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An IIT Madras physics professor teaches a full graduate level quantum mechanics course for free, and almost nobody outside India has heard of it. It's part of something called NPTEL, a government backed program that now hosts over 3,200 free university courses taught by professors at IIT and IISc,...

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Vipul Kumar Kewatvor 11 Tagen

The most impressive part is the longevity of the archive. Years of expert teaching have been turned into a permanent public resource. Sometimes the most valuable educational infrastructure isn’t a new AI tutor—it’s simply making great teachers accessible to everyone.

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Kshitij Mishra | AI & Techvor 11 Tagen

yeah you are right

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There are colleges in Hyderabad who ask you to select electives from NPTEL courses..and pass the exam.

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do you think they are right?

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I don't know about right or wrong...or in what context you are referring to...but the candidate who did that course and pass the exam from NPTEL..are really worth taking into your team for work...

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Kshitij Mishra | AI & Techvor 10 Tagen

i agree with you

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i hope more and more people will discover this , saving this video for later

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Bhushanvor 11 Tagen

NPTEL is good for learning useless stuff. We should have more of it.

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Kshitij Mishra | AI & Techvor 11 Tagen

why do you think so?

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It's fun to learn useless stuff

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Kshitij Mishra | AI & Techvor 10 Tagen

same here

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interesting lecture.. love it

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thanks man

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i love NPTEL Teachers

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Raunak Yadushvor 10 Tagen

It really is one of the most underrated free education resources out there. IIT + IISc courses for free is an incredible deal.

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IIT teachers are the best

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this is one of the most underrated free education archives out there, the lectures are genuinely excellent

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Yeah

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The scarcity was never the lecture. It was knowing where the lecture was hidden.

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Biden Appointee Claims Non-Binary People Understand Quantum Mechanics Better At Socialism 2025, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein—a physics professor at the University of New Hampshire and Biden appointee to the Department of Energy’s High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which helps shape federal science funding—offered a unique take on quantum mechanics: “There are good arguments for why, for example, non-binary people find wave-particle duality very straightforward. Yes, you can be both at the same time.” She went on to frame science as a domain for “freedom dreamers” and warned against ceding the field to those “who are like, yeah, I’ll go work for the military.” This is someone with real influence over which science gets funded in America—and who’s also shaping the next generation in the classroom.

Stu Smith

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Mrityunjoy Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur professor: "Jane Street pays a 22 year old $500,000 a year for one skill: turning uncertainty into a number you can bet on. that number is the first thing this professor teaches, and it is free" this free lecture is the foundation every quant bot and hedge fund model is secretly built on. before the AI, before the strategy, there is one question. what is the chance this happens, exactly. get that number right and every bet after it is just math. get it wrong and no model, no bot, no amount of compute can save you. Chakraborty builds probability from the axioms up, on a blackboard, in notation a 15 year old can follow. Wall Street sells this as a $500,000 edge. an IIT professor hands you the source code for nothing.
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Mrityunjoy Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur professor: "Jane Street pays a 22 year old $500,000 a year for one skill: turning uncertainty into a number you can bet on. that number is the first thing this professor teaches, and it is free" this free lecture is the foundation every quant bot and hedge fund model is secretly built on. before the AI, before the strategy, there is one question. what is the chance this happens, exactly. get that number right and every bet after it is just math. get it wrong and no model, no bot, no amount of compute can save you. Chakraborty builds probability from the axioms up, on a blackboard, in notation a 15 year old can follow. Wall Street sells this as a $500,000 edge. an IIT professor hands you the source code for nothing.

Rossst.03

707,196 Aufrufe • vor 29 Tagen

Federico Faggin: "Quantum Fields are conscious & have free will" "You cannot create something that can know itself by something that doesn't even know what knowing means." The inventor of the first commercial microprocessor argues that consciousness cannot emerge from non-conscious matter. No mechanism can explain how awareness arises from something without any knowing. Instead, Faggin proposes quantum information-based panpsychism: quantum fields themselves are conscious and possess free will. These must be fundamental primitives of reality, not reducible to physics. This view explains the collapse of the wave function as a free will decision and why quantum mechanics describes what can be known rather than deterministic reality. Consciousness transcends energy, space, and time. Starting with it as basic unlocks meaning and resolves the hard problem that materialism cannot solve. A profound challenge to conventional science from one of computing's pioneers.
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Federico Faggin: "Quantum Fields are conscious & have free will" "You cannot create something that can know itself by something that doesn't even know what knowing means." The inventor of the first commercial microprocessor argues that consciousness cannot emerge from non-conscious matter. No mechanism can explain how awareness arises from something without any knowing. Instead, Faggin proposes quantum information-based panpsychism: quantum fields themselves are conscious and possess free will. These must be fundamental primitives of reality, not reducible to physics. This view explains the collapse of the wave function as a free will decision and why quantum mechanics describes what can be known rather than deterministic reality. Consciousness transcends energy, space, and time. Starting with it as basic unlocks meaning and resolves the hard problem that materialism cannot solve. A profound challenge to conventional science from one of computing's pioneers.

