The Wealth of Humans: work, power, and status in the twenty-first century

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年9月28日
Speaker(s): Ryan Avent
Chair: Professor Francesco Caselli
Recorded on 26 September 2016 at Old Theatre, Old Building
In his new book, The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century, which he will discuss in this talk, Ryan Avent addresses the difficult questions about the increasing abundance of labour and what this means politically, economically and socially for every one of us. The traditional solutions – improved education, wage subsidies, universal basic income – will no longer work as they once did. In order to navigate our way across today’s rapidly transforming economic landscape, Avent argues that we must radically reassess the very idea of how, and why, we work.
Ryan Avent (@ryanavent) is a Senior Editor and Economics Columnist for The Economist, where he has covered the global economy since 2007. His work has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic and the Atlantic. He has an economics degree from North Carolina State University, and an MSc in economic history from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Professor Francesco Caselli is Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
The Department of Economics at LSE (@LSEEcon) is one of the largest economics departments in the world. Its size ensures that all areas of economics are strongly represented in both research and teaching.
The Centre For Macroeconomics (@CFMUK) brings together world-class experts to carry out pioneering research on the global economic crisis and to help design policies that alleviate it.

ARM Based Development by S. Chandramouleeswaran (IIT Bangalore)

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source: nptelhrd    2015年6月15日
Electronics - ARM Based Development by S. Chandramouleeswaran, Independent Embedded SW Trainer, Bangalore. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Types of computer Architectures, ISA's and ARM History 47:44
02 Embedded System Software and Hardware, stack implementation in ARM 55:53
03 Processor core VS CPU core, ARM7TDMI Interface signals, Memory Interface 1:07:41
04 Instruction Format, ARM Core Data Flow Model, ARM 3 stage Pipeline 1:00:01
05 ARM 5 stage Pipeline, Pipeline Hazards, Data forwarding - a hardware solution 1:00:49
06 ARM ISA and Processor Variants, Different Types of Instructions, ARM Instruction set 1:14:42
07 Shift Operations, shift Operations using RS lower byte, Immediate value encoding 1:28:31
08 Dataprocessing Instructions 1:13:59
09 AddressingMode-1, Addressing Mode -2 59:36
10 Addressing Mode -2, LDR/STR, Addressing mode -3 with examples 1:37:29
11 Instruction Timing, Addressing Mode - 4 with Examples 1:25:11
12 Swap Instructions, Swap Register related Instructions, Loading Constants 1:14:00
13 Program Control Flow, Control Flow Instructions, B & BL instructions, BX instruction 1:16:30
14 Interrupts and Exceptions, Exception Handlers, Reset Handling 1:31:14
15 Aborts, software Interrupt Instruction, undefined instruction exception 1:35:25
16 Interrupt Latency, Multiply Instructions, Instruction set examples 1:14:06
17 Thumb state, Thumb Programmers model, Thumb Implementation, Thumb Applications 1:14:55
18 Thumb Instructions, Interrupt processing 1:20:10
19 Interrupt Handelling schemes, Examples of Interrupt Handlers 1:59:20
20 Coprocessors 1:20:14
21 Coprocessor Instructions, data Processign Instruction, data transfers 1:28:45
22 Number representations, floating point representation 1:36:22
23 Flynn's Taxonomy, SIMD and Vector Processors, Vector Floating Point Processor 1:35:06
24 Memory Technologies, Need for memory Hierarchy, Hierarchical Memory 1:28:20
25 Cache Memory, Mapping Functions 1:51:01
26 Cache Design, Unified or split cache, multiple level of caches, ARM cache features 1:31:04
27 Processes, Memory Map, Protected Systems, ARM systems with MPU, memory Protection Unit 1:43:05
28 Physical Vs Virtual Memory, Paging, Segmentation 45:59
29 MMU Advantage, virtual memory translation, Multitasking with MMU, MMU organization 59:56
Mod-05 Lec-30 ARM Development Environment, Arm Procedure Call Standard (APCS), Example C program 1:21:29
31 Example C program 28:01
32 Embedded software Development, Image structure, linker inputs and outputs, 57:00
33 AMBA Overview, Typical AMAB Based Microcontroller, AHB bus features, AHB Bus 1:10:26
34 DMA, Peripherals, Programming Peripherals in ARM 14:10
35 DMA: Direct Memory Access 58:17
36 Protocols (I2c, SPI), UART, GPIO 49:44
37 ARM ISAs, ARMv5, ARMv6, ARM v7, big.little technology, ARMv8 46:57

Why should you listen to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"? - Betsy Schwarm

source: TED-Ed     2016年10月24日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-should-...
Light, bright, and cheerful, "The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi is some of the most familiar of all early 18th century music, featured in numerous films and television commercials. But what is its significance, and why does it sound that way? Betsy Schwarm uncovers the underlying narrative of this musical masterpiece.
Lesson by Betsy Schwarm, animation by Compote Collective.

Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular Medicine (2012) by Jay Humphrey at Yale Summer School

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source: NanoBio Node   2013年5月21日
Jay Humphrey, Yale University
GEM4 Summer School 2012
Cellular and Molecular Mechanics with a focus on Developmental Biology

Tissue Mechanics 1:25:16
Basic Optics, Optomechanics, Lens and Magnification 1:42:35
Cellular and Molecular Foundations of Developmental Biology 1:14:39
Developmental Biology I 1:28:30
Cell Mechanics 1:26:06
Developmental Biology II 1:24:26
Molecular Mechanics 1:26:52
Cell Mechanosensing: A Step by Step Process 1:31:11
The Measurement of Cellular Traction Forces 1:22:08
Stem Cell Engineering: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies 1:21:26
Mechanics of Development I: Early Stages 1:22:31
Molecular Engineering and FRET for Visualizing Intracellular Transduction 1:06:32
Mechanics of Development II: Modeling Morphogenesis 1:22:00
Experimental Imaging Methods 1:18:10
The Role of Micro-Nanotechnology in Study of Cellular Behaviors 1:14:37
Synthetic Biology 1:26:34
Experimental Methods: Microfluidics 1:26:51
Emergent Order & Rigidity Development 1:32:08
3D Microscopy, Confocal, Multiphoton & SHG Microscopy 1:10:24
Mechanobiology in Development 1:33:08
Cell Migration in 2D and 3D 1:03:13
Applications to Tissue Engineering 1:05:17
Computational Methods in Systems Biology 1:11:33

Russian Language, Literature and Civilization by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil     2013年10月2日
A lecture delivered at Peninsula College by Wesley Cecil. This lecture covers the origins and development of the Russian language and associated culture. Part of the Languages and Literatures series.

(2016上-學院) 會計學: 劉正田 / 空中進修學院 (1-18)

# 持續性播放清單 (請按影片左上角選取影片觀看)

source: 華視教學頻道    2016年9月12日
更多會計學（學院）請見 http://vod.cts.com.tw/?type=education...

Humanity's Greatest Challenges Aren't Technical – They're Human | Nichol Bradford

source: Big Think    2016年9月25日
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is incomplete as we commonly know it. Later in his life, Maslow wrote about a stage beyond self-actualization. Nichol Brandford explains how to arrive at this final place.
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/nichol-bra...

Transcript - Many people think that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs stopped with self-actualization. And that’s not actually true. He had another piece that was on top of self-actualization and that was self-transcendence. He just didn’t publish it widely before he passed away. It was something he started working on towards the end and so he published the hierarchy of needs before he finished his work on self-transcendence. He was one of the first people really to track flow and to track some of the more interesting and advanced altered states that human babies can get to. Things that you would find the terminology really similar to things that you’ve heard advanced meditators describe. And so he was working on self-transcendence. And he just didn’t publish it. So there’s actually another level on top of that hierarchy of needs. And so when I think of human psychology I really think of human psychology as a spectrum and it’s not a series of islands or unique locations. It’s really sort of a spectrum. And on one end you have what I call areas that require human support. So this is when people are facing severe stress, severe anxiety and depression. And then in the middle is what I call the human condition. And so that is loneliness, happiness, connection, empathy. The human condition is where we learn how to deal with our first heartbreak and the first time that we fall in love.
The human condition is where we deal with sadness and betrayal and loss. Basically all the things that happen to you as you grow up through life. The full spectrum of human emotion. That is the human condition. And there’s an infinite number of songs on the radio and poems and art that’s about the human condition. So that’s there. And then on this other side which I think really maps to self-transcendence and Maslow’s later work is the part of the people in the world who are really pushing on human psychology and what are the limits? Where are our boundaries? What is the frontier of human psychology? And I think a lot of direction that we get is from the contemplative communities around the world who really have been exploring and pushing on human psychology for as long as humans have been organized. And pushing on what it is, what does it mean to be human. The other day I talked to a guy who now has three Guinness Book records on endurance sports. And he meditates the entire time. And he just swam the English Channel in a Speedo and he meditated the whole time. So, you know, people are using mind training, meditation and other things to push into abilities that right now, today, one could say are limited to the few. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/RRwuVK.

Dialetheism (1-4) by Kane B

source: Kane B    2013年2月15日
Setting the scene for a series on dialetheism, the view that there are true contradictions.
A good introductory article to paraconsistent logics: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/log...

Dialetheism is the view that there are true contradictions. Much of the literature on dialetheism can be quite technical, but given that it touches on such a fundamental element of philosophy - of reasoning in general - I think it's important to be aware of it. I'm hoping that this series will provide an accessible introduction.
By far the most prominent defender of dialetheism is Graham Priest: he's devoted most of his philosophical career to developing arguments for it. His book "Doubt Truth to be a Liar" is definitely the most accessible introduction to the topic, from what I've read. His earlier book "In Contradiction" has been more influential, but is much more difficult.

Dialetheism 1 - preliminary remarks 21:39
Dialetheism supplement - a simple paraconsistent logic 11:21
Dialetheism 2a - the Liar paradox 37:51
Dialetheism 3a - methodological problems - believing contradictions 24:56

ChinaGSD Distinguished Lecture: Professor Kenneth Frampton, “Chinese Architecture”

source: Harvard GSD    2016年9月23日
On Monday, September 19th, ChinaGSD will be hosting a Distinguished Lecture by Prof.Kenneth Frampton, co-supported by AsiaGSD and Design Dialogues.Prof. Kenneth Frampton will share his recent visit to China, as well as his thoughts and concerns on contemporary architecture in the emerging worlds. Following the lecture will be a dialogue with Prof. K. Michael Hays (Eliot Noyes Professor of Architecture Theory at Harvard GSD), with responses by Fu Yun (MArch ’15, DDes Candicate) and An Tairan (MDes ’17). Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia GSAPP, where he has taught since 1972. He was trained as an architect at the AA, and has worked as an architect, architectural historian and critic. In addition to Columbia, Frampton has taught at a number of leading institutions including the Royal College of Art in London, the ETH in Zurich, the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, EPFL in Lausanne and the Accademia di Architecttura in Mendrisio. Kenneth Frampton is the author of Modern Architecture and Critical Present (1980)， Studies in Tectonic Culture (1995), American Masterworks (1995), Le Corbusier (2001), Labour, Work & Architecture (2005), and most recently, L’Altro Movimento Moderno (2015) and A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (2015). He is currently at work on an expanded fifth edition of Modern Architecture: A critical History, which will cover architecture in China and other emerging worlds.

The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center: Terry Tempest Williams

source: Harvard University    2016年9月22日
Terry Tempest Williams
The Hour of Land: Our National Parks As Breathing Spaces
Terry Tempest Williams is the author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; an activist who recently purchased BLM leases in Utah; and Provostial Scholar, Dartmouth College.
The Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center is convened by Robin Kelsey (Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University) and Ian Jared Miller (Professor of History, Harvard University).

Colson Whitehead: "The Underground Railroad" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google    2016年9月30日
Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, MacArthur fellow, and New York Times bestselling author stops by Google to talk about his book, The Underground Railroad. Whitehead’s novel is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Join Cora, an escaped young woman on her attempts to find freedom from an antebellum cotton plantation in Georgia.

Columbia World Leaders Forum - His Excellency Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera

source: Columbia     2016年9月23日
This Columbia University World Leaders Forum program features an address by His Excellency Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera, President of the Republic of Costa Rica, followed by a question and answer session with the audience.

