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Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

• gao8a 8y ago
  ng-wat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Wp-2XA9ZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Wp-2XA9ZU We need more stand up comedians as presenters
  • agumonkey 8y ago
    while we're at it: chicken chicken chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
• Rumperuu 8y ago
  Prof. Harold Thrimbleby, “Designing IT to Make Healthcare Safer” (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I It might not sound like much from the title, but it's really worth a watch. Thrimbleby talks about UX (captivatingly, even though I'm not usually particularly interested in it) and the many, many bad examples within healthcare tech that leads, directly, to people dying—such as his mother. He also has some really interesting points about tires at one point. I'm not sure if I'm selling it. These two are also really good: Steve Rambam, “You've Lost Privacy, Now They're Taking Anonymity” (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNZrq2iK87k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNZrq2iK87k Lepht Anonym, “Cybernetics for the Masses” (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APOAmxFEMkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APOAmxFEMkQ And this one always makes me chuckle: Bryan Lunduke, “Linux is Freaking Weird” (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPbAXKMCDkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPbAXKMCDkY
  • molteanu 8y ago
    That first one is very interesting. Thanks!
  • enkiv2 8y ago
    Cybernetics for the Masses is great, and Lepht has some really interesting ideas. It's too bad they seem to have dropped off the grid. Does anybody know what happened?
    • Rumperuu 8y ago
      They blog (intermittently) at Sapiens Anonym.[1] They went dark for a bit due to what I gather were various medical, educational and relationship issues, but things have been picking up again lately.[2] [1]https://sapiensanonym.blogspot.co.uk/ https://sapiensanonym.blogspot.co.uk/ [2]https://sapiensanonym.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/upcoming.html https://sapiensanonym.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/upcoming.html
• simonjgreen 8y ago
  It may not be so "wow" now, but at the time it happened the Photosynth TED talk with Notre Dame blew my mind and has stuck with me https://youtu.be/M-8k8GEGZPM https://youtu.be/M-8k8GEGZPM Remember at the time of this talk things like Google Maps were still very new, and nowhere near this level of performance.
• TACIXAT 8y ago
  CSS Grid Changes Everything - https://youtu.be/7kVeCqQCxlk https://youtu.be/7kVeCqQCxlk The speaker is good but I think I like it just because it fixes the relationship between HTML and CSS.
• ivank 8y ago
  Writing Quality Code in Erlang - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQyt9Vlkbis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQyt9Vlkbis
  • macintux 8y ago
    Garrett has had a huge impact on how I write code, even when I can’t use Erlang. His insights are so useful.
• exlurker 8y ago
  David Crane - The Internal Magic of the 2600: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr-t9plOkHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr-t9plOkHY
• iam_takada 8y ago
  Talk on innovating in your field by Rodney Mullens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVO-MfIl1Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVO-MfIl1Q Grew up playing Tony Hawk. His talk really inspired me follow my creativity.
• pmarin 8y ago
  The most inspiring talk a I have ever seen: Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming. ABSTRACT This talk describes our unique approach to constructing large, atomically precise molecules (called "Molecular Lego" or "spiroligomers") that could act as new therapeutics, new catalysts (molecules that make new chemical reactions happen faster) and ultimately to construct atomically precise molecular devices. Then I describe Clasp and CANDO, a new implementation of the powerful language Common Lisp. Clasp is a Common Lisp compiler that uses LLVM to generate fast machine code and it interoperates with C++. CANDO is a molecular design tool that uses Clasp as its programming language. Together I believe that these are the hardware (molecules) and the software (the CANDO/Clasp compiler) that will enable the development of sophisticated molecular nanotechnology. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g
• brnstz 8y ago
  Public Static Void, Rob Pike: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE
• yawaramin 8y ago
  Philip Wadler's 'Propositions as Types': https://youtu.be/IOiZatlZtGU https://youtu.be/IOiZatlZtGU Bonus: that was the talk that introduced Lambdaman to the world.