Interstellar

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Marvin Minsky, MIT professor and father of AI: "The best trader on Wall Street is no longer human. I spent fifty years proving the mind is just a machine built from smaller machines, and once that's true, nothing stops a machine from being the house. it already is." this free lecture holds the entire "AI edge" the funds and the gurus sell, and the man teaching it founded the field itself and put his whole MIT course online for free. at the board it's simple. Minsky's idea is that there is no magic in thinking. a mind is a huge pile of small, mindless parts, each doing something simple, and intelligence is just what happens when enough of them work together. a trading machine is the same trick: thousands of simple rules stacked until an edge appears. that's the whole "AI", minus the mystery. Minsky taught this at MIT and published "The Society of Mind" in 1986. the course has been free ever since. same point as my casino piece above: the house wins with many small mindless advantages stacked, not with one born genius. the ideas are free and every AI lab and every fund already has them. what they cannot sell you is the data and the compute to actually build the machine. that is the real moat now, and no lecture can hand it to you.
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Marvin Minsky, MIT professor and father of AI: "The best trader on Wall Street is no longer human. I spent fifty years proving the mind is just a machine built from smaller machines, and once that's true, nothing stops a machine from being the house. it already is." this free lecture holds the entire "AI edge" the funds and the gurus sell, and the man teaching it founded the field itself and put his whole MIT course online for free. at the board it's simple. Minsky's idea is that there is no magic in thinking. a mind is a huge pile of small, mindless parts, each doing something simple, and intelligence is just what happens when enough of them work together. a trading machine is the same trick: thousands of simple rules stacked until an edge appears. that's the whole "AI", minus the mystery. Minsky taught this at MIT and published "The Society of Mind" in 1986. the course has been free ever since. same point as my casino piece above: the house wins with many small mindless advantages stacked, not with one born genius. the ideas are free and every AI lab and every fund already has them. what they cannot sell you is the data and the compute to actually build the machine. that is the real moat now, and no lecture can hand it to you.

Voltex

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Stephen Boyd, Stanford professor: "Citadel will pay a 22 year old $400K to run this optimizer. The textbook that teaches it is free, and so was my course." this free stanford lecture holds the entire "optimal portfolio, perfect allocation" secret the trading gurus sell you. and the man teaching it didn't lock it inside a fund, he gave away the whole course and a textbook that costs $0. at the board it's simple: once you can write down your expected return, your risk, and your limits, convex optimization finds the single best portfolio, provably, not by trial and error. that's how a fund turns a messy pile of signals into one clean allocation. no guru required. it's not new either. boyd and vandenberghe's textbook has been free since 2004. same stack i mapped in the article above, old and free and sitting on a website the whole time. here's the honest part the course skips: the optimizer only allocates the edge you feed it. garbage in, garbage out. it can't invent an advantage that isn't already in your signals, it just sizes the real one without blowing you up. the solver is free. having an actual edge to optimize is the part nobody can sell you.
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Stephen Boyd, Stanford professor: "Citadel will pay a 22 year old $400K to run this optimizer. The textbook that teaches it is free, and so was my course." this free stanford lecture holds the entire "optimal portfolio, perfect allocation" secret the trading gurus sell you. and the man teaching it didn't lock it inside a fund, he gave away the whole course and a textbook that costs $0. at the board it's simple: once you can write down your expected return, your risk, and your limits, convex optimization finds the single best portfolio, provably, not by trial and error. that's how a fund turns a messy pile of signals into one clean allocation. no guru required. it's not new either. boyd and vandenberghe's textbook has been free since 2004. same stack i mapped in the article above, old and free and sitting on a website the whole time. here's the honest part the course skips: the optimizer only allocates the edge you feed it. garbage in, garbage out. it can't invent an advantage that isn't already in your signals, it just sizes the real one without blowing you up. the solver is free. having an actual edge to optimize is the part nobody can sell you.

Rossst.03

72,607 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten