lectures/ideas: 11/15/16

2016-11-15

Fluid Mechanics in Chemical Engineering by Victor Ugaz (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas)

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source: Victor Ugaz 2013年2月4日
A series of screencast lectures presenting content from an undergraduate-level fluid mechanics course in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University (College Station, TX, USA).
My inspiration for producing this series of videos has been my lifelong personal journey to understand fluid mechanics and explain its beauty to others in a straightforward way. I have received no external support for this project...the effort is purely a labor of love.
I would like to acknowledge Aashish Priye and Jamison Chang for assistance in developing the materials and preparing the captioning.
Please feel free to share any comments or suggestions.

What is a Fluid? - Lecture 1.1 13:20
Introduction to Viscosity - Lecture 1.2 15:53
Surface Tension, part 1 - Lecture 1.3 5:26
Surface Tension, part 2 - Lecture 1.4 10:49
Non-Newtonian Fluids, part 1 - Lecture 1.5 10:41
Non-Newtonian Fluids, part 2 - Lecture 1.6 14:35
Non-Newtonian Fluids, part 3 - Lecture 1.7 6:17
Non-Newtonian Fluids, part 4 - Lecture 1.8 13:35
Conservation of Mass, part 1 - Lecture 2.1 10:30
Conservation of Mass, part 2 - Lecture 2.2 10:26
Conservation of Mass, part 3 - Lecture 2.3 8:27
Conservation of Mass, part 4 - Lecture 2.4 6:53
Conservation of Mass, part 5 - Lecture 2.5 7:41
Coordinate Transformations, part 1 - Lecture 3.1 9:02
Coordinate Transformations, part 2 - Lecture 3.2 16:28
Coordinate Transformations, part 3 - Lecture 3.3 11:57
Conservation of Momentum, part 1 - Lecture 4.1 15:02
Conservation of Momentum, part 2 - Lecture 4.2 10:31
Conservation of Momentum, part 3 - Lecture 4.3 9:06
Conservation of Momentum, part 4 - Lecture 4.4 14:59
Conservation of Momentum, part 5 - Lecture 4.5 17:58
Applying the Navier-Stokes Equations, part 1 - Lecture 4.6 14:02
Applying the Navier-Stokes Equations, part 2 - Lecture 4.7 11:31
Applying the Navier-Stokes Equations, part 3 - Lecture 4.8 7:55
Applying the Navier-Stokes Equations, part 4 - Lecture 4.9 15:38
Conservation of Energy, part 1 - Lecture 5.1 7:14
Conservation of Energy, part 2 - Lecture 5.2 11:36
Losses & Friction Factors, part 1 - Lecture 6.1 13:17
Losses & Friction Factors, part 2 - Lecture 6.2 10:13
Losses & Friction Factors, part 3 - Lecture 6.3 9:42
Losses & Friction Factors, part 4 - Lecture 6.4 13:15

BioNanotechnology Summer Institute: on engineering and physical science laboratory techniques (2012-2016)

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source: NanoBio Node 2012年5月21日 / updated: 2016年7月19日
Attendees participate in two weeks of lectures and hands-on training in engineering and physical science laboratory techniques by experts in the field. Topics include cancer nanotechnology, cell mechanics, molecular biology, micro fabrication, and NanoBio devices.

