List of Intellectually Stimulating Videos (scenefinale recommendations)

[scenefinale]

I genuinely feel I'd be doing INTPs a disservice by not recommending these. These are all works that have tremendously helped my thinking in one way or another. So I encourage you to take up with some but hopefully all of these, it is almost a guarantee that you will find these thought-provoking and intellectually stimulating. Some are on youtube, some you might have to buy instead. In no particular order:

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2395695/
Neil deGrasse Tyson gives a wealth of up to date science and history overview while leaving out the technical details, perfect for the INTP. Really, this is beautiful.
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Cosmos (1980)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081846/
Carl Sagan's original series on which Neil deGrasse Tyson based his series.

The Wire (2002-2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306414/
A masterpiece by David Simon. I still stand by my statement that this is currently the best way to learn about personality and Type. Really, a great way to understand human civilization. http://intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=20395

Inexplicable Universe with Neil deGrasse Tyson
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-inexplicable-universe-unsolved-mysteries.html?cid=1816
Neil deGrasse Tyson gives a great overview of our past and present understanding of physics and the universe, in a way that is very INTP friendly.

Planet Earth (2006)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795176/
BBC did an excellent job with this. While this is about only Planet Earth strictly speaking there is so much here for INTPs to extrapolate. Beautiful imagery, patterns in life forms just waiting for you to find them.

Interstellar (2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/
Christopher Nolan (he also did Inception) went out of his way to may this quite scientifically accurate (with Kip Thorne (an expert in relativity) as a consultant). It's an excellent story too.

Superintelligence - Authors@Google (2014)

Spoiler

http://youtu.be/pywF6ZzsghI

The highly intuitive Nick Bostrom gives a presentation on the topic of his book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Also, Ray Kurzweil is in the audience and has some interesting feedback at the end.

Ghost in the Shell (1995)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568/
I would suggest the animated version. This was the movie used in the pitch for The Matrix. It is quite visionary for 1995 (brain uploading, etc.) and the artwork, wow.

Functional Programming Principles in Scala (~2013)
https://class.coursera.org/progfun-003
Dr. Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala language, gives a great introduction to Functional Programming.

Spoiler

http://youtu.be/e-DXJT8VnAA

Come join functional programmers in the ivory-tower of programming and write side-effect free code. Functional programming has had a profound influence on the way I think and write code, I personally believe it is much more amenable to the Ne intuition style of programming. Honestly this is gold to an INTP, or anyone who likes math (FP deals with category theory, something which connects a lot of different mathematics) and programming. Abstract your abstractions!

Origin of the Universe (2007)

Spoiler

http://youtu.be/nFjwXe-pXvM
http://youtu.be/HSUsXYcQ5qA
http://youtu.be/MzO5eSjgocA
http://youtu.be/xhNX1wKFbB0
http://youtu.be/O8Kp0rQ23PY

Stephen Hawking delivers an excellent talk at Berkeley in which he discusses time, among other things, and gives some beautiful philosophy.

World Science U
http://www.worldscienceu.com/
Brian Greene gives lots of short but valuable clips on String Theory and other interesting topics. Most of this is free and links to youtube video.

Blue Brain Project Documentary
The BBP has since been renamed The Human Brain Project. I don't know where the videos went, I'll post a link when I find them.

There's a lot I've refrained from posting here to keep the list short and sweet but I'll update as necessary. Thank you for your time.

 

[dark+matters]

Ooooo; thanks!

 

[Aerl]

I'd like to recommend "Waking life"(2001), if you can stand the style
of the movie, than you should find some topics interesting, "stimulative".

A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing
the meanings and purposes of the universe. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/

 

[Teffnology]

WOW-wa-WE-WOW!

Nice list.

Carl Sagan's Cosmos was awesome and I've been meaning to get around to NDT's version. StarTalk radio is one of my staples in my routine. NDT is the man!

The Wire is was one of the most criminally underrated TV shows of all time. Uber real and gritty, exactly how I live my detective dramas. This show and David Simon really cut to the heart of a lot of underlying issues in an urban environment, and the source of those issues. The chess metaphor from Season 1 has stuck with me to this day and exemplifies the awesome writing this show features.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=G2Ka5ZOt18Tp66mv981OUw&bvm=bv.84349003,d.cGU

Richard Linklater is one of my favorite directors and have been meaning to check out Waking Life. Dreams and the little that we know about them are quite intriguing.

Planet Earth on Blu Ray is my version of free cable. One of those discs is constantly in my player and usually on. Never gets old. Any of the BBC Earth/David Attentborough docs are well worth it, and lots of fun.

I deeply enjoyed Breaking Bad and place it in the ring with The Wire as two of my favorite shows of all time. The depth of writing, character development, real life grittiness, and procedure based story lines really hooked me in and captivated me.

I am now reading up on functional programming and am very interested so far.

Thank you for your list. Much obliged.

 

[scenefinale]

Yes, ahah David Attenborough is perfect for narration of Planet Earth. And yes, I thoroughly enjoyed Breaking Bad and while it was stimulating for me to watch, largely due to my personality observations, I think most people would only get the entertainment out of it. But yes, great show.

Thank you for your list. Much obliged.

Ooooo; thanks!

No Problem!



As far as FP goes, the learning curve may be steep but it is worth it, IMO. I'm currently teaching myself Haskell too. But Scala is great for those coming from a Java background, as it encourages FP but doesn't require it, so you can write code like you normally would but still take advantage of maps, filters, a solid API of immutable types, etc. and slowly pick up on more and more FP.

 

[vladmirus]

Thanks, now to get all these wonderful movies....

 

[Teffnology]

Where would you direct a code noob to start building a proper foundation?

 

[Teffnology]

Thanks, now to get all these wonderful movies....

Netflix and Amazon Prime have all of them except Interstellar but some decent torrents are available now.

 

[scenefinale]

Where would you direct a code noob to start building a proper foundation?

The coursera course is a great way to learn Scala. They should have all the video lectures archived if I'm not mistaken.
If you're looking for a book on Scala, I highly highly recommend:
Functional Programming in Scala by Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason
http://www.manning.com/bjarnason/
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Excellent book with great examples. It teaches Scala from a pure FP standpoint. Martin Odersky is quoted on the rear cover as saying, "Leads to deep insights into the nature of computation." I fully agree.

As far as Haskell goes, there is a course on edx:
https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programming-delftx-fp101x
Not the greatest, but it is a start. Haskell has been around for quite some time so searching for a few tutorials should be easy.

 

[Tristitian]

When it comes to casual space documentaries, I find to be one of the best. Even if you know just about everything this video has to offer, it's still a visual treat not to be missed. It's very calming as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVIigCMhCZc

The OP mentioned both the original Cosmos and the new series. I personally prefer the original, but it's dated. If you want the best experience, watch the original first, then watch the reboot from episode three onward (the first two - if I remember correctly - are just rehashes of episodes from the first series). In my opinion, Sagan is a much more interesting host.

If you are a history buff, there is a series that I remember watching some time ago that prepared me to pass my history course much more than I believe my text or professor ever could. It's called Milennium. Here is an episode from the series (this is the only one I can find online):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIDWjDOSEk

A Biography of America is also another good history series, if you are more interested in US history.

I also have a huge fetish for the classic unethical psychology experiments - Harlow, Zimbardo, and Stanley Milgram. All of these are fairly short, but quite interesting. I'm sure that anyone who has taken a decent psych course has seen them before, though.

 

[r4ch3l]

I'm gonna check out that Scala course. Thanks for the recommendations. Have intended to watch Ghost in the Shell for a long time but never got around to it.