid Body Motion 58:59
11 Fluid Kinematics 58:50
12 Fluid Kinematics (Contd.) 57:46
13 Fluid Kinematics (Contd.) 57:33
14 Fluid Kinematics (Contd.) 57:49
15 Fluid Kinematics (Contd.) 58:29
16 Dynamics of Inviscid Flows 57:57
17 Dynamics of Inviscid Flows (Contd.) 57:51
18 Dynamics of Inviscid Flows (Contd.) 58:42
19 Dynamics of Inviscid Flows (Contd.) 59:43
20 Dynamics of Inviscid Flows ( Contd.) 59:08
21 Integral Forms of Control Volume Conservation Equations (Reynolds Transport Theorem) 59:21
22 Integral Forms of Control Volume Conservation Equations 59:25
23 Integral Forms of Control Volume Conservation Equations 58:52
24 Integral Forms of Control Volume Conservation Equations 58:39
25 Integral Forms of Control Volume Conservation Equations 57:48
26 Integral Forms of Control Volume Conservation Equations 59:15
27 Integral Forms of Control Volume Conservation Equations 57:41
28 Dynamics of Viscous Flows : Navier Stokes Equation 58:42
29 Dynamics of Viscous Flows : Navier Stokes Equation (Contd.) 59:02
30 Some Exact Solutions of Navier Stokes Equation 58:38
31 Some Exact Solutions of Navier Stokes Equation (Contd.) 58:52
32 Some Exact Solutions of Navier Stokes Equation ( Contd.) 57:08
33 Introduction to Turbulence 59:59
34 Introduction to Turbulence (Contd.) 59:25
35 Introduction to Turbulence ( Contd.) 57:50
36 Introduction to Turbulence ( Contd.) 1:00:02
37 Boundary Layer Theory 59:14
38 Boundary Layer Theory (Contd) 58:27
39 Boundary Layer Theory (Contd.) 57:50
40 Boundary Layer Theory (Contd.) and Flow Past Immersed Bodies 57:32
41 Flow past Immersed Bodies (Contd.) 59:20
42 Potential Flow Past Immersed Bodies 58:52
43 Potential Flow (Contd.) and Flow Past Immersed Bodies of Special Shapes 58:03
44 Flow Past Immersed Bodies (Contd.) and Sports Ball Aerodynamics 59:37
45 Pipe Flow 58:01
46 Pipe Flow (Contd.) 59:10
47 Pipe Flow (Contd.) 59:48
48 Principles of Similarity and Dimensional Analysis 1:00:15
49 Introduction to Fluid Machines 1:00:07
50 Introduction to Fluid Machines (Contd.) 58:54
51 Introduction to Fluid Machines (Contd.) 58:33
52 Introduction to Fluid Machines (Contd.) 59:07
53 Introduction to Fluid Machines ( Contd. ) 1:00:08
54 Compressible Flows 57:55
55 Compressible Flows (Contd.) 55:50
56 Compressible Flows (Contd..) 58:50
57 Compressible Flows ( Contd..) 56:41
58 Compressible Flows (Contd...) 56:32

V. Balakrishnan: Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd    2014年7月27日
Physics - Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics by Prof. V. Balakrishnan, Department of Physics, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Overview 55:34
02 Critical points of a dynamical system 1:00:19
03 Two-dimensional flows 59:21
04 Stable and unstable manifolds 1:00:22
05 Hamiltonian dynamics (Part I) 58:58
06 Hamiltonian dynamics (Part II) 1:03:55
07 Hamiltonian dynamics (Part III) 1:02:11
08 Hamiltonian dynamics (Part IV) 1:00:21
09 Hamiltonian dynamics (Part V) 1:02:43
10 Elementary bifurcations 45:13
11 Limit cycles 39:57
12 Poincar´e index 54:15
13 Illustrative examples 57:46
14 Quiz 1. Questions and answers 59:12
15 Bead on a rotating hoop 1:07:00
16 Types of dynamical behaviour 59:39
17 Discrete time dynamics (Part I) 57:55
18 Discrete time dynamics(Part II) 1:03:20
19 Discrete time dynamics (Part III) 1:07:38
20 Discrete time dynamics (Part IV) 1:04:38
21 Coarse-grained dynamics in phase space (Part I) 1:06:17
22 Coarse-grained dynamics in phase space (Part II) 1:07:07
23 Stochastic dynamics (Part II) 57:34
24 Stochastic dynamics (Part III) 1:00:47
25 Coarse-grained dynamics in phase space (Part IV) 1:04:54
26 Discrete time dynamics (Part V) 1:11:06
27 Quiz 2. Questions and answers 52:15
28 Stochastic dynamics (Part V) 58:36
29 Stochastic dynamics (Part VI) 57:08

Numerical Optimization by Shirish K. Shevade (IISc Bangalore)

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source: nptelhrd   2012年7月2日
Computer - Numerical Optimization by Dr. Shirish K. Shevade, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IISc Bangalore. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 Introduction 53:32
Mod-02 Lec-02 Mathematical Background 55:45
Mod-02 Lec-03 Mathematical Background (contd) 58:52
Mod-03 Lec-04 One Dimensional Optimization - Optimality Conditions 56:02
Mod-03 Lec-05 One Dimensional Optimization (contd) 1:08:20
Mod-04 Lec-06 Convex Sets 43:59
Mod-04 Lec-07 Convex Sets (contd) 56:11
Mod-05 Lec-08 Convex Functions 56:26
Mod-05 Lec-09 Convex Functions (contd) 1:16:30
Mod-06 Lec-10 Multi Dimensional Optimization - Optimality Conditions, Conceptual Algorithm 36:35
Mod-06 Lec-11 Line Search Techniques 57:01
Mod-06 Lec-12 Global Convergence Theorem 57:37
Mod-06 Lec-13 Steepest Descent Method 57:11
Mod-06 Lec-14 Classical Newton Method 57:36
Mod-06 Lec-15 Trust Region and Quasi-Newton Methods 57:03
Mod-06 Lec-16 Quasi-Newton Methods - Rank One Correction, DFP Method 57:31
Mod-06 Lec-17 Quasi-Newton Methods - Rank One Correction, DFP Method 54:41
Mod-06 Lec-18 Conjugate Directions 56:25
Mod-06 Lec-19 Quasi-Newton Methods - Rank One Correction, DFP Method 55:40
Mod-07 Lec-20 Constrained Optimization - Local and Global Solutions, Conceptual Algorithm 56:58
Mod-07 Lec-21 Feasible and Descent Directions 57:04
Mod-07 Lec-22 First Order KKT Conditions 58:22
Mod-07 Lec-23 Constraint Qualifications 56:33
Mod-07 Lec-24 Convex Programming Problem 55:20
Mod-07 Lec-25 Second Order KKT Conditions 55:11
Mod-07 Lec-26 Second Order KKT Conditions (contd) 50:53
Mod-08 Lec-27 Weak and Strong Duality 55:22
Mod-08 Lec-28 Geometric Interpretation 55:48
Mod-08 Lec-29 Lagrangian Saddle Point and Wolfe Dual 1:22:33
Mod-09 Lec-30 Linear Programming Problem 30:47
Mod-09 Lec-31 Geometric Solution 57:23
Mod-09 Lec-32 Basic Feasible Solution 57:17
Mod-09 Lec-33 Optimality Conditions and Simplex Tableau 57:42
Mod-09 Lec-34 Simplex Algorithm and Two-Phase Method 58:01
Mod-09 Lec-35 Duality in Linear Programming 58:20
Mod-09 Lec-36 Interior Point Methods - Affine Scaling Method 58:10
Mod-09 Lec-37 Karmarkar's Method 1:24:30
Mod-10 Lec-38 Lagrange Methods, Active Set Method 29:28
Mod-10 Lec-39 Active Set Method (contd) 57:49
Mod-10 Lec-40 Barrier and Penalty Methods, Augmented Lagrangian Method and Cutting Plane Method 32:48
Mod-10 Lec-41 Summary 20:43

Database Management System by D. Janakiram & S. Srinath

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source: nptelhrd    2008年9月7日
Computer Sc - Database Management System by Prof. D. Janakiram, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras / Dr. S. Srinath, IIIT Bangalore.

Lecture -1 Introduction to Database Management System 53:32
Lecture -1a Conceptual Designs 53:41
Lecture -2 Conceptual Designs 54:01
Lecture - 3 Relational Model 51:35
Lecture - 4 Relational Model 54:09
Lecture - 5 Structured Query Language 52:13
Lecture - 6 Structured Query Language II 54:58
Lecture - 7 ER Model to Relational Mapping 51:06
Lecture - 8 Functional Dependencies and Normal Form 57:52
Lecture - 9 ER Model to Relational Model Mapping 50:53
Lecture - 10 Storage Structures 54:56
Lecture - 11 Indexing Techniques Single Level 56:52
Lecture - 12 Indexing Techniques Multi-Level 56:25
Lecture - 13 Constraints and Triggers 57:30
Lecture - 14 Query Processing and Optimization 56:41
Lecture -15 Query Processing and Optimization II 56:55
Lecture - 16 Query Processing and Optimization - III 57:19
Lecture - 17 Transaction Processing Concepts 55:31
Lecture - 18 Transaction Processing and Database Manager 51:48
Lecture - 19 Foundation for Concurrency Control 57:45
Lecture - 20 Concurrency Control Part - I 58:25
Lecture - 21 Concurrency Control Part - 2 59:08
Lecture - 22 Concurrency Control Part - 3 57:48
Lecture - 23 Concurrency Control Part - 4 58:59
Lecture -24 Distributed Transaction Models 58:26
Lecture - 25 Basic 2-Phase and 3-phase commit protocol 57:12
Lecture - 26 Concurrency Control for Distributed Transaction 58:23
Lecture - 27 Introduction to Transaction Recovery 55:24
Lecture - 28 Recovery Mechanisms II 57:11
Lecture - 29 Recovery Mechanisms III 55:43
Lecture - 30 Introduction to Data Warehousing and OLAP 57:50
Lecture - 31 Introduction to Data Warehousing nad OLAP 58:12
Lecture - 32 Case Study : MYSQL 57:55
Lecture - 33 Case Study ORACLE and Microsoft Access 57:52
Lecture - 34 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 54:46
Lecture - 35 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Part II 58:00
Lecture - 36 Object Oriented Databases 57:50
Lecture -37 Object Oriented Databases II 56:40
Lecture -38 XML - Introductory Concepts 57:51
Lecture -39 XML Advanced Concepts 57:40
Lecture -40 XML Databases 58:12
Lecture -41 Case Study - Part One Database Design 53:43
Lecture -42 Case Study - Part 2 Database Design 58:36

Khelsilem Rivers and April Charlo: Decolonizing Language Revitalization

source: Simon Fraser University    2014年1月2日
September 25, 2013 - How has Eurocentric anthropology and linguistics affected the way we interpret our elders and ancestors who share their cultural knowledge with foreign researchers?

Join us for a presentation with Khelsilem Rivers and April Charlo, indigenous peoples from community-based and cultural revitalization backgrounds, who will be discussing decolonization of language revitalization. Their presentation and open dialogue will address the context of rapid language loss and decline, and how colonization has affected or is embedded in the strategies of revitalization.
In an effort to revitalize Indigenous languages, communities may have unknowingly adopted or assimilated colonized ways of thinking as they invest interest and attempt to repair or restore ties to culture and language. Are we learning to speak Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Nēhiyawēwin, Kanien'kéha, et all with an English-mind or are we learning to speak Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Nēhiyawēwin, Kanien'kéha with a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Nēhiyaw, Kanien'keháka mind?
Indigenous languages represent one of the darkest ways in which ethnocide and cultural genocide have occurred. It is expected in the next twenty-five years over 700 of the worlds Indigenous languages will be forgotten. In the Vancouver area alone, the two Indigenous languages are considered critical endangered; Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) language has five to seven fluent speakers and hən̓q̓əmin̓əm has one fluent speaker left.
Decolonizing Language Revitalization aims to put forward perspectives of shifting values, cultural understandings, and impacts on community. It is the stories we tell ourselves (as a people) that impacts who we believe we are, and then who we become. But if the stories -- even including, or especially the Indigenous ones -- are filtered through colonialism, we have become a different people because of it.
April Charlo from Bitterroot Salish people and is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Montana.
Khelsilem Rivers is a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh-Kwakwa̱ka̱'wakw language revitalization activist from Vancouver.
Supported by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
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