Curated Video
Adaptation: What Factors Determine Where Animals Live?
“Adaptation: What Factors Determine Where Animals Live?” focuses on the ways that ecosystems force animals to adapt in the face of ecological change and competition for resources.
Packt
Hands-On Continuous Integration and Automation with Jenkins - CD Pipeline Overview and Intro to Docker
This video gives an overview of the CD pipeline, shows the web application deployed via the CD pipeline, and introduces Docker. • CD pipeline overview • Web application used in the deployment • Intro to Docker This clip is from the...
Curated Video
Spark Programming in Python for Beginners with Apache Spark 3 - Rounding off Summary
In this video, we will summarize our learning from this section. This clip is from the chapter "Spark Programming Model and Developer Experience" of the series "Spark Programming in Python for Beginners with Apache Spark 3".In this...
Curated Video
High Five Facts - Animal Adaptations
This video explores five fun facts about animal adaptations.
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Ecology
We've learned a lot about living organisms on this channel, but now it's time to broaden our scope quite a bit. How do living organisms interact with each other and their physical environments? What is the nature of the biosphere? The...
Visual Learning Systems
Plant Structure and Function: Plant Characteristics
Students will learn how the structures of plants such as roots, stems, and leaves enable them to live and grow. Real-life applications show how these plant structures are useful sources of food, building materials and medicine. Other...
Science360
New multilayered materials ready for take off
When it comes to aircraft engines, rocket motors and nuclear power plants, the ""heat"" is constantly on to make the parts inside stronger, more reliable and more durable. In fact, when an airplane takes off, the materials in the hottest...
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Understanding Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
From the section: Getting Started With Reinforcement Learning Using OpenAI Gym. In this section, we will introduce the basics of the reinforcement learning problem, and explain how OpenAI gym helps with developing and research solutions...
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Creating a Bandit with 4 Arms Using Python and Numpy
From the section: The Multi-Armed Bandit. In this section, we will learn about the basics and look at one of the most foundational concepts in Reinforcement Learning – The Multi-Armed Bandit We construct a model of a MAB environment from...
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Running the Blackjack Environment From the OpenAI Gym
From the section: Model-Free Prediction and Control With Monte Carlo (MC). In this section, we will learn one of two improvements on DP – Monte Carlo, a method which does not require a model of the environment. We talk about a new...
Curated Video
Human Activities and the Reduction of Biodiversity
The video discusses the importance of biodiversity, which is the variety of all the different species of organisms on Earth or within an ecosystem. It explains how human activities such as waste management, deforestation, and global...
Curated Video
Plants in Extreme Environments: Adaptations for Survival
This video is a lecture presentation on plants in extreme environments. The speaker begins by discussing the resources plants need to survive, such as light, water, carbon dioxide, and mineral ions. The process of photosynthesis is...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Ecosystem Dynamics
This video emphasizes the importance of understanding the complex relationships between living and nonliving things that make up an organism's environment. Overall, it provides an informative and engaging introduction to the study of...
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Coding up Your First Solution to CartPole-v0
From the section: Lights, Camera, Action – Building Blocks of Reinforcement Learning. In this section, we learn about the main building blocks of reinforcement learning, including the action space, the environment, and the rewards. To...
Packt
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Understanding the Environment of CartPole in OpenAI Gym
From the section: Lights, Camera, Action – Building Blocks of Reinforcement Learning. In this section, we learn about the main building blocks of reinforcement learning, including the action space, the environment, and the rewards. To...
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Visualizing the Outcomes of the Epsilon-Greedy Policy
From the section: Model-Free Prediction and Control With Monte Carlo (MC). In this section, we will learn one of two improvements on DP – Monte Carlo, a method which does not require a model of the environment. We talk about a new...
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Running a Visualization of the Cart Robot CartPole-v0 in OpenAI Gym
From the section: Getting Started With Reinforcement Learning Using OpenAI Gym. In this section, we will introduce the basics of the reinforcement learning problem, and explain how OpenAI gym helps with developing and research solutions...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Your Questions About Life Out There and Down Here
Why don’t we go live on Saturn’s moon Titan? What would it mean if we found life elsewhere? How did life get its start on Earth? NASA’s chief scientist Jim Green and astrobiologist Lindsay Hays discuss these and other audience questions...
Science360
Soft “vine robots” grow into solutions - Science Nation
Engineers design vine-like, inflatable, plastic bots that can change shape to solve problems. Description: Animals inspire many designs for robots, from the gecko-inspired StickyBot to RoboBees. But mechanical engineers at Stanford...
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Exploring the Possible Actions of Your CartPole Robot in OpenAI Gym
From the section: Lights, Camera, Action – Building Blocks of Reinforcement Learning. In this section, we learn about the main building blocks of reinforcement learning, including the action space, the environment, and the rewards. To...
Curated Video
Design a computer system using tree search and reinforcement learning algorithms : Training the Agent, and Understanding What It Learned
From the section: The Multi-Armed Bandit. In this section, we will learn about the basics and look at one of the most foundational concepts in Reinforcement Learning – The Multi-Armed Bandit We construct a model of a MAB environment from...
Bizarre Beasts
The Hot Microbe That Revolutionized Biology
Thermus aquaticus is the most important bacterium you may never have heard of. It single-cell-edly revolutionized modern biology and our ideas about the very limits of life on Earth. Who said a Bizarre Beast has to be an animal?
Next Animation Studio
Coronavirus survives on surgical masks for up to SEVEN days
New research published in medRxive by medical specialists in Hong Kong shows how long SARS-CoV-2 can survive on different surfaces and in different environments.
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Water Bears in Space
Thomas Boothby, assistant professor for the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Wyoming, teaches us about tardigrades, more commonly known as water bears, that are headed up to the International Space Station for a...