2016-09-26

England's Greatest Garden Designer – Capability Brown


source: University of Oxford    2016年8月19日
It is 300 years since the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, who designed the gardens of some of England’s most beloved country houses. Dr Oliver Cox, Heritage Engagement Fellow at the University, tells us about ‘the man behind England’s green and pleasant land’.

With thanks to:
Blenheim Palace http://www.blenheimpalace.com
The Capability Brown Festival http://www.capabilitybrown.org
The Bodleian Library: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Space, Time, and Consciousness with Vernon Neppe


source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年5月16日
Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, FRSSAf, is a neuropsychiatrist and head of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute in Seattle. He is author, with physicist Edward Close, of Reality Begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift that Works. He is also author of Déjà Vu Revisited, Déjà Vu: A Second Look, Déjà Vu: Glossary and Library, Cry the Beloved Mind: A Voyage of Hope, and Innovative Psychopharmacotherapy. His professional publications number over 700. Dr Neppe has amplified many of his concepts in two of the websites linked with his work. On www.Brainvoyage.com, his books are amplified. www.VernonNeppe.org is his gateway and includes more information on the Neppe-Close model of the Triadic Distinction Vortical Paradigm.
Here, Dr. Neppe describes his work with Dr. Close in developing a new paradigm that could account for consciousness and psi phenomena within a mathematical and physical framework. His approach is one in which space, time, and consciousness are tethered together. He calls this unified monism. His model also entails nine mathematical dimensions.

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 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 April 17, 2016)

Pattern Recognition by C. A. Murthy & Sukhendu Das (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd    2014年10月8日
Computer Science - Pattern Recognition by Prof. C.A. Murthy & Prof. Sukhendu Das, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Principles of Pattern Recognition I (Introduction and Uses) 46:40
02 Principles of Pattern Recognition II (Mathematics) 48:09
03 Principles of Pattern Recognition III (Classification and Bayes Decision Rule) 38:07
04 Clustering vs. Classification 46:55
05 Relevant Basics of Linear Algebra, Vector Spaces 55:22
06 Eigen Value and Eigen Vectors 46:01
07 Vector Spaces 33:56
08 Rank of Matrix and SVD 34:37
09 Types of Errors 41:42
10 Examples of Bayes Decision Rule 1:17:42
11 Normal Distribution and Parameter Estimation 28:16
12 Training Set, Test Set 43:15
13 Standardization, Normalization, Clustering and Metric Space 54:33
14 Normal Distribution and Decision Boundaries I 1:02:51
15 Normal Distribution and Decision Boundaries II 46:29
17 Linear Discriminant Function and Perceptron 57:31
18 Perceptron Learning and Decision Boundaries 48:17
19 Linear and Non-Linear Decision Boundaries 52:01
20 K-NN Classifier 53:48
21 Principal Component Analysis (PCA) 1:03:24
22 Fisher’s LDA 40:30
23 Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) 26:06
24 Assignments 35:44
25 Basics of Clustering, Similarity/Dissimilarity Measures, Clustering Criteria. 33:14
26 K-Means Algorithm and Hierarchical Clustering.. 48:15
27 K-Medoids and DBSCAN 39:56
28 Feature Selection : Problem statement and Uses 49:46
29 Feature Selection : Branch and Bound Algorithm 53:14
30 Feature Selection : Sequential Forward and Backward Selection 46:58
16 Bayes Theorem 32:53
31 Cauchy Schwartz Inequality 27:56
32 Feature Selection Criteria Function: Probabilistic Separability Based 45:33
33 Feature Selection Criteria Function: Interclass Distance Based 47:06
34 Principal Components 50:48
35 Comparison Between Performance of Classifiers 33:47
36 Basics of Statistics, Covariance, and their Properties 28:29
37 Data Condensation, Feature Clustering, Data Visualization 54:38
38 Probability Density Estimation 49:34
39 Visualization and Aggregation 25:45
40 Support Vector Machine (SVM) 1:04:49
41 FCM and Soft-Computing Techniques 57:23
42 Examples of Uses or Application of Pattern Recognition; And When to do clustering 20:07
43 Examples of Real-Life Dataset 34:37

