Database Systems (Spring 2016) by Andy Pavlo at Carnegie Mellon University

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source: CMU Database Group     2016年5月15日
15-721 Database Systems (Spring 2016)
Annotated Video: http://cmudb.io/15721-s16-lect01
Slides PDF: http://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/sprin...
Reading List: http://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/sprin...
Andy Pavlo (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/)

Lecture #01 - Course Information & History of Databases 1:09:04
Lecture #02 - In-Memory Databases 1:11:53
Lecture #03 - Concurrency Control (Part I) 1:13:35
Lecture #04 - Concurrency Control (Part II) 1:11:03
Lecture #05 - Concurrency Control (Part III) 1:06:15
Lecture #06 - Indexing (Locking & Latching) 1:03:01
Lecture #07 - Indexing (OLTP) 1:03:13
Lecture #08 - Indexing (OLAP) 1:05:26
Lecture #09 - Storage Models & Data Layout 1:11:43
Lecture #10 - Query Execution & Scheduling 1:0
Lecture #12 - Join Algorithms (Sorting) 1:04:41
Lecture #13 - Logging & Recovery (Physical Logging) 1:15:40
Lecture #14 - Logging & Recovery (Alternative Methods) 1:09:41
Lecture #15 - Project Ideas & Extra Credit 45:50
Lecture #16 - Database Compression 1:11:35
Lecture #17 - Query Planning (Optimizer Implementation) 1:14:39
Lecture #18 - Query Planning (Cost Models) 53:55
Lecture #19 - Query Compilation 1:06:38
Lecture #20 - Scan Sharing 50:51
Lecture #21 - Vectorized Execution 1:05:43
Lecture #22 - Larger-than-Memory Databases 1:07:52
Lecture #23 - Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems 1:04:14
Lecture #24 - End-of-Semester + MemSQL Tech Talk 1:40:16

Psychic Self-Defense with Terence Palmer

source: New Thinking Allowed     2016年10月16日
Terence Palmer, PhD, is author of The Science of Spirit Possession. He is a member of the Society for Psychical Research as well as the Scientific and Medical Network. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Here he suggests that there exists an immune system for the human psyche that serves to protect us from invading thought forms and spiritual entities. This system is traditionally identified by spiritists as the “perispirit” and by Theosophists as the “etheric body”. It can be enhanced through the use of visualization and mental imagery. A number of examples are discussed, and the viewer is invited to link to a seven-minute exercise prepared by Dr. Palmer. While such a discussion may appear to be steeped in superstitious thought, he maintains that there are regularities in his observations that invite one to apply scientific thinking.
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 17, 2016)

Professors Schulten and Ha: Introduction to Biomolecular Physics (U of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

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source: NanoBio Node      2013年8月28日
Phys 550: Introduction to Biomolecular Physics
See the updated video (synced with high resolution slides) at http://nanohub.org/resources/19295
See the rest of the course, including course notes and exercises at http://nanohub.org/resources/19299

Lecture 1: Biomolecular Physics - Introduction to Biomolecular Physics (We apologize for the audio quality for the first few minutes, as there was not an additional microphone.) 1:08:59
Lecture 2: Photosynthesis I 1:19:25
Lecture 3: Photosynthesis II + Interaction of Molecules with Light I 1:18:24
Lecture 4: Interaction of Molecules with Light II 1:20:57
Lecture 5: Interaction of Molecules with Light III 1:20:09
Lecture 6: Interaction of Molecules with Light IV 1:19:02
Lecture 7: Vision I 1:25:47
Lecture 8: Vision II 1:12:31
Lecture 9: Protein Overview 1:15:07
Lecture 11: Stochastic Processes II 1:21:17
Lecture 11: Stochastic Processes II 2:20:31
Lecture 12: Stochastic Processes III 1:23:38
Lecture 13: Physics of the Neuron 1:15:36
Lecture 14: Physics of the Neuron II 1:19:09
Lecture 15: Physics of the Neuron III 1:19:17
Lecture 16: Intro to BioPhysics 1:21:55
Lecture 17: Regulation of Gene Expression 1:21:33
Lecture 18: Motor Proteins/Florescence/DNA & 2-State System 1:18:20
Lecture 19: Motor Proteins/Florescence/DNA & 2-State System II 1:19:30
Lecture 20: DNA Origami/Encode/DNA Flexibility 1:20:20
Lecture 21: Super Resolution Imaging & smFRET 1:17:36
Lecture 22: FRET & Force/Toggle Switch/Repriscillator/Gene Regulation Function 1:21:37
Lecture 23: Single Molecular Manipulation & Optical Traps 1:20:12
Lecture 24: Gene Regulation at the Single-Cell Level 1:20:40
Lecture 25: Noise in Gene Expression & Sequencing Method 1:16:50
Lecture 26: Third Generation Sequencing & Gene Expression Analysis Tools 1:08:18
Lecture 27: Genome Engineering and Synthetic Cell 1:22:32
Lecture 28: Protein Sequence Analysis 1:16:55

International Year of Light Workshop 2015

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source: NanoBio Node    2016年1月2日

Microwaves are photons too: Manipulating single microwave photons with circuits (Paul Eller) 44:28
Signal Processing at Light Speed: Ultrashort Optical Pulse Generation... (Andrew Weiner) 1:10:23
Engineering Photonic Quantum States for Quantum Applications(Virginia Lorenz) 21:23

How to recognize a dystopia - Alex Gendler

source: TED-Ed     2016年11月15日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-reco...
The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler explains how dystopias act as cautionary tales – not about some particular government or technology, but the very idea that humanity can be molded into an ideal shape.
Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by TED-Ed.

Pauli Lectures 2015: Mathematicians helping Art Historians and Art Conservators

source: ETH Zürich    2015年10月29日
In recent years, mathematical algorithms have helped art historians and art conservators putting together the thousands of fragments into which an unfortunate WWII bombing destroyed world famous frescos by Mantegna, decide that certain paintings by masters were “roll mates” (their canvases were cut from the same bolt), virtually remove artifacts in preparation for a restoration campaign, get more insight into paintings hidden underneath a visible one.
The presentation given by Prof. Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University, Durham, USA, reviews these applications, and give a glimpse into the mathematical aspects that make this possible.
Further information: www.pauli-lectures.ethz.ch/archive/2015

Pauli Lectures 2015: Bones, Teeth and Animation

source: ETH Zürich    2015年11月13日
The talk given by Prof. Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University, Durham, USA, presents mathematical explorations motivated by the need of biological morphologists to compare different phenotypical structures. At present, scientists using physical traits to study evolutionary relationships among living and extinct animals analyze data extracted from carefully defined anatomical correspondence points (landmarks). Identifying and recording these landmarks is time consuming and can be done accurately only by trained morphologists. This necessity renders these studies inaccessible to non-morphologists and causes phenomics to lag behind genomics in elucidating evolutionary patterns.

Unlike other algorithms presented for morphological correspondences, the approach presented in the talk does not require any preliminary marking of special features or landmarks by the user. It also differs from other seminal work in computational geometry in that the algorithms are polynomial in nature and thus faster, making pairwise comparisons feasible for significantly larger numbers of digitized surfaces.
This approach has already been used by biologists to obtain new results.
Further information: www.pauli-lectures.ethz.ch/archive/2015