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Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?

418 points by dev_256 9y ago

kanzure 9y ago
"DIY human gene therapy with CRISPR" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/diy-human-gene-therapy-with-crispr/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/diy-human-gene-therapy-wit... "A deep dive into Bitcoin Core v0.15" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-08-28-deep-dive-bitcoin-core-v0.15/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-08-28-deep-d... "Advances in block propagation" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-11-27-advances-in-block-propagation/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-11-27-advanc... "Discreet log contracts" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/discreet-log-contracts/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/discreet-log-contracts/ "Signature aggregation" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2017-09-06-signature-aggregation/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2017... "Programmable organoids" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/organoids/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/organ... "Ultra-safe cell line" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/ultrasafe-cell-line/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/ultra... "New address type for segwit addresses" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2017-03-29-new-address-type-for-segwit-addresses/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2017-03-... Bram Cohen on merkle sets and memory management http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2017-07-08-bram-cohen-merkle-sets/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2017-07-... "Making humans a multiplanetary species" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/spacex/elon-musk-making-humans-a-multiplanetary-species/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/spacex/elon-musk-making-hu...
- larrydag 9y ago
  I second "Making humans a multiplanetary species". Watching Elon Musk give this talk is really interesting. It is painful in delivery but penetrating in content. He also has a knack for the gotcha surprise.
ethomson 9y ago
For better or worse, I spent more time giving talks than watching talks in 2017. My favorite talk that I watched in 2017 was Durham Goode's talk at Git Merge 2017, concerning scaling Mercurial at Facebook. It's always good to share knowledge about version control and scar difficulties: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL0lo9MOBetEGRAJzoTCdco_fOKDfhqaOY&v=gOVD-DrUpwQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL0lo9MOBetEGRAJzoTCdco_fOK... My favorite talk that I gave was at GitHub Universe. I spoke about how Microsoft adopted the Git version control system and - ultimately - open source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LXu80xXwFY0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LXu80xXwFY0
jhck 9y ago
David Runciman: How Democracy Ends https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2017/71-how-democracy-ends https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2017/71-how-demo...
- Abekkus 9y ago
  I'll watch and read this,thanks, but in the meantime my money is on democracy ending with the automation of military, police, and security operations.
  - api 9y ago
    My money is on it ending with the automation of propaganda and con artistry at scale. A small group of people could use AI and social media to virtually sit down with every single person and convince them of something using a detailed micro targeting profile. It would be like diapatching an individual evangelist to work on each of a billion people in parallel. We saw very primitive and still largely manual versions of this in 2016. When the real thing arrives it will be the hydrogen bomb of persuasion. This is also what I think an "AI takeover" would look like. Forget about terminators. A superintelligence would find us trivial to con and manipulate. We will just be convinced to do what the AI wants. Skynet will launch words not bombs, but much like the nukes in the Terminator story we are building the infrastructure of our own destruction ahead of time.
    - douglaswlance 9y ago
      A true super-human AI would take over without humans realizing anything is happening. If that's true, then it might be that AI is already taking over.
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SEMW 9y ago
Matt Might's Codemesh 2017 keynote: "Winning the War on Error: Solving Halting Problem, Curing Cancer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVkHgKCqAcI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVkHgKCqAcI
- khet 9y ago
  Matt does a great job of explaining some of the concepts around precision medicine. He also talks about the need for computer scientists to study biology, and the effect it has on field progress.
mubaris 9y ago
Feross Aboukhadijeh - The Most Annoying Website (aka "The Power of the Web Platform") - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY9Bfwfj2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY9Bfwfj2A
DeusExMachina 9y ago
Not a single talk, but a series: Jordan Peterson’s Psychological Significance of the Bible Stories. As an atheist I found his explanations extremely interesting. Peterson is a brilliant scholar and draws connections between psychology and brain structures, human evolution, and religion. I don’t believe in any trascendental being, but listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral value of these stories, regardless of belief in the supernatural. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQD_IZs7y60I3lUrrFTzkpat https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQD_IZs7y60I...
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- wu-ikkyu 9y ago
  >listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral value of these stories You might enjoy the Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
  - DeusExMachina 9y ago
    I am tangentially familiar with the work of Campbell, but yes. Peterson often talks about the hero myth and outher Jungian archetypes.
- dkoubsky 9y ago
  I have to agree. Peterson's lectures were the most interesting and beneficial things that I listened to this year.
  - DeusExMachina 9y ago
    Hands down. I can say I am a very different person from The one I was before listening to him. Roughly speaking ;)
- youdontknowtho 9y ago
  Isn't Jordan Peterson also famous for being a proponent of racial IQ theories? I'm really skeptical about IQ in general, but anyone popular with the far right really makes me suspicious. I'll take a look at the link you provided...But man, there are an awful lot of 1488 types that support this guy. It really makes me question where he is coming from.
joshuahornby 9y ago
"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8 Really changed how I think about programming.
floatboth 9y ago
On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8 Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8 Zebras All the Way Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE Solving Layout Problems with CSS Grid and Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkzpgWoYEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkzpgWoYEI Console Security - Switch https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8941-console_security_-_switch https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8941-console_security_-_switch Let's move SMM out of firmware and into the kernel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEaw4msq6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEaw4msq6g Bringing Linux back to server boot ROMs with NERF and Heads https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9056-bringing_linux_back_to_server_boot_roms_with_nerf_and_heads https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9056-bringing_linux_back_to_serv... Sharing the Chisel https://youtu.be/2C8F7GBRluY?t=11m31s https://youtu.be/2C8F7GBRluY?t=11m31s (looks like the actual conference video wasn't released)
jstaffans 9y ago
Jessica Kerr's "Shaving the Golden Yak" [1] or "If Coco Chanel Reviewed Elm" [2] by Tereza Sokol. [1]: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/easier-software-development?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=calendar https://www.infoq.com/presentations/easier-software-developm... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiw3YcwGwrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiw3YcwGwrU
- thisacctforreal 9y ago
  I'm a big fan of the Chanel talk; it's a neat perspective with a well thought out presentation.
unalloy 9y ago
Tony Seba on Clean Disruption: https://www.startupsilike.com/blog/emerging-trends-the-future-of-transportation-and-energy https://www.startupsilike.com/blog/emerging-trends-the-futur...
- kbaker 9y ago
  Highly recommended talk - About the convergence of Li-ion batteries, electric vehicles, self-driving cars, and solar energy over the next decade; and the impact it will have on the future of the electric grid, big oil, and the car industry and related industries (auto insurance, gas stations, parking lots, etc.) Maybe a bit on the optimistic side? But exciting to consider the possibilities!
jnsaff2 9y ago
Having just gotten back from 34C3 I'm going to post a few of my favorites from there: Dude, you broke the Future! https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future Pointing Fingers at 'The Media' https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9106-pointing_fingers_at_the_media https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9106-pointing_fingers_at_the_med... Social Cooling - big data’s unintended side effect https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s_unintended_side_effect https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s... Full list here: https://media.ccc.de/c/34c3 https://media.ccc.de/c/34c3
- vinc 9y ago
  I couple of months ago I found a good TED talk on the same topic as your first link: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...
- vikuunishmuug 9y ago
  Additionally, The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk (https://youtu.be/xx7Lfh5SKUQ https://youtu.be/xx7Lfh5SKUQ)
galfarragem 9y ago
'On storytelling' by Evan Czaplicki: https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017/evan-czaplicki-on-storytelling https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017/evan-czaplicki-on-story... Whether you like Elm or not, Czaplicki is an highly charismatic conceptual thinker and his talks are very relevant.
oskarth 9y ago
Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU
anfractuosity 9y ago
One of my favourite talks I watched was "Low Cost Non-Invasive Biomedical Imaging - An Open Electrical Impedance Tomography Project" https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8948-low_cost_non-invasive_biomedical_imaging https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8948-low_cost_non-invasive_biome... As it presented an interesting technique I'd never heard of before, along with an implementation. Also I thought the 'Breaking the x86 Instruction Set' talk was extremely clever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
loevborg 9y ago
Rich Hickey, Effective Programs - an examination of the essence of what we do as programmers (for many of us, wirting "situated programs"), and a spirited defense of dynamically typed languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU
- throwaway7645 9y ago
  Seconded...good talk!
Vekz 9y ago
Lisp at the Frontier of Computation, by Robert Smith at Rigetti Computing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9vRcSAneiw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9vRcSAneiw About the application of Lisp on quantum hardware.
vog 9y ago
A deep analysis on social bots, fake news, hate speech and filter bubbles on Twitter. This is questions the existence, as well as quality of studies about, the co-called "social bots" (which turned out to either have no influence, or to be real people with "too much" free time): Michael Kreil: Social Bots, Fake News und Filterblasen https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_filterblasen https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_f... (German talk, but the video contains an audio track with a good English translation.)
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gooro 9y ago
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vowelless 9y ago
Ali Rahimi's NIPS 2017 Test of Time award talk. "Artificial intelligence is not like electricity (quoting Andrew Ng), but alchemy" https://youtu.be/Qi1Yry33TQE https://youtu.be/Qi1Yry33TQE
asafira 9y ago
Maybe not my favorite, but a fun one I wanted to mention anyway: New Tech Start-Up Bubble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vrCpWbmDw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vrCpWbmDw
- skellertor 9y ago
  Just watched it. Hilarious because it's so true.
sebst 9y ago
A fun intro to Church Numerals by a charasmatic speaker: LAMBDA Functions: Powerful And Elegant Abstractions - https://youtu.be/OLH3L285EiY https://youtu.be/OLH3L285EiY
ontouchstart 9y ago
CHM Oral Histories Computer History Museum Hear the stories from the computing legends themselves with video selections from CHM’s oral history collection https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQsxaNhYv8daKdGi7s85ubzbWdTB36-_q https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQsxaNhYv8daKdGi7s85ubzbW...
seltzered_ 9y ago
Nerd Wrangling 101 - a talk on neurodiversity and how tech folks work together: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=728s&v=k-2d5Ggo4i4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=728s&v=k-2d5Ggo4i4
cvaidya1986 9y ago
All episodes of How I Built This by Guy Raz on NPR and Masters of Scale by Reid Hoffman. Especially Barry Diller Part I and II on Masters of Scale. Happy New Year 2018! May your projects come to fruition and live long and prosper!
vong 9y ago
Thought Andrew Ng's The State of AI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKpuX_yzdYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKpuX_yzdYs) was a good primer on: data assets, the positive feedback loop, and their value; hallmarks of an "AI company"
rhinoceraptor 9y ago
Bryan Cantrill, Principles of Technology Leadership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMGAtxUlAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMGAtxUlAc
DyslexicAtheist 9y ago
my favorite were: - How the reputation economy is creating data-driven conformity https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s_unintended_side_effect https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s... - DEF CON 25 (2017) - Weaponizing Machine Learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbRx18VZlYA&t=2121s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbRx18VZlYA&t=2121s - BlackHat 2017: Breaking the x86 Instruction Set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
cpeterso 9y ago
* To Serve The People: Public Interest Technologists. Matt Mitchell is a hacker, security researcher, operational security trainer, and data journalist who founded & leads CryptoHarlem, impromptu workshops teaching basic cryptography tools to the predominately African American community in upper Manhattan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cm3N4Yi3b0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cm3N4Yi3b0 * Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right. Jon Moore is the Chief Software Architect at Comcast Cable, where he focuses on delivering a core set of scalable, performant, robust software components for the company's varied software product development groups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64SWl9bfvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64SWl9bfvk * Keeping Time in Real Systems. This talk will tour the fascinating timekeeping mechanisms used in real systems. We will explore atomic clocks, NTP and GPS through systems that use them, and logical clocks in the context of systems built on logical time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRvj8PykSc4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRvj8PykSc4 * Level Up Your Concurrency Skills With Rust. This talk will show you how Rust will catch many concurrency errors at compile time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIikwmeGVYY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIikwmeGVYY * Diablo: A Classic Game Postmortem. Diablo developer David Brevik returns to the GDC stage to give a classic post-mortem on Blizzard's action RPG hit Diablo in this 2016 talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc * The Flash Games Postmortem. In this 2017 GDC talk, Kongregate's John Cooney attempts to encapsulate the immense history of Flash games and how it has shaped the current game industry by giving game developers their first chance to build and publish their games quickly to the web. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65crLKNQR0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65crLKNQR0E * Siege Battle AI in Total War: Warhammer. In this 2017 GDC session, Creative Assembly's Andre Arsenault shows the approach used in Total War: Warhammer to create the very specialized high-level AI to guide these massive armies in a way that provides a convincing, epic-scale battle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHolirTf9CI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHolirTf9CI
kostarelo 9y ago
Devoxx Poland 2016 - Ted Neward - Why Functional Programming Matters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hOM5PPzMC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hOM5PPzMC8 An amazing introductory video to Functional programming from a hardcore Java developer.
makmanalp 9y ago
Erik Rose's Constructive Code Review from PyCon stands out for me as a talk I remember and come back to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNG1a--SIlk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNG1a--SIlk It's nothing I didn't know intuitively, but it really lays out, with great examples, how to provide feedback accurately while not forgetting about being kind and humble. This is in stark contrast to an attitude I see often that confuses being direct and critical with being hostile or rude. It really deconstructs some of those dynamics in a way I hadn't paid attention to before. Also, it has a great summary of a simplified version of "getting things done" that made it appealing to me.
bjoli 9y ago
It is not my favourite talk, but it is the one I almost happy about discovering: Andy Wingo's talk "Channels, Concurrency, and Cores: A new Concurrent ML implementation" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7IcI6sl5oBc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7IcI6sl5oBc Because it made me discover that concurrent programming can actually be nice.
SapphireSun 9y ago
Noam Chomsky on the survival of human civilization. The talk might have actually occurred in 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrE5EZr5ZVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrE5EZr5ZVY
ruda 9y ago
KotlinConf 2017 - My Life as a Tech Transfer Monad by Erik Meijer https://youtu.be/NKeHrApPWlo https://youtu.be/NKeHrApPWlo
jacksmith21006 9y ago
Easily my favorite https://youtu.be/TS2der4Ag_s https://youtu.be/TS2der4Ag_s
pruthvishetty 9y ago
Has to be this Farnam Street interview with Naval Ravikant about reading, habits, decision-making, mental models, and life. Surprisingly insightful! https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-making/ https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/naval-ravikant-read...
- gakos 9y ago
  +1. Wonderful tips for optimizing self. Definitely stretches your intellect, with great book references.
rhizome31 9y ago
Designing a Multi-Language Live Programming Tool With Phoenix and Genstage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p58sFfgMvdI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p58sFfgMvdI
denhai 9y ago
Raymond Hettinger, Keynote on Concurrency, PyBay 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zinZmE3Ogk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zinZmE3Ogk
gakos 9y ago
How to Create and Start Successful Revolutions | Ben Horowitz Saw this in-person and really recommend it. Detailed historical example of revolution and key takeaways for establishing a great culture at your company. https://youtu.be/YVVick2kf8c https://youtu.be/YVVick2kf8c https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/ben-horowitz-on-how-to-create-culture-and-start-successful-revolutions/ https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/ben-horowitz-on-how-to-cre...

418 points by dev_256 9y ago

"DIY human gene therapy with CRISPR" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/diy-human-gene-therapy-with-crispr/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/diy-human-gene-therapy-wit... "A deep dive into Bitcoin Core v0.15" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-08-28-deep-dive-bitcoin-core-v0.15/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-08-28-deep-d... "Advances in block propagation" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-11-27-advances-in-block-propagation/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-11-27-advanc... "Discreet log contracts" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/discreet-log-contracts/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/discreet-log-contracts/ "Signature aggregation" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2017-09-06-signature-aggregation/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2017... "Programmable organoids" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/organoids/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/organ... "Ultra-safe cell line" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/ultrasafe-cell-line/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/ultra... "New address type for segwit addresses" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2017-03-29-new-address-type-for-segwit-addresses/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2017-03-... Bram Cohen on merkle sets and memory management http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2017-07-08-bram-cohen-merkle-sets/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2017-07-... "Making humans a multiplanetary species" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/spacex/elon-musk-making-humans-a-multiplanetary-species/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/spacex/elon-musk-making-hu...

larrydag 9y ago
I second "Making humans a multiplanetary species". Watching Elon Musk give this talk is really interesting. It is painful in delivery but penetrating in content. He also has a knack for the gotcha surprise.

ethomson 9y ago

For better or worse, I spent more time giving talks than watching talks in 2017. My favorite talk that I watched in 2017 was Durham Goode's talk at Git Merge 2017, concerning scaling Mercurial at Facebook. It's always good to share knowledge about version control and scar difficulties: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL0lo9MOBetEGRAJzoTCdco_fOKDfhqaOY&v=gOVD-DrUpwQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL0lo9MOBetEGRAJzoTCdco_fOK... My favorite talk that I gave was at GitHub Universe. I spoke about how Microsoft adopted the Git version control system and - ultimately - open source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LXu80xXwFY0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LXu80xXwFY0

jhck 9y ago

David Runciman: How Democracy Ends https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2017/71-how-democracy-ends https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2017/71-how-demo...

Abekkus 9y ago
I'll watch and read this,thanks, but in the meantime my money is on democracy ending with the automation of military, police, and security operations.
- api 9y ago
  My money is on it ending with the automation of propaganda and con artistry at scale. A small group of people could use AI and social media to virtually sit down with every single person and convince them of something using a detailed micro targeting profile. It would be like diapatching an individual evangelist to work on each of a billion people in parallel. We saw very primitive and still largely manual versions of this in 2016. When the real thing arrives it will be the hydrogen bomb of persuasion. This is also what I think an "AI takeover" would look like. Forget about terminators. A superintelligence would find us trivial to con and manipulate. We will just be convinced to do what the AI wants. Skynet will launch words not bombs, but much like the nukes in the Terminator story we are building the infrastructure of our own destruction ahead of time.
  - douglaswlance 9y ago
    A true super-human AI would take over without humans realizing anything is happening. If that's true, then it might be that AI is already taking over.

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SEMW 9y ago

Matt Might's Codemesh 2017 keynote: "Winning the War on Error: Solving Halting Problem, Curing Cancer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVkHgKCqAcI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVkHgKCqAcI

khet 9y ago
Matt does a great job of explaining some of the concepts around precision medicine. He also talks about the need for computer scientists to study biology, and the effect it has on field progress.

mubaris 9y ago

Feross Aboukhadijeh - The Most Annoying Website (aka "The Power of the Web Platform") - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY9Bfwfj2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY9Bfwfj2A

DeusExMachina 9y ago

Not a single talk, but a series: Jordan Peterson’s Psychological Significance of the Bible Stories. As an atheist I found his explanations extremely interesting. Peterson is a brilliant scholar and draws connections between psychology and brain structures, human evolution, and religion. I don’t believe in any trascendental being, but listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral value of these stories, regardless of belief in the supernatural. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQD_IZs7y60I3lUrrFTzkpat https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQD_IZs7y60I...

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wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral value of these stories You might enjoy the Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
- DeusExMachina 9y ago
  I am tangentially familiar with the work of Campbell, but yes. Peterson often talks about the hero myth and outher Jungian archetypes.
dkoubsky 9y ago
I have to agree. Peterson's lectures were the most interesting and beneficial things that I listened to this year.
- DeusExMachina 9y ago
  Hands down. I can say I am a very different person from The one I was before listening to him. Roughly speaking ;)
youdontknowtho 9y ago
Isn't Jordan Peterson also famous for being a proponent of racial IQ theories? I'm really skeptical about IQ in general, but anyone popular with the far right really makes me suspicious. I'll take a look at the link you provided...But man, there are an awful lot of 1488 types that support this guy. It really makes me question where he is coming from.

joshuahornby 9y ago

"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8 Really changed how I think about programming.

floatboth 9y ago

On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8 Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8 Zebras All the Way Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE Solving Layout Problems with CSS Grid and Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkzpgWoYEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkzpgWoYEI Console Security - Switch https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8941-console_security_-_switch https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8941-console_security_-_switch Let's move SMM out of firmware and into the kernel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEaw4msq6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEaw4msq6g Bringing Linux back to server boot ROMs with NERF and Heads https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9056-bringing_linux_back_to_server_boot_roms_with_nerf_and_heads https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9056-bringing_linux_back_to_serv... Sharing the Chisel https://youtu.be/2C8F7GBRluY?t=11m31s https://youtu.be/2C8F7GBRluY?t=11m31s (looks like the actual conference video wasn't released)

jstaffans 9y ago

Jessica Kerr's "Shaving the Golden Yak" [1] or "If Coco Chanel Reviewed Elm" [2] by Tereza Sokol. [1]: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/easier-software-development?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=calendar https://www.infoq.com/presentations/easier-software-developm... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiw3YcwGwrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiw3YcwGwrU

thisacctforreal 9y ago
I'm a big fan of the Chanel talk; it's a neat perspective with a well thought out presentation.

unalloy 9y ago

Tony Seba on Clean Disruption: https://www.startupsilike.com/blog/emerging-trends-the-future-of-transportation-and-energy https://www.startupsilike.com/blog/emerging-trends-the-futur...

kbaker 9y ago
Highly recommended talk - About the convergence of Li-ion batteries, electric vehicles, self-driving cars, and solar energy over the next decade; and the impact it will have on the future of the electric grid, big oil, and the car industry and related industries (auto insurance, gas stations, parking lots, etc.) Maybe a bit on the optimistic side? But exciting to consider the possibilities!

jnsaff2 9y ago

Having just gotten back from 34C3 I'm going to post a few of my favorites from there: Dude, you broke the Future! https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future Pointing Fingers at 'The Media' https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9106-pointing_fingers_at_the_media https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9106-pointing_fingers_at_the_med... Social Cooling - big data’s unintended side effect https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s_unintended_side_effect https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s... Full list here: https://media.ccc.de/c/34c3 https://media.ccc.de/c/34c3

vinc 9y ago
I couple of months ago I found a good TED talk on the same topic as your first link: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...
vikuunishmuug 9y ago
Additionally, The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk (https://youtu.be/xx7Lfh5SKUQ https://youtu.be/xx7Lfh5SKUQ)

galfarragem 9y ago

'On storytelling' by Evan Czaplicki: https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017/evan-czaplicki-on-storytelling https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017/evan-czaplicki-on-story... Whether you like Elm or not, Czaplicki is an highly charismatic conceptual thinker and his talks are very relevant.

oskarth 9y ago

Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU

anfractuosity 9y ago

One of my favourite talks I watched was "Low Cost Non-Invasive Biomedical Imaging - An Open Electrical Impedance Tomography Project" https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8948-low_cost_non-invasive_biomedical_imaging https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8948-low_cost_non-invasive_biome... As it presented an interesting technique I'd never heard of before, along with an implementation. Also I thought the 'Breaking the x86 Instruction Set' talk was extremely clever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ

loevborg 9y ago

Rich Hickey, Effective Programs - an examination of the essence of what we do as programmers (for many of us, wirting "situated programs"), and a spirited defense of dynamically typed languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU

throwaway7645 9y ago
Seconded...good talk!

Vekz 9y ago

Lisp at the Frontier of Computation, by Robert Smith at Rigetti Computing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9vRcSAneiw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9vRcSAneiw About the application of Lisp on quantum hardware.

vog 9y ago

A deep analysis on social bots, fake news, hate speech and filter bubbles on Twitter. This is questions the existence, as well as quality of studies about, the co-called "social bots" (which turned out to either have no influence, or to be real people with "too much" free time): Michael Kreil: Social Bots, Fake News und Filterblasen https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_filterblasen https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_f... (German talk, but the video contains an audio track with a good English translation.)

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gooro 9y ago

Ada banyak yang harus kita perbaiki di tahun ini, saya memilih jadi penonton selama 1 tahun dengan tujuan menjaga dan menghargai semua privasi, menahan dengan emosi dan terus bersabar atas apa yang terjadi dengan global,saya menyadari bahwa saya bukan siapa2 dan terus belajar dengan apa yang kita pelajari,kemampuan blog saya bisa mencapai 73jt, (terjemahan melebihi dari virus) #duniasatu1

vowelless 9y ago

Ali Rahimi's NIPS 2017 Test of Time award talk. "Artificial intelligence is not like electricity (quoting Andrew Ng), but alchemy" https://youtu.be/Qi1Yry33TQE https://youtu.be/Qi1Yry33TQE

asafira 9y ago

Maybe not my favorite, but a fun one I wanted to mention anyway: New Tech Start-Up Bubble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vrCpWbmDw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vrCpWbmDw

skellertor 9y ago
Just watched it. Hilarious because it's so true.

sebst 9y ago

A fun intro to Church Numerals by a charasmatic speaker: LAMBDA Functions: Powerful And Elegant Abstractions - https://youtu.be/OLH3L285EiY https://youtu.be/OLH3L285EiY

ontouchstart 9y ago

CHM Oral Histories Computer History Museum Hear the stories from the computing legends themselves with video selections from CHM’s oral history collection https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQsxaNhYv8daKdGi7s85ubzbWdTB36-_q https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQsxaNhYv8daKdGi7s85ubzbW...

seltzered_ 9y ago

Nerd Wrangling 101 - a talk on neurodiversity and how tech folks work together: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=728s&v=k-2d5Ggo4i4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=728s&v=k-2d5Ggo4i4

cvaidya1986 9y ago

All episodes of How I Built This by Guy Raz on NPR and Masters of Scale by Reid Hoffman. Especially Barry Diller Part I and II on Masters of Scale. Happy New Year 2018! May your projects come to fruition and live long and prosper!

vong 9y ago

Thought Andrew Ng's The State of AI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKpuX_yzdYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKpuX_yzdYs) was a good primer on: data assets, the positive feedback loop, and their value; hallmarks of an "AI company"

rhinoceraptor 9y ago

Bryan Cantrill, Principles of Technology Leadership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMGAtxUlAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMGAtxUlAc

DyslexicAtheist 9y ago

my favorite were: - How the reputation economy is creating data-driven conformity https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s_unintended_side_effect https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s... - DEF CON 25 (2017) - Weaponizing Machine Learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbRx18VZlYA&t=2121s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbRx18VZlYA&t=2121s - BlackHat 2017: Breaking the x86 Instruction Set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ

cpeterso 9y ago

* To Serve The People: Public Interest Technologists. Matt Mitchell is a hacker, security researcher, operational security trainer, and data journalist who founded & leads CryptoHarlem, impromptu workshops teaching basic cryptography tools to the predominately African American community in upper Manhattan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cm3N4Yi3b0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cm3N4Yi3b0 * Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right. Jon Moore is the Chief Software Architect at Comcast Cable, where he focuses on delivering a core set of scalable, performant, robust software components for the company's varied software product development groups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64SWl9bfvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64SWl9bfvk * Keeping Time in Real Systems. This talk will tour the fascinating timekeeping mechanisms used in real systems. We will explore atomic clocks, NTP and GPS through systems that use them, and logical clocks in the context of systems built on logical time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRvj8PykSc4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRvj8PykSc4 * Level Up Your Concurrency Skills With Rust. This talk will show you how Rust will catch many concurrency errors at compile time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIikwmeGVYY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIikwmeGVYY * Diablo: A Classic Game Postmortem. Diablo developer David Brevik returns to the GDC stage to give a classic post-mortem on Blizzard's action RPG hit Diablo in this 2016 talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc * The Flash Games Postmortem. In this 2017 GDC talk, Kongregate's John Cooney attempts to encapsulate the immense history of Flash games and how it has shaped the current game industry by giving game developers their first chance to build and publish their games quickly to the web. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65crLKNQR0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65crLKNQR0E * Siege Battle AI in Total War: Warhammer. In this 2017 GDC session, Creative Assembly's Andre Arsenault shows the approach used in Total War: Warhammer to create the very specialized high-level AI to guide these massive armies in a way that provides a convincing, epic-scale battle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHolirTf9CI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHolirTf9CI

kostarelo 9y ago

Devoxx Poland 2016 - Ted Neward - Why Functional Programming Matters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hOM5PPzMC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hOM5PPzMC8 An amazing introductory video to Functional programming from a hardcore Java developer.

makmanalp 9y ago

Erik Rose's Constructive Code Review from PyCon stands out for me as a talk I remember and come back to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNG1a--SIlk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNG1a--SIlk It's nothing I didn't know intuitively, but it really lays out, with great examples, how to provide feedback accurately while not forgetting about being kind and humble. This is in stark contrast to an attitude I see often that confuses being direct and critical with being hostile or rude. It really deconstructs some of those dynamics in a way I hadn't paid attention to before. Also, it has a great summary of a simplified version of "getting things done" that made it appealing to me.

bjoli 9y ago

It is not my favourite talk, but it is the one I almost happy about discovering: Andy Wingo's talk "Channels, Concurrency, and Cores: A new Concurrent ML implementation" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7IcI6sl5oBc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7IcI6sl5oBc Because it made me discover that concurrent programming can actually be nice.

SapphireSun 9y ago

Noam Chomsky on the survival of human civilization. The talk might have actually occurred in 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrE5EZr5ZVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrE5EZr5ZVY

ruda 9y ago

KotlinConf 2017 - My Life as a Tech Transfer Monad by Erik Meijer https://youtu.be/NKeHrApPWlo https://youtu.be/NKeHrApPWlo

jacksmith21006 9y ago

Easily my favorite https://youtu.be/TS2der4Ag_s https://youtu.be/TS2der4Ag_s

pruthvishetty 9y ago

Has to be this Farnam Street interview with Naval Ravikant about reading, habits, decision-making, mental models, and life. Surprisingly insightful! https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-making/ https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/naval-ravikant-read...

gakos 9y ago
+1. Wonderful tips for optimizing self. Definitely stretches your intellect, with great book references.

rhizome31 9y ago

Designing a Multi-Language Live Programming Tool With Phoenix and Genstage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p58sFfgMvdI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p58sFfgMvdI

denhai 9y ago

Raymond Hettinger, Keynote on Concurrency, PyBay 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zinZmE3Ogk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zinZmE3Ogk

gakos 9y ago

How to Create and Start Successful Revolutions | Ben Horowitz Saw this in-person and really recommend it. Detailed historical example of revolution and key takeaways for establishing a great culture at your company. https://youtu.be/YVVick2kf8c https://youtu.be/YVVick2kf8c https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/ben-horowitz-on-how-to-create-culture-and-start-successful-revolutions/ https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/ben-horowitz-on-how-to-cre...