Can Citizens be Economists?

source: The RSA    2016年9月20日
Can citizens be economists? The RSA launched the Citizens’ Economic Council the week after the UK voted to leave the European Union, with the timely question: can citizens really be economists, and what might the extent of their role and influence in shaping national economic policy be? A panel of experts discuss the value of citizen voice that is informed, deliberative and forward thinking.
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Tony Greenham and Reema Patel introduce the RSA’s Citizens’ Economic Council. The event also brought together Seema Malhotra MP, Julie Timbrell from Occupy Democracy, Simon Burall, Director of Involve, and Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies in a panel discussion about the future of the economy. The event is chaired by Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA.
Find out more about the RSA Citizens' Economic Council: http://ow.ly/lJpu301L5PO
Read the prospectus launching the Council, 'Economics for everyone' online: http://ow.ly/7N9z301L5Ke
The Citizens’ Economic Council is kindly supported by Friends Provident Foundation and by the Barrow Cadbury Trust.

Consciousness - Physicalism & Dualism (Papineau & Goff)

source: Philosophical Overdose     2013年2月22日
Philip Goff and David Papineau discuss consciousness and whether it's at bottom something physical or material. Goff rejects physicalism/materialism, Papineau accepts it. In this discussion, they examine the arguments on each side. They consider the causal exclusion argument for physicalism, the much-discussed "knowledge argument" against physicalism, conceptual dualism, explore Goff's own reasons for rejecting physicalism, weigh the dualist arguments of Chalmers and Jackson, discuss Papineau's reasons to reject the transparency of phenomenal concepts, ponder what Levine calls the "explanatory gap", and confront the specter of epiphenomenalism.
This is from Philosophy TV. Check them out at www.philostv.com.

The Chess Game from Beyond the Grave

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年4月25日
Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, FRSSAf, is a neuropsychiatrist and head of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute in Seattle. He is a former president of the South African Society for Psychical Research. He is author of Cry the Beloved Mind: A Voyage of Hope, Reality Begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift that Works (written with physicist Edward Close), The Déjà Vu Trilogy, 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 he provides a detailed analysis of a chess match played between a living grandmaster, Victor Korchnoi and an ostensible deceased grandmaster, Géza Maróczy, whose moves were communicated through the auspices of a spiritualist medium using automatic writing. Neppe argues that this is a strong case supporting the hypothesis of survival of consciousness after death. It combines an unusual degree of accurate information with a high level of chess skill, plus aspects of personality.

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 15, 2016)