• jnordwick 8y ago
  Same question from October 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239 Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk? 848 points by mngutterman on Oct 4, 2016 | hide | past | web | un-favorite | 255 comments Simply put, what are your favorite talks or trainings? It could by a one-off lecture about a specific concept or a series of talks about a languag
• davidjnelson 8y ago
  Inventing On Principle - Bret Victor https://vimeo.com/36579366 https://vimeo.com/36579366
  • jakelazaroff 8y ago
    So glad someone posted this. Basically everything Bret Victor does is gold. His website [1] has a bunch of great things he's written/done; two of my favorites are The Ladder of Abstraction [2] and Learnable Programming [3]. [1] http://worrydream.com/ http://worrydream.com/ [2] http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction [3] http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming
  • kevinSuttle 8y ago
    Came here for this. My favorite talk of all time. Easily had the most impact on my career.
• fjarlq 8y ago
  Van Jacobson, "A New Way to look at Networking" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8
  • shrumm 8y ago
    I watched this talk ages ago and throughly enjoyed it. Thank you for reminding me about it.
  • contingencies 8y ago
    Watching this now. It's great. Thanks! Not only are there some nice restatements of powerful high-level insights in to network effects in general (which I am considering with respect to physical logistics requirements in our current business), but some great historical tidbits too. The resounding rejection of packet switching by period communications experts at https://youtu.be/8Z685OF-PS8?t=21m0s https://youtu.be/8Z685OF-PS8?t=21m0s is awesome. Oh how the mighty have fallen!
  • jwbensley 8y ago
    A great talk, thanks! This is a great talk from another networking legend: "Network Protocols: Myths, Missteps, and Mysteries" by Radia Perlman. I love her personality and sense of humor, and it has tech content that is completely relevant today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfiMBegejQM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfiMBegejQM
• zorkw4rg 8y ago
  PDC 1996 Keynote with Douglas Adams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UNG3cQoOEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UNG3cQoOEc
  • icc97 8y ago
    Wow, that was amazing. I'm off to go build a living model
• kornakiewicz 8y ago
  Understanding parser combinators: a deep dive - Scott Wlaschin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDalzi7mhdY&t=1021s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDalzi7mhdY&t=1021s
• kornakiewicz 8y ago
  I didn't watch the whole serie yet, but the first two are pretty solid and still fun. The first part doest not cover JS at all, but is rather a brief history of computing. Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg
• delapot 8y ago
  Stephen Wolfram computing a theory of everything - https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_of_everything https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory...
• Artemix 8y ago
  My favourite talk group is the Chaos Computer Club Conferences, about security, privacy, and more. https://m.youtube.com/user/mediacccde https://m.youtube.com/user/mediacccde
  • 0x445442 8y ago
    There's some really good DEFCON talks as well.
• open-source-ux 8y ago
  If you have an interest in the history of programming methodologies, this talk is fascinating: Procedural programming: it's back? It never went away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE
• mcintyre1994 8y ago
  One of my favourites I watched recently was Dan Abramov introducing React hot loading, Redux and Redux Dev Tools in the same 30 minute talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs
• nikivi 8y ago
  "Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8
• dguo 8y ago
  Linus Torvalds' talk on Git: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
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• neonate 8y ago
  Growing a Language, by Guy Steele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
  • ericflo 8y ago
    Very glad someone posted this.
  • shacharz 8y ago
    Amazing talk, here's another great one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
• MichaelAO 8y ago
  Richard Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw
• Mr_P 8y ago
  Alex Evan's talk on developing the renderer for Dreams: He's given several versions of this talk (including the Advancements in Real-time Rendering course at Siggraph), but here's one available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9KNtnCZDMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9KNtnCZDMI
• hayksaakian 8y ago
  Still my favorite: "Wat A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012" https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat This is a humorous talk about javascript
• weaksauce 8y ago
  A really fun and quick one is wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
  • reificator 8y ago
    This one is great, gives a lot of little gotchas for Ruby and Javascript in a humorous format.
• RickS 8y ago
  On the lighter side, "wat" is really fun: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
• kyleperik 8y ago
  Stop writing classes is one of my favorites. Also many pycon talks are great, or any talks by Brandon Rhodes. https://youtu.be/o9pEzgHorH0 https://youtu.be/o9pEzgHorH0
• cup-of-tea 8y ago
  Most recently I really liked "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs": https://vimeo.com/74354480 https://vimeo.com/74354480 The ones that had the most profound effect for me would be Linus's talk about git and Carsten Dominik on org-mode. Also, Richard Feynman explaining how computers work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA This actually changed the way I think about it after years of programming.