S. Vaidhyasubramaniam: Business Analysis for Engineers (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd     2014年12月22日
Management - Business Analysis for Engineers by Dr. S. Vaidhyasubramaniam, Department of Management, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Introduction to Business Analysis for Engineers 50:18
02 Introduction to Accounting 49:47
03 Accounting Principles - 1 44:25
04 Balance Sheet Fundamentals 50:30
05 Balance Sheet Fundamentals 44:31
06 Accounting Principles - 2 47:52
07 Introduction to Income Statement & Double Entry 50:12
08 Double Entry Examples - 1 47:56
09 Double Entry Examples - 2 44:14
10 Preparation of Financial Statement 45:40
11 Cash Flow Statement 1 46:15
12 Cash Flow Statement 2 49:25
13 Special Accounts Illustrations 45:47
14 Final Illustrative Example 54:06
15 Summary of Financial Accounting 45:46
16 Introduction to Management Accounting & Behaviour of Cost 47:44
17 Cost-Volume Relationship 45:41
18 Cost-Objects & Variance 43:30
19 Labour & Over Heads Variance Analysis 41:52
20 Cash Conversion Cycle 46:12
21 Inventory Management 37:51
22 What is Strategy? 44:06
23 Poter's Diamond Model 46:08
24 Industry Analysis 49:20
25 Industry Analysis & Sources of Strategy 22:21
26 The Need for Value 44:18
27 Value Chain Analysis 35:32
28 Corporate Portfolio Analysis 34:22
29 External & Internal Environ Analysis 39:54
30 Models for Strategy,Ansoff matrix 44:18
31 Porter's Generic Strategy 41:18
32 Prahlad's Core Competency 41:38
33 Case study to understand strategy 56:39
34 Case study to understand strategy 44:01
35 Blue ocean and conclusion 42:12
36 Introduction to Economics 40:26
37 Introduction to GDP 38:50
38 Supply vs Demand 45:34
39 Price & Income Elasticity and Utility 44:47
40 Macroeconomic Variables 45:29
41 Fiscal & Monetary Policy 44:30
42 Union Budget & Conclusion 47:49

Sustainable Management of Change – The Science of Preserving Cultural Heritage


source: Yale University 2016年8月3日
Introduction into preservation of cultural heritage as sustainable management of change, vision and mission of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Studies on authenticity, fake and forgery detection, sustainable preservation in times of crisis, man-made natural disasters and climate change. Stakeholder involvement as key criteria to sustainability.
Presented by Stefan Simon, Director of the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

Which Parts Of The Brain Do What?


source: MinuteEarth   2016年9月20日
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Walter Lewin: 8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves (Fall 2004)

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source: Lectures by Walter Lewin.    2015年2月10日
Walter Lewin: 8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves
Assignments Lecture 1, 2 and 3: http://freepdfhosting.com/63073d984e.pdf
Solutions Lecture 1, 2 and 3: http://freepdfhosting.com/58521402f3.pdf

1 - Periodic Phenomena, SHO, Complex Notation, Physical Pendulum Periodic Phenomena (oscillations waves) - Simple Harmonic Oscillations - Complex Notation - Differential Equations - Physical Pendulum 1:17:56
2 - Beats, Damped Free Oscillations, Quality Q 1:20:52
3 - Driven Oscillations With Damping, Steady State Solutions, Resonance 1:09:05
4 - Forced Oscillations, Power, Resonance, Transient Solutions 1:17:22
5 - Coupled Oscillators, Resonance Frequencies, Superposition of Modes 1:18:19
6 - Coupled Oscillators, Steady State & Transient Solutions, Initial Conditions 1:20:24
7 - Many Coupled Oscillators, Wave Equation, Transverse Traveling Waves 1:18:31
8 - Traveling Waves, Standing Waves, Longitudinal Waves, Energy in Waves 1:16:28
9 - Sound Cavities, Resonance Frequencies, Musical Instruments 1:20:25
10 - First Exam Review, Breaking Wine Glass with Sound 1:17:20
11 - Fourier Analysis, Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings 1:14:22
12 - Dispersion, Phase Velocity, Group Velocity 1:18:42
13 - Electromagnetic Waves, Solutions to Maxwell's Equations, Polarization 1:15:11
14 - Accelerated Charges, Poynting Vector, Power, Rayleigh Scattering 1:17:03
15 - Doppler Effect, Big Bang Cosmology, Neutron Stars & Black Holes 1:17:32
16 - Standing EM Waves, Reflection, Transmission Lines, Rad. Pressure 1:15:51
17 - Wave Guides, Resonance Cavities, Great Sound Demo in Closed Box 1:16:48
18 - Index of Refraction, Reflection, Fresnel Equations, Brewster Angle 1:21:33
19 - Second Exam Review 1:20:11
20 - Interference, Huygen's Principle, Thin Films, Double Slit Demo 1:16:43
21 - Diffraction, Gratings, Spectral & Angular Resolution, Human Eye 1:23:38
22 - Rainbows, Coronae, Glories, Glass Bow, Great Demos 1:23:09
23 - Farewell Special, My Early Years at MIT, Balloon Astrophysics 1:18:03

Étienne Balibar on "Violence, Civility, and Politics Revisited"

source: Harvard University    2014年11月20日
Étienne Balibar on "Violence, Civility, and Politics Revisited"
Speaker: Étienne Balibar
Distinguished Professor of French and Italian and of Comparative Literature, University of California Irvine
Lecture 1 | “Are There Criteria of Extreme Violence?”
Lecture 2 | “Objective and Subjective Cruelty: A Relevant Distinction in the Globalized World?”
Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence.

