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seycombion Feynman transcripts of five interviews [1966-1973]

According to this tweet [1] there are also audio tapes available, I haven't been able to get them (yet). I did send a mail to nbl@aip.org if they would consider to put a copy on the site.

[1] https://twitter.com/aip_history/status/1465408218507759627

seycombion How the belief in beauty has triggered a crisis in physics

Peter Woit writes regularly about this crisis on his blog "Not Even Wrong". He wrote about Sabine Hossenfelder’s new book "Lost in Math" here https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10314

Feynman reminds us that "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."

seycombion Berkeley offers its data science course online for free

direct link: https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/berkeleyx-found...

(There are two ways you can follow the course: Certificate Program is paid, but the AUDIT program is free)

seycombion [Book] Avi Wigderson – Mathematics and Computation (Draft, October 25, 2017) [pdf]

More material (lectures, talks, publications, etc) here: https://www.math.ias.edu/avi/book

seycombion Some light quantum mechanics [3Blue1Brown]

Complementary video (Bell's Theorem) on MinutePhysics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs

seycombion Mark Wise's long-lost tribute for Joe Polchinski's 60th birthday

some background info: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2017/09/08/joe-polc...

seycombion What I believe II

Hacker News discussion on part one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14966002

seycombion CS231n: 2017 Stanford lecture videos released

syllabus, notes, schedule, etc can be found here http://cs231n.stanford.edu/index.html

seycombion CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition (Stanford, 2017)

Lecturer = Fei-Fei Li at Stanford. Syllabus http://cs231n.stanford.edu/syllabus.html

seycombion Deeplearning.ai: Announcing New Deep Learning Courses on Coursera

For those who are unfamiliar with coursera or interested in just the videos (and NO certificate) you can enroll in "AUDIT" mode:

AUDIT MODE: http://image.ibb.co/iwm0xF/ng.png

The deep-learning course consist of 5 subcourses:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks-deep-learning

https://www.coursera.org/learn/deep-neural-network

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning-projects

https://www.coursera.org/learn/convolutional-neural-networks

https://www.coursera.org/learn/nlp-sequence-models

The deep-learning course is a different course than the prerequisite machine-learning course:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

seycombion How Shor's Algorithm works (2007)

Video + Notes for his lectures MIT 6.045 Automata, Comput, & Complexity can be found here:

video lectures: http://web.de.mit.edu/public/courses/6/6.045/2015spring/

notes: http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/sp15/6.045/materials.html

seycombion Dreaming of prime numbers in short intervals

Why prime numbers are usefull to Web Designers https://www.sitepoint.com/the-cicada-principle-and-why-it-ma...

seycombion Proof Without Words: Integration by Parts

from: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/8846/proofs-without-words

seycombion “Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data” Course by University of Washington

course website: http://callingbullshit.org/index.html

seycombion 3Blue1Brown Essence of calculus, chapter 1 [video]

I have never seen so many (mainly) positive comments in so short a time on a youtube channel. Many thanks to Grant Sanderson aka 3Blue1Brown (and also Leibniz and Newton). Lets hope probability and multivariable calculus are next.

seycombion Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder's music video about Einstein's thought experiment

Some more background info on her physics blog https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2017/04/catching-light-new...

seycombion Carnegie Mellon Decision Analysis Midterm Grading Procedure [pdf]

Terrence Tao had a blogpost about this "How to assign partial credit on an exam of true-false questions?"

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/how-to-assign-part...

seycombion Stanford CS224n: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning (2017)

Syllabus (notes + reading): https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/syllabus.html

seycombion [dead]

[tl;dr] Rick (rickandmorty): You're a piece of shit and I can prove it mathematically.

seycombion Steve Jobs on Why Xerox Failed

His analysis works just as well for current Apple.

seycombion Ask HN: Interviewing Brian Cox in an hour. Any questions from here?

Is string theory science?

Some scientists argue that “if a theory is sufficiently elegant and explanatory, it need not be tested experimentally”. Where does prof. Cox stand on this issue?

seycombion [REMINDER] UCBerkeley Content Unavailable Beginning March 15, 2017

There are several previous discussions. The oldest one appears to be this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856

This post is just a reminder, in case you want to use this weekend to get some courses.

seycombion [Video Lecture] Steven Skiena: CSE373 Analysis of Algorithms

notes, etc: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/373/

seycombion [Video Lecture] Steven Skiena: CSE519 Data Science

notes, etc: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/519/

seycombion Why Quantum Computers Cannot Work I – Prof. Gil Kalai

Gil Kalai and Scott Aaronson should debate this (and put the video on the internet).

seycombion Einstein's Letter to President Roosevelt – 1939

Roosevelt's reply: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Roosevel...

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd_...

seycombion We have broken SHA-1 in practice

>...That means Git and unknown number of other widely used services that rely on SHA1 have THREE MONTHS to wean themselves and their users off the insecure function

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/at-deaths-door-for-...

seycombion A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography (v0.3) [pdf]

Video lectures with this textbook at "Online Cryptography Course" https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/courses/OnlineCrypto/

seycombion Scientists unveil new form of matter: time crystals

Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08057

seycombion Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem, Proof Sketch

From same youtube

Impossible Programs (The Halting Problem) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGLQiHXHWNk

Math's Existential Crisis (Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrKLy4VN-7k

Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem, Proof Sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svOTZEbj3ys

Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem, Proof Sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fvkbvWaRPk