• kokx 8y ago
  Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo Not necessarily tech. More like great life advice.
• hackermailman 8y ago
  This talk was an interesting thought experiment by PhK of FreeBSD on how if he were tasked by some agency to sabotage open source projects and standards how he would go about doing it https://youtu.be/fwcl17Q0bpk https://youtu.be/fwcl17Q0bpk A talk by Robert Harper at OPLSS in 2017 is really good as well, covering the basics of programming language background https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer17/topics.php https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer17/to... "concrete syntax is where computer science meets psychology.... at the moment it's all a matter of opinion"
• Walkman 8y ago
  Anything from Armin Ronacher (the_mitsuhiko) or Raymond Hettinger, but I especially like "Thinking outside the box" [0] because it was such an eye-opener. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZVqBFtuLk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZVqBFtuLk
• cinnamonheart 8y ago
  I find Runar Bjarnason's talks to be interesting; one of my favourites is 'Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmsQeSzMdw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmsQeSzMdw The essence of it is that constraints actually allow for easier composition and more modularity. It had a real impact on the way I think about the design of systems.
• eyalm 8y ago
  "Console hacking 2010"[0][1] - The story and history of the different hacks and security bypasses around the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console. Absolutely brilliant. [0] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4087.en.html https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4087.en.... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KNZsNTPlec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KNZsNTPlec
  • anjbe 8y ago
    Another great console talk: Breaking the 3DS, from 2015. https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7240-console_hacking https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7240-console_hacking
• alex_lfw 8y ago
  Anything by Bryan Cantrill (Joyent, prev Sun) or Arthur Bergman (Fastly, prev Wikia).
• arsalanb 8y ago
  The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
• nordsieck 8y ago
  We Really Don't Know How to Compute: Gerry Sussman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU Zebras All the Way Down: Bryan Cantrill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE Jonathan Blow on Deep Work: Jonathan Blow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ej_3NKA3pk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ej_3NKA3pk Simple Made Easy: Rich Hickey - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure: Rich Hickey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU&t=845s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU&t=845s The Last Thing D Needs: Scott Meyers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ
  • peterwwillis 8y ago
    Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits: https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits
    • corysama 8y ago
      More Rich Hickey: https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub
    • stretchwithme 8y ago
      Rich Hickey is great. I remember his Simplicity Matters keynote at Rails Conf 2012. So clear and insightful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0 Being able to explain a complex topic to diverse audiences is not easy to do. Rich does it very well.
      • afro88 8y ago
        Link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0
        • stretchwithme 8y ago
• jdale27 8y ago
  I was going to mention Growing a Language, but since it's already been posted, here is Alan Kay's "Doing with Images Makes Symbols": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY.
• jimmies 8y ago
  "Bufferbloat from the plumber's point of view." I haven't found a better explanation of the problem. Because of the way it is explained, the idea to solve it becomes obvious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5KPryOHwk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5KPryOHwk8
• paultownsend 8y ago
  Bryan Cantrill's USENIX talk - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc He gives a history of SunOS, Solaris, and OpenSolaris up to the Oracle acquisition, and then onto post acquisition and the creation of illumos. It's a brilliant talk and a must-watch for any Unix enthusiast or historian. Bryan is an incredibly engaging speaker.
• replicatorblog 8y ago
  Not a proper tech talk, but hearing Ben Chestnut talk about the early days and growth of MailChimp stuck with me. https://vimeo.com/34081566 https://vimeo.com/34081566 Bootstrapped to over half a billion dollars in revenue. Worth many multiples of that. Built it Atlanta, not a startup city. B2B, but with a more creative ethos than most VC-backed startups in SF. Just an extraordinary story, well worth the hour it takes to watch.