Living the Best Life Possible: Doctor and Patient Conversations About Serious Illness and Mortality


source: Harvard University     2015年3月18日
Many Americans may confront illnesses so serious that they are life threatening. These diagnoses may come with treatment attempts and hospital stays. What they may not include are honest and open conversations about the final stages of life. How might the patient want to live during these stages? What choices are most likely to bring a sense of peace and empowerment? How might family members be included in these discussions? A growing palliative care movement is encompassing these questions, bringing together doctors, patients and their families in a new and compassionate way. This Forum event examined this movement, taking a look at the Serious Illness Care Program system developed at Ariadne Labs, as well as the upcoming launch of a national collaborative to test the use of this program in multiple healthcare systems in the U.S. This event also reviewed issues within healthcare systems, including utilization of end-of-life services and the debate around the role of payment for value.
Presented March 17, 2015 in Collaboration with PRI’S The World and WGBH.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.

Hilary Putnam Interview on Philosophy of Science (Subtitles Available)


source: Philosophical Overdose    2015年11月9日
Bryan Magee and Hilary Putnam discuss the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mathematics. An introductory overview is given of some of the conceptual issues which arise regarding the nature of knowledge and science including demarcation, methodology, foundations, as well as the notion of truth and objectivity, the fact-value dichotomy, inductive logic, reductionism, materialism, etc.
Hilary Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist who was a central figure in analytic philosophy. He made important contributions in logic, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science and mathematics.

I recommend his book "Reason, Truth, and History" which can be found online here:https://ia902606.us.archive.org/23/it...
This interview is from a 1978 BBC program. Transcript/subtitles are available.

Is Evil Necessary in God's World? (Closer to Truth)


source: Closer To Truth     2016年8月23日
If we seek God, we cannot avoid the problem of evil. Can the enormity of evil ever be compatible with an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God? Couldn't God have created the world without such evil?
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Michael Tooley - Is Evil Necessary in God's World? 3:24
Jesse Couenvhoven - Is Evil Necessary in God's World? 2:48

Mark Z. Danielewski: "The Familiar" | Talks At Google


source: Talks at Google    2016年8月11日
Mark Z. Danielewski, the internationally bestselling author of "House of Leaves" and the National Book Award nominated "Only Revolutions," comes to Google to discuss his planned 27-volume epic, "The Familiar," of which Volume 3 was released in June 2016.
The novel ranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the balance, each called upon to make a terrifying choice. At the very heart, though, is a twelve-year-old girl named Xanther who one rainy day in May sets out with her father to get a dog, only to end up trying to save a cat as fragile as it is dangerous. The series continues the spectacular visuals and vibrant wordplay that are Danielewski's trademark, making "The Familiar" a beautiful and singular reading experience.

History Lesson: Religion's Portrayal of 'Hell' is Totally Misunderstood ...


source: Big Think    2016年8月21日
A lot of us are banking on heaven for ourselves and hell for certain others, but spiritual teacher Rob Bell urges us to think about those concepts as states of consciousness, and rethink the nature of the afterlife. Bell's latest book is "How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living" (http://goo.gl/DW7wMQ).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/rob-bell-o...

Transcript - I begin with heaven and hell as states of consciousness and reflections of the kind of world that we’re creating right now. So when people say well where is hell they’re essentially saying it is a dimension or a human experience that is absent of anything good, peaceful, generous, redemptive. So the idea that has animated a lot of religion for a lot of people that there is some divine being somewhere who if you don’t say or do or pray or think the right or believe the right thing is going to send you to hell. Life is difficult enough without believing that the deepest, strongest forces of the universe are against you and are going to torture you forever. One of the things I found most interesting is that Jesus used the word hell but when he used the word hell he was referring to an actual place in the city of Jerusalem in the first century. The word he used was the word Gehenna. And Gehenna means a valley of Hinnom.
And the valley of Hinnom was the south valley on the south wall of the city of Jerusalem and it’s where people tossed their trash. So he’s pretty much the only person who used it and when he used this word he was referring to a real place where this trash was burning. So essentially he was saying you as a human being, you have this power to make choices about whether you will move towards others in grace and compassion and kindness or you will move towards people in violence and degradation. And when you do that, when you mistreat others, when you are indifferent to their suffering you are essentially creating like a Hinnom on earth. And so you’re creating a hell on earth. So I begin with these as very powerful words and pictures of what we as human beings can create right now. And when you talk about that apparently for a lot of religious people being right isn’t enough. It’s being right and other people being wrong. It’s being in and other people being out. It’s being part of the chosen and other people not being part of the chosen. For many people going back to why spirituality has been so sort of corrupted for so many people, for many people their fundamental understanding of the spiritual life was figuring out who’s got it, who doesn’t, who’s in, who’s out. And I begin with a much more inclusive love for everybody. But then we can right now choose to live particular ways in this world. That’s a really long answer about hell. It was all over the place. Read Full Transcript Here: http://goo.gl/gx0H7F.

Theory of Automata, Formal Languages and Computation by Kamala Krithivasan (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd     2011年10月5日
Computer - Theory of Automata, Formal Languages and Computation by Prof. Kamala Krithivasan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 GRAMMARS AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING 53:26
02 GRAMMARS AND LANGUAGES GENERATED 49:35
03 GRAMMARS AND LANGUAGES GENERATED (Contd) 49:27
04 AMBIGUITY IN CFG 57:10
05 SIMPLICATION OF CFG 56:03
06 REMOVAL OF UNIT PRODUCTIONS , CHOMSKY NORMAL FORM FOR CFG 55:11
07 GREIBACH NORMAL FORM FOR CFG 50:12
08 FINAL STATE AUTOMATA 56:05
09 NON-DETERMINISTIC FSA 53:53
10 NON DETERMINISTIC FSA (Contd) 45:15
11 NON DETERMINISTIC FSA WITH E(Epsilon)- MOVES 45:48
12 EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN FSA AND TYPE 3 GRAMMARS 58:35
13 REGULAR EXPRESSIONS , REGULAR EXPRESSIONS TO NFSA 1:03:50
14 DFSA TO REGULAR EXPRESSIONS 57:29
15 PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS 51:55
16 PUMPING LEMMAS FOR REGULAR SETS AND CFL 59:50
17 MYHILL-NERODE THEOREM 50:13
18 MINIMIZATION OF DFSA 55:17
19 FSA WITH OUTPUT MOORE AND MEALY MACHINES 51:43
20 PUSHDOWN AUTOMATA 45:43
21 PUSHDOWN AUTOMATA,EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN ACCEPTANCE BY EMPTY STORE 49:42
22 PUSHDOWN AUTOMATA CFG TO PDA 50:39
23 PUSHDOWN AUTOMATA PDA TO CFG 58:25
24 PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS-I 50:04
25 PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS - III 1:04:03
26 TURING MACHINES 58:41
27 TURING MACHINES (Contd) 52:53
28 TURING MACHINE AS ACCEPTOR, TECHNIQUES FOR TM CONSTRUCTION 57:06
29 GENERALIZED VERSIONS OF TURING MACHINES 57:35
30 TURING MACHINE AS A GENERATING DEVICE 1:00:09
31 RECURSIVE SETS , RECURSIVELY INNUMERABLE SETS , ENCODING OF TM , HALTING PROBLEM 57:22
32 PROBLEMS AND INSTANCES , UNIVERSAL TM , DECIDABILITY 59:03
33 RICE'S THEOREM,LINEAR BOUNDED AUTOMATA,PROPERTIES OF TM 54:17
34 POST'S CORRESPONDENCE PROBLEMS 50:49
35 POST'S CORRESPONDENCE PROBLEMS (Contd) TIME AND TAPE COMPLEXITY OT TM 53:51
36 NP - COMPLETE PROBLEMS , COOK'S THEOREM 1:10:06
37 NP - COMPLETE PROBLEMS (Contd) 1:01:20
38 REGULATED REWRITING 59:59
39 L - SYSTEMS 55:05
40 GRAMMAR SYSTEMS 56:21
41 DNA COMPUTING 1:02:00
42 MEMBRANE COMPUTING 56:28

Boosting Vitamin D: Not Enough or Too Much? - Harvard School of Public Health


source: Harvard University    2012年1月26日
A long-awaited report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), "Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium and Vitamin D," calls for increasing daily vitamin D intake. Yet some experts say these new recommendations are still too low in vitamin D. Why do these nutrition specialists disagree? This Forum webcast examined the question, "Boosting Vitamin D: Not enough or too much?" Presented in collaboration with Reuters. Part of the Andelot Series on Current Science Controversies.
March 29, 2011