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The 127 University lectures & courses videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 48 introductory, 39 intermediate, 32 for a general viewer, and 8 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a lecture. What they share is that a derivation is walked through at classroom pace instead of a conclusion being dropped. Channels you will keep seeing include MIT OpenCourseWare, Stanford, Jordan B Peterson.
Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
Russian-American journalist Vladimir Pozner lectures at Yale on how US foreign policy toward Russia after the Soviet collapse shaped Putin, then takes audience questions on election interference, the Skripal poisoning and media independence.
Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories (subtitulos castellano)
Kurt Vonnegut's 2004 Case College lecture, with Spanish subtitles, in which he sketches the shapes of stories on a blackboard.
Paxos lecture (Raft user study)
John Ousterhout's slides-and-voiceover lecture on Paxos, made for the Raft user study comparing how students learn Raft and Paxos.
Jack Szostak (Harvard/HHMI) Part 1: The Origin of Cellular Life on Earth
Jack Szostak's lecture covers how cellular life could have arisen from chemistry on the early Earth, starting from the odds of life elsewhere in the galaxy.
Great Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest
Geologist Nick Zentner of Central Washington University gives an hour-long public lecture on the great earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest, including the Cascadia subduction zone and the evidence for past megaquakes.
Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion
The first class of Timothy Snyder's Yale course on the making of modern Ukraine.
Pythagoras' theorem (a) | Math History | NJ Wildberger
The first lecture of N J Wildberger's History of Mathematics course, starting with Pythagoras' theorem and following Stillwell's text.
Jancovici : Can we save energy, jobs and growth at the same time ? 08/01/2018
Jean-Marc Jancovici lectures at ENS Paris on whether energy use, jobs and growth can all be preserved.
Floyd Toole - Sound reproduction – art and science/opinions and facts
Floyd Toole's CIRMMT distinguished lecture on the science of sound reproduction, drawing on decades of blind listening research.
Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"A Conjecture That Had To Be True" (2017)
Donald Knuth's 2017 Christmas Tree Lecture at Stanford about a combinatorial geometry problem whose computed numbers matched a striking formula.
Distributed Systems 1.1: Introduction
The first lecture in Martin Kleppmann's 8-lecture distributed systems series from the University of Cambridge undergraduate course.
Lecture 1: Introduction
The opening lecture of MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems (Spring 2020), introducing the course and core challenges of distributed systems.
Lecture 01 - The Learning Problem
The first lecture of Caltech's CS 156 Machine Learning course by Yaser Abu-Mostafa, introducing the learning problem and supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning.
Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management
Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch gives a lecture on time management at the University of Virginia in 2007.
Special Topics - The Kalman Filter (1 of 55) What is a Kalman Filter?
The first video in a 55-part series by Michel van Biezen that introduces the Kalman filter and builds from the rationale through algebraic examples to the full matrix treatment.
Control Bootcamp: Overview
The opening lecture of Steve Brunton's Control Bootcamp, covering the kinds of control and why closed-loop feedback matters.
Particles, Fields and The Future of Physics - A Lecture by Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll's 2013 Fermilab Users Meeting lecture on particles, fields and the future of particle physics.
Exponential Growth Arithmetic, Population and Energy, Dr. Albert A. Bartlett
A recording of physicist Albert Bartlett's well-known lecture on the arithmetic of exponential growth, applied to population and energy use.
Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4
Sebastien Bubeck presents the Sparks of AGI paper at MIT, showing early experiments with GPT-4 across many domains and asking whether artificial intelligence has arrived.
The Unanswered Question 1973 1 Musical Phonology Bernstein Norton
Leonard Bernstein's 1973 Norton Lectures at Harvard, starting with Musical Phonology.
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal
Michael Sugrue's lecture on Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and the Stoic ideal, covering the text and its philosophy.
Preface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus
The preface to Herb Gross's MIT OpenCourseWare 'Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus', an older black-and-white lecture series.
Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming
Tom Wildenhain's guest lecture for CMU's Esoteric Programming Languages course shows that PowerPoint transitions and slides are Turing complete without macros, building up to a mind-bending fractal ending.
31 Hamming, Learning to Learn: You and Your Research, 6 June 1995
The final lecture of Richard Hamming's Learning to Learn course, from 1995, based on his well-known talk 'You and Your Research'.