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A theoretical physics course opens not with equations but with the rules for saying anything true at all. This is lecture 1 of Lectures on the Geometric Anatomy of Theoretical Physics, taught by Frederic Schuller. The topic is propositional and predicate logic. Most physics courses assume logic and start...

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48,636 views • 7 months ago

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123,744 views • 20 days ago

You passed physics in school. A former NASA fellow says that means nothing. You memorized the formulas and never understood a single one. His proof is the most famous equation on Earth. F equals ma. You have written it a hundred times. And he says you have been reading it backwards your whole life. It should be a equals F over m. Not force equals mass times acceleration, but acceleration is caused by a force. One is a string of symbols to memorize. The other tells you what actually happens in the universe: push something, it moves. Cause, then effect. Flip that one idea and equations you hated in school start to breathe. V equals IR becomes current is driven by voltage. Even E equals mc squared stops being trivia and becomes the sentence that told Einstein what mass really is. The comments are full of people admitting the same quiet thing. Aced physics in high school. Got to university. Realized they never understood any of it. One writes that in his country, the moment you try to actually understand physics, your grades drop, because school only rewards cramming. You were not taught physics. You were taught to pass a test and forget it. This is the video that shows the difference.
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40,211 views • 17 days ago

A Fields Medalist stood on a stage in the 1960s and taught the geometry every gradient moves through. The film went missing for years. This is John Milnor, lecture 1 on differential topology, filmed by the Mathematical Association of America soon after he won the Fields Medal in 1962. He was in his early 30s. The same lectures became Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint, a book still assigned 60 years later and short enough to read in a week. Smooth maps, manifolds, regular values. The vocabulary under every loss surface, every latent space, every paper with the word manifold in the abstract. Watch what he writes at the top of the board and how little he needs after it. No slides, no notation dumped on the room, each definition doing real work. A research engineer I know worked through the book alongside the film and said the two together beat every modern course he tried. The footage was unavailable for years. It sits free on YouTube now, black and white, 1 fixed camera. The best textbook in the field is a transcript of this room.
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A Fields Medalist stood on a stage in the 1960s and taught the geometry every gradient moves through. The film went missing for years. This is John Milnor, lecture 1 on differential topology, filmed by the Mathematical Association of America soon after he won the Fields Medal in 1962. He was in his early 30s. The same lectures became Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint, a book still assigned 60 years later and short enough to read in a week. Smooth maps, manifolds, regular values. The vocabulary under every loss surface, every latent space, every paper with the word manifold in the abstract. Watch what he writes at the top of the board and how little he needs after it. No slides, no notation dumped on the room, each definition doing real work. A research engineer I know worked through the book alongside the film and said the two together beat every modern course he tried. The footage was unavailable for years. It sits free on YouTube now, black and white, 1 fixed camera. The best textbook in the field is a transcript of this room.

the lich

29,823 views • 18 days ago

The smartest physicist quit physics to build AI. Here’s why that matters. In a recent interview, Demis Hassabis lays out one of the clearest origin stories for modern AI I’ve heard. He starts as a physics kid obsessed with the big stuff: reality, consciousness, why anything exists at all. Feynman was his hero. But then comes the uncomfortable realization: for decades, fundamental physics barely moved. The deepest questions stayed stuck. So he pivots. Not away from truth, but toward leverage. If the human brain is the bottleneck, don’t push harder on the same brain. Build a new one. AI, in his framing, isn’t a product. It’s the ultimate scientific instrument. A tool to smash through the ceiling that human cognition hit in physics, biology, and beyond. And the twist is beautiful: By trying to build intelligence, we’re forced to understand our own. AI becomes both microscope and mirror. This isn’t about apps or chatbots. It’s about finishing the questions physics couldn’t.
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The smartest physicist quit physics to build AI. Here’s why that matters. In a recent interview, Demis Hassabis lays out one of the clearest origin stories for modern AI I’ve heard. He starts as a physics kid obsessed with the big stuff: reality, consciousness, why anything exists at all. Feynman was his hero. But then comes the uncomfortable realization: for decades, fundamental physics barely moved. The deepest questions stayed stuck. So he pivots. Not away from truth, but toward leverage. If the human brain is the bottleneck, don’t push harder on the same brain. Build a new one. AI, in his framing, isn’t a product. It’s the ultimate scientific instrument. A tool to smash through the ceiling that human cognition hit in physics, biology, and beyond. And the twist is beautiful: By trying to build intelligence, we’re forced to understand our own. AI becomes both microscope and mirror. This isn’t about apps or chatbots. It’s about finishing the questions physics couldn’t.

