PickVidsBest University lectures & courses Videos
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.
Peter Singer - ordinary people are evil
Philosopher Jeffrey Kaplan summarizes Peter Singer's 1972 essay 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality', arguing that failing to give to save lives is morally comparable to letting a child drown.
Sacha Arnoud, Director of Engineering, Waymo - MIT Self-Driving Cars
Sacha Arnoud, Waymo's Director of Engineering, gives a lecture in MIT's 2018 deep learning for self-driving cars course on the rise of machine learning in autonomous vehicles.
Lecture 1 | Convex Optimization I (Stanford)
The introductory lecture of Stephen Boyd's Stanford Convex Optimization I course (EE 364A).
Episode 1: Introduction - The Mechanical Universe
The first episode of Caltech's The Mechanical Universe, a 52-part introductory university physics series.
Lecture by Douglas Hofstadter: Albert Einstein on Light; Light on Albert Einstein
Douglas Hofstadter lectures at Uppsala University on how analogy and daring thinking drove Einstein's discovery of light quanta.
1.1 - Course outline
Course outline for Stanford's online GNSS course, introducing how GPS works and the many uses of satellite navigation.
Rick Roderick on Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies [full length]
Rick Roderick's 1993 lecture on Baudrillard, the last in his series The Self Under Siege.
The Myth of the Robber Barons with Burt Folsom
Hillsdale historian Burt Folsom lectures at a 2011 seminar on the 'robber barons' of the Gilded Age.
Dr. Robert Sapolsky's lecture about Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity
Robert Sapolsky's Stanford lecture on the biological underpinnings of religiosity, from his human behavioral biology course.
1. Introduction for 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018
The opening lecture of MIT's Blockchain and Money course taught by Gary Gensler, covering the course plan, the history of failed digital currencies, cryptography and what a blockchain is.
Lecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford)
First lecture of Stanford's CS106A Programming Methodology by Mehran Sahami, giving a course overview and starting on programming.
Introduction to Investing and Finance - Lesson 1 by Martin Shkreli
The first lesson of Martin Shkreli's introductory investing and finance course, running about two and a half hours.
Recent Developments in Deep Learning
Geoff Hinton's 2010 Google Tech Talk on deep belief networks, learning layers of representation one at a time from unlabeled data, and extending them with multiplicative interactions.
International Colloquia #26: Fusion Reactor First Wall Cooling
An MIT colloquium by Dennis Whyte on power exhaust and first-wall cooling in fusion reactors, including recent innovations and the SPARC and ARC designs.
Dispelling the Myths of Nuclear Energy (Live Lecture)
A lecture for high school seniors and college freshmen making the case for nuclear power and answering common objections.
Trends in Deep Learning Hardware: Bill Dally (NVIDIA)
Bill Dally of NVIDIA gives a University of Washington lecture on trends in deep learning hardware.
Lecture 1 | Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
The first lecture of Stanford's CS231n course on convolutional neural networks for visual recognition.
Computer Security 161 Cryptocurrency Lecture
A UC Berkeley CS 161 lecture by Nicholas Weaver on cryptocurrency and blockchains, covering how they work and the case against them.
CS231n Winter 2016: Lecture1: Introduction and Historical Context
The first lecture of Stanford's CS231n Winter 2016 course on convolutional neural networks for visual recognition, introducing the course and the historical context of computer vision.
Anton: A Special-Purpose Machine That Achieves a Hundred-Fold Speedup in Biomolecular Simulations
David Shaw of D.
Lecture 7A: Metacircular Evaluator, Part 1
Lecture 7A from MIT 6.001 (SICP) by Abelson and Sussman introduces the metacircular evaluator, a Scheme interpreter written in Scheme.
Lecture 1B | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986
Lecture 1B of MIT's 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1986) with Gerald Sussman, covering procedures, processes and the substitution model.
Richard Feynman - The.Character.of.Physical.Law - Part 2 (full version)
Part 2 of Richard Feynman's Messenger Lectures at Cornell, The Character of Physical Law, on the relation of mathematics to physics.
Richard Feynman Messenger Lectures at Cornell The Character of Physical Law Part 1 The Law of Gravitation
The first of Richard Feynman's 1964 Messenger Lectures at Cornell, 'The Character of Physical Law', covering the law of gravitation.