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Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 25 — Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role… Part 2
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Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty? (Part 2). Professor Abhijit Banerjee discusses the impact of political economics on the world's poor. Recorded 2011.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 19 — The Promise and Perils of Microfinance
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee discusses the topic of pros and cons of microfinance for the poor. Recorded 2011.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 09 — Constraints: In Visual Object Recognition
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Recorded October 13th, 2010.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 10 — Learning: Nearest Neighbors, Diverse Applications
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Recorded October 15th, 2010.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 08 — Constraints in Search and Domain Reduction
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Recorded October 6th, 2010.
Patrick Winston: 6.034 Lecture 15 — Learning: Near Misses, Felicity Conditions
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Recorded November 3, 2010.
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 12 — (Somewhat) Un-Orthodox Findings on the Family
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Prof. Esther Duflo discusses what drives fertility decisions. Topics include family planning, population growth, quality-quantity trade off, and China's one-child policy, among other topics. Recorded 2011.
Recollections of Churchill’s Visit to MIT for the Mid-Century Convocation of 1949 (1999)
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For its 1949 Mid-Century Convocation MIT invited Winston Churchill to give the keynote address in front of a crowd of thousands—an historic event for MIT and for the international community. This short video produced ...
Banerjee & Duflo: 14.73 Lecture 21 — Savings Part 2
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Prof. Abhijit Banerjee's lecture covers experiments conducted to understand savings and borrowing in Kenya and the Phillippines. Recorded 2011.
James K. Roberge: 6.302 Lecture 12 — Feedback Compensation of an Operational Amplifier
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Topics include: behavior of non-linear systems; non-linearity and dynamics; linearization technique and notation; Earnshaw's Theorem; demo with iron ball and magnetic field; linearized analysis; flywheel energy storag...