• eterm 8y ago
  Boundaries is a really good one: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
• cma 8y ago
  These three had a big impact on me: Geoff Hinton, The Next Generation of Neural Networks (2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M While the exact approach described there didn't end up being necessary (restricted Boltzmann machines), all the summaries of the competition results made me realize machine image and voice recognition was going to accelerate massively and rival humans in many areas in the very near term. ---- Cracking the neural code: Speaking the language of the brain with optics (2009): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SLdSbp6VjM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SLdSbp6VjM This one made me realize how gene manipulation would be a near term thing and how big of an impact it would have. They used mostly old techniques but all the in situ modifications of cells in mammals were something I hadn't been aware were possible to that degree. One of the guys from his lab, Feng Zhang, went on to be one of the major forces behind CRISPR. ---- Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion? - Prof. Dennis Whyte (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4 New design for a tokamak fusion reactor, made much cheaper by new super conductors that use liquid nitrogen instead of helium/etc. and which have more structural strength by being bound into a metallic ribbon. This one made me really optimistic (it hasn't been borne out like the others yet, but they recently raised $50 million).
  • robertelder 8y ago
    I wasn't going to bother commenting on this topic, but when I read the title I instantly thought of Geoff Hinton, The Next Generation of Neural Networks (2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M I watched that talk probably 10 times after it first came out and wrote some visual basic stuff to try and replicate his results.
• phaser 8y ago
  Jaron Lanier, How we need to remake the internet: https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake_the_internet https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake...
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• antoncohen 8y ago
  "Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" by Bryan Cantrill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc He starts with a nice history of SunOS and Solaris, goes into open source, then midway through (33:00) he goes into a brutally honest rant against Oracle. Even better is that Oracle was one of the sponsors of the conference.
  • tgtweak 8y ago
    Great talk by bcantrill. Don't put your hand in the lawn mower.
  • blendo 8y ago
    I cut my unix teeth in the early '90s, on SunOS, and Cantrill really keeps the history relevant. But truly, his Oracle rant was one for the ages. And this from me where our system RDBMS is Oracle, sigh.
  • cbcoutinho 8y ago
    Just watched this talk - what an emotional ride!
• resource0x 8y ago
  (Not software related, but highly educational) How bacteria "talk" - Bonnie Bassler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWurAmtf78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWurAmtf78 Stefano Mancuso - The roots of plants intelligence TED talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Vck2iPvBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Vck2iPvBs
• rdoherty 8y ago
  The Birth & Death of JavaScript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... A talk from the 'future' about how everything became 'YavaScript'.
  • littlestymaar 8y ago
    This talk is awesome. It's funny but I learned a lot. And the prediction of the talk is happening! [1] [1]: https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet
    • dnautics 8y ago
      let's hope the exclusion zone doesn't happen, k?
      • littlestymaar 8y ago
        You need to talk about this to Kim and Donald then.
• Stwerner 8y ago
  Really excited to go through all the other talks listed here I'm not familiar with! Three talks that I tend to reference a lot and have had a huge impact on the way I think about software: The Soul of Software: Avdi Grimm - https://youtu.be/IgbHzFb1hGw https://youtu.be/IgbHzFb1hGw The Humane Representation of Thought: Bret Victor - https://youtu.be/agOdP2Bmieg https://youtu.be/agOdP2Bmieg How to Program Independent Games: Jonathan Blow - https://youtu.be/JjDsP5n2kSM https://youtu.be/JjDsP5n2kSM
• tmwed 8y ago
  Worse is better!! — https://youtu.be/X45YY97FmL4 https://youtu.be/X45YY97FmL4 Genius.com CEO gives talk about how the worst possible thing you can think of, is in fact the best thing. I like this video because I tend to get stuck in my own head, or get carried away on useless features/ideas that don't really contribute to the overall progress of the product.
• always_good 8y ago
  Functional Core, Imperative Shell by Gary Bernhardt. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/functional-core-imperative-shell https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct... I saw it at my first job out of uni and it was so simple that it changed the way I wrote code at the time.
• carusooneliner 8y ago
  This is an excellent series of short videos on the physics behind quantum computers. It begins with the molecular structure of carbon materials and gradually works its way up to quantum computers: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/caging-schrodingers-cat-quantum-nanotechnology https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/caging-schrodingers-cat-qua...
• agumonkey 8y ago
  beside the nostaligia alan kay talks about sketchpad, sutherland and all that; one of my top talks is dan friedman + will byrd doing evalo in minikanren. similarly there's an old talk by sean parent about reversible computing while he was at Adobe R&D (kinda like relational programming of friedman and byrd, except, in cpp) I also greatly enjoy anything chuck moore on forth / ga144 And recently the talk about the values of APL Oh and Gary Bernhardt. Wat and the unix chainsaw. beautiful.
• btown 8y ago
  Turning The Database Inside Out: Martin Kleppmann - https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-out-with-apache-samza/ https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou... in both video and blog form. Describes how to think about any software stack as layers of derived caches on top of immutable event logs, effectively proposing a solution to the first of https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html . It's certainly changed the way I approach software architecture. Honorable mention: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
• joe-collins 8y ago
  Lending Privilege: Anjuan Simmons http://anjuansimmons.com/talks/lending-privilege/ http://anjuansimmons.com/talks/lending-privilege/ Not strictly about tech itself, but it was one of my favorites talks at CodeConf a few years back.
  • anjuan 8y ago
    Thanks,Joe!
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• foxfired 8y ago
  Kenneth Stanley: Why Greatness cannot be planned.[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI&index=49&t=2s&list=LLRLgykuL_ASP49INyTbq1JQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI&index=49&t=2s&li...
• pornel 8y ago
  http://worrydream.com/dbx/ http://worrydream.com/dbx/ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4) Bret Victor - The Future of Programming (imagined from perspective of 1970's)
  • kevinSuttle 8y ago
    This talk is obscenely underrated. There is not nearly as much tech-focused performance art in our industry.
    • macintux 8y ago
      Underrated by who? (“Whom”?) It always shows up in these lists, and rightly so.
• a_d 8y ago
  Bret Victor - Inventing on principle https://vimeo.com/36579366 https://vimeo.com/36579366 Alan Kay - Power of Simplicity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs Steve Jobs - Marketing (unveiling Think Different) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HsGAc0_Y5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HsGAc0_Y5c Robert Cialdini - On Influence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC6ItuT1Eso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC6ItuT1Eso Peter Thiel - On Zero to One (Notes on Starts Ups or How to Build the Future) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQnKtjM1TA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQnKtjM1TA Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Honesty and More (Farnam Street podcast) https://www.fs.blog/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-making/ https://www.fs.blog/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-... Josh Wolfe - On "This is who you are up against" podcast http://investorfieldguide.com/wolfe/ http://investorfieldguide.com/wolfe/ Richard Feynman - Fun to Imagine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZbX_9ru9U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZbX_9ru9U Paul Graham - Startup school (2008) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7K0vRUKXKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7K0vRUKXKc James Burke - Connections (BBC documentary) <No link> Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of the Atom (BBC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm3p_3Vgejk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm3p_3Vgejk Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZTrfvB2AQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZTrfvB2AQ Ken Robinson - Do schools kill creativity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY Paul Stamets on mycology, bioremediation and fungi- Joe Rogan Experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ
  • whatyoucantsay 8y ago
    Fantastic list!
• FLUX-YOU 8y ago
  DEF CON 22 - Gene Bransfield - Weaponizing Your Pets: The War Kitteh and the Denial of Service Dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNSvHswljM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNSvHswljM
• contingencies 8y ago
  Why Vertical Farming Won't Save the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw
• soapdog 8y ago
  Alan Kay - Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
  • 0x445442 8y ago
    Anything by Kay really.
• anjbe 8y ago
  The White Hat’s Dilemma, by Alex Stamos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHTQHTSgE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHTQHTSgE Stamos has been in the news recently for quitting as CSO at Facebook. Before that he quit as CSO at Yahoo after the government scanning scandal (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive/exclusive-yahoo-secretly-scanned-customer-emails-for-u-s-intelligence-sources-idUSKCN1241YT https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive/exclu...). This talk took place before he started at Yahoo. In the latter half he goes over a number of potential moral quandaries and how ethically to respond to them. One matches the later Yahoo incident almost exactly. The overall point is that it’s important to consider these scenarios beforehand, because it’s easier to do the wrong thing if you have to make decisions on the fly.