VraserX e/acc

77,489 views • 7 months ago

CEO of a trillion-dollar company sat in a Stanford classroom in 2011 and explained exactly how he built it. No PR team, no prepared remarks, no investors in the room. No business school has ever added the recording to a syllabus. His name is Jensen Huang. He co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 with $40,000. By 2011 the company was worth $9 billion. Today it is worth over $3 trillion. He walked into the Stanford ASES Summit and gave away the entire playbook to a room of fifty students for free. The lecture is about when to bet everything on one technology before the market knows it exists. He did it with GPUs. Then with CUDA. Then with AI infrastructure. Three bets, same logic, same company, three different industries. The uncomfortable part is what he says about risk. He almost went bankrupt twice. What he did both times is the opposite of what every MBA program teaches. Business schools charge $200K in tuition to teach frameworks he rejected before his company was worth a billion. Every founder podcast repeats the same five lessons. Almost none of them mention what Huang actually did when the company was ninety days from dying. That part is in the lecture. It has been free for fifteen years. Filmed by a student with a handheld camera. Audio cuts in and out. He gave away the playbook of the most valuable company on Earth to fifty people. Almost nobody watched it. One classroom. One camera. The full lecture is free. It is in the video.
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CEO of a trillion-dollar company sat in a Stanford classroom in 2011 and explained exactly how he built it. No PR team, no prepared remarks, no investors in the room. No business school has ever added the recording to a syllabus. His name is Jensen Huang. He co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 with $40,000. By 2011 the company was worth $9 billion. Today it is worth over $3 trillion. He walked into the Stanford ASES Summit and gave away the entire playbook to a room of fifty students for free. The lecture is about when to bet everything on one technology before the market knows it exists. He did it with GPUs. Then with CUDA. Then with AI infrastructure. Three bets, same logic, same company, three different industries. The uncomfortable part is what he says about risk. He almost went bankrupt twice. What he did both times is the opposite of what every MBA program teaches. Business schools charge $200K in tuition to teach frameworks he rejected before his company was worth a billion. Every founder podcast repeats the same five lessons. Almost none of them mention what Huang actually did when the company was ninety days from dying. That part is in the lecture. It has been free for fifteen years. Filmed by a student with a handheld camera. Audio cuts in and out. He gave away the playbook of the most valuable company on Earth to fifty people. Almost nobody watched it. One classroom. One camera. The full lecture is free. It is in the video.

Tigerflow

70,947 views • 7 days ago

Why quantum theory could have a fractal structure: explained in 83 minutes. The notion of true quantum nonlocality is absurd. In the latest episode of the Quantum Foundations Podcast, Prof Tim Palmer from the University of Oxford suggests that there is a hidden assumption in standard quantum mechanics, and dropping it will save us from this absurdity. Namely, the reality of counterfactuals: the physics of what could have happened but did not. Inspired by chaos theory and the fractal structure widespread in atmospheric physics, Palmer has developed a new underlying structure for quantum theory, with radical implications for our fundamental principles of quantum physics; the limits of quantum computation; and perhaps even the search for quantum gravity. Watch on my YouTube channel, or listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!
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Why quantum theory could have a fractal structure: explained in 83 minutes. The notion of true quantum nonlocality is absurd. In the latest episode of the Quantum Foundations Podcast, Prof Tim Palmer from the University of Oxford suggests that there is a hidden assumption in standard quantum mechanics, and dropping it will save us from this absurdity. Namely, the reality of counterfactuals: the physics of what could have happened but did not. Inspired by chaos theory and the fractal structure widespread in atmospheric physics, Palmer has developed a new underlying structure for quantum theory, with radical implications for our fundamental principles of quantum physics; the limits of quantum computation; and perhaps even the search for quantum gravity. Watch on my YouTube channel, or listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

Dr Maria Violaris

18,259 views • 6 months ago

An English miller with one year of school rewrote the laws of physics. Nobody noticed. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🧑‍🔬 George Green. Nottingham. 1828. He taught himself mathematics in the back of a windmill. Published a paper on electricity and magnetism. Fifty-one people bought a copy. Most were friends. They couldn't understand it. Five years later he walked into Cambridge. Aged forty. Sat in lectures with teenagers. Graduated fourth in his class. Two years later, he was dead. Aged forty-seven. Forgotten. Until a young scientist found the paper, sent copies across Europe, and changed physics forever. The mathematics Green invented in that windmill became the foundation for electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, and modern engineering. Einstein visited Nottingham in 1930 and said Green was twenty years ahead of his time. Every physics student in the world writes his name on an exam. Most have no idea he was a miller from Nottingham with one year of school. They put a stone for him in Westminster Abbey. Next to Newton's grave. The windmill is still standing. You can visit it. Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧 #ProudOfUs
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An English miller with one year of school rewrote the laws of physics. Nobody noticed. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🧑‍🔬 George Green. Nottingham. 1828. He taught himself mathematics in the back of a windmill. Published a paper on electricity and magnetism. Fifty-one people bought a copy. Most were friends. They couldn't understand it. Five years later he walked into Cambridge. Aged forty. Sat in lectures with teenagers. Graduated fourth in his class. Two years later, he was dead. Aged forty-seven. Forgotten. Until a young scientist found the paper, sent copies across Europe, and changed physics forever. The mathematics Green invented in that windmill became the foundation for electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, and modern engineering. Einstein visited Nottingham in 1930 and said Green was twenty years ahead of his time. Every physics student in the world writes his name on an exam. Most have no idea he was a miller from Nottingham with one year of school. They put a stone for him in Westminster Abbey. Next to Newton's grave. The windmill is still standing. You can visit it. Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧 #ProudOfUs

Proudofus.uk

76,169 views • 5 months ago