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as most of people are starting to do Master's. Even they're doing Ph.D.
所以大部分人开始读研。甚至有人开始修博士课程。
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But before I get started, I have to point out something a little bit unusual about this class We're being filmed.
但在我开始之前,我要告诉大家这个课程的一点特别之处,我们会被录像
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Well a number of you have spent this past week playing with this particular tool which is a project the course has been working on for some time in an effort to make it easier and more social to actually shop for courses.
在过去的一周里,已经有一部分人开始使用这种特殊的工具了,这门课程一直在致力于这一工具的开发,目的是为了让课程变的更简单,选课更人性化。
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It was a very, very important part of maintaining the friendship bounds that started at the beginning of the 12-week course and they will take them going forward.
这是维持友谊关系,至关重要的一步,为期12周的课程开始时,他们建立了友谊,而今后它将进一步发展。
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So, normally at this point, we do actually start class with a little bit of history from alchemy to modern chemistry, but I decided to skip that this year.
通常在这个时候,我们要从一些从炼金术,到现代化学的历史出发正式开始我们的课程。
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Now, this becomes a little bit of one of those motherhood and apple pie kinds of lectures.
现在，这课开始有点像,那些母亲叫你做苹果派的课程了。
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Throughout the class, starting next week, we'll take what I called, " "time-ins" as opposed to "time-outs".
在这整个课程中，从下周开始，我们将进行我所说的，“练习时间“，而不是“休息时间。
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This is something I used to announce near the end, but then some people felt that it's not fair not to know this from the beginning.
这些话我以前都是在期末的时候说的,但后来有些同学反映,如果不在课程一开始知道这些会很不公平
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So, still, what you should do is start reading it for next week.
为了下周的课程,你们应该开始阅读了
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All right, before I move on, are there any questions about details of the class or requirements, or readings, or anything people are having trouble getting on top of?
好了,对于在我开始讲课前,讲的关于课程以及要求,还有问题吗,大家还有没有不懂的地方
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I want to start my lecture today looking back to that handout I gave you -but didn't give you a discussion of--a couple of days ago, ] from that essay Good Readers and Good Writers that I quoted at the very beginning of class this term.
今天我将用几天前发给你们的,却没有进行讨论的资料，开始我们的课程，从那篇叫做“好的作家和好的读者“的文章开始,我曾在本学期课程的最开始引用过它。
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There are two points that we talked about -the hypothetical points that came out of the small group discussions that I suggested we might think about at the beginning of this talk.
我们已经讨论了两点,其中假设性的一点,在课程刚开始时,我提出划分小组进行讨论时,就已经讲到了
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And then I started taking more classes in undergrad Education classes.
然后我便开始多上本科的教育方面的课程。
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A little bit about the outline of the story, and then we're going to finally have an introduction between God and Moses, Which will I think bring us back to some of the conversations we had at the beginning of the course.
这就是故事的梗概，接着呢,我们最后介绍上帝和摩西之间的契约，我想我们又要回到原来的讨论,在我们课程刚开始进行过的。
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Today we're going to come to what I would call the nitty-gritty of the course.
今天我们要开始,我所指的实质性课程了
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cause I haven't taken any of the like, more advanced classes.
因为我还没有开始学习高级课程。
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Yen worked on the course last year and she's the senior of the teaching fellows that are working on the course this year.
叶从去年开始就为这门课工作,她是今年这门课程的助教中,较为资深的一名
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The physical basis for everything that we normally hold dear, like free will, consciousness, morality and emotions, and that's what we'll begin the course with, talking about how a physical thing can give rise to mental life.
我们所拥有的一切的生理基础,如自由意志,意识,道德和情绪,我们的课程将会以此作为开始,讨论生理的东西如何能产生心理活动
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I mean unlike a lot of the courses here and at universities, we really do take a much more individualistic approach and that is to say at the end of the day do we consider both upward trending, both your initial experience and also how you approach the course's projects throughout the course of the semester.
我不希望像其他很多课程或在大学中，我们将会采取更个性的方法,也就是说在当天结束前,我们会同时考虑课程进度，考虑你开始的情况,以及如何进行整个学期的学习,也包括如何通过这门课,来帮助你们完成本学期的课程。
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We're actually going to do one more clicker question to get started with today, and as we do, I'll explain something we're going to be trying today, which is a little bit of a friendly competition in terms of answering the clicker questions correctly.
我们将在开始讲授今天的课程之前,再多做一个选择题，我先来说明一下做这件事的原因，这实际上是一个,回答选择题的小比赛。
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OK, not a quiz for points or anything, don't freak out, but I do want you to tell me who these people are. So, what about this person?
我们的课程将由一个小测试开始，别紧张，这不记录分数的,但我希望你们能告诉我这些人是谁？
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I want to talk about the goal of the course, what it is you'll be able to do at the end of this course when you get through it, and then I want to begin talking about the concepts and tools of computational thinking, which is what we're primarily going to focus on here.
我想讲讲课程目标，也就是当你们完成了这门课时,应该达到的程度，接下来我想开始谈谈,计算思维的概念和方法，即这门课程的核心内容。
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That's an important observation, and as we get to the part of the course we talk about computational complexity, you'll see that what we really care about is not how efficient the program is on easy problems but how efficient it is on hard problems.
我们已经学习了这门课程的一部分了，我们要开始认识到,计算的复杂度这个概念，你会学习到我们在乎的并不是,算法在简单问题上的工作效率,而是解决复杂问题的效率。
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Odds are if you're an upperclassman, you've had that experience where it's 12 AM, 1 AM, 2 AM, and you're really starting to stress over the incompletion of some problems that for some course, well frankly what this mechanism allows you to do if you're already 90 percent of the way there, you can call it a night and you can put it down and you could feel good nonetheless about where you got to.
对于上游的同学可能觉得无趣，因为他已经具备了这些经验，这时应该开始关注某些课程中,问题的不完整的部分，如果你已经学会了,里面90%的知识，你可以停工,或者把这门课扔到一边。
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I remind you, I know you're not really listening to me, but that's OK. I reminded you at the beginning of the lecture, I said, let's assume we have a sorted list, and then let's go search it.
没关系，我告诉过你在课程的开始,我们假设这是一个排好序的列表,然后才进行的搜索,那实际上有序列表从哪里来的呢？
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First,this course as I mentioned first is about bridge building: bridge building among disciplines,eclectic, and bridge building in terms of academia and Main street.
正如我开始时提到的，这课程是关于搭建桥梁的：,搭建学科之间的桥梁，广集思源，并搭建学术界与社会之间的桥梁。
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We started by talking about the brain, the physical basis of thought.
这门课程一开始我们就介绍了大脑，也就是我们思考的身体器官。
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I still want to start with some theory and I thought that--well I will--I plan to start by talking about the most basic concepts of risk management, which underlie finance.
课程开始的时候会涉及一些理论,我认为这些理论,是风险管理最基本的概念,也是金融学中最基础的概念
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You should start reading the Phaedo for next week.
考虑到下周的课程,你们应该提前开始阅读斐多篇了
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