• geksilla 8y ago
  Rich Hickey - "simple made easy" https://youtu.be/rI8tNMsozo0 https://youtu.be/rI8tNMsozo0 Rob Pike - "concurrency is not parallelism" https://youtu.be/cN_DpYBzKso https://youtu.be/cN_DpYBzKso Uncle Bob Martin - "future of programming" https://youtu.be/ecIWPzGEbFc https://youtu.be/ecIWPzGEbFc Martin Kleppmann - "transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" https://youtu.be/5ZjhNTM8XU8 https://youtu.be/5ZjhNTM8XU8 Simon Brown - "software architecture vs code" https://youtu.be/GAFZcYlO5S0 https://youtu.be/GAFZcYlO5S0
  • sparq_beam 8y ago
    That transaction talk is really good, thank you. I can now finally name the effect that I had noticed but had trouble explaining and referring to, write skews. It's interesting that he doesn't mention phantom reads as the difference between repeatable read/snapshot isolation, and serializable, which is what other sources tend to do. Snapshot isolation always seemed to me like cheating the intended meaning of repeatable read, insofar as some databases refer to their snapshot isolation level as repeatable read. That is, in the strictest sense, if you read a row twice, you get the same value with snapshot isolation, but you don't actually know that the value will be the same when you commit, which as I understand is a case of a write skew. In fact, if one thinks of the definition of these levels in terms of locking semantics, one would expect a repeatable read to have the same meaning as obtaining a read lock on the row you read, which I understand would prevent at least some types of write skew, since no modification would be possible on that row, because it would need a write lock. There could still be hazards related to phantom reads (and possibly other effects), such as making a decision based on a computed aggregate that can change if new rows are inserted. Still, this meaning of repeatable reads would already provide a useful isolation level for various cases, except that it doesn't work with snapshot isolation. I have a suspicion that applications out there made incorrect assumptions as to the actual isolation provided by the DB they use.
• rdc12 8y ago
  Has been a long time since I watched either of these Rusty Russell - Advanced C Coding For Fun! - A series of crazy tricks that is quite enlightening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEQ3sRakIs0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEQ3sRakIs0 Tridge - Linux powered coffee roaster. Tridge (of Samba and rsync fame) walks through the process he used to reverse engineer a USB thermometer live during the talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LQr4At5Z5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LQr4At5Z5Q
• deepnotderp 8y ago
  Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4 https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4
  • godelmachine 8y ago
    This looks good.
• kanishkvashisht 8y ago
  How we scaled DropBox - Kevin Modzelewski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc The initial Node.js presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztspvPYybIY&t=597s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztspvPYybIY&t=597s
• tomashertus 8y ago
  You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
• derpydev 8y ago
  The Mess We're In - Joe Armstrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
  • stepvhen 8y ago
    i rewatch this one now and then just to hear Joe Armstrong speak of another author's complex compiler code and the singular comment " and now for the tricky bit"
• kamyarg 8y ago
  David Beazley: Discovering Python - PyCon 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8 This talk is both inspiring and funny, I got introduced to David Beazley by this talk and although every time I listen to him my barin melts, I enjoy his talks the most.
• 0x445442 8y ago
  How my bot net purchased millions in cars and defeated Russian hackers. https://youtu.be/sgz5dutPF8M https://youtu.be/sgz5dutPF8M
• webdevatlurk 8y ago
  Finally made an account to post in this thread. I'm rather early in my career doing mostly Ruby, Python and JavaScript things. As you might expect, I consume mainly Ruby, Python and JavaScript related talks. The first two talks that really blew my mind are: - K Lars Lohn's PyCon Keynote from 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s - Jim Weirich's (RIP) "Y Not" talk from RubyConf 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs There are many other presenters who I have a good opinion of: - Raymond Hettinger: his presentation/teaching style is something I'd like to model my own after, also he gave the first talk on writing proper threaded/concurrent python that I was able to understand and make use of. - Brandon Rhoades: another speaker with a presentation style that I've found easy to follow, also he takes a little shot at the dd utility about 18 minutes into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Hmys8ojno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Hmys8ojno) - Sandi Metz: I started out in Python land and moved to Ruby land, where I was introduced to Sandi's talks. She doesn't talk about incredibly complex topics, but she's got insight into some really basic things that's helpful to new people who can't see the forest through the trees. - Robert Martin: I gather that his OO principles are not universally revered, but I find his talks useful. - Gary Bernhardt: his talks are interesting and entertaining in ways that most are not The list goes on, but I can't think of them all right now.
