Dan Colman
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Mountain View, CA, United States
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UC Berkeley Is Offering Data Science, Its Fastest-Growing Course Ever, for Free Online
It's worth passing along a message from UC Berkeley. → Read More
How to Use the Rotary Dial Phone: A Primer from 1927
Most every piece of technology, no matter how simple, comes with a user manual of some sort. Even the seemingly straightforward rotary dial phone. Although Alexander Graham Bell patented the first telephone in 1876, the first rotary dial phones didn't make their way into American homes until 1919. → Read More
450+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in April: Enroll Today
Heads up. 450+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are getting underway this month, giving you the chance to take free courses from top flight universities. With the help of Class Central, we've pulled together a complete list of April MOOCS. → Read More
How Bill Gates Gets the Most Out of Reading Books
If you're a dedicated reader of our site, you know that we've periodically highlighted Bill Gates' favorite books. → Read More
Applause Fills the Air as Stephen Hawking Gets Laid to Rest in Cambridge, England
applause fills the air as Stephen is carried into Great St Mary’s Church pic.twitter.com/PLtualKgC2 — Haskan Kaya (@HaskanKaya) March 31, 2018 Earlier today, they laid Stephen Hawking to rest in a private funeral held at University Church of St. Mary the Great in Cambridge, England. → Read More
Philosophy for Beginners: A Free Introductory Course from Oxford University
Philosophy doesn't have to be daunting. Thanks to the Continuing Education program at Oxford University, you can now ease into philosophical thinking by listening to five lectures collectively called Philosophy for Beginners. → Read More
A Free Oxford Course on Deep Learning: Cutting Edge Lessons in Artificial Intelligence
Nando de Freitas is a 'machine learning professor at Oxford University, a lead research scientist at Google DeepMind, and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (CIFAR) in the Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception program.' Above, you can watch him teach an Oxford course on Deep Learning, a hot subfield of machine learning and artificial intelligence which creates… → Read More
Coursera Now Offering Complete Bachelor's and Master's Programs--With Tuition Reduced by 70%
As we observed last October, Coursera has been undergoing an evolution of sorts. When the ed tech company started out, it offered an array of individual courses to students worldwide. A little of this. And a little of that. → Read More
Watch “Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on The 405,” the New Oscar-Winning Portrait of an Artist
A quick fyi: IndieWire has made available on its YouTube channel 'Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on The 405,' a 40-minute documentary directed by Frank Stiefel. A portrait of a brilliant 56 year old artist, the film won the Oscar for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the recent Academy Awards. → Read More
IDEO's Free Design Course on Prototyping Starts Today
This week, the famous California design firm IDEO is launching a free 4-week course on Prototyping. → Read More
A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures
In 22 lectures, Yale historian Paul Freedman takes you on a 700 year tour of medieval history. → Read More
Google Launches a Free Course on Artificial Intelligence: Sign Up for Its New “Machine Learning Crash Course”
As part of an effort to make Artificial Intelligence more comprehensible to the broader public, Google has created an educational website Learn with Google AI, which includes, among other things, a new online course called Machine Learning Crash Course. → Read More
A Turing Machine Handmade Out of Wood
It took Richard Ridel six months of tinkering in his workshop to create this contraption--a mechanical Turing machine made out of wood. → Read More
Oxford’s Free Introduction to Philosophy: Stream 41 Lectures
You don't need to go to Oxford to study philosophy. Not when it will come to you. Above, find a playlist that features 41 lectures from Oxford's course called General Philosophy. → Read More
1000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Getting Started in March: Enroll Today
1,000+ MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are getting underway this month, giving you the chance to take free courses from top flight universities. → Read More
Judd Apatow Teaches the Craft of Comedy: A New Online Course from MasterClass
School just got fun. And funny. → Read More
David Sedaris Sings the Oscar Mayer Theme Song in the Voice of Billie Holiday
I'm going to make your Friday, right here, right now. Above, we have a clip of David Sedaris doing a dead-on Billie Holiday impression while singing the famous Oscar Mayer theme song. → Read More
New York City Buskers Sound Just Like the Beatles
one thing you have to do today is watch this video of amiri and rahiem taylor covering the beatles - they sound exactly like lennon/mccartney and it gives me serious chills pic.twitter.com/lr3r9ew5Dm — 🌊 (@mattwhitlockPM) February 25, 2018 From Matt Whitlock comes a tweet featuring Amiri and Rahiem Taylor, two New York City buskers, singing a spot-on version of The Beatles' 'Eight Days a Week.'… → Read More
Pablo Neruda's Poem, "The Me Bird," Becomes a Short, Beautifully Animated Film
From 18bis, a Brazilian design & motion graphics studio, comes this: an animated interpretation of “The Me Bird,' a poem by the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda. → Read More
Learn to Code with Harvard’s Popular Intro to Computer Science Course: The 2017 Edition
In recent months, Harvard has been rolling out videos from the 2017 edition of Computer Science 50 (CS50), the university's introductory coding course designed for majors and non-majors alike. → Read More