Crisis in Russia: How People Cope with Stress, and How It Is Reflected in their Electoral Behavior

source: Yale University   2016年10月6日
A talk hosted by Russian Studies on "Crisis in Russia: How People Cope with Stress, and How It Is Reflected in their Electoral Behavior" by Maxim Kiselev, Moscow State Lomonosov University Higher School of Business; Russian Academy for National Economy and Public Affairs Kingston University MBA Programme; Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology; and Noviy Disk Corp, Moscow.

Victor Burgin. The field of Representation. Malta March 28 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures   2016年10月28日
http://www.egs.edu Victor Burgin, Professor at The European Graduate School / EGS. Valetta/Malta. March 28 2016.
Victor Burgin is a British artist, cultural theorist and photographer. He studied Painting and Philosophy at The Royal College of Art, London (1962-1965) and Painting, Sculpture and Philosophy at Yale University, New Haven (1965-1967). He taught photography at Nottingham Trent University (1967-1973) and then at the Polytechnic of Central London (1973-1988). Burgin was a Professor of Art History and Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1988-2000) and currently holds the Emeritus Millard Chair of Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College, University of London.
Victor Burgin’s artistic work and his theoretical writings are often concerned with spatial and temporal relationships and with a tension between real (exterior) space and psychological (interior) space. Burgin claims: “To have an interest in the relation between real exterior space and psychological space is quite simply to be interested in the image. The ‘image’ is neither a material entity nor simply an optical event, an imprint of light on the retina, it is also a complex psychological process. It is in this sense that the image is defined as essentially ‘virtual’ in the phenomenological perspective that Deleuze derived from Henri Bergson. The ‘image-for-commerce’ is something that can be propped on an easel beside an auctioneer, something that can sit easily on the cover of a magazine, something that lends itself to becoming logo or brand. But the image is a different thing outside the circulation of commodities, outside the order of the spectacle – which is to say, outside of modern Western history. For example, in the Western tradition there are things – objects, ‘images’, whatever – and then there is the space between them, which is empty. In a certain Japanese tradition the space between – ma – is as tangible as any material thing and is as charged with sense. This is the place and the substance of the ‘image’ as I understand the term.”
In his works, Burgin also attempts to provide an answer to the question: how do memory and fantasy shape and distort real objects and actual space? This is why he also explores the relationship between words and images; a relationship that, according to Burgin, produces a “virtual” or “psychological” image. His work is influenced by many different theorists and philosophers, but the most important ones are Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Henri Lefebvre, Andrè Breton, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Roland Barthes.

Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference 2016 (AQC 2016)

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source: GoogleTechTalks    2016年10月20日
Sessions of the 2016 Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference held at Google's Los Angeles office from June 26-29, 2016

Opening Remarks: Why We Believe Quantum Annealing Will Succeed 17:29
What is the Computational Value of Finite Range Tunneling? 32:28
Quantum vs. Classical Optimization - A Status Report on the Arms Race 38:17
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations and Quantum Annealing 33:20
Simulated Quantum Annealing Can Be Exponentially Faster Than Classical 36:55
Quantum Monte Carlo vs Tunneling vs. Adiabatic Optimization 36:46
Inhomogeneous Quasi-adiabatic Driving of Quantum Critical Dynamics 25:33
Quantum Annealing via Environment-Mediated Quantum Diffusion 25:30
An Optimal Stopping Approach for Benchmarking Probabilistic Optimizers 25:09
Driving Spin Systems with Noisy Control Fields: Limits to Adiabatic Protocol 26:14
Roadmap for Building a Quantum Computer 26:56
Building Quantum Annealer v2.0 31:03
Origin and Suppression of 1/f Magnetic Flux Noise 31:34
A Fully-Programmable Measurement-Feedback OPO Ising Machine with All-to-All Connectivity 29:43
The Quantum Spin Glass Transition on the Regular Random Graph 32:20
Scaling Analysis & Instantons for Thermally-Assisted Tunneling and Quantum MC Simulations 19:46
Towards Quantum Supremacy with Pre-Fault-Tolerant Devices 23:52
Parity Adiabatic Quantum Computing 37:01
Simulated Annealing Comparison Between All-to-All Connectivity Schemes 33:31
Floquet Quantum Annealing with Superconducting Circuit 20:08
Adiabatic Quantum Computer vs. Diffusion Monte Carlo 22:07
Classical Modeling of Quantum Tunneling 24:41
Avoiding Negative Sign Problem in Simulation of Quantum Annealilng 25:26
Boosting Quantum Annealer Performance via Quantum Persistence 22:47
Max-k-SAT, Multi-Body Frustration, & Multi-Body Sampling on a Two Local Ising System 18:58
Coupled Quantum Fluctuations and Quantum Annealing 26:40

