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Lecture 8 Part 2: Automatic Differentiation on Computational Graphs 05.10.2026 1h 12minMIT 18.S096 Matrix Calculus For Machine Learning And Beyond, IAP 2023Instructors: Alan Edelman, Steven G. JohnsonView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s096-matrix-calculus-for-machine-learning-and-beyond-january-iap-2023/YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62EaLLH92E_VCN4izBKK6OEDescription: Complicated computational processes can be expressed as “graphs” of computational steps that flow from inputs to outputs. Forward/reverse-mode automatic differentiation (AD) traverse in opposite directions, giving very different algorithms.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
21. Glycolysis II/Regulation 05.10.2026 1h 31minMIT 7.05 General Biochemistry, Spring 2020Instructor: Matthew Vander HeidenView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/7-05S20YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62wNcIMfinU64CAfreShjptAfter recapping the steps of glycolysis, Professor Vander Heiden explores glycolysis further by evaluating the types and chemistry of the reactions and the regulation of the enzyme kinetics.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Thank you to our awesome YouTube subscribers 05.10.2026 10minTo our awesome YouTube subscribers... Thank you!We are grateful to you and this incredible community of 6 million learners (and counting).From lectures to Chalk Radio to Open Conversations, your curiosity, your comments, your engagement—make YOU the heart of this learning community.We truly appreciate you. Thank you for learning with—and from—MIT.We hope you enjoy comments from fellow subscribers...and find them inspirational too.Special thanks to these folks for leaving us a shout out!@sayemsaadkhan @AzraTuna-k2m@jomath5790@Zerkseees@mohammedalboraich629@MpSi-e9y@limon96-ipe @Peace22211@SohamTheQuantumTheorist@DominicW-k3e@hanisfolktales@MohamedMohamed-qe8py@JosephKeenanisme@adityaraj53405@IchAuch-o5@Rubyincanada03@endgamefond@mohamed__swidan@notix3979 @[email protected]_@zahidhussain2778@Chitransh_off@MohammadJaanisThanNaing@abdou_belounis@PabloGGauna @PaulRisco @EdosaAgho-j4m@MDChill @paolacorti5492@Raj_Aryan444Produced by Yvonne Ng and Duyen NguyenMusic credits: Uplifting Upbeat Energetic Instrumental by RomanSenykMusic from pixabay. Upbeat Inspiring by AudioCoffee from pixabay. Upbeat Corporate by PaulYudin from pixabay.Upbeat Day by AudioCoffee from pixabay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
19. Introduction Metabolism/Polysaccharides/Bioenergetics/Intro Pathways 05.10.2026 1h 28minMIT 7.05 General Biochemistry, Spring 2020Instructor: Matthew Vander HeidenView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/7-05S20YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62wNcIMfinU64CAfreShjptPost shifting to remote learning during March 2020, Professor Vander Heiden continued to teach in the same classroom but with no students in the room. Here, he discusses metabolism, reducing sugars, polysaccharides, and bioenergetics.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
9. Reducibility 05.10.2026 1h 23minMIT 18.404J Theory of Computation, Fall 2020Instructor: Michael SipserView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/18-404JF20YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60_JNv2MmK3wkOt9syvfQWYQuickly reviewed last lecture. Discussed the reducibility method to prove undecidability and T-unrecognizability. Defined mapping reducibility as a type of reducibility. Showed that emptiness problem for TMs is undecidable and T-unrecognizable.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Could surveillance pricing work in consumers' favor? 05.10.2026 5minEconomist Jon Gruber makes the case that surveillance pricing could be used for good, with the right form of government regulation, and why it all boils down to efficiency vs equity.(Surveillance camera image used under CC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
27. Photosynthesis II/CO2 Assimilation 05.10.2026 1h 39minMIT 7.05 General Biochemistry, Spring 2020Instructor: Matthew Vander HeidenView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/7-05S20YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62wNcIMfinU64CAfreShjptProfessor Vander Heiden discusses light reactions versus dark reactions of photosynthesis or carbon assimilation. He goes over the dark reactions of the Calvin cycle with a discussion of RuBisCO and regeneration. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
The Blues-Print for Innovation 05.10.2026 1h 24minMIT 15.393 Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures, IAP 2025Instructor: Bob JonesView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-393-nuts-and-bolts-of-new-ventures-january-iap-2025/YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63EUNfnwrkgO2xxwYxNwRdIBreakthrough innovation requires you to work within a shared structure without losing the ability to improvise. The same is true in a great blues jam. In this talk filmed in 2026, Bob Jones plays his electric guitar and forges memorable connections to the Three Pillars of Innovation.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Lecture 7 Part 1: Derivatives of Random Functions 05.10.2026 1h 13minMIT 18.S096 Matrix Calculus For Machine Learning And Beyond, IAP 2023Instructors: Alan Edelman, Steven G. JohnsonView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s096-matrix-calculus-for-machine-learning-and-beyond-january-iap-2023/YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62EaLLH92E_VCN4izBKK6OEDescription: Even if a function f is stochastic (has random numbers in it), we can still define a derivative “on average” (whose expectation value is the derivative of the expectation value of f). For example, for stochastic gradient descent in machine learning.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
