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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Structure of the Court System
In which we learn about the structure of the U.S. court system and how exactly it manages to keep things moving smoothly. We discuses trial courts, district courts, appeals courts, circuit courts, state supreme courts, and of course the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Artificial Intelligence: Neural Networks and Deep Learning #3
Artificial neural networks are better than other methods for more complicated tasks like image recognition, and the key to their success is their hidden layers. We'll talk about how the math of these networks work and how using many...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Artificial Intelligence: Make a Movie Recommendation System #16
Jabril generally likes action movies and John Green Bot likes romantic movies, but they need to find something that they can both watch and enjoy together. Today, we're going to build a movie recommender system to find that perfect...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Blood Vessels, Part 1: Form and Function
We begin our look at how blood gets around your body. In this episode, we look at the basic three-layer structure of your blood vessels. We review how those structures differ slightly in different types of vessels. We will also follow...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Artificial Intelligence #20
We've spent much of this series explaining how and why we don't have the Artificial General Intelligence that we see in movies. Siri frequently doesn't understand us, we probably shouldn't sleep in our self-driving cars, and those...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Artificial Intelligence: Make an Ai Sound Like a You Tuber (Lab) #8
We're going to code a program that takes a one word prompt and then completes the sentence that sounds like something John Green would say. We're going to collect transcription files from Vlogbrothers episodes, do some preprocessing,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Blood Vessels, Part 2: Blood Pressure Kills
In this episode, we return to blood vessels. We discuss what blood pressure is, how it can become "high," and what that means for our health. One of the more interesting points is that your body has ways of dealing with high blood...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Artificial Intelligence: What Is Artificial Intelligence? #1
Artificial intelligence is everywhere and it's already making a huge impact on our lives. It's autocompleting texts on our cellphones, telling us which videos to watch on YouTube, beating us at video games, recognizing us in photos,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: The Nervous System, Part 3: Synapses
We continue our tour of the nervous system with a look at synapses and the crazy stuff cocaine does to your body. [10:56]
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards
John Green talks about the Native Americans who lived in what is now the US prior to European contact. This is a history class, not archaeology, so we're mainly going to cover written history. That means we start with the first sustained...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Ecology: Nitrogen & Phosphorus Cycles: Always Recycle! Part 2
Hank describes the desperate need many organisms have for nutrients (specifically nitrogen and phosphorus) and how they go about getting them via the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. [9:21]
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Supreme Court of the United States Procedures
Learn about what happens when a case makes it to the Supreme Court of the United States (or SCOTUS). In this episode, we focus on court procedure. We talk about how to petition to get your case heard, how written arguments, or briefs,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Artificial Intelligence: Cats vs Dogs? Let's Make an Ai to Settle This
Jabril tries to make an AI to once and for all settle the question, "Will a cat or a dog make us happier?" But in building this AI, Jabril will accidentally incorporate the very bias he was trying to avoid. So today we'll talk about how...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: The Nervous System, Part 2: Action! Potential!
What do you and a sack of batteries have in common? Hank explains in this episode. [11:43]
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Endocrine System, Part 2: Hormone Cascades
In the second half of our look at the endocrine system, we discuss chemical homeostasis and hormone cascades. Specifically, we look at the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis, or HPT axis, and all the ways your body can suffer when that...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Endocrine System, Part 1: Glands & Hormones
In which we learn about the endocrine system and how it uses glands to produce hormones. These hormones are either amino-acid based and water soluble, or steroidal and lipid-soluble, and may target many types of cells or just turn on...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: The Integumentary System, Part 1: Skin Deep
Anatomy & Physiology continues with a look at your biggest organ; your skin. [9:38]
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Artificial Intelligence: How You Tube Knows What You Should Watch
We're going to talk about recommender systems which form the backbone of so much of the content we see online from video recommendations on YouTube and Netflix to ads we see on Facebook, Twitter, and everywhere else. We'll talk about...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances
In which Craig Benzine teaches you about the U.S. government's separation of powers and the system of checks and balances. In theory, the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch are designed to keep each other...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology: Joints
We continue our look at bones and the skeletal system with a more detailed look at our axial and appendicular skeleton. This episode also talks about the structural and functional classifications of our joints and the major types of body...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Artificial Intelligence: Make an Ai That Destroys Video Games
Our game is called TrashBlaster, and it's like Asteroids but with trash in the ocean, and instead of a spaceship John Green Bot is wielding a laser. We'll use machine learning techniques such as an evolutionary neural network alongside a...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Artificial Intelligence: How to Make an Ai Read Your Handwriting
John Green Bot wrote his first novel! We're going to program a neural network to recognize handwritten letters to convert the first part of John Green Bot's novel into typed text. Follow along with this Google Drive document: Neural...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: World War Ii Part 1
In which John Green teaches you about World War II. John will teach you how the United States got into the war, and just how involved America was before Congress actually declared war. John will actually talk a little about the military...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Great Depression
In which John Green teaches you about the Great Depression. So, everybody knows that the Great Depression started with the stock market crash in 1929, right? Not exactly. The Depression happened after the stock market crash, but wasn't...