Welcome 36:27
Intro to: Fourier optics, Light scattering, Holography, QPI (Parts 1 and 2) 1:56:40
Intro to: Fourier optics, Light scattering, Holography, QPI (Part 3) 49:08
Nonlinear optics 1:01:26
Microscopy 1:11:13
Basic Principles of Fluorescence 52:40
Early history of lifetime measurements and lifetime imaging 51:05
Some examples of FLIM analysis 26:02
How physics and modern computers have revolutionized imaging / Inverse problems 1:03:09
Tour of the Cell 1:01:40
Intro to cellular bioengineering 1:11:06
Breast cancer biomarkers: From serendipity to rational discovery 1:16:59
Optical coherence tomography 1:10:42
Spectroscopic imaging 51:38
A Tutorial on Optical Characterization Methods; VI1, VI2, VI3, VI4 56:26
Intro to Nanophotonics 1:08:47
Plasmonics and Metamaterials 1:07:44
Photonic Bionsensors 47:35
Optical and Computational Approaches to Multidimensional Live Cell Imaging 1:03:52
Computational adaptive optics for broadband interferometric tomography 30:44
Quantitative phase imaging: methods 1:16:32
Quantitative Phase Imaging: Live Cell Applications 41:27
Scattering, Absorbing, and Modulating Molecular Probes for Targeted Imaging and Therapy 1:01:38
Plasmon-resonant nanoparticles for biological imaging 1:13:24
Selective agents for sensing and imaging based on functional DNA technology 40:25
Chemical imaging for cancer pathology 56:07
Fast Relaxation Imaging: protein dynamics inside cells 57:30
Colorimetric Nanoplasmonic Molecular and Cellular Imaging 1:11:37
Nanophotonic detection of drug binding to cytochrome P450 41:33
Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence Imaging 40:22
Keynote- Single Molecule Fluorescence and Optical Trapping Applied to Molecular Motors 53:54
Fourier transforms 2:27:04
Wave optics/ Fourier optics 2:25:09
Nonlinear optics 38:10
Dynamic light scattering for nanoparticle characterization 53:23
A tour of the cell 1:06:28
Intro to cellular bioengineering 1:17:33
Pathology of blood and tissue biopsies 52:26
Plasmon-Resonant Nanoparticles for Biological Imaging Applications 55:35
Insights into the molecular workings of ion channels 1:12:03
Quantitative phase imaging of intracellular transport 1:16:26
BioNanotechnology Summer Institute 2014 - Poster Session 08/01/14 29:35
BioNanotechnology Summer Institute 2014 - Poster Session 08/04/14 28:43
Microfluidics and Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine (Rashid Bashir) 56:07
BioNanotechnology Summer Institute 2014 - Poster Session 08/05/16 25:53
BioNanotechnology Summer Institute 2014 - Poster Session 08/06/16 35:03
2014 Bionanotechnology Summer Institute - NanoOptics Lab Day 1 27:37
2014 Bionanotechnology Summer Institute - NanoOptics Lab Day 2 33:30
Mechanical Design Considerations for Stretchable Cell Culture Systems (Chelsey Simmons) 1:11:30
Gold Nanostars as Tiny Hitchhikers for Cancer Therapeutics (Teri Odem) 1:17:19
Fundamentals of Nano Optics and Plasmonics for the Biomedical Researcher (Prashant Jain) 1:08:11
Mechanobiology in Neuronal Development (Taher Saif) 49:52
Cancer Basics (Ann Nardulli) 1:07:23
SMART: Shrink Manufacturing Advanced Research Tools (Michelle Khine) 55:12
Extracellular Matrix Remodeling during Cancer Progression and Metastasis (Manu Platt) 59:51
Societal Implications of Bionanotechnology (Irfan Ahmad) 1:27:44
Translational Nanomedicine in the Interface of Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering (Dipanjan Pan) 1:01:40
Mobile Phone Nanosensor Platform at Molecular Precision for Environmental Health Diagnostics 1:00:19
Plasmonic Nanoparticles and Nanostructures (Ivan Smalyukh) 1:17:45
Translational Nanomedicine from Drug Discovery to Preclinical Studies (Dipanjan Pan) 49:30
Nanoscopic Tools in Live Cell Analysis (Joseph Irudayaraj) 1:04:49
Estimation of Lamellipod Protrusion Forces (Richard Chadwick) 54:52
Introduction to Mechanics in Mechanobiology, Part I (Taher Saif) 1:12:20
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Nanotechnology and Spectroscopic Instrumentation for Image-Guided Precision Medicine (Shuming Nie) 58:27
Modeling Nanopore for Sequencing DNA (Alexei Aksimentiev) 1:06:14
Hands-on Lab Module (Jeremy Smith) 31:06
Microfluidic Design Enables Single-cell and Sub-cellular Protein Measurement 1:10:43

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Alan Mackworth / U of British Columbia)

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source: Alan Mackworth 2013年11月21日
Official course page at: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mack/CS322/
Undergraduate level computer science course by Dr. Alan Mackworth, given at the University of British Columbia.

Lecture 1 | Intro 1: What is Artificial Intelligence? 49:43
Lecture 2 | Intro 2: Representational Dimensions 48:42
Lecture 3 | Intro 3: Applications of AI 41:43
Lecture 4 | Search 1: Representation & Search Framework 47:38
Lecture 5 | Search 2: BFS and DFS 47:54
Lecture 6 - Search 3: Search with Costs & Heuristic Search 46:38
Lecture 7 - Search 4: Heuristic Search: A* 46:19
Lecture 8 | Search 5: A* Optimality, Cycle Checking 43:41
Lecture 9 | Search 6: Iterative Deepening (IDS) and IDA* 43:48
Lecture 10 | Search 7: Multiple Path Pruning, IDS and IDA* 47:33
Lecture 11 | CSP 1: Branch & Bound, CSP: Intro 49:25
Lecture 12 | CSP 2: Solving CSP Using Search 49:44
Lecture 13 | CSP 3: Arc Consistency 48:54
Lecture 14 | CSP 4: GAC Algorithm and Domain Splitting for CSPs 48:23
Lecture 15 | CSP 5: Local Search 49:51
Lecture 16 | CSP 6: Stochastic Local Search 47:16
Lecture 17 | CSP 7: Stochastic Local Search Algorithms 47:26
Lecture 18 | Planning 1: Representation 48:23
Lecture 19 | Planning 2: Forward Planning and CSP Planning 47:56
Lecture 20 | Planning 3: CSP Planning Wrap Up 46:44
Lecture 21 | Logic 1: Intro & Propositional Definite Clause Logic 48:51
Lecture 22 - Logic 2: Proof Procedures, Soundness and Completeness 51:20
Lecture 23 | Logic 3: Bottom-up and Top-down Proof Procedures 49:18
Lecture 24 | Logic 4: Top-Down Procedure, Datalog and Big Picture 47:54
Lecture 25 | Uncertainty 1: Probability Theory: Intro 49:32
Lecture 26 | Uncertainty 2: Conditional Probability, Bayes Rule, Chain Rule 49:23
Lecture 27 - Uncertainty 3: Independence 46:12
Lecture 28 | Uncertainty 4: Bayesian Networks Intro 47:09
Lecture 29 | Uncertainty 5: Independence and Inference 49:49
Lecture 30 | Uncertainty 6: Variable Elimination for Bayes Nets 48:57
Lecture 31 | Decision Theory 1: Uncertainty Wrap-Up, Single Decisions 49:19
Lecture 32 | Decision Theory 2: Single and Sequential Decisions 51:02
Lecture 33 | Decision Theory 3: Optimal Policies for Sequential Decisions 47:16
Lecture 34 | Perspectives and Final Review 52:23

Onur Mutlu: Computer Architecture (MediaTech version)--Carnegie Mellon U, Spring 2014

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source: Carnegie Mellon Computer Architecture 2014年1月20日
Spring 2014 (MediaTech) -- Computer Arch. -- Carnegie Mellon
Lecturer: Prof. Onur Mutlu (http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/)
Course webpage: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece447/s14/do...
Module materials: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece447/s14/do...

Lecture 1. Introduction and Basics 1:41:43
Lecture 2. Fundamental Concepts and ISA 1:43:22
Lecture 3. ISA Tradeoffs 1:44:47
Lecture 4. ISA Tradeoffs (cont.) 1:44:32
Lecture 5. Single-Cycle and Multi-Cycle uArch 1:25:19
Lecture 6. Multi-Cycle and Microprogrammed uArch 1:44:52
Lecture 7. Pipelining 1:36:14
Lecture 8. Data and Control Dependence 1:39:26
Lecture 9. Branch Handling and Branch Prediction 1:38:02
Lecture 10. Branch Handling & Branch Prediction II 1:39:04
Lecture 11. Precise Exceptions 1:38:52
Lecture 12. Virtual Memory I 1:25:15
Lecture 13. Virtual Memory II 1:05:07
Lecture 14. Out-of-order Execution 1:43:48
Lecture 15. Load/Store Handling and Data Flow 1:26:15
Lecture 16. SIMD Processing (Vector Processors) 1:38:57
Lecture 17. GPUs, VLIW, Systolic Arrays 1:40:57
Exam I Review 1:29:31
Lecture 19. Memory Hierarchy and Caches 1:39:18
Lecture 20. Better Caching 1:32:11
Lecture 21. Advanced Caching and MLP 1:35:33
Lecture 22. Main Memory 1:41:13
Lecture 23. New DRAM Architectures 1:12:56
Lecture 24. Memory Scheduling 1:41:40
Lecture 25. Main Memory Wrap-Up 1:42:04
Lecture 26. Runahead Execution 1:37:52
Lecture 27. Prefetching 1:43:03
Lecture 28. Multiprocessors 1:35:00
Lecture 29. Consistency & Coherence 1:45:52
Lecture 30. Performance Predictability and Cache Compression 1:39:39
Lecture 31. Interconnection Networks 1:42:18
Lecture 32. Asymmetric Multi-Core 1:38:10
Lecture 33. Emerging Memory Tech. 1:32:46

Onur Mutlu: Computer Architecture (Spring 2014 at Carnegie Mellon University)

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source: Carnegie Mellon Computer Architecture 2014年1月18日

Lecture videos from CMU 18-447, Computer Architecture, in Spring 2014.

Prof. Onur Mutlu (http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/)
Course webpage: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece447/s14/do...
Module materials: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece447/s14/do...

Lecture 1. Introduction and Basics 1:41:39
Lecture 2. Fundamental Concepts and ISA 1:43:31
Lecture 3. ISA Tradeoffs 1:44:49
Lecture 4. ISA Tradeoffs (cont.) 1:44:50
Lecture 5. Single-Cycle and Multi-Cycle uArch 1:25:33
Lecture 6. Multi-Cycle and Microprogrammed uArch 1:44:37

Lecture 7. Pipelining 1:35:53
[deleted video]
Lecture 9. Branch Handling and Branch Prediction 1:35:05
Lecture 10. Branch Handling & Branch Prediction II (part 2) 36:05
Lecture 10. Branch Handling & Branch Prediction II (part 1) 1:02:23
Lecture 11. Precise Exceptions 1:39:15
Lecture 12. Virtual Memory I 1:25:42
Lecture 13. Virtual Memory II 1:06:48
Lecture 14. Out-of-order Execution 1:49:52
Lecture 15. Load/Store Handling and Data Flow 1:26:25
Lecture 16. SIMD Processing (Vector Processors) 1:39:18
Lecture 17. GPUs, VLIW, Systolic Arrays 1:43:21
Lecture 19. Memory Hierarchy and Caches 1:40:09
Lecture 20. Better Caching 1:16:34
Lecture 21. Advanced Caching and MLP 1:37:30
Lecture 24. Memory Scheduling 1:42:19
Lecture 25. Main Memory Wrap-Up 1:42:19
Lecture 26. Runahead Execution 1:38:16
Lecture 27. Prefetching 1:43:00
Lecture 28. Multiprocessors 1:35:59
Lecture 29. Consistency & Coherence 1:45:30
Midterm II Review Session 1:18:31
Lecture 31. Interconnection Networks 1:42:27
Lecture 32. Asymmetric Multi-Core 1:38:56
Lecture 33. Emerging Memory Tech 1:04:40

Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis (Brenda Gunderson / U of Michigan)

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source: openmichigan 2012年8月16日
Lectures from Statistics 250 - Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis.
View the course materials: https://open.umich.edu/education/lsa/...
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Help us caption and translate videos: http://www.amara.org/en/v/B5AR/

Week 02(a): Chapter 2 Turning Data into Info 1:13:24
Week 02(b): Chapter 3 and 4 Sampling and Gathering Data 1:04:09
Week 03(a): Chapter 7 Probability 1:01:58
Week 03(b): Ch 8 - Discrete Random Variables 1:07:31
Week 04(a): Chapter 8 Continuous Random Variables 1:07:02
Week 04(b): Chapter 8 Normal Distribution and Chapter 9 Intro to Sampling Distributions 1:07:46
Week 5(a): Chs 9 & 10 - Conf. interval for p 1:05:46
Week 5(b): Chs 10 & 12 - CI and HT for p 1:05:26
Week 06(b): Chapter 12 HT for p, errors, and power 1:11:48
Week 07(a): Chapter 9 Sampling Distribution of Sample Mean 1:08:07
Week 07(b): Ch 11 - CI for a population mean 1:02:32
Week 07(c): Exam 1 Review 1:28:05
Week 08(a): Chapter 13 HT for a Population Mean 1:07:12
Week 08(b): Chapter 13 More HT for a Population Mean 56:59
Week 09(b): Chapter 9 and 11 Difference in Two Means 54:06
Week 09(a): Chapter 11 and 13 CI and HT for a Population Mean Difference 1:15:42
Week 10(a): Chapter 11 CI for Difference in Two Means (Indep Samples) 42:20
Week 10(b): Chapter 13 HT for Difference in Two Means (Indep) and NTS worksheet 1:09:42
Week 11(a): Chapter 16 Intro to ANOVA 1:04:35
Week 11(b): Chapter 16 More ANOVA 1:03:32
Week 12(a): Chapter 5 and 14 Regression and Exam 2 Review 1:06:42
Week 12(b): Chapter 5 and 14 More Regression and More Exam 2 Review 1:04:08
Week 12(c): Exam 2 Review 54:20
Week 13(a): Chapter 14 Inference for Regression 1:08:56
Week 13(b): Chapter 14 More Regression and Full Example 1:15:21
Week 14(a): Chapter 15 Chi Square Test of GOF and Homogeneity 1:06:42
Week 14(b): Chapter 15 Chi Square Test of Independence 57:56
Week 14(c): Final Exam Review 56:09
Ch 13 - HT for a Population Mean 1:07:12
CI and HT for difference in two proportions 1:07:36

When Democracy Becomes Controversial: Climate Change and the Corporate State

source: Simon Fraser University 2016年10月27日
The 2015 Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy winners were Stephen Collis & Lynne Quarmby
Our democratic system is vulnerable and has been slowly dismantled by those in power, most egregiously while under the Harper Conservatives. Citizens today must wrestle with the contradiction of participating in a broken system - voting, supporting parties and candidates, participating in public debate, even running for office — at the same time, recognizing that the most pressing issues we face (such as climate change, the geographical displacement of populations, and Indigenous rights and land claims), require us to take direct action outside of the electoral and representative apparatus of governance.

Does Evolutionary Psychology Undermine Religion? (Closer to Truth)

source: Closer To Truth 2016年10月3日
Evolutionary psychology naturalizes religion. It seeks to explain elements of mind by selection and survival over time. Take altruism—individuals sacrificing themselves for the good of the group. Can humanity's entire religion project be explained similarly?

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Patrick McNamara - Does Evolutionary Psychology Undermine Religion? 8:25
Anthony A.C. Grayling - Does Evolutionary Psychology Undermine Religion? 8:35
Jared Diamond - Does Evolutionary Psychology Undermine Religion? 8:40

Agency, Morals & the Mind - Patrick Haggard

source: SchAdvStudy 2016年10月24日
27-09-2016 School of Advanced Study
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
http://humanmind.ac.uk/
Agency, Morals & the Mind
Agency and Subjectivity
Volition and Value
Patrick Haggard | Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
The Human Mind Project

Bioprinting: The Kidney’s Proximal Tubules

source: Harvard University 2016年10月11日
In this video, see how the Wyss Institute team has advanced bioprinting to the point of being able to fabricate a functional subunit of a kidney, as reported in a new study published in Scientific Reports. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Personal Mythology with Stanley Krippner

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年10月13日
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Saybrook University, is a Fellow in five APA divisions, and past-president of two divisions (30 and 32). Formerly, he was director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, in Brooklyn NY. He is co-author of Personal Mythology: Using Ritual, Dreams, and Imagination to Discover Your Personal Story; Demystifying Shamans and Their World; The Voice of Rolling Thunder: A Medicine Man’s Wisdom for Walking the Red Road; Dream Telepathy: Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them; The Mythic Path; and Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans. He is co-editor of Debating Psychic Experience: Human Potential or Human Illusion, Healing Tales, Healing Stories, Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence, Advances in Parapsychological Research and many other books. He is a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and has published cross-cultural studies on spiritual content in dreams.
Here he suggests that, at a subconscious level, we are all subject to the influence of myths operating in our lives. Some of these are irrational and destructive. Others are positive and rational. Through the use of ritual, dreams, and mental imagery, we can bring these powerful dynamics into the light of consciousness. Krippner describes some of the important influences on his approach to personal mythology – including Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Albert Ellis, and Philip Zimbardo.

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 May 14, 2016)

ART WORK: An Evening with Richard Maxwell | The New School

source: The New School 2016年9月29日
Richard Maxwell is a playwright, director, and artistic director of the New York City Players. His plays have been performed in more than twenty countries in Europe, South America, and Australia, as well as in the U.S. at venues that include Performance Space 122, Soho Rep, The Kitchen, The Walker Art Center, and The Wexner Center for the Arts. He is the author of Richard Maxwell: Plays, 1996–2000 and the recent Theatre for Beginners. Maxwell is the recipient of the 2014 Spalding Gray Award. His work has been celebrated for creating a new style of theatrical realism on American stages.
Art Work is a ongoing series that hosts innovative artists who speak about the artistic process on special evenings at Lang. Students gain access to the intimate workings of some of the most influential artists practicing in the city today. In an intimate setting, the artists detail their creative process, speak about new productions, and examine their most famous works.
The series is curated by Bonnie Marranca, professor of Theater at Eugene Lang College.
Location: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College
Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Steve Chien: "Automated Scheduling for Rosetta Science Operations" | Tal...

source: Talks at Google 2016年10月17日
Using Constraint-based Automated Scheduling for Rosetta Science Operations.
Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

On September 30th 2016, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission will end with the Rosetta Orbiter landing on the comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This historic mission is the first mission to deploy a soft lander to a comet and to escort a comet for an extended period (over one year). But Rosetta is also a pathfinding space mission from the perspective of Operations, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence in it’s usage of the ASPEN Artificial Intelligence planning and scheduling software for early to mid-range science activity scheduling and data dump scheduling. In my talk I first briefly discuss comets and their importance understanding the evolution of our solar system and life on Earth. Second, I describe elements of the multi- disciplinary Rosetta science planning process which incorporates diverse science, geometric, engineering, and resource constraints. Finally, I describe the constraint-driven scheduling automation and how Artificial Intelligence has much to offer not only in schedule generation, but in constraint enforcement, problem and constraint analysis, and in iterative schedule refinement.
Dr. Steve Chien is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology where he leads efforts in autonomous systems for space exploration. Dr. Chien has received numerous awards for his research in space autonomous systems: NASA Medals in 1997, 2000, 2007, and 2015; he is a four time honoree in the NASA Software of the Year competition; and in 2011 he was awarded the innaugural AIAA Intelligent Systems Award. He has led the deployment of ground and flight autonomy software to numerous missions including the Autonomous Sciencecraft on Earth Observing One, the WATCH software to the Mars Exploration Rovers, the Earth Observing Sensorweb, the IPEX Cubesat, and to ESA's Rosetta mission.
This talk was hosted by Boris Debic.

