TED Talks
TED: What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet? | Kristin Poinar
The Greenland ice sheet is massive, mysterious -- and melting. Using advanced technology, scientists are revealing its secrets for the first time, and what they've found is amazing: hidden under the ice sheet is a vast aquifer that holds...
TED Talks
Yochai Benkler: The new open-source economics
Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.
SciShow
Arctic Bison Mummy!
SciShow News explains how Wikipedia has been used to track, and even predict, outbreaks of disease all over the world, and then introduces you to the most complete naturally mummified bison ever found.
TED Talks
TED: What Wikipedia teaches us about balancing truth and beliefs | Katherine Maher
Even with public trust at an all-time low, Wikipedia continues to maintain people's confidence. How do they do it? Former CEO of Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher delves into the transparent, adaptable and community-building ways the...
Bozeman Science
How I Make Screencasts
Paul shows how he makes screencasts by making a screencast about making screencasts. Hardware and Software
TED Talks
TED: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg
Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex (and confusing) technology, Bettina Warburg describes how the blockchain will eliminate the need for...
Crash Course
Using Wikipedia: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #5
Let's talk about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is often maligned by teachers and twitter trolls alike as an unreliable source. And yes, it does sometimes have major errors and omissions, but Wikipedia is also the Internet's largest general...
TED Talks
Jimmy Wales: The birth of Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.
TED Talks
Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. In this talk, he shares how his ambitious new project,...
TED Talks
Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.
TED Talks
Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to differ. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.
TED Talks
TED: Inside the Egyptian revolution | Wael Ghonim
Wael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt's democratic revolution ... with a Facebook page memorializing a victim of the regime's violence. Speaking at TEDxCairo, he tells the inside story of the past two months,...
Curated Video
Cyber Security for Absolute Beginners - 2022 Edition - Part 02 - Introduction to Stylometry
This video illustrates an application called Stylometry, which can determine if an anonymous document may or may not have been written by us.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Straw Man Fallacy Explained
Is it the straw man fallacy or a straw man argument? I will also give you some examples so that you can recognize the signs and learn how to respond when you find yourself in this situation.
Curated Video
The Art of Doing - Web Development for Beginners - About Me Project
In this video, we will walk through my version of the "About Me" project and learn how to apply the HTML tags we covered in the previous videos to build a simple and basic web page. This clip is from the chapter "Basic HTML Tags" of the...
Curated Video
The Art of Doing - Web Development for Beginners - About Me Project Preview
In this video, we will take a sneak peek at the "About Me" project, our first project where we will create a simple web page. This clip is from the chapter "Basic HTML Tags" of the series "The Art of Doing - Web Development for...
Curated Video
Chatbots for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Build Chatbots - Project: Conversational Chatbot Development with Machine Learning: Project Overview and Packages
In this lesson, we will go over the project conception in detail and install and import all the required libraries for the project, input the data, and perform other tasks to project completion. This clip is from the chapter "Basics of...
Curated Video
Chatbots for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Build Chatbots - Project: Conversational Chatbot Development with Machine Learning: Module Introduction
This is a brief introductory video regarding the concepts learned in this module, including preparing and developing the conversational chatbot project using the NLTK library. This clip is from the chapter "Basics of Chatbots with...
Curated Video
Chatbots for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Build Chatbots - Machine Learning-Based Chatbots: Local Search and Wikipedia Search
In this lesson, you will learn how to conduct a local search versus a Wikipedia search. We will generate results based on the responses from the Wikipedia search and the local search. This clip is from the chapter "Basics of Chatbots...
Curated Video
Chatbots for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Build Chatbots - Machine Learning-Based Chatbots: Developing Results
We will now test the chatbot for response generation and verify that the chatbot is working perfectly. We will assess the results based on the data input and the response. This clip is from the chapter "Basics of Chatbots with Machine...
Curated Video
Chatbots for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Build Chatbots - Machine Learning-Based Chatbots: Wiki Search
In this video, you will learn how to search Wikipedia. We will define a function to input data and obtain a response from the Wikipedia_data input we created. This clip is from the chapter "Basics of Chatbots with Machine Learning and...
Curated Video
Chatbots for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Build Chatbots - Machine Learning-Based Chatbots: Response Generation
In this video, we will define a generateResponse() function and define the expected user response from the chatbot. This clip is from the chapter "Basics of Chatbots with Machine Learning and Python" of the series "Chatbots for...
Curated Video
Chatbots for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Build Chatbots - Machine Learning-Based Chatbots: Package Installation
This video demonstrates the steps involved in installing NLTK. Another package we will need to install for creating our chatbot is the Wikipedia app, and then import the required libraries. This clip is from the chapter "Basics of...
Curated Video
Generative AI and ChatGPT - Quickstart with Examples - GPT-3: What Is It?
This video dives deeper into the GPT-3 language model. You will learn about the capabilities of GPT-3, including its ability to generate human-like text, understand context, and perform various language processing tasks. This video...