24. Lipids and Fatty Acid Oxidation 05.10.2026 1h 27minMIT 7.05 General Biochemistry, Spring 2020Instructor: Matthew Vander HeidenView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/7-05S20YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62wNcIMfinU64CAfreShjptIn this session, Professor Vander Heiden moves on to talking about fatty acids, triglycerides and lipids, the carnitine shuttle, fatty acid oxidation, accounting glucose versus fatty acids, and standard reduction potentials.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
MIT Photographer explains one thing AI can never do 05.10.2026 6minScience photographer Felice Frankel explores the difference between scientific documentation and illustration, using her iconic ferrofluid photograph to show how powerful images can draw people into the science behind them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
20. Bioenergetics/Intro Pathways/Glycolysis I 05.10.2026 1h 31minMIT 7.05 General Biochemistry, Spring 2020Instructor: Matthew Vander HeidenView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/7-05S20YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62wNcIMfinU64CAfreShjptProfessor Vander Heiden starts this class off with highlights from bioenergetics, then goes through the first of two discussions on glycolysis by walking through each step of the pathway.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
5. CF Pumping Lemma, Turing Machines 05.10.2026 1h 20minMIT 18.404J Theory of Computation, Fall 2020Instructor: Michael SipserView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/18-404JF20YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60_JNv2MmK3wkOt9syvfQWYQuickly reviewed last lecture. Proved the CFL pumping lemma as a tool for showing that languages are not context free. Defined Turing machines (TMs). Defined TM deciders (halt on all inputs).License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Lecture 4: Smart Contracts as a Solution to a Coordination Problem 05.10.2026 1h 19minMIT 14.129 Blockchain and the Design of Financial Systems, Spring 2025Instructor: Robert M. TownsendView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-129-blockchain-and-the-design-of-financial-systems-spring-2025YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60gb6cVqrZQXQ217r0PwZJgThis lecture covers the commodity space, the policy objective, implementation with privately issued securities, uncoordinated Issues, and market crises.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
12. Carbohydrates/Introduction to Membranes 04.10.2026 1h 16minMIT 7.05 General Biochemistry, Spring 2020Instructor: Matthew Vander HeidenView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/7-05S20YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62wNcIMfinU64CAfreShjptIn this pre-COVID-19 pandemic lecture of 2020, Professor Vander Heiden discusses two classes of biomolecules: carbohydrates and lipids including their nomenclature, structures, and properties. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Lecture 10: Designs of Financial Infrastructure Utilizing Encryption 04.10.2026 1h 18minMIT 14.129 Blockchain and the Design of Financial Systems, Spring 2025Instructor: Robert M. TownsendView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-129-blockchain-and-the-design-of-financial-systems-spring-2025YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60gb6cVqrZQXQ217r0PwZJgThis lecture covers auctions, hybrid credit, and insurance. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Lecture 6 Part 1: Adjoint Differentiation of ODE Solutions 04.10.2026 1h 5minMIT 18.S096 Matrix Calculus For Machine Learning And Beyond, IAP 2023Instructors: Alan Edelman, Steven G. JohnsonView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s096-matrix-calculus-for-machine-learning-and-beyond-january-iap-2023/YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62EaLLH92E_VCN4izBKK6OEDescription: Many systems are modeled by ordinary differential equations (ODEs), and often you want the derivative of the ODE solution with respect to parameters of the equations. An efficient way to do this is often to solve a second “adjoint” ODE.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
20. Asynchronous Distributed Algorithms: Shortest-Paths Spanning Trees 04.10.2026 1h 18minMIT 6.046J Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Spring 2015View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/6-046JS15Complete course playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P-yW7LQr08&list=PLUl4u3cNGP6317WaSNfmCvGym2ucw3oGpInstructor: Nancy Ann LynchIn this lecture, Professor Lynch introduces asynchronous distributed algorithms.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at http://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at http://ocw.mit.edu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Lecture 7: Stochastic Financial Networks 04.10.2026 1h 23minMIT 14.129 Blockchain and the Design of Financial Systems, Spring 2025Instructor: Robert M. TownsendView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-129-blockchain-and-the-design-of-financial-systems-spring-2025YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60gb6cVqrZQXQ217r0PwZJgThis lecture addresses liquidity and the value of key players versus contagion dynamics.License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices -
Lesson 8 Kanji 04.10.2026 26minMIT RES.21G-506 Kanji Learning Any Time, Any Place: Kanji Video Lectures for Japanese VI, Spring 2021Instructor: Takako AikawaView the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/RES-21G-506S21YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61fAaIcu3q0XpVFzLIum9n5This dual language video covers the Japanese kanji characters in Lesson 8 of the textbook, 'Tobira Gateway to Advanced Japanese Learning Through Content and Multimedia.'License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SAMore information at https://ocw.mit.edu/termsMore courses at https://ocw.mit.eduSupport OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQWe encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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