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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... pays for. He skips the history and the philosophy. He builds a simple apparatus, sends things through it, and shows the result no classical picture can survive. Skip the first 10 minutes, that part is course admin. What follows is thought experiment stacked on thought experiment until superposition stops being a word and becomes the only explanation left. Every engineer arguing about quantum computing in 2026 is arguing about what happens in this hour. A systems engineer I know watched it twice with a notebook and called it the clearest teaching he'd seen since university. MIT charges $60,000 a year. This lecture costs nothing. The gate was never locked. Almost nobody walks through.show more

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Allan Adams, MIT physicist: "Wall Street pays physics PhDs $500,000 to understand the one idea he starts with. Superposition. A single thing being in many states at once" Nine million watched him explain it. Almost none connected it to their bank account. So connect it. That same superposition is how a quantum computer holds every possible answer at once, then collapses to the one that is right. Point it at a number and it finds the two primes hiding inside it. In a single shot. Those two primes are the lock. RSA. The wall between a stranger and every account, every wire, every wallet on earth. Trivial to multiply, impossible to split back. "Impossible" was always doing the heavy lifting. Superposition is what tears it down. Adams hands you the idea for free, in 76 minutes. The banks are already spending fortunes ripping their locks out because of it. Nine million views. The ones quietly copying your encrypted data were the few who understood what they were watching.

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An MIT professor solved the equation Wall Street pays $500K for, in a lecture about how to find the top of a hill. MIT put the whole thing online. it has been free for years. almost nobody finishes it. his point: finding the best possible answer to almost anything is one move. write down what you want to grow, take the derivative, and find the exact spot where it stops climbing. that spot is the answer. he is Denis Auroux, and his 18.02 lectures have taught more people calculus than most universities have students. now the equation from the post above, the one that tells you exactly how much to bet. it is not a secret formula. it is this. the growth of your money is a curve. bet too little and you are low on the hill. bet too much and you have gone over the top and started falling. Kelly's number is just the peak. no magic. no fund. one hill, and the single point where it stops going up. a quant I know rewatches this exact lecture before he sizes a single position. you were handed the formula and told to trust it. Auroux shows you where it actually comes from, for free, and it has been sitting there the whole time.

Loran

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47,412 views • 18 days ago

String Theory is one of the few frameworks that tries to describe Quantum Physics and Gravity in the same mathematical language. In this animation, the glowing loop is the string, the shifting color along it represent its quantum vibration modes, and the surrounding fabric is a proxy for Spacetime responding. When you quantize a string, one of its vibration modes behaves like a graviton. So, geometry shows up as part of the same quantum system. #StringTheory #QuantumGravity #GeneralRelativity #QuantumPhysics #TheoreticalPhysics #PhysicsVisualization

String Theory is one of the few frameworks that tries to describe Quantum Physics and Gravity in the same mathematical language. In this animation, the glowing loop is the string, the shifting color along it represent its quantum vibration modes, and the surrounding fabric is a proxy for Spacetime responding. When you quantize a string, one of its vibration modes behaves like a graviton. So, geometry shows up as part of the same quantum system. #StringTheory #QuantumGravity #GeneralRelativity #QuantumPhysics #TheoreticalPhysics #PhysicsVisualization

Mathelirium

42,172 views • 5 months ago

David MacKay, Cambridge professor: "Citadel and Jane Street pay $900K for people who get one idea I taught free at Cambridge: information is measurable, and whoever measures it best wins. the casino knew it first. the machines know it now." this free lecture holds the entire "secret alpha" the funds and the AI gurus sell, and the man teaching it put his whole course and his whole book online for free and never locked a single page. at the board it's simple. information is just how much a signal cuts your uncertainty, and you can measure it in exact bits. the more an edge shrinks what you don't know, the more it is worth, and Shannon proved there is a hard ceiling on how fast you can compound it into money. that is the whole "edge", and the whole "AI magic", minus the marketing. MacKay taught it at Cambridge and gave the book away free in 2003. it has been free ever since. same point as the casino piece above: the house wins with a small, measurable edge, repeated and sized right, not with a secret. the theory is free and every fund and every model already runs on it. what they cannot sell you is the data to feed the machine and the discipline to size the bet. that is the part that actually compounds, and no course can put it in a formula.

David MacKay, Cambridge professor: "Citadel and Jane Street pay $900K for people who get one idea I taught free at Cambridge: information is measurable, and whoever measures it best wins. the casino knew it first. the machines know it now." this free lecture holds the entire "secret alpha" the funds and the AI gurus sell, and the man teaching it put his whole course and his whole book online for free and never locked a single page. at the board it's simple. information is just how much a signal cuts your uncertainty, and you can measure it in exact bits. the more an edge shrinks what you don't know, the more it is worth, and Shannon proved there is a hard ceiling on how fast you can compound it into money. that is the whole "edge", and the whole "AI magic", minus the marketing. MacKay taught it at Cambridge and gave the book away free in 2003. it has been free ever since. same point as the casino piece above: the house wins with a small, measurable edge, repeated and sized right, not with a secret. the theory is free and every fund and every model already runs on it. what they cannot sell you is the data to feed the machine and the discipline to size the bet. that is the part that actually compounds, and no course can put it in a formula.

Rossst.03

24,939 views • 28 days ago

A Stanford neuroscientist has spent thirty years arguing that you have never made a decision. Not one. Every choice you are proud of and every mistake you still think about was the output of biology you did not pick and cannot see. He teaches an entire course on why, and it is free. The man is Robert Sapolsky, who spent decades in Kenya living among wild baboons. He opens with a man who woke up one morning as somebody else. Same brain, same family, same job. One gene had changed. He describes the case and leaves it unresolved, because the point is not the answer. The point is that you already reached for one. Then he goes after the way we reach. His argument is that every explanation you have ever heard for why a person did something is broken in the same way. It is genetic. It is cultural. It is hormones. It is childhood. Each of those is a bucket, and the buckets do not exist anywhere in nature. They exist because universities have separate departments and separate corridors, and the corridors decided what counts as an explanation. Nothing interesting happens inside a bucket. Everything interesting happens where two of them touch, and almost nobody is trained to look there. He asks the room about free will, about God, about evil, about whether biology explains who becomes religious, and whether things that happened before you were born shape your politics thirty years later. Then he refuses to answer any of it, and tells them what they will be able to judge for themselves in ten weeks. The lectures run through aggression, depression, language, schizophrenia, sexuality, and why any of it differs between two people at all. Twenty five hours. One lecture hall. Free.

A Stanford neuroscientist has spent thirty years arguing that you have never made a decision. Not one. Every choice you are proud of and every mistake you still think about was the output of biology you did not pick and cannot see. He teaches an entire course on why, and it is free. The man is Robert Sapolsky, who spent decades in Kenya living among wild baboons. He opens with a man who woke up one morning as somebody else. Same brain, same family, same job. One gene had changed. He describes the case and leaves it unresolved, because the point is not the answer. The point is that you already reached for one. Then he goes after the way we reach. His argument is that every explanation you have ever heard for why a person did something is broken in the same way. It is genetic. It is cultural. It is hormones. It is childhood. Each of those is a bucket, and the buckets do not exist anywhere in nature. They exist because universities have separate departments and separate corridors, and the corridors decided what counts as an explanation. Nothing interesting happens inside a bucket. Everything interesting happens where two of them touch, and almost nobody is trained to look there. He asks the room about free will, about God, about evil, about whether biology explains who becomes religious, and whether things that happened before you were born shape your politics thirty years later. Then he refuses to answer any of it, and tells them what they will be able to judge for themselves in ten weeks. The lectures run through aggression, depression, language, schizophrenia, sexuality, and why any of it differs between two people at all. Twenty five hours. One lecture hall. Free.

Stefan.

70,014 views • 6 days ago

A Yale professor claims one law of physics decides everything that can and cannot happen in the universe. Drop an egg and it will never jump back into your hand, and nothing in Newton forbids it. Only this law does. His words. 2 million people started his course. Almost nobody made it to lecture 24, where he finally proves it. The man is Ramamurti Shankar, and the way he teaches this is what makes the video worth it. He opens with a 200 year old bet. An engineer named Carnot claimed no engine anyone ever builds can beat his. Two centuries later, no company in America, Japan or China has done it. Shankar shows why in ten minutes, by letting you build a better engine on the blackboard and then shooting it down. Then the move that stays with you. He proves the law of the universe is not a command but a coin toss. Nothing forbids all the air in your room from rushing into one corner while you suffocate in the other. He writes down the odds of it. The number is why you are safe. He ends with a formula so important it is carved on its author's tombstone in Vienna. Shankar says physicists visiting the city skip the concert halls and go read the stone. His point for why this matters: the universe does not forbid the impossible. It just prices it.

A Yale professor claims one law of physics decides everything that can and cannot happen in the universe. Drop an egg and it will never jump back into your hand, and nothing in Newton forbids it. Only this law does. His words. 2 million people started his course. Almost nobody made it to lecture 24, where he finally proves it. The man is Ramamurti Shankar, and the way he teaches this is what makes the video worth it. He opens with a 200 year old bet. An engineer named Carnot claimed no engine anyone ever builds can beat his. Two centuries later, no company in America, Japan or China has done it. Shankar shows why in ten minutes, by letting you build a better engine on the blackboard and then shooting it down. Then the move that stays with you. He proves the law of the universe is not a command but a coin toss. Nothing forbids all the air in your room from rushing into one corner while you suffocate in the other. He writes down the odds of it. The number is why you are safe. He ends with a formula so important it is carved on its author's tombstone in Vienna. Shankar says physicists visiting the city skip the concert halls and go read the stone. His point for why this matters: the universe does not forbid the impossible. It just prices it.

Silverhand

75,978 views • 16 days ago