lectures/ideas: 09/30/16

2016-09-30

Could human civilization spread across the whole galaxy? - Roey Tzezana

source: TED-Ed 2016年9月29日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-human...
Could human civilization eventually spread across the whole Milky Way galaxy? Could we move beyond our small, blue planet to establish colonies in the multitude of star systems out there? These questions are pretty daunting, but their (theoretical) answers were actually put forth decades ago. Roey Tzezana describes the conceptual von Neumann machine.
Lesson by Roey Tzezana, animation by Eoin Duffy.

Buddhism & Philosophy (Graham Priest Interview)

source: Philosophical Overdose 2016年8月26日
An interview with Graham Priest on some central ideas in Buddhist thought. Among the topics discussed include the illusion of the self, the impermanence of everything (i.e. Becoming over Being), the monistic notion that everything is one and interconnected, the notion of Nirvana, and the possible ethical implications.
Graham Priest is Professor of Philosophy at University of Melbourne and is best known for his work in mathematical logic.
This is part of an ABC radio national podcast called the Philosopher's Zone from a few years back.

William G. Harter: Advanced Classical Mechanics ( University of Arkansas, 2014)

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source: U. of Arkansas, Physics Dept. - William Harter 2014年10月27日
2014 Physics Lectures from the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR. These videos are a component of the graduate course PHYS 5103 - "Advanced Mechanics" using the text "Classical Mechanics with a Bang!", both developed by Prof. William G. Harter. The class provides a geometric approach to classical mechanics. Geometry helps to clarify the calculus and physics of mechanics and shows that the symmetry principles behind classical theory also underlie quantum theory.

Lecture 1, Part 1/3 33:01
Lecture 1, Part 2/3 33:26
Lecture 1, Part 3/3 23:42
Lecture 2, Part 1/2 (720p) 54:31
Lecture 2, Part 2/2 (720p) 25:27
Lecture 3 1:23:16
Lecture 5, Part 1/2 1:18:09
Lecture 5, Part 2/2 57:48
Lecture 7 1:37:26
Lecture 8 1:25:03
Lecture 9 (720p) 1:32:20
Lecture 10 1:23:37
Lecture 11 1:24:22
Lecture 12 1:22:49
Lecture 13 (720p) 1:30:34
Lecture 14 1:49:13
Lecture 15 (720p) 1:13:48
Lecture 16 (720p) 1:32:49
Lecture 17 1:29:17
Lecture 18 (720p) 1:34:06
Lecture 19 & 20 (720p) 1:18:55
Lecture 21 (720p) 1:21:21
Lecture 22 (720p) 1:35:31
Lecture 23 (720p) 1:11:00
Lecture 24 (720p) 1:12:39
Lecture 25 1:21:11
Lecture 26 1:35:04
Lecture 27 (720p) 1:29:18

Thoughtography of Ted Serios with Stephen E. Braude

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年4月7日
Stephen Braude, PhD, is an emeritus professor and former chairman of the philosophy department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has also served as president of the Parapsychological Association. He is author of The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science, First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind, Crimes of Reason, The Gold Leaf Lady, Immortal Remains, and ESP and Psychokinesis. He is the recent recipient of the prestigious Myers Memorial Medal awarded by the Society for Psychical Research for outstanding contributions. He also serves as editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
Here he presents the history of research on “thoughtography” conducted with the psychokinetically talented subject, Ted Serios, primarily by the Denver psychiatrist, Jule Eisenbud, MD. He notes that thoughtography involves images projected from the mind of a living person, as opposed to “spirit photography” which – if not fraud – represents images of discarnate entities. He emphasizes the many scientific controls employed in this research and maintains that it has withstood the onslaught of skeptical criticism. He notes that Eisenbud analyzed these images in terms of Serios’ unconscious psychodynamics.

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 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 March 12, 2016)

Mark Leyner: "Gone With The Mind" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年8月26日
What if you wrote a book about writing a book and doing a book reading that no one came to, and then you did a reading for that book and for a few minutes you thought no one was going to show up? And what do you do when they do?
"Quite possibly the first literary work of genius -- comic and otherwise -- of the new millennium." ― Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight
“America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!” ― Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

Tim Urban: "Wait but Why? The Road to Superintelligence" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年8月22日
Tim Urban has become one of the Internet’s most popular writers. With wry stick-figure illustrations and occasionally epic prose on everything from procrastination to artificial intelligence, Urban's blog, Wait But Why, has garnered millions of unique page views, thousands of patrons and famous fans like Elon Musk. Urban has previously written long form posts on The Road to Superintelligence, and his recent TED talk has more than 6 million views. Tim speaks to his blog Wait but Why and his writing on the impact of artificial intelligence.
This talk was presented for Google's Singularity Network and hosted by John Bracaglia.

Want to Be a Physicist? Develop an Affinity for the Weird | George Musser

source: Big Think 2016年8月25日
George Musser explains the central role of weirdness in physics, and shatters the dreams of those who hope humans can one day tap into psychic powers. Musser's book is "Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything" (http://goo.gl/iUwrnU).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/george-mus...