Anirudh Sivaraman: Programming Line-Rate Routers

source: GoogleTechTalks    2016年10月12日
A Google TechTalk, 10/5/16, Presented by Anirudh Sivaraman
ABSTRACT: The evolution of network routers and switches has been driven primarily by performance. Recently, thanks in part to the emergence of large data centers, the need for better control over network operations, and the desire for new features, programmability of switches has become as important as performance. In response, researchers and practitioners have developed reconfigurable switching chips that are performance-competitive with line-rate fixed-function switching chips. These chips provide some programmability through restricted hardware primitives that can be configured with software directives.
This talk will focus on two abstractions for programming such chips. The first abstraction, packet transactions, lets programmers express packet processing in an imperative language under the illusion that the switch processes exactly one packet at a time. A compiler then translates this sequential programmer view into a pipelined implementation on a switching chip that processes multiple packets concurrently. The second abstraction, a push-in first-out queue, allows programmers to program new scheduling algorithms using a priority queue coupled with a program to compute each packet's priority in the priority queue. For the first time, these two abstractions allow us to program several packet-processing functions at line rate. These packet-processing functions include in-network congestion control, active queue management, data-plane load balancing, network measurement, and packet scheduling.
This talk includes joint work with collaborators at MIT, Barefoot Networks, Cisco Systems, Microsoft Research, Stanford, and University of Washington.
SPEAKER BIO: Anirudh Sivaraman is a PhD student at MIT working in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Before coming to MIT, he was an undergraduate in the Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT Madras and graduated with a BTech in 2010.http://web.mit.edu/anirudh/www/

Performing matter: greatest hits and new findings - Dr Zoe Laughlin - UCL Lunch Hour Lectures

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2016年10月18日
Speaker: Dr Zoe Laughlin, UCL Institute of Making - Tuesday 11th October 2016 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1.55pm (term time)
Materials ‘perform’, and ‘stuff’ is constantly getting up to ‘things’ all the time, just to exist and make up the world of objects. Experience some of the most wondrous matter on Earth during Dr Zoe Laughlin’s demo-led exploration of materials, as you witness the inanimate becoming animate and material science performing.
Free to attend, live stream or watch online
More info : http://events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl
Join the conversation on Twitter at #UCLLHL

Spanish Language and Literature by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil    2013年11月29日
A lecture delivered by Wesley Cecil PhD. at Peninsula College on the development and influence of the Spanish language from the spread of the Indo-European language family to the present.

The Upper-Class Bias of the 2016 Election Issues | C. Nicole Mason

source: Big Think    2016年9月30日
Has the oldest problem in the book become taboo again? C. Nicole Mason expresses concern over a nation-wide moral failure that is leaving the U.S.'s most vulnerable to struggle in silence. Mason's latest book is "Born Bright: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America" (http://goo.gl/AOsgVz).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/c-nicole-m...

Transcript - The issue I see in the election right now is that we’re not having the conversations that matter to people and families across the country. We have moved so far away from the bread and butter issues that families want to talk about. So we haven’t heard a lot about poverty. We haven’t heard a lot in this election about bringing and making sure that we have a strong social safety net not only for low income families but for middle class families who are still fragile or straddling between being financially secure and close to the edge in terms of falling into poverty. And we’re just not having those conversations. We’re talking about things that matter but when we talk about building a society where all people have a fair shot we’re not talking about the issues that will make the difference for them.
We don’t talk a lot about white poverty and I think we should because I think if we talked a lot more about the way poverty impacts different groups I think we would not see it as an issue that’s out there and doesn’t impact me or it’s a black issue or a Latino issue. We would see it as an issue of lack and people not having the resources that they need to be able to live a quality and a productive life. What we know though is that black and Latino people are more likely to live in poverty and white people are also poor. But we’re not, again we’re not talking about those conversations. And we’re not even writing about those conversations so when we’re not talking about rural communities and rural whites. Those people are invisible in media and culture when we talk about poverty. And so until we can really wrap our minds around the magnitude of who’s living in poverty and what poverty – the face of poverty and what it really looks like we’re not really going to be able to make policies that will reach the people who are really impacted or affected by it. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/E6IFzK.

Folk Psychology by Kane B

source: Kane B    2016年9月11日
"Folk psychology" refers to our capacity to explain and predict the behaviour of other people by attributing mental states to them. This video examines the theory-theory, which claims that folk psychology is literally a theory, analogous to scientific theories.

Education as a Human Right: An Evening with Hanan Al Hroub

source: HarvardEducation    2016年9月22日
Speaker: Hanan Al Hroub, recipient, 2016 Global Teacher Prize, Varkey Foundation; teacher, Samiha Khalil Secondary School, Palestine
Discussant: Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.’84, Ed.D.’88, Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education and director, International Education Policy Program and the Global Education Innovation Initiative, HGSE
Introduction: James E. Ryan, dean and Charles William Eliot Professor, HGSE
In this Askwith Forum, Hanan Al Hroub, winner of the 2016 Global Teacher Prize, will speak about her experiences as a Palestinian educator and her unique approach to instruction.
This forum is in conjunction with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School.

Body-worn video - The independent witness

source: Cambridge University    2016年9月28日
Body-worn cameras are fast becoming standard kit for frontline law enforcers, trumpeted by senior officers and even the US President as a technological ‘fix’ for what some see as a crisis of police legitimacy. Evidence of effectiveness has, however, been limited in its scope.
Now, new results from one of the largest randomised-controlled experiments in the history of criminal justice research, led by the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology, show that the use by officers of body-worn cameras is associated with a startling 93% reduction in citizen complaints against police.

How to Live to 100 with Lynda Gratton

source: The RSA    2016年9月26日
How to live to 100 with professor Lynda Gratton. What will your 100-year life look like? Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Offsetting the excess of negative debate about longevity, Lynda Gratton takes a fundamentally different approach - seeing long life as an opportunity for a fundamental restructuring of finances and careers, and of relationships and leisure – in other words, for a redesign of life.
Watch Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, 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/yOph34orYns

Wittgenstein & Metaphilosophy (Minerva)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2016年9月25日
Ludwig Wittgenstein is a philosopher's philosopher: he had much to say about how philosophy should be done. Peter Hacker explains Wittgenstein's metaphilosophical views, talks about the mind, and expresses his pessimism about contemporary philosophy. Peter Hacker is a Wittgenstein expert, and an Emeritus Research Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford.
This is from an episode of the podcast Minerva. The host is Joshi Gottlieb. You can find the podcast here:http://www.minerva-podcast.com.

The Art of Forecasting, Part Two: The World of Consciousness, with John L. Petersen

source: New Thinking Allowed     2015年12月1日
John L. Petersen, one of the world’s foremost futurists, is founder and president of the Arlington Institute. He is author of Out of the Blue: How to Anticipate Wild Cards and Big Future Surprises, Strategies for 2012, and The Road to 2015: Profiles of the Future. He has worked for National War College, the Institute for National Security Studies, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council staff at the White House. He also serves as chairman of the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation.
Here he begins by discussing the use of dreams by futurists. He suggests that it might be useful to establish a large database of people’s dreams in order to scan it for emerging trends. To do this, one needs a methodology to interpret dream symbolism. He mentions that certain individuals seem to have dreams that are accurate depictions of future events – as if information is coming to them backwards through time. He also discusses research on precognitive remote viewing, stating that it works best over short time frames. In addition, he maintains that he has found some channeled information to be very useful in his profession. He also points out that some future development will be so dramatic that they are almost impossible for us to imagine. We may, for example, consciously control the future evolution of the human species.

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). His master’s degree is in criminology. 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. His American Indian name, chosen at age eight, is Soaring Eagle.
(Recorded on November 16, 2015)

Suman Chakraborty: Computational Fluid Dynamics (IIT Kharagpur)

# playlist of the 43 videos (click the up-left corner of the video)

source: nptelhrd     2012年2月21日
Mechanical - Computational Fluid Dynamics by Dr. Suman Chakraborty, Department of Mechanical & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics and Principles of Conservation 58:20
02 Conservation of Mass and Momentum: Continuity and Navier Stokes Equation 59:04
03 Navier Stokes Equation (Contd.) 56:41
04 Energy Equation and General Structure of Conservation Equations 58:36
05 Classification of Partial Differential Equations and Physical Behaviour 57:01
06 Classification of Partial Differential Equations and Physical Behaviour (Contd.) 58:36
07 Approximate Solutions of Differential Equations: Error Minimization Principles 58:45
08 Approximate Solutions of Differential Equations: Variational Principles 59:22
09 Weighted Residual Approach and Introduction to Discretization 58:54
10 Fundamentals of Discretization: Finite Element Method 56:59
11 Fundamentals of Discretization: Finite Difference and Finite Volume Method 57:57
12 Fundamentals of Discretization: Finite Volume Method (Contd.) 58:27
13 Finite Volume Method:Some Concept Basics 56:04
14 Finite Volume Method: Boundary Condition Implementation 58:30
15 Finite Volume Method:Discretization of Unsteady State Problems 55:53
16 Important Consequences of Discretization of Unsteady State Problems 54:07
17 Important Consequences of Discretization of Time Dependent Diffusion 1:00:30
18 Discretization of Hyperbolic Equations: Stability Analysis 56:35
19 PART1:Stability of Second Order Hyperbolic Equations 57:23
20 PART 1: Mid-Semester Assessment Review (Questions and Answers) (Contd.) 58:25
21 Solution of Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations 58:40
22 Solution of Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations: Elimination Methods 57:57
23 Solution of Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations: Elimination Methods (Contd.) 59:12
24 Elimination Methods: Error Analysis 58:58
25 Iterative Methods for Numerical Solution of Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations 58:00
26 Iterative Methods for Numerical Solution of Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations 55:36
27 Iterative Methods: Further Examples 58:48
28 PART1:Combination of Iteration & Elimination Techniques 57:52
29 Gradient Search Methods (Contd.) 57:51
30 Discretization of Convection-Diffusion Equations: A Finite Volume Approach 57:58
31 Discretization of Convection-Diffusion Equations: A Finite Volume Approach (Contd.) 58:27
32 Discretization of Convection- Diffusion Equations: A Finite Volume Approach (Contd.) 58:51
33 Discretization of Convection -Diffusion Equations: A Finite Volume Approach (Contd.) 58:44
34 Discretization of Convection-Diffusion Equations: A Finite Volume Approach ( Contd.) 57:55
35 Discretization of Navier Stokes Equations 59:34
36 Discretization of Navier Stokes Equations ( Contd.) 1:00:27
37 Discretization of Navier Stokes Equations ( Contd. ) 57:59
38 PART 1 : Discretization of Navier Stokes Equations (Contd.) PART 2 : Fundamentals 59:03
39 Unstructured Grid Formulation (Contd.) 58:33
40 What is there in implementing a CFD Code 56:31
41 Introduction to Turbulence Modeling 58:31
42 Introduction to Turbulence Modeling (Contd.) 58:47
43 End Semester Questions Review 58:11

N. Viswanadham: Global Supply Chain Management (IISc Bangalore)

# playlist of the 38 videos (click the up-left corner of the video)

source: nptelhrd    2013年8月26日
Management - Global Supply Chain Management by Prof. N. Viswanadham, Department of Management, IISc Bangalore. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Introduction to Global Supply Chain Networks Part- 1 51:03
02 Introduction to Global Supply Chain Networks Part -2 54:14
03 Zara- fast fashion 52:56
04 The Supply Chain Eco-System Framework 53:53
05 Supply Chain Eco-System Framework: Supply Chains & Resources 58:24
06 Supply Chain Eco-System Framework: Delivery services& Institutions 58:15
07 Metro Cash and Carry 51:50
08 Performance Analysis 54:54
09 Supply Chain Risk-part1 52:59
10 Supply Chain Risk-part2 51:28
11 Supply Chain Risk-part3 54:34
12 Mattel Toy Recalls and Supply Chain Management 51:43
13 Innovation in Emerging markets 55:29
14 Innovations in Supply Chain Ecosystem 52:09
15 Indian Telecom and Bharti Airtel 53:00
16 CEMEX-part1 51:16
17 CEMEX-part2 54:52
18 Governance 52:54
19 Governance of networked organizations 52:46
20 The Orchestration Governance Model 50:53
21 Orchestration-Examples 54:17
22 Li & Fung-part1 51:01
23 Li & Fung-part2 53:16
24 Supply Chain Design-part 1 52:07
25 Supply Chain Design-part 2 52:39
26 Green supply chain design-part 1 51:26
27 Green supply chain design-part 2 53:13
28 Green Supply Chain Ecosystem Analysis 52:36
29 GRIP Framework 53:09
30 Location Selection 49:29
31 Ecosystem Aware Location Analysis 52:48
32 Food supply chain in India 1:07:10
33 Food supply chain ecosystem - Grip frame work 1:24:31
34 Food Security in India 1:02:04
35 Smart Villages and Cities-part 1 51:14
36 Smart Villages and Cities-part 2 54:33
37 Overview of the Course 51:46
38 How to use the Video lectures 55:22

Arun K. Misra: International Finance (IIT Kharagpur)

# playlist of the 40 videos (click the up-left corner of the video)

source: nptelhrd    2013年8月22日
Management - International Finance by Dr. Arun K. Misra, Department of Management, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 International Financial Environment 56:42
02 International Financial Transactions 54:08
03 Gold Standard 51:38
04 Purchasing Power Parity 50:04
05 Floating and Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes 54:54
06 Currency Boards and Currency Basket Systems 56:54
07 Features of Foreign Exchange Market 54:02
08 Exchange Rate Arithmetic 1:02:55
09 Understanding Merchant Rates 58:00
10 Foreign Exchange Forward Contracts 55:44
11 Value at Risk for Foreign Exchange Market 53:38
12 International Parity Conditions and Movement Exchange Rate 1:02:16
13 Exchange Rate Determination and Forecasting 58:26
14 Development of Foreign Exchange Market in India 59:38
15 Foreign Exchange Exposures : Transaction Exposure 56:30
16 Transaction Exposure Management 54:40
17 Foreign Exchange Futures Market for Transaction Exposure Management 54:39
18 Foreign Currency Options : Transaction Exposure Management 56:05
19 Interest Rate Swaps 56:03
20 Currency Swaps 55:42
21 Operating Exposure Assessment 58:33
22 Operating Exposure Management 57:22
23 International Capital Structure and Capital Assets Pricing Model 57:51
24 International Capital Budgeting 56:36
25 Evaluation of Foreign Direct Investment 59:08
26 Cross Listing of Shares : Depository Receipts 56:50
27 International Financial Integration 57:30
28 World Trade Organisation 53:21
29 India\'s Forex Reserves Composition and Determinants of Optimum Reserves 53:58
30 Movement of Exchange Rates in India 51:50
31 International Trade Theory 52:01
32 International Bond Market 54:32
33 India's Foreign Trade - Direction and Composition 51:18
34 Financial Stability 57:39
35 Test - I 58:19
36 Money and Forex Market Interaction : Indian Experience 58:10
37 Test - 2 56:15
38 Characteristics of Indian Foreign Exchange Market 56:13
39 Test - 3 54:01
40 Test - 4 55:24

DT Max and James Wood on David Foster Wallace | Mahindra Humanities Center

source: Harvard University     2012年12月13日
D.T. Max
Author of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story in conversation with James Wood
Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism, Harvard University
Cosponsored with The Harvard Advocate.