- -: TEDxGoldenGateED - Dan Siegel
September 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Content comming soon
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- -: Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII: Hierarchial Dirichlet...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII April 15, 2006 Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley) ABSTRACT A Dirichlet process (DP) is a random probability measure that concentrates on discrete measures. It has interesting and well-explored connections to various topics in combinatorics and probabili...
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- -: Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII: The Coloring Torus of a...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII April 15, 2006 Dave Bayer (Barnard College, Columbia University) ABSTRACT Circular colorability geometrizes the study of graph colorings. Using color values in R mod Z, one can reformulate "avoid edge differences close to zero" as " seek edge diff...
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- -: Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII: Monotonicity in the Ising...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII April 15, 2006 Nicholas Weininger (Google Inc.) ABSTRACT The Ising model assigns probabilities to "spin configurations" of the vertices of a graph G in which each vertex is given spin +1 or -1. In a ferromagnetic Ising model, for any v, w ∈V(G), s...
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- -: Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII: Integer Linear Programming
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII April 15, 2006 Sinai Robins (Temple University) ABSTRACT One of the most fundamental problems in integer linear programming is that of finding an integer point inside a given rational polytope. Here we develop a new tool to solve this problem. We ...
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- -: Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII: Stat. Physics, Comp....
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII April 15, 2006 Raissa D'Souza (UC Davis) ABSTRACT Statistical physics, computer simulation and discrete mathematics are intimately related through the study of shared models. These are primarily lattice models, such as the Ising model, yet can als...
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- -: SETI Astronomer: No Alien Visitors Yet
April 6, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/31/Seth_Shostak_Confessions_of_an_Alien_Hunter Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, explains why he believes extraterrestrials exist, but have yet to visit the Earth. ----- FORA.tv Studios and Whole Earth Films present Seth Shostak, S...
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- -: Crossing San Francisco Bay: A Bridge Is Born
December 29, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/04/Rick_Prelinger_Lost_Landscapes_of_San_Francisco_4 Archivist Rick Prelinger shows found film of San Francisco's Bay Bridge from various periods during its construction and shortly after its completion. Footage includes a trip across the bridge on the r...
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- -: Cannibal Mouse: The MythBusters Episode You'll Never See
May 28, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/22/Adam_Savage_Presents_Problem_Solving_How_I_Do_It "MythBusters" co-host Adam Savage recalls using mice to test the old adage about the cereal box being more nutritious than the sugary cereal inside it. While Savage and co-host Jamie Hyneman found the s...
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- -: Adam Savage on His 100,000-Volt Cattle Prod Shock
June 3, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/22/Adam_Savage_Presents_Problem_Solving_How_I_Do_It MythBuster Adam Savage describes being tricked by a producer into grabbing a cattle prod while filming the episode "Baghdad Battery." Savage says a 100,000-volt shock "feels so close to dying that it is...
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