Sreenivas Jayanti: Computational Fluid Dynamics (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd 2012年7月16日
Chemical - Computational Fluid Dynamics by Prof. Sreenivas Jayanti, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lec-01 Motivation for CFD and Introduction to the CFD approach 57:29
Lec-02 Illustration of the CFD approach through a worked out example 52:54
Lec-03 Eulerian approach, Conservation Equation, Derivation of Mass Conservation Equation 55:29
Lec-04 Eulerian approach, Conservation Equation, Derivation of Mass Conservation Equation 1:00:34
Lec-05 Forces acting on a control volume; Stress tensor; 1:05:40
Lec-06 Kinematics of deformation in fluid flow; Stress vs strain rate relation 1:01:26
Lec-07 Equations governing flow of incompressible flow; 55:15
Lec-08 Cut out the first 30s; Spatial discretization of a simple flow domain; 57:57
Lec-09 Finite difference approximation of pth order of accuracy for qth order derivative; 54:18
Lec-10 One-sided high order accurate approximations,Explicit and implicit formulations 54:39
Lec-11 Numerical solution of the unsteady advection equation using different finite. 53:44
Lec-12 Need for analysis of a discretization scheme; Concepts of consistency 1:03:42
Lec-13 Statement of the stability problem 1:00:19
Lec-14 Consistency and stability analysis of the unsteady diffusion equation 54:26
Lec-15 Interpretation of the stability condition,Stability analysis of the generic scalar equ 1:01:27
Lec-16 Template for the generic scalar transport equation and its extension to the solution 49:27
Lec-17 Illustration of application of the template using the MacCormack scheme 59:05
Lec-18 Stability limits of MacCormack scheme 46:05
Lec-19 Artificial compressibility method and the streamfunction-vorticity method 46:39
Lec-20 Pressur e equation method for the solution of NS equations 44:34
Lec-21 Pressure-correction approach to the solution of NS equations on a staggered grid 1:11:07
Lec-22 Need for effici ent solution of linear algebraic equations 1:06:18
Lec-23 Direct methods for linear algebraic equations; Gaussian elimination method 39:38
Lec-24 Gauss-Jordan method; LU decomposition method; TDMA and Thomas algorithm 1:03:39
Lec-25 Basic iterative methods for linear algebraic equations: Description of point -Jacobi 49:43
Lec-26 Convergence analysis of basic iterative schemes,Diagonal dominance condition 53:39
Lec-27 Application to the Laplace equation 29:28
Lec-28 Advanced iterative methods: Alternating Direction Implicit Method; Operator splitting 48:51
Lec-29 Advanced iterative methods,Strongly Implicit Procedure,Conjugate gradient method 1:01:10
Lec-30 Illustration of the Multigrid method for the Laplace equation 38:08
Lec-31 Overview of the approach of numerical solution of NS equations for simple domains29:02
Lec-32 Derivation of the energy conservation equation 51:12
Lec-33 Derivation of the species conservation equation; dealing with chemical reactions 47:06
Lec-34 Turbulence,Characteri stics of turbulent flow,Dealing with fluctuations 1:03:59
Lec-35 Derivation of the Reynolds -averaged Navier -Stokes equations 54:48
Lec-36 Reynol ds stresses in turbulent flow,Time and length scales of turbulence 1:00:41
Lec-37 One-equation model for turbulent flow 50:27
Lec-38 Two -equation model for turbulent flow; Numerical calculation of turbulent 1:01:23
Lec-39 Calculation of near-wall region in turbulent flow; wall function approach 54:45
Lec-40 Need for special methods for dealing with irregular fl ow geometry 50:56
Lec-41 Transformation of the governing equations; Illustration for the Laplace equation 51:59
Lec-42 Finite volume method for complicated flow domain 47:57
Lec-43 Finite volume method for the general case 57:42
Lec-44 Generation of a structured grid for irregular flow domain; Algebraic methods 58:47
Lec-45 Unstructured grid generation,Domain nodalization 53:31
Lec-46 Delaunay triangulation method for unstructured grid generation 55:34
Lec-47 Co -located grid approach for irregular geometries; Pressure correction equations 55:09

R. Krishnakumar: Vehicle Dynamics (IIT Madras)

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source: nptelhrd     2014年7月29日
Engineering Design - Vehicle Dynamics by Dr. R. Krishnakumar, Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

01 Introduction to Vehicle Dynamics 47:00
02 Longitudinal Dynamics 49:34
03 Vehicle Load Distribution – Acceleration and Braking 47:45
04 Brake Force Distribution, Braking Efficiency and Braking Distance 49:16
05 Tractor – Semi Trailer 47:01
06 Tire Mechanics – An Introduction 48:44
07 Mechanical Properties of Rubber 50:23
08 Slip, Grip and Rolling Resistance 50:06
09 Tire Construction and Force Development 49:13
10 Contact Patch and Contact Pressure Distribution 52:05
11 Tire Brush Model 49:23
12 Lateral Force Generation 50:23
13 Ply Steer and Conicity (Part 1) 52:27
14 Ply Steer and Conicity (Part 2) 53:21
15 Tire Models – Magic Formula 51:02
16 Classification of Tyre Models and Combined Slip 49:29
17 Lateral Dynamics - An Introduction 49:28
18 Lateral Dynamics – Bicycle Model 52:05
19 Lateral Dynamics – Stability and Steering Conditions 52:06
20 Understeer Gradient and State Space Approach 49:34
21 Handling Response of a Vehicle 49:50
22 Mimuro Plot for Lateral Transient Response (Part 1) 50:26
23 Mimuro Plot for Lateral Transient Response (Part 2) 53:41
24 Parameters affecting vehicle handling characteristics 51:03
25 Subjective and Objective Evaluation of Vehicle Handling (Part 1) 51:46
26 Subjective and Objective Evaluation of Vehicle Handling (Part 2) 52:19
27 Subjective and Objective Evaluation of Vehicle Handling and Rollover Prevention 46:44
28 Rollover Prevention (contd..) and Vertical Dynamics 51:07
29 Vertical Dynamics – An Introduction 50:18
30 Vertical Dynamics – Quarter Car Model 51:25
32 Random Process and Conclusion [contd.] 1:07:24
31 Noise, Vibration and Harshness – Random Processes 50:24