Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception
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http://www.ted.com Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED C... Read more
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- -: Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception
June 14, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast...
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- -: Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves
July 22, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Tan Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications. TEDTalk...
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- -: Learning Rules for Anomaly Detection
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks August 10, 2007 ABSTRACT Anomaly detection has the potential to detect novel attacks, however, keeping the false alarm rate low is a challenging task. We discuss the LERAD algorithm that can learn concise and accurate rules for anomaly detection and demonstrate its effectivene...
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- -: Learning Low Dimensional Manifolds
October 14, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk October 9, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Yoav Freund, UCSD. Many read-world datasets can be characterized as follows: the "extrinsic dimension" of the data is high, but the "intrinsic dimension" is low. Consider for example the data generated by a motion capture device. Such a d...
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Larry Brilliant: Stopping Pandemics
February 1, 2006 (about 18 years ago)Previous pandemics and pending pandemics are discussed by Larry Brilliant to advocate the "early detection, early response" technique to stopping these pandemics.
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