The idea of ‘atonement’ sounds very old-fashioned and is deeply rooted in religious tradition. To atone means, in essence, to acknowledge one’s capacity for wrongness and one’s readiness for apology and desire for change. It’s a concept that every society needs at its center. For gifts and
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Why It’s OK to Compromise in Love
We often believe that compromise in love is the enemy of good relationships. In fact, it is only via compromise that we can ever have any kind of relationship at all. The art of romantic compromise deserves to be rediscovered and - in its own way - celebrated. If you like our films, take a
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The real cruelty of unrequited love is that we don’t get to know our beloveds well enough to find out their flaws – and therefore to lose interest in them gradually. The best cure for love is in essence: get to know them better. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worl
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Want to Be Happier? Value Time Over Money
Here’s how to know if you’re making enough time for happiness, and what to do if you’re not. A preponderance of evidence shows that the feeling of having enough time — “time affluence” — is now at a record low in the United States. This situation is so severe it could even be described a
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Social life couldn’t continue if we didn’t have some capacity for forgiveness. We need to flex our forgiveness muscles more regularly though – and the best way to do so is to remember how much we’ve needed others to forgive us in the past. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (w
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Quantitative Finance: Toward A General Framework for Modelling Roll-Over Risk
SIAM Activity Group on FME Virtual Talk Series Join us for a series of online talks on topics related to mathematical finance and engineering and running every two weeks until further notice. The series is organized by the SIAM Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering. Spea
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Why Love Is Never As Nice As It Should Be
Our relationships are often not quite as warm and perfect as they should be. That’s perhaps because we’re comparing them with a relationship in the past to which they shouldn’t – in fairness – ever be compared. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://g
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Why We May Be Angry Rather Than Sad
Behind many of our moods of depression lies something surprising: anger. Anger that hasn’t had the chance to know and express itself frequently curdles into depression – something we should bear in mind when trying to dig ourselves out of our saddest states of mind. If you like our films,
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Optimization-Friendly Generic Mechanisms Without Money - Mark Braverman
Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I Topic: Optimization-Friendly Generic Mechanisms Without Money Speaker: Mark Braverman Affiliation: Princeton University Date: December 12, 2022 Our goal is to develop a generic framework for converting modern gradient-descent based optimiz
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Why it Probably Wasn’t Better Being Single
We have a very unhelpful tendency – when in relationships – to idealise what it was like being single. We should learn how to bear proper witness to our single days. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/jFQoVH Join our mailing list: http://bit
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Efficient Exploration in Bayesian Optimization – Optimism and Beyond by Andreas Krause
A Google TechTalk, presented by Andreas Krause, 2021/06/07 ABSTRACT: A central challenge in Bayesian Optimization and related tasks is the exploration—exploitation dilemma: Selecting inputs that are informative about the unknown function, while focusing exploration where we expect high ret
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Online Learning in Reactive Environments - Raman Arora
Seminar on Theoretical Machine Learning Topic: Online Learning in Reactive Environments Speaker: Raman Arora Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University; Member, School of Mathematics Date: December 18, 2019 For more video please visit http://video.ias.edu
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Fixed Gantry CNC Router Build Part 3
Last installment of the CNC router build. Anyone interested in just the rubber band rifle.. starts at 26:00. ThisOldRouter CAD: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BziGqMVEh_qrdlBGTmRKcThVRDg/view?usp=sharing Royalty-Free Music from YouTube's Creation Tools. "The Engagement" by Silent Part
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Comment Responses: The Vague Horror of Face Swap
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea Comment Responses: The Vague Horror of Face Swap | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.l
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It’s all too easy to be extremely tough on ourselves; we need – at points – to get better at self-compassion. Here is an exercise in how to lessen the voices of self-flagellation. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/dJJMFS FURTHER READING
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Trusted Computing Rants, Regrets, and Research
Professor Sean Smith (Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College) discusses how we build trustworthy hardware, and how can we use that to increase the trustworthiness of broader distributed computation. He presents some things he's learned so far in academia, government, start-up, a
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Investigation Stats & Methods || General Psychology (PSY 101)
This is a recorded version of a livestream distance learning lecture, recorded during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. Topics include: An exploration of the Monty Hall problem and the myth that it is better to stick with your first impulse rather than switching on a multiple choice test.
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Andreas Krause: "Safe and Efficient Exploration in Reinforcement Learning"
Intersections between Control, Learning and Optimization 2020 "Safe and Efficient Exploration in Reinforcement Learning" Andreas Krause - ETH Zurich Abstract: At the heart of Reinforcement Learning lies the challenge of trading exploration -- collecting data for learning better models --
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CS50 Explained 2016 - Week 4 - noswap
This is CS50 Explained, wherein David J. Malan and Doug Lloyd watch CS50's lectures and discuss the pedagogy behind CS50 itself. For Week 4's lecture, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfZwCCvGQ5E.
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The rules for how to doom a relationship are relatively easy to follow. Here are a selection that are guaranteed to blow up love. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ B
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