lectures/ideas: 11/04/16

2016-11-04

How the sandwich was invented | Moments of Vision 5 - Jessica Oreck

source: TED-Ed 2016年11月3日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-the-san...
Today, it is estimated that 50% of Americans eat at least one sandwich every day. And while it’s all but impossible to imagine a world without them, sandwiches have only been around since 1762. In the fifth installment of our ‘Moments of Vision’ series, Jessica Oreck shares the sandwich's seedy origin story.
Lesson and animation by Jessica Oreck.

Altuğ Özpineci: Mechanics I (Middle East Technical University)

David Ham: Finite Element Course (Imperial College London)

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source: David Ham 2013年11月25日
This series of lectures on the finite element method is being given to PhD students in computing and physical sciences at Imperial College London in Autumn 2013/Spring 2014. The course is quite mathematical, but is targeted at engineering and physical sciences graduates: it does not assume students have a maths degree. For more information, see the course website at: http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/spo/finite-element/

Finite element method course lecture -1: function spaces 1:19:59
lecture 0 part I 22 Nov 2013: finite element in 1D 46:05
lecture 0 part II 22 Nov 2013: finite element in 1D 32:34
lecture 1 part I 22 Nov 2013: Implementing finite element in 1D 37:26
lecture 1 part II 22 Nov 2013: Implementing finite element in 1D 41:41
lecture 2 part I 5 Dec 2013: weak derivatives and Sobolev spaces 44:31
lecture 2 part II 5 Dec 2013: weak derivatives and Sobolev spaces 35:21
lecture 3 part I 23 Jan 2014: constructing finite elements. 40:24
lecture 3 part II 23 Jan 2014: constructing finite elements. 41:17
lecture 4 part I 31 Jan 2014 some vector calculus 42:54
lecture 4 part I 31 Jan 2014 Poisson in more dimensions 25:46
lecture 5 part I 7 Feb 2014 Quadrature and local assembly 47:09
lecture 5 part II 7 Feb 2014 Local assembly 28:47
lecture 6 part 1 14 February 2014 Nonlinear problems 45:21
lecture 6 part 2 14 February 2014 Nonlinear problems 29:39
lecture 7 part I 28 Feb 2014 Boundary conditions 40:52
lecture 7 part II 28 Feb 2014 Vector-valued spaces 40:14
lecture 8 part I 7 Mar 2014 Piola Transforms 39:41
lecture 8 part II 7 Mar 2014 Piola transforms and mixed spaces 30:45

Helen Blair Simpson: Hope in the Face of Fear: How Advances in Neuroscience Will Transform Treatments for Anxiety and OCD

source: Columbia 2016年10月25日
On September 19, at 6:30pm, psychiatrist Dr. Helen Blair Simpson discussed her acclaimed work on anxiety and related disorders (including obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD). Taken together, these are some of the most common psychiatric disorders in the world.
Anxiety disorders (including OCD) affect more people worldwide than any other group of mental illnesses and are the sixth leading cause of global disability according to the World Health Organization (WHO). During her lecture, Dr. Simpson describes her current work both in improving the lives of today’s patients, while also working in concert with brain imagers, geneticists and others to develop revolutionary treatments for the patients of tomorrow.
Dr. Simpson — a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute — is one of the world’s leading experts in anxiety. She helped to develop the first OCD treatment guidelines for the American Psychiatric Association, and has also advised the WHO on obsessive-compulsive and related disorders.
This lecture was part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series, offered free to the public to enhance understanding of the biology of the mind and the complexity of human behavior. The lectures are hosted by Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

What is the Doomsday Argument? (Closer to Truth)

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source: Closer To Truth 2016年10月10日
The Copernican Principle asserts that humans are not special, that we should expect to find ourselves in an ordinary place or position. But if humanity continues for billions of years, we today would find ourselves extraordinarily early in human history.
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Nick Bostrom - What is the Doomsday Argument? 5:52
John Leslie - What is the Doomsday Argument? 6:06
Martin Rees - What is the Doomsday Argument? 3:42

What is gene editing and how does it work?

source: The Royal Society 2016年10月4日
Gene editing allows scientists to change gene sequences by adding, replacing or removing sections of DNA.
This animation explains how this technology works, as well as its possible ethical and societal implications.
Produced by the Royal Society in conjunction with Wellcome Trust.

Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Geoff Dyer

source: Harvard GSD 2016年10月7日
English author Geoff Dyer takes liberties with the boundaries of conventional literary genres such as novel and travel narrative, fiction and nonfiction. Subtle, and frequently observational in its narration, his prose moves between the personal and general and often inspires his readers to take stock of their own tendencies. Dyer won the 2009 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Best Comic Novel for Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; not long after, he was named GQ Writer of the Year. His books encompass a broad range of subjects: The Ways of Telling (1988) is a study of art critic John Berger that is an early clue to Dyer’s concerns with issues of perception; But Beautiful (1991) is a study of jazz; The Missing of the Somme (1994) dwells on memory and World War I; Out of Sheer Rage (1997) considers D. H. Lawrence; Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It (2003) describes a trip to the East; The Ongoing Moment (2005) is about photography; his collection of essays and reviews titled Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (2011) won a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism; and then there is Another Great Day At Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush (2015). White Sands, a collection of travel essays and meditations on some fundamental questions of existence, was published in 2016 .Dyer is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is writer in residence at USC.

Training Environmental Leaders for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities

source: Yale University 2016年10月10日
Speakers: Dan Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Clinical Professor of Environmental Law & Policy, Yale Law School. Former Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Julia Marton-Lefevre, Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at Yale University, Fellow of Davenport College at Yale and former Director General of IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Moderator: Benjamin Cashore, Environmental Governance & Political Science, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; Joseph C. Fox Director, Fox International Fellowship.
This lecture is a part of the Fox International Fellowship Leadership Seminar Series at the MacMillan Center at Yale.

Effective Policy with Matthew Taylor

source: The RSA 2016年10月3日
Effective Policy with Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA. Matthew Taylor examines the relationship between policy-making and social change. What distinguishes successful policy changes from other ideas that seemed to have everything in their favour at the outset, and yet ultimately failed to deliver?
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Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang: "Streaming, Sharing, Stealing [...]" | T...

source: Talks at Google 2016年10月11日
Traditional network television programming has always followed the same script: executives approve a pilot, order a trial number of episodes, and broadcast them, expecting viewers to watch a given show on their television sets at the same time every week. But then came Netflix’s House of Cards. Netflix gauged the show’s potential from data it had gathered about subscribers’ preferences, ordered two seasons without seeing a pilot, and uploaded the first thirteen episodes all at once for viewers to watch whenever they wanted on the devices of their choice.
In this book, Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, experts on entertainment analytics, show how the success of House of Cards upended the film and TV industries—and how companies like Amazon and Apple are changing the rules in other entertainment industries, notably publishing and music. We’re living through a period of unprecedented technological disruption in the entertainment industries. Just about everything is affected: pricing, production, distribution, piracy. Smith and Telang discuss niche products and the long tail, product differentiation, price discrimination, and incentives for users not to steal content. To survive and succeed, businesses have to adapt rapidly and creatively. Smith and Telang explain how.
How can companies discover who their customers are, what they want, and how much they are willing to pay for it? Data. The entertainment industries, must learn to play a little “moneyball.” The bottom line: follow the data.

Want to Make Better Decisions? Know the Difference between Engineering a...

source: Big Think 2016年10月6日
There comes a point when you can no longer rely on the Magic 8 ball to provide the best path for major life decisions. Stanford University lecturer Dave Evans has a better idea. Dave Evan's is the co-author of "Designing Your Life" (https://goo.gl/zwbj4J).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/dave-evans...

Transcript - There are lots of ways to think. And what you want is you want a toolkit of ways to think and you want ways to think to be aligned with the problems you're thinking about. So we talk about sort of four examples of ways of thinking. There's engineering thinking, which is very prevalent in modern society because we're a technical society and engineers solve pain problems to which there are clear repeatable solutions. Once I figure out how to build the Brooklyn Bridge I can build it again and again; it will work every time. That's a hard problem but it's a tame problem. It's well behaved. It will act tomorrow just like it acted today.
Business problems you use optimization thinking. There's no right answer to your branding, no right answer to your market share, but you can optimize and that's a different kind of thinking. Researchers do analytic thinking. They thought with a premise. They think thin slice it down. They've got a questioning the process. Those are ways of thinking. What we call wicked problems, that's a technical term developed by some urban planners at Berkeley back in the '70s, a wicked problem is one where the criteria for success are unclear, constantly changing; you won't know you got the right answer until you find it; and once you found it you can't reuse it again. You can't rebuild New York City somewhere else. You can't be Dave Evans again. You can't be somebody else again. So wicked problems are inherently human problems and they're messy problems and they're trying to intersect a future that none of us knows enough about. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/hqtXDR.

Future of Language by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil 2014年4月26日
A lecture delivered by Wesley Cecil PhD. at Peninsula College. Part of the Language and Literatures series that explores the development, spread, and influence of a variety of languages.

The Infinite Spiral Staircase, Part Three: Cosmic DNA at the Origin, with Chris H. Hardy

source: New Thinking Allowed 2015年12月8日
Chris H. Hardy, PhD, is a psychological anthropologist with a specialty in systems theory. She is author of Cosmic DNA at the Origin – A Hyperdimension Before the Big Bang: The Infinite Spiral Staircase Theory, and also The Sacred Network and Networks of Meaning. She also has worked as a parapsychological researcher at the Psychophysical Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.
Here she describes how her intellectual journey led her to explore the fields of quantum physics and cosmology. The semantic fields, she theorized, existed outside of time and space although they were capable of operating within time and space. How could this be possible? She sought an answer by exploring in detail the formation of the universe as we know it through the big bang theory. She notes that, according to physics, no particles having mass can exist that are smaller than the Planck length. However, the universe itself is thought to have originated from a singularity much smaller than the Planck length. In this early phase, she maintains that the universe existed as a semantic field. She also explores the notion that this semantic field was formed through the death of a prior universe.

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 21, 2015)

David Chalmers Interview on Consciousness & the "Hard Problem" (Subtitle...

source: Philosophical Overdose 2015年6月12日
Keith Frankish interviews David Chalmers regarding the nature of consciousness. Chalmers discusses the so called hard problem of consciousness, the conceivability argument against physicalism/materialism (i.e. the zombie argument), the problem of mental causation, as well as the various philosophical positions including physicalism, reductionism, property dualism, epiphenomenalism, interactionism, and panpsychism.
The paper which Chalmers mentioned, where he argues that conceivability entails logical possibility, can be found here: http://consc.net/papers/conceivabilit....
Subtitles are available.

Shantanu Bhattacharya: Bio-microelectromechanical systems (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd 2012年7月5日
Mechanical - Biomicroelectromechanical systems by Dr. Shantanu Bhattacharya, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lecture_01 59:56
Lecture-02 1:14:59
Lecture-03 21:56
Lecture-04 57:46
Lecture-05 56:31
Lecture-06 59:34
Lecture-07 55:58
Lecture-08 54:41
Lecture-09&10 55:36
Lecture-11 53:55
Lecture-13 47:11
Lecture-14 54:44
Lecture-15 54:47
Lecture-16 58:10
Lecture-17 51:05
Lecture-18 1:00:24
Lecture-19 52:44
Lecture-20 56:25
Lecture-21 1:08:04
Lecture-22 59:34
Lecture-23 58:23
Lecture-24 58:56
Lecture-25 59:25
Lecture-26 58:52
Lecture-27 58:36
Lecture-28 53:20
Lecture-29 55:54
Lecture-30 59:30
Lecture-31 57:54
Lecture-32 58:30
Lecture-33 57:28
Lecture-34 38:10
Lecture-35 55:07
Lecture-36 57:31
Lecture-37 57:43
Lecture-38 1:01:18
Lecture-39 57:44
Lecture-40 1:37:46

T. P. Bagchi: Six Sigma (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd 2012年1月2日
Management - Six Sigma by Dr. T. P. Bagchi, Department of Management, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Concepts in Quality Management - I 54:42
02 Concepts in Quality Management - II 56:12
03 Concepts in Quality Management - III 59:04
04 Initiating Six Sigma 58:25
05 Review of Probability and Statistics - I 55:57
06 Review of Probability and Statistics - II 57:08
07 Review of Probability and Statistics - III 57:13
08 Review of Probability and Statistics - IV 56:33
09 QM Systems Overview 58:14
10 Cost of Quality and TQM Tools 58:25
11 QFD and ISO 9000 56:11
12 QS 9000 and Awards 56:15
13 Competing Through Service Quality 57:08
14 Introduction to Project Management 52:42
15 Project Life Cycle 54:24
16 Critical Path Method 59:23
17 Measurement System Analysis 57:15
18 Acceptance Sampling 55:56
19 Design of Sampling Plans 56:30
20 MIL-STD-105E Sampling Plan 55:39
21 Introduction to SPC 55:37
22 Control Chart Examples 57:17
23 Control Charts by Excel 54:27
24 Process Capability 54:48
25 Quality Function Deployment 50:36
26 Design of Experiments - Overview 54:16
27 Planning for DOE 56:06
28 Factor Effect Calculations 55:10
29 ANOVA in DOE 54:54
30 Benchmarking in Six Sigma 54:50
31 How to Benchmark 57:44
32 Six Sigma in Supply Chains 56:22
33 Taguchi Methods 56:51
34 Robust Design 57:08
35 The Journey to Six Sigma 55:01
36 A Case Study of Defect Reduction 55:43
37 DFM & Reliability 54:50
38 Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA) 56:48
39 Implementing Six Sigma 56:30
40 Getting Results From Six Sigma 54:28

R. Srinivasan: Strategic Management (IISC Bangalore)

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source: nptelhrd 2012年4月9日
Management - Strategic Management by Prof. R. Srinivasan, Department of Management Studies, IISC Bangalore. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

01 Introduction to Strategic Management 52:29
02 Concept of Corporate Strategy 51:21
03 Strategic Management Process - 01 52:05
04 Strategic Management Process - 02 50:15
05 The 7-S Framework 51:29
06 Corporate Policy and Planning in India 50:54
07 Board of Directors - Role and Functions 50:28
08 Board of Directors - Role and Functions, Top Management - Role and Skills 51:06
09 Board Functioning - Indian Context & Environmental Scanning 48:56
10 Environmental Scanning & Industry Analysis 51:48
11 The synthesis of External Factors & External Factors Analysis Summary (EFAS) 55:17
12 Internal Corporate Analysis & Impact Matrix 52:42
13 Value Chain Analysis 50:48
14 Synthesis of Internal Factors - 1 52:00
15 Synthesis of Internal Factors - 2 53:20
16 Internal Factors Analysis Summary (IFAS) & Case Study - 1 50:11
17 Case Analysis 51:20
18 Key Financial Ratios 52:01
19 Case Analysis - 2 & SFAS Matrix 55:33
20 Business Strategy 49:06
21 Corporate Strategy - 1 46:03
22 Corporate Strategy - 2 48:28
23 Corporate Strategy - 3 & Functional Strategy 50:11
24 Functional Strategy - 1 53:36
25 Functional Strategy - 2 53:03
26 Functional Strategy - 3 & Strategic Choice 50:50
27 Strategy Implementation - 1 52:47
28 Strategy Implementation - 2 51:19
29 Evaluation and Control 52:17
30 Strategic Information Systems - 1 50:27
31 Strategic Information Systems - 2 49:27
33 Other Strategic Issues - 2 48:45
34 Small and Medium Enterprises 49:41
35 Non- Profit Organizations 50:15
36 Summary - 1 51:21
37 Summary - 2 47:58

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