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Satisficing
What is Satisficing? Satisficing is a decision-making strategy or cognitive heuristic that entails searching through the available alternatives until an acceptability threshold is met.
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Ratselvermehrung
What is Ratselvermehrung? Rätselvermehrung is an alternative creativity tool based on combining problems of different sorts to find solutions in an indirect way.
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Quality Circles - Process Management
What are Quality Circles in Process Management? A quality circle is a group of employees who work in the same position or department and meet to discuss, analyze and find solutions for problems related to improving work performance.
The Business Professor
Process Management - Explained
What is Process Management? Business process management is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to...
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Path Dependence
What is Path Dependence? Path dependency is a phenomenon whereby history matters; what has occurred in the past persists because of resistance to change.
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Market Orientation
What is Market Orientation? Market orientation perspectives include the decision-making perspective, market intelligence perspective, culturally based behavioural perspective, strategic perspective and customer orientation perspective.
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Management Decision Making Models
What are common Management Decision Making Models? The Rational Model, The Intuitive Model,The Recognition Primed Model, Vroom-Yetton Decision-Making Model, and. Bounded rationality model.
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Leader Decision Making
What is Leader Decision Making? How does leader decision making fit into behavioral leadership study?
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Laissez Faire - Management Theory
What is Laissez Faire approach to management? The term Laissez-faire is of French origin and translates to “letting people do as they choose.” This leadership style is the complete opposite of micromanaging. Laissez-faire leaders allow...
Music Matters
What Can You Write Before an Diminished 7th Chord - Music Composition
Which are the most common approach chords? Learn how to form a diminished 7th chord, how to key reference a diminished 7th, and how to locate inversions of diminished 7ths. This music composition lesson then explores the most commonly...
Curated Video
Making Better Decisions
Political scientist Josiah Ober describes how we might concretely improve our ability to make political decisions within a democratic framework, highlighting so-called deliberative and epistemic approaches to decision-making.
Curated Video
Bernardinelli–Bernstein Comet | Oort Cloud Comet
Learn about Bernardinelli–Bernstein Comet with the Bernardinelli–Bernstein Comet Planet Song by the KLT
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This Brain-Inspired AI Can Teach A Car To Drive With 19 Neurons | C. elegans + Neural Control Policy
Turns out we might have a lot to learn from worm brains when it comes to autonomous driving. Who knew?
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These Language Models Talk to Each Other! | Socratic Models
These Language Models Talk to Each Other! | Socratic Models
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OpenAI's AI Learned to Play Minecraft from YouTube Videos
OpenAI's AI Learned to Play Minecraft from YouTube Videos
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Machine Learning using Raspberry Pi: AlphaGo Edition
Need something to do while staying at home? Today, we're running a machine learning model on a Raspberry Pi 4 to show that you don't need huge computational resources to do machine learning projects.
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Exploring Non-Events in History: The Dog That Didn't Bark
University of Oxford historian John Elliott discusses the importance of studying events that did not occur, known as "non-events," using the analogy of the dog that doesn't bark in Sherlock Holmes stories. Through examining why certain...
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Reimagining Historical Identities and Organizational Constructs
Historian David Cannadine, Princeton University, describes how, while identity categorisations such as class, gender and race have provided us with important tools to interpret the past, deeper historical understanding will involve the...
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Exploring the Past: Enlarging Our Imaginations and Challenging Assumptions
Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL) challenges the notion that studying the past should solely serve present-day interests. He advocates for exploring historical ideas and perspectives for their intrinsic value, aiming to...
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Unveiling Historical Perspectives: Quentin Skinner's Approach to Understanding Key Figures
In this video, Quentin Skinner, a renowned intellectual historian, discusses his method of understanding historical figures by viewing their works as interventions in ongoing dialogues. He emphasizes the importance of humanizing these...
Oxford Comma
How to Write a Paper
In this video we'll explore the EPA method for writing academic papers. The EPA method encourages writers to start with the Evidence, look for Patterns, and then and only then to settle on an Argument.
Tom Nicholas
Literary Texts: Introduction to Cultural Texts and Roland Barthes' From Work to Text
Roland Barthes' From Work to Text is a seminal essay which lays out why, in the humanities, we have come to refer to pieces of literature, films and many other things using the catch-all term "text". Because, we refer a lot to...
Music Matters
What Can You Write Before an Augmented 6th Chord - Music Composition
Which are the most common approach chords? We consider the reasons why these chords work better than other options, examining voice leading, the smooth progression of parts, and the avoidance of parallels & false relations. This music...
Music Matters
Using Minor 5 Chords - Music Composition
We consider the possibilities for using chord V as either a major or a minor chord. In the harmonic minor context used by most composers since 1600 chord V is always major but in the context of the descending melodic minor scale and in...