Paul Davies - Big Pictures of God
To consider God seriously, where to start? To try to see the big picture of God, what are the questions? What are the categories? What would be the prime attributes or traits of a Supreme Being, the supposed Creator of the universe? Click here to watch more interviews with Paul Davies htt
From playlist Closer To Truth - Paul Davies Interviews
Scriabin's Prometheus: Poem of Fire
In February 2010, Anna Gawboy, a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Music and scholar of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, attempted to realize the composer's final work: a symphony of sound and light called "Prometheus: Poem of Fire". To accomplish this, Anna worked closely with
From playlist YBMC Video Projects
The Pot-Stirrer: Teaching Evolution in the Southeast U.S.
Although evolution is overwhelmingly accepted by scientific communities, it remains a taboo and often misunderstood subject for much of the rural American South. Dr. Amanda Glaze studies this deeply rooted cultural sentiment and its religious and societal influences in universities, school
From playlist The Macroscope
Smallpox Inoculation and Onesimus
Inoculation existed for centuries before it was accepted by Western medicine. Onesimus, an African slave in early eighteenth century Boston, played a critical role in legitimizing a procedure that saved millions of lives. The History Guy remembers Onesimus, who has been called one of "th
From playlist History without War
Nexus Trimester - Randall Dougherty (Center for Communications Research)
Entropy inequalities and linear rank inequalities Randall Dougherty (Center for Communications Research) February 16, 2016 Abstract: Entropy inequalities (Shannon and non-Shannon) have been used to obtain bounds on the solutions to a number of problems. When the problems are restricted t
From playlist Nexus Trimester - 2016 - Fundamental Inequalities and Lower Bounds Theme
How To Track A Dust Storm (Meteorology Documentary) | Dust Storm | Spark
Deadly dust storms rain over an arid land causing problems for the people living there and the infrastructure they've built. So how do they stay prepared for the ever-looming threat? And how do they predict just when and where the storm will strike next? Subscribe to Spark for more amazin
From playlist Spark Top Docs
F. Polizzi - Classification of surfaces via Mori theory (Part 1)
We give a summary of the Minimal Model Program (namely, Mori Theory) in the case of surfaces.
From playlist Ecole d'été 2019 - Foliations and algebraic geometry
Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers: Ken Moody [2008]
Description: An interview of the mathematician and computer scientist Ken Moody. Filmed on 17th August 2008 by Alan Macfarlane and edited by Sarah Harrison. Additions in square brackets are by Ken Moody. Generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust. Created: 2011-04-11 15:38 Collection:
From playlist Mathematics
Structured Neural Summarization | AISC Lunch & Learn
For more details including paper and slides, visit https://aisc.a-i.science/events/2019-04-16/ Abstract Summarization of long sequences into a concise statement is a core problem in natural language processing, requiring non-trivial understanding of the input. Based on the promising re
From playlist Natural Language Processing
This levitron manufactured by my friend İzzet Özgöçmen. We enjoyed playing with it.
From playlist Izzet Özgöçmen
Stanford Seminar: Modern Touchscreen Keyboards as Intelligent User Interfaces - A Research Review
Shumin Zhai Google Essential to mobile communication, the touchscreen keyboard is the most ubiquitous intelligent user interface on modern mobile phones. Developing smarter, more efficient, easy to learn, and fun to use keyboards has presented many fascinating IUI research and design ques
From playlist Stanford Seminars
