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MIT put its full quantum physics course online for free and the opening lecture starts with a box you can't look inside. Almost nobody finishes it. This is 8.04, Quantum Physics I, taught by Allan Adams on the MIT campus. Same room, same problem sets, same professor the tuition...

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One of the men who invented the transistor stood at a Bell Labs blackboard and explained how it works. AT&T kept the film. Almost nobody watches it. Walter Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for the transistor. Every chip training every model in 2026 descends from what he built with Bardeen and Shockley in 1947. This is 28 minutes of the inventor teaching semiconductor physics himself. Properties, simple model, history, impact, new phenomena, written on the board in his own hand. Watch the section where he draws the crystal lattice and shows what an electron and a hole actually do inside it. The abstraction most engineers carry around, drawn from scratch by the man who found it. An embedded engineer I know watched it twice and said 28 minutes of chalk beat a semester of textbook diagrams. Free on YouTube from the AT&T archives, 10 chapters, black and white. Everyone uses his invention. Almost nobody hears him explain it.
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One of the men who invented the transistor stood at a Bell Labs blackboard and explained how it works. AT&T kept the film. Almost nobody watches it. Walter Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for the transistor. Every chip training every model in 2026 descends from what he built with Bardeen and Shockley in 1947. This is 28 minutes of the inventor teaching semiconductor physics himself. Properties, simple model, history, impact, new phenomena, written on the board in his own hand. Watch the section where he draws the crystal lattice and shows what an electron and a hole actually do inside it. The abstraction most engineers carry around, drawn from scratch by the man who found it. An embedded engineer I know watched it twice and said 28 minutes of chalk beat a semester of textbook diagrams. Free on YouTube from the AT&T archives, 10 chapters, black and white. Everyone uses his invention. Almost nobody hears him explain it.

xanax

106,042 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

🔱Professor S. Lakshmi Bala of IIT Madras has published a free course on quantum mechanics, studying the three-level atom. MIT charges $80,000 to sit in a room and learn this. She didn't ask for a dollar. IIT Madras has a sub-1% acceptance rate. The students in that lecture hall competed harder to get in than most Ivy League applicants. You can watch the same lectures without applying anywhere. The course covers linear vector spaces, quantum state formalism, and the three-level atom - the math behind lasers, MRI machines, and quantum computers. Not a simplified intro. The real thing, from first principles. NPTEL built this. 7 Indian Institutes of Technology and IISc pooled their top professors and filmed the actual university curriculum. Thousands of courses. All free. Almost no one outside India knows it exists. Physics departments in the US have known for years that this content is available at no cost. They keep charging $80,000 anyway. 🔖Watch and save it before someone decides free access to elite education is a threat to the business model.
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🔱Professor S. Lakshmi Bala of IIT Madras has published a free course on quantum mechanics, studying the three-level atom. MIT charges $80,000 to sit in a room and learn this. She didn't ask for a dollar. IIT Madras has a sub-1% acceptance rate. The students in that lecture hall competed harder to get in than most Ivy League applicants. You can watch the same lectures without applying anywhere. The course covers linear vector spaces, quantum state formalism, and the three-level atom - the math behind lasers, MRI machines, and quantum computers. Not a simplified intro. The real thing, from first principles. NPTEL built this. 7 Indian Institutes of Technology and IISc pooled their top professors and filmed the actual university curriculum. Thousands of courses. All free. Almost no one outside India knows it exists. Physics departments in the US have known for years that this content is available at no cost. They keep charging $80,000 anyway. 🔖Watch and save it before someone decides free access to elite education is a threat to the business model.

Trixi

44,773 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Gilbert Strang taught linear algebra at MIT for fifty years. His last lecture is on YouTube. It has fewer views than his worst lecture. Nobody told students it was the last one. He just walked in, said "the final class in linear algebra at MIT," and started reviewing old exams. Google built a $2,000,000,000,000 company on one concept from this course. He is 88 years old. He still answers emails. This is MIT 18.06. Linear Algebra. The most watched mathematics course in history. Then the Markov matrix. Strang writes a transition matrix on the board. Three states. People moving between them every step. After enough steps - the system locks into a steady state that never changes. That steady state is an eigenvector. Google's PageRank works the same way. Websites are states. Clicks are transitions. The importance of every page on the internet is one eigenvector of one enormous matrix. Then least squares. Three data points. No line passes through all three. So you find the line that minimizes total error. That is how every AI model on earth is trained - including the ones running inside Goldman Sachs trading desks. Then the projection. The closest point on a plane to a vector outside it. Strang draws it in 30 seconds. That same operation is how Netflix decides what to recommend to 280,000,000 subscribers. Watch the moment he gives back the final exam answer and asks students to work backwards to the question - the room solves it in silence faster than any other lecture all semester. A software engineer told me 18.06 was the course that got her from $90,000 to $200,000 in two years. Same company. Different title. Bookmark this and watch later - after this lecture every dataset you touch will feel like a geometry problem waiting to be solved. MIT 18.06 Lecture 34 | Linear Algebra Final Review | Gilbert Strang
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Gilbert Strang taught linear algebra at MIT for fifty years. His last lecture is on YouTube. It has fewer views than his worst lecture. Nobody told students it was the last one. He just walked in, said "the final class in linear algebra at MIT," and started reviewing old exams. Google built a $2,000,000,000,000 company on one concept from this course. He is 88 years old. He still answers emails. This is MIT 18.06. Linear Algebra. The most watched mathematics course in history. Then the Markov matrix. Strang writes a transition matrix on the board. Three states. People moving between them every step. After enough steps - the system locks into a steady state that never changes. That steady state is an eigenvector. Google's PageRank works the same way. Websites are states. Clicks are transitions. The importance of every page on the internet is one eigenvector of one enormous matrix. Then least squares. Three data points. No line passes through all three. So you find the line that minimizes total error. That is how every AI model on earth is trained - including the ones running inside Goldman Sachs trading desks. Then the projection. The closest point on a plane to a vector outside it. Strang draws it in 30 seconds. That same operation is how Netflix decides what to recommend to 280,000,000 subscribers. Watch the moment he gives back the final exam answer and asks students to work backwards to the question - the room solves it in silence faster than any other lecture all semester. A software engineer told me 18.06 was the course that got her from $90,000 to $200,000 in two years. Same company. Different title. Bookmark this and watch later - after this lecture every dataset you touch will feel like a geometry problem waiting to be solved. MIT 18.06 Lecture 34 | Linear Algebra Final Review | Gilbert Strang

Zyphor

56,603 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

A PHYSICS PROFESSOR GAVE THE SAME LECTURE 1,742 TIMES TO WARN ABOUT ONE IDEA QUIETLY BREAKING THE HUMAN RACE. IT IS THE WORD EVERY AI LAB THROWS AROUND TODAY AND ALMOST NONE OF THEM ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND IT. 72 minutes from Albert Bartlett, a University of Colorado physicist, on the one piece of math he called humanity's greatest blind spot. -> The idea that lands: a small steady percentage is never small. 7% a year sounds calm, but it doubles in a decade, doubles again in the next, and quietly runs away from you. He shows it with bacteria in a bottle, with money, with whole cities -- the same curve that looks flat for ages and then explodes almost overnight. Everyone calls that curve "Exponential". He proves most people hear it as "Fast" when it actually means something far more violent. Right now every lab and every headline calls AI exponential. This is the talk that shows you what the word truly does -- so you see both the hype and the real danger the way the math demands. You thought it was a boring math word. It was the whole story the entire time. Save this one. You'll never hear "Exponential" the same way ↓
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A PHYSICS PROFESSOR GAVE THE SAME LECTURE 1,742 TIMES TO WARN ABOUT ONE IDEA QUIETLY BREAKING THE HUMAN RACE. IT IS THE WORD EVERY AI LAB THROWS AROUND TODAY AND ALMOST NONE OF THEM ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND IT. 72 minutes from Albert Bartlett, a University of Colorado physicist, on the one piece of math he called humanity's greatest blind spot. -> The idea that lands: a small steady percentage is never small. 7% a year sounds calm, but it doubles in a decade, doubles again in the next, and quietly runs away from you. He shows it with bacteria in a bottle, with money, with whole cities -- the same curve that looks flat for ages and then explodes almost overnight. Everyone calls that curve "Exponential". He proves most people hear it as "Fast" when it actually means something far more violent. Right now every lab and every headline calls AI exponential. This is the talk that shows you what the word truly does -- so you see both the hype and the real danger the way the math demands. You thought it was a boring math word. It was the whole story the entire time. Save this one. You'll never hear "Exponential" the same way ↓

slash1s

100,138 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

A physics professor ran a live demonstration on national television in 1964 and it went wrong on camera. He didn't cut away. He got happier. This is Julius Sumner Miller on the ABC program Why Is It So?, crushing a reinforced metal tank with atmospheric pressure. The experiment refuses to behave. Watch his face when it fails. No embarrassment, no apology to the audience, no reshoot. Failure was the interesting part and he wanted the camera on it. Every engineer who hides a broken demo, every team that only ships the run that worked, is doing the opposite of what this man did on live TV 62 years ago. The physics is simple: air pressure you can't feel, doing work you can't ignore. He makes it visible with a tank and a heat source. A hardware engineer I know sent this clip to his team after a failed launch demo with 1 line: this is how you handle it. Black and white, 1 camera, free on YouTube since 2018. He wasn't performing certainty. That's why it still plays.
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A physics professor ran a live demonstration on national television in 1964 and it went wrong on camera. He didn't cut away. He got happier. This is Julius Sumner Miller on the ABC program Why Is It So?, crushing a reinforced metal tank with atmospheric pressure. The experiment refuses to behave. Watch his face when it fails. No embarrassment, no apology to the audience, no reshoot. Failure was the interesting part and he wanted the camera on it. Every engineer who hides a broken demo, every team that only ships the run that worked, is doing the opposite of what this man did on live TV 62 years ago. The physics is simple: air pressure you can't feel, doing work you can't ignore. He makes it visible with a tank and a heat source. A hardware engineer I know sent this clip to his team after a failed launch demo with 1 line: this is how you handle it. Black and white, 1 camera, free on YouTube since 2018. He wasn't performing certainty. That's why it still plays.

Merlow

11,676 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten