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Reinforcement Learning: Crash Course AI #9
Even AI likes rewards. The ninth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence video playlist focuses on reinforcement learning. Scholars see how credit assignments, which are rewards when agents (bots) successfully navigate...
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Make an AI Sound Like a YouTuber (LAB): Crash Course AI #8
AI is so smart that it can finish people's sentences. The eighth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence series has pupils create a program that completes written sentences. They learn about tokenization, vectors, and...
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Natural Language Processing: Crash Course AI #7
"You shall know a word by the company it keeps," linguist John Firth once said. To get AI to understand language, engineers write programs by applying distributional semantics, count vectors, and recurrent neural networks. Scholars view...
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Unsupervised Learning: Crash Course AI #6
Is it safe to leave AI unsupervised? An educational video describes the process of unsupervised learning and how it applies to AI. Viewers learn about K-means clustering from an example where AI needs to distinguish between three types...
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How to Make an AI Read Your Handwriting (LAB) : Crash Course AI #5
Robots can't read your mind, but they can read your handwriting. The fifth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence video series looks at how to program an AI to read handwriting with a multi-layer perceptron neural...
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning: Crash Course AI #3
Hey, I recognize you! Pupils build on previous videos to learn how artificial intelligence applications, such as image recognition, make use of neural networks. They see how hidden layers and deep learning play a role in these neural...
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What Is Artificial Intelligence? Crash Course AI #1
Just how smart is artificial intelligence? An educational video gives a definition of artificial intelligence and describes various real-world applications of it. Scholars review a brief history of artificial intelligence and learn what...
TED-Ed
The Resistance | Think Like A Coder, Ep 2
Join the resistance and learn computer code while you're at it. Continuing from the previous installment, the hero of the series looks for a resistance leader using a set of conditional statements. Scholars learn how to include if,...
TED-Ed
The Prison Break | Think Like A Coder, Ep 1
Break free from monotonous lessons. An engaging video introduces the computer coding series and describes the ongoing context. Robots have taken over, and the hero needs to escape from prison and save the world by solving a set of clues....
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Training Neural Networks: Crash Course AI #4
Make sure your AI always learns from its mistakes. An informative video describes how engineers train neural networks to find the optimal solution. Scholars learn about the process of backpropagation, which is used to adjust computations...
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Supervised Learning: Crash Course AI #2
Teach your robot some new tricks. The second video in the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence series focuses on supervised learning. Viewers examine historical approaches to supervised learning, such as the perceptron, and see how...
TED-Ed
Are We Living in a Simulation?
Could the universe be part of one giant video game? A video lesson considers the idea that a powerful enough computer could simulate the universe. Building on an understanding of the mathematical laws of the universe, the lesson...
TED-Ed
The High-Stakes Race to Make Quantum Computers Work
Quantum mechanics just might take computing to a new level. Pupils watch an animated video to learn about quantum computers and how they differ from classical computers. They learn about two current approaches to quantum computing,...
PBS
When We First Made Tools
The origin of technology began when early hominins began using tools so they could eat more easily. A video lesson presents the fossil evidence of tool usage of the ancestors of humans. Although tools began very simple, their evolution...
TED-Ed
How Do Self-Driving Cars “See”?
What do you get when you mix LiDAR and integrated photonics technology? Why a self-driving car, of course. A fascinating short video describes how light detection and ranging, LiDAR for short, and integrated photonics technologies enable...
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How Seawater Sabotages Ships: Crash Course Engineering #43
See how the seas wreak havoc on ships. The 43rd video in the Crash Course Engineering playlist focuses on marine engineering and how ships need to protect against corrosion from seawater and from marine life. It also looks at ways of...
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YouTube Couldn't Exist without Communications and Signal Processing: Crash Course Engineering #42
Here's a video that explains why we can watch videos over the Internet. An informative resource describes how engineering plays a role in signal processing and communications systems. It starts with Morse Code and continues on to wired...
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How the Leaning Tower of Pisa Was Saved: Crash Course Engineering #40
It's really not okay for buildings to start leaning. An informative video describes how geotechnical and seismic engineers consider the underlying bedrock and soil type when designing foundations for buildings. It looks at the Leaning...
TED-Ed
Will There Ever Be a Mile-High Skyscraper?
It seems like skyscrapers are getting taller and taller these days. An interesting video explains the challenges of constructing tall skyscrapers. It uses several examples of existing buildings to show how engineers overcome these...
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Why Moving People Is Complicated: Crash Course Engineering #41
We all want to get to where we're going. Get there faster using an engaging video that takes a look at transportation engineering. It explores different types of transportation systems, including subways, trains, and highways, as well as...
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Mass-Producing Ice Cream with Food Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #39
Learning about ice cream is a real treat. The 39th installment of the Crash Course Engineering playlist looks at the production of ice cream. From using centrifuges to make cream and mixing the ingredients to pasteurizing the finished...
TED-Ed
The Hidden Network that Makes the Internet Possible
Many use the Internet but few know how it works. Viewers learn more about the network behind the Internet with a short video that explains the fiber optics and integrated photonics that make global communication possible.
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Computer Engineering and the End of Moore's Law: Crash Course Engineering #35
Engineers make better computers, and computers make better engineers. An informative video describes the components of computers, including both hardware and software, and how engineers have a hand in improving these components. It...
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Changing the Blueprints of Life - Genetic Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #38
A presentation of how engineering based in making something better led to engineering genetics. Scholars learn that genetic engineering began by selectively breeding plants that had specific characteristics to improve them. The video...