The language of human rights has become the universal moral discourse in our globalized era. Explore how faiths support and motivate respect for these rights or critique and oppose the validity of human rights.
From playlist Faith and Globalization
Prominent clashes — both historical and contemporary — have led to the widely held conclusion that science and religion are fundamentally incompatible. Yet, many scientists practice a traditional faith, having found a way to accommodate both scientific inquiry and religious teaching in the
From playlist Explore the World Science Festival
"State of Faiths" in the World Today
Religious vitality across the globe shows no signs of diminishing in the near future. Examine the demographically extensive reach of faiths and the publicly intensive expression of these faiths.
From playlist Faith and Globalization
Religion was an ingenious solution to many of mankind's earliest fears and needs. Religion is now implausible to many, but the needs remain. That is the challenge of our times. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwid
From playlist GREAT IDEAS
Daniel Dennett - What is Belief?
Everyone has beliefs—some are simple and basic (e.g., my name, age), others complex and controversial (e.g., God? Soul? Politics? Morality?). But what is the concept of 'belief'? What does it take for some statement to be a 'belief'? Click here to watch more interviews with Daniel Dennett
From playlist Closer To Truth - Daniel Dennett Interviews
Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival - Session 1
http://www.thesciencenetwork.org Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival, the first of The Science Network's annual Beyond Belief symposia, held from November 5 to November 7, 2006, was described by the New York Times, as "a free-for-all on science and religion," which see
From playlist Beyond Belief 2006 : Religion, Reason and Survival
Persons of Faith Who are Publicly Engaged
What are the challenges and opportunities of expressing one's faith while holding political office? Consider how leaders from around the world address these challenges and utilize these opportunities.
From playlist Faith and Globalization
Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival - Session 4
http://www.thesciencenetwork.org Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival, the first of The Science Network's annual Beyond Belief symposia, held from November 5 to November 7, 2006, was described by the New York Times, as "a free-for-all on science and religion," which seeme
From playlist Beyond Belief 2006 : Religion, Reason and Survival
ML Tutorial: Factor Graphs, Belief Propagation and Variational Techniques (Lennart Svensson)
Machine Learning Tutorial at Imperial College London: A Brief Introduction to Factor Graphs, Belief Propagation and Variational Techniques Lennart Svensson (Chalmers University) November 9, 2016
From playlist Machine Learning Tutorials
Lecture 13/16 : Stacking RBMs to make Deep Belief Nets
Neural Networks for Machine Learning by Geoffrey Hinton [Coursera 2013] 13A The ups and downs of backpropagation 13B Belief Nets 13C Learning Sigmoid Belief Nets 13D The wake-sleep algorithm
From playlist Neural Networks for Machine Learning by Professor Geoffrey Hinton [Complete]
Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival - Session 9
http://www.thesciencenetwork.org Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival, the first of The Science Network's annual Beyond Belief symposia, held from November 5 to November 7, 2006, was described by the New York Times, as "a free-for-all on science and religion," which seeme
From playlist Beyond Belief 2006 : Religion, Reason and Survival
Nexus Trimester - Nicolas Macris (EPFL)
Spatial coupling as a proof technique Nicolas Macris (EPFL) March 18, 2016 Abstract: This talk will outline a recent set of ideas on using spatially coupled ensembles to deduce properties of the underlying non-coupled ensemble. An application is a proof of the replica symmetric formula f
From playlist 2016-T1 - Nexus of Information and Computation Theory - CEB Trimester
Nexus trimester - Henry Pfister (Duke University) 1/2
Factor Graphs, Belief Propagation, and Density Evolution - 1/2 Henry Pfister (Duke University) March 16, 2016 Abstract: The goal of this mini-course is to introduce students to marginal inference techniques for large systems of random variables defined by sparse random factor graphs. Ove
From playlist 2016-T1 - Nexus of Information and Computation Theory - CEB Trimester
Journey trough statistical physics of constraint satisfaction and inference... by Lenka Zdeborova
26 December 2016 to 07 January 2017 VENUE: Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore Information theory and computational complexity have emerged as central concepts in the study of biological and physical systems, in both the classical and quantum realm. The low-energy landscape of classical
From playlist US-India Advanced Studies Institute: Classical and Quantum Information
Danniel Bennequin : Boundary conditions in generalized belief propagation, singularity of...
Recording during the thematic meeting : "Geometrical and Topological Structures of Information" the August 29, 2017 at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (Marseille, France) Filmmaker: Guillaume Hennenfent
From playlist Geometry
Lecture 14/16 : Deep neural nets with generative pre-training
Neural Networks for Machine Learning by Geoffrey Hinton [Coursera 2013] 14A Learning layers of features by stacking RBMs 14B Discriminative fine-tuning for DBNs 14C What happens during discriminative fine-tuning? 14D Modeling real-valued data with an RBM 14E RBMs are Infinite Sigmoid Beli
From playlist Neural Networks for Machine Learning by Professor Geoffrey Hinton [Complete]
Geoffrey Hinton: "Introduction to Deep Learning & Deep Belief Nets"
Graduate Summer School 2012: Deep Learning, Feature Learning "Part 1: Introduction to Deep Learning & Deep Belief Nets" Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA July 9, 2012 For more information: https://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/summer-sc
From playlist GSS2012: Deep Learning, Feature Learning
Nexus Trimester - Sewoong Oh (UIUC)
Near-optimal message-passing algorithms for crowdsourcing Sewoong Oh (UIUC) March 17, 2016 Abstract: Crowdsourcing systems, like Amazon Mechanical Turk, provide platforms where large-scale projects are broken into small tasks that are electronically distributed to numerous on-demand cont
From playlist 2016-T1 - Nexus of Information and Computation Theory - CEB Trimester
Arguing God from Miracles & Revelations?
In our search for God we steer clear of miracles. Believers exhort that miracles are real and evince the existence of a supernatural being. Click here for more interviews with James Tabor http://bit.ly/1SHcwBu Click here for more interviews on miracles and revelations http://bit.ly/1Kb3W
From playlist Big Questions About God - Closer To Truth - Core Topic