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1:13:39Why is Time a One-Way Street?
1.7M views • 13 years ago
Santa Fe Institute
Leonard Susskind's Santa Fe Institute talk on the arrow of time: why the past differs from the future when physics equations are time-symmetric. He covers entropy, cosmology and Boltzmann brains.
1:09:24Effective ML
30K views • 10 years ago
Jane Street
Yaron Minsky of Jane Street gave this talk to Harvard's OCaml-based CS51 class in 2010. It collects advice on being an effective ML programmer in an industrial setting.
43:57William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour | Big Think
13.5M views • 13 years ago
Big Think
A Big Think talk in which hedge-fund manager William Ackman goes through the basics of finance and investing in under an hour. It is pitched as a crash course on the most important concepts.
1:07:02Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth—"A Conjecture That Had To Be True" (2017)
30K views • 8 years ago
Stanford Online
Donald Knuth's 2017 Christmas Tree Lecture at Stanford about a combinatorial geometry problem whose computed numbers matched a striking formula. He tells the story of the conjecture and its sequel.