Transcript - The whole progress in physics is to start with our everyday experience and to analyze it and to look at it and to look for deviations from it. So the very nature of really all the natural sciences but certainly of physics is to really get away from our experience. So the things physics comes up with are just kind of are weird. They are going to be because that’s just how the world operates. That’s how physics makes sense of the world. Subatomic particles we can’t see them directly at least but we know they’re there. We actually do thought experiments about the things we do see and deduce their existence. So already even with just that limited example we have gone intra beyond our direct experience. And a hundred years ago or so people doubted the existence of atoms, let alone of subatomic particles. Nonlocality, spooky action at the distance is very much in that mold. It’s taken this yet further away from our experience. And therefore we expect it to be weird. It should be weird. That’s why physics is fun. If they were just reproducing the things we already knew I mean who really would care. It’s kind of fun because it’s taking us beyond our experience. It’s transcending our daily experience into this new realm that is weird.
And as other scientists have said you expect it. In fact if the theory isn’t weird you kind of doubt it because you might worry that your own biases are intruding into the theory and causing you to think the world is a certain way when you’re not listening to the way the world actually is. So weirdness is in a sense a test of theory. Now that said you can’t just sit here and kind of just daydream over a beer and come up with more and more weird things. They have to somehow connect back to what we do observe and that’s really the challenge of this whole field is well with subatomic particles how do they connect with what we do see. So they’re not just weirdness for weirdness sake. It’s weirdness in a way that actually relates ultimately back to what we see. And so it has to be with spooky action at a distance with nonlocality that ultimately we get locality back, the quality of space that governs our lives has to emerge. It has to come out of the nonlocality that seems to reside at the very fabric of the deepest levels of the universe.

S. Nallayarasu: Foundation for Offshore Structures (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd 2014年1月13日
Ocean - Foundation for Offshore Structures by Dr. S. Nallayarasu, Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Basics of Soil Mechanics I 43:40
02 Basics of Soil Mechanics II 42:05
03 Basics of Soil Mechanics III 40:14
04 Basics of Soil Mechanics IV 41:45
05 Basics of Soil Mechanics V 37:47
06 Basics of Soil Mechanics VI 41:35
07 Basics of Soil Mechanics VII 40:18
08 Bearing Capacity of Foundations I 40:06
09 Bearing Capacity of Foundations II 42:48
10 Pile Foundation I 41:03
11 Pile Foundation II 42:09
12 Pile Foundation III 40:47
13 Pile Foundation IV 42:48
14 Pile Foundation V 42:03
15 Pile Foundation VI 39:27
16 Pile Installation I 38:48
17 Pile Installation II 41:17
18 Pile Driveability Analysis I 39:40
19 Pile Driveability Analysis II 37:05
20 Pile Driveability Analysis III 42:15
21 Pile Driveability Analysis IV 33:43
22 Pile Driveability Analysis V 40:31
23 Onbottom Stability of Jackets I 45:38
24 Onbottom Stability of Jacket II 33:51
25 Pile Load Test I 39:19
26 Pile Load Test II 37:16
27 Pile Load Test III 40:56
28 Special Topics 45:33
29 Special Foundations I 41:08
30 Special Foundations II 40:19
31 Special Foundations III 37:21
32 Pile Group Effects 22:33
33 Two Pile Group Effect For Axial Load 23:43

Electroceramics by Ashish Garg (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd 2013年7月18日
Metallurgy - Electroceramics by Dr. Ashish Garg, Department of Metallurgy and Material Science, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 53:04
02 54:09
03 54:52
04 43:59
05 45:44
06 54:05
07 56:54
08 51:03
09 39:36
10 1:03:29
11 51:02
12 55:16
13 51:13
14 1:01:21
15 51:36
16 50:57
17 53:13
18 56:33
19 50:15
20 56:47
21 55:24
22 54:17
23 49:15
24 1:00:21
25 49:16
26 51:49
27 49:16
28 1:01:10
29 57:18
30 52:54
31 55:39
32 55:06
33 55:16
34 54:04
35 58:53
36 57:46
37 53:28
38 56:40
39 59:55
40 1:03:05
41 1:03:29

Enzyme Science and Engineering by Subhash Chand (IIT Delhi)

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source: nptelhrd 2008年11月27日
Biochemical Engineering - Enzyme Science and Engineering by Prof. Subhash Chand, Department of Biochemical Engineering, IIT Delhi. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lecture - 1 Introduction and Scope to Enzyme Science & Engineering 42:20
Lecture - 2 Characteristic Features of Enzymes 54:09
Lecture - 3 Enzymes as Biocatalysts 48:27
Lecture - 4 Enzymatic Catalysis 46:12
Lecture - 5 Specificity of Enzyme Action 50:05
Lecture - 6 Kinetics of Enzyme Catalysed Reactions 46:46
Lecture - 7 Kinetics of Enzyme Catalysed Reactions 48:35
Lecture - 8 Deviation from Hyperbolic Enzyme Kinectics 46:16
Lecture - 9 Role of Effector Molecules in Enzyme Kinetics 38:07
Lecture - 10 Reversible Inhibition 39:01
Lecture - 11 Effect of PH and Temparature on Enzyme 50:54
Lecture - 12 Kinetics of Bi substrate Enzyme 50:28
Lecture - 13 Kinetics of Bi substrate Enzyme 42:11
Lecture - 14 Immobilized Enzymes 47:28
Lecture - 15 Immobilized Enzymes - II 51:47
Lecture - 16 Immobilized Enzymes - III 39:33
Lecture - 17 Immobilization of Enzymes by Entrapment 48:36
Lecture - 18 Effect of Immobilization 56:23
Lecture - 19 Reactors for Enzyme Catalysed Reactions 47:14
Lecture - 20 Idealized Enzyme Reactor Performance 49:34
Lecture - 21 Idealized Enzyme Reactor Performance 45:47
Lecture - 22 Kinetic Parameters for IME Systems 51:31
Lecture - 23 Steady State Analysis of Mass Transfer 37:14
Lecture - 24 Steady State Analysis of Mass Transfer 38:21
Lecture - 25 Non Ideal Flow in Continuous Immobilized Enzyme 46:10
Lecture - 26 Applications of Immobilized Enzymes in Process 48:27
Lecture - 27 Analytical Applications 49:37
Lecture - 28 Enzyme Technology Challanges 47:29

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