2021 Cal Week: UPE CS Upper Division Showcase

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Upper-division CS course showcase by UPE presents advanced topics and research areas. A 32-minute showcase teaches what specialized CS subfields entail and research opportunities.

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A 32-minute video from UC Berkeley EECS: “2021 Cal Week: UPE CS Upper Division Showcase”.

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John Schulman - Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: Progress and Challenges UC Berkeley EECSProgramming & CS88.3K views

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The Beauty of Bézier Curves Freya HolmérProgramming & CS2.23M views

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CS50x 2024 - Lecture 1 - C CS50Programming & CS1.41M views

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CS50x 2024 - Lecture 0 - Scratch CS50Programming & CS2.2M views

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The Continuity of Splines Freya HolmérProgramming & CS1.89M views

John Schulman - Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: Progress and Challenges

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John Schulman explains RLHF: why reinforcement learning helps with truthfulness and hallucination, and the open problems.

42:55

2015 CS Education Day: Computer Science Unplugged

UC Berkeley EECS

A 43-minute video from UC Berkeley EECS: “2015 CS Education Day: Computer Science Unplugged”.

But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1

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Builds up what a neural network actually is — neurons as numbers, layers, weights and biases — using handwritten-digit recognition as the running example.

The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd

Andrej Karpathy4.41M views

Building micrograd, a tiny autograd engine, to understand backpropagation completely.

Transformers, the tech behind LLMs | Deep Learning Chapter 5

3Blue1Brown11.6M views

How transformer models (the 'T' in GPT) turn text into vectors and predict the next token, step by step.

Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.

Andrej Karpathy8.21M views

Building a GPT-style language model from scratch in code, following 'Attention Is All You Need'.

24:26

The Beauty of Bézier Curves

Freya Holmér2.23M views

Freya Holmér builds Bézier curves from linear interpolation up, covering de Casteljau's algorithm, derivatives, arc length and their use in games and graphics.

Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich

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Jim Weirich derives the Y combinator live, step by step, using nothing but Ruby lambdas, and along the way teaches the refactorings of lambda calculus.

“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1

Ben Eater5.85M views

Building a computer around the 6502 processor on a breadboard and running 'Hello, world'.

2:27:41

CS50x 2024 - Lecture 1 - C

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CS50x 2024 lecture 1: an introduction to C — syntax, types, conditionals, loops and compiling.

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CS50x 2024 - Lecture 0 - Scratch

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CS50x 2024 lecture 0: how computers represent information, algorithms, and first programs in Scratch.

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The Continuity of Splines

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A follow-up on splines: the different kinds of continuity (C and G), and how Hermite, Catmull-Rom, B-splines and NURBS trade them off.