Confessions of an Outlaw: Chaos and Order | Philippe Petit

source: Big Think 2016年10月14日
High-wire artist Philippe Petit describes his process of compressing chaos in order to build a model for creative output. When faced with a long list of goals and subjects for a creative endeavor, make a list. Introduce order. Compartmentalize your thoughts and ambitions. The key is to find the precise marriage between madness and structure.
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/confession...

Transcript - I kind of welcome chaos at first as the power of my creativity and then by itself, with a little help from me, the chaos becomes order and then, of course, I have a plan and I acquire the ingredients that the plan needs like you know making a dish.
One good way to put chaos into order is — and it works for me and one should try it; maybe it works for you too — is to make a list. A list of subjects, for example, if I’m about to write a book or a chapter of a book on something, I’m going to put a list of the thing that I have to talk about and then the list becomes unbearably long of course. And how can this stupid list which is unedited, how can that list be distilled and help you as a writer in my example to arrive to starting to write clearly and succinctly a passage of your book.
Well then there is the process of editing. So maybe it’s not editing. Maybe it’s more compressing or revisiting. So I take this ridiculous list and I start scratching things that really came from my mind, but are to be deleted. Or I start associating those three items, actually they’re only one. So I compress. I associate. I cancel certain things. Also of course more words or more, you know, thoughts would come. And then at the end that list becomes very naturally a blueprint, a synopsis, a guideline and if you have a blueprint for an architect you can start doing a three-dimensional model to show the constructor how you want your house built. So as a writer if you have a synopsis, you can start writing because it’s a skeleton of your thoughts.
It distills things. I think personally my head is really exploding in all directions when I am about to embark into let’s say a piece of writing. You can hear in my voice I am getting excited talking about what people sometimes fear which is a blank surface or a blank calling and what can you do. So that list and later on the arrival of reflection moment is what I need to start being intelligible on the page.

Myths of the American Mind: Money Part II by Wesley Cecil

source: Wes Cecil 2014年12月13日
Wes Cecil presents the second half of the Money lecture in his Myths of the Modern American Mind. This lecture explores the the psychological and emotional influence money has on our lives and the unique historical background of America that contributes to our emphasis on money in our culture.

The Nature of Probability & The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

source: Philosophical Overdose 2015年2月21日
In this talk, David Wallace discusses the notion of probability and some of the philosophical interpretations and problems surrounding it. After distinguishing between subjective and objective probability, he goes on to discuss the possible basis of probability in the world. He then discusses how we can make sense of probability in the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics. The MWI holds that quantum theory--our best current theory of physics--is correctly understood as claiming that there are many worlds that exist in parallel to our own and which branch constantly off our own. The existence of the other worlds makes it possible to make sense of physics without action-at-a-distance, objective randomness, or any strange role for "observer" or "consciousness". These lectures discuss this interpretation of quantum mechanics and what would follow from its being the correct one.
This is from Oxford. The first talk can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OoRd...

Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance, Part Two: The Looking-Glass God, with Brendan Engen

source: New Thinking Allowed 2016年2月29日
Brendan Engen, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist based in Waycross, Georgia. He is co-author with Jeffrey Mishlove of a 2007 paper, published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, titled “Archetypal Synchronistic Resonance: A New Theory of Paranormal Experience”.

Here he points out that apophenia is a psychopathological term used by skeptics to dismiss the entire notion of synchronicity. He argues, however, that not all ostensible synchronistic events are best explained away in this fashion. He also notes that many instances of apophenia may be harmless. Also, some genuine synchronicities can lead to harmful consequences. There are no set rules for distinguishing between these possibilities. The theory of archetypal synchronistic resonance will benefit from the collection of more case studies.
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 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 February 20, 2016)

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