• tyurok 8y ago
  The art of destroying software: Greg Young - https://vimeo.com/108441214 https://vimeo.com/108441214
• thsowers 8y ago
  "Eschew the Extraneous Else" (2 minutes)[0] One of my favorite talks. Very quick, very to the point. I'm not saying I agree with this in 100% of cases, but in many cases I think it's the right call [0]: https://youtu.be/JVVMMULwR4s?t=289 https://youtu.be/JVVMMULwR4s?t=289
• svieira 8y ago
  Uniting Church and State: OO and FP Together by Noel Welsh If you are interested in functional programing this little gem has some great insights into how to translate between data and behavior correctly. Not quite the level of Rich Hickey or Philip Wadler, but very good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO5MD62dQbI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO5MD62dQbI
  • enkiv2 8y ago
    That title is way too clever!
• svieira 8y ago
  Python dictionaries: A Confluence of Great Ideas (also known as Modern Dictionaries) by Raymond Hettinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33CVV29OG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33CVV29OG8
• twoodfin 8y ago
  Cliff Click’s “A Lock-Free Hash Table”, now over ten years old! https://youtu.be/HJ-719EGIts https://youtu.be/HJ-719EGIts
• svieira 8y ago
  Also: I see what you mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Aa4PivG0g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Aa4PivG0g and Applying Failure Testing Research @Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3mHQCkr-4I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3mHQCkr-4I both by Peter Alvaro (second also includes Kolton Andrus) are thought-provoking looks at failure modeling in distributed systems.
• bothra90 8y ago
  "Are We There Yet" - Rich Hickey (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey# https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hi...)
• nikisweeting 8y ago
  Jayson E. Street: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVtHqICeKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVtHqICeKE Van Albert and Banks: Looping Surveillance Cameras through Live Editing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoOqznZUClI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoOqznZUClI Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp... And of course, Simple Made Easy, Wat, etc.
• rk06 8y ago
  The spectrum of abstraction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVNJKv9esE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVNJKv9esE This is an high level talk. it guides on how to choose between competing solutions to a problem when the commonly accepted answer is "it depends"
  • popc0rn 8y ago
    This is my all time favourite talk. So much of development complexities are covered in those simple ideas Cheng points out
• seltzered_ 8y ago
  #Softwarish - I'm biased a bit more towards interface development: greg wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True - https://vimeo.com/9270320#t=3450s https://vimeo.com/9270320#t=3450s steve wittens - making webgl dance - the title is deceptive, it's in some ways a visual crash course in linear algebra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNO_CYUjMK8&t=84s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNO_CYUjMK8&t=84s glenn vanderburg - software engineering doesn't work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCns726nBhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCns726nBhQ chris granger - in search of tomorrow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh8 alan kay - tribute to ted nelson at intertwingled fest - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw bret victor - this is already mentioned but if I had to pick one it'd be 'the humane representation of thought' - https://vimeo.com/115154289 https://vimeo.com/115154289 #Hardwarish: saul griffith - soft, not solid: beyond traditional hardware engineering - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyMowPAJwqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyMowPAJwqo deb chachra - Architectural Biology and Biological Architectures - https://vimeo.com/232544872 https://vimeo.com/232544872 #Getting more meta in technology and history: James Burke - Connections
• dayaz36 8y ago
  SixthSense Technology (oldie but goodie): Pranav Mistry - https://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology https://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potent... Inventing on Principle: Bret Victor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
• zengid 8y ago
  A lot of great talks already mentioned. Thought I'd add a gem from Mike Acton: Data-Oriented Design and C++ https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc
• rdtsc 8y ago
  Anything by Bryan Cantrill, David Beazley or Joe Armstrong Bryan Cantrill - Leadership Without Management: Scaling Organizations by Scaling Engineers ((but really about Larry Ellison being a lawnmower...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGkVM1B5NuI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGkVM1B5NuI David Beazley - Discovering Python (Dave is locked in a bunker for months with 1TB+ source code related to a patent law suit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8 Joe Armstrong - React 2014 : Joe Armstrong - K things I know about building Resilient Reactive Systems ("What is on the wire?" Talks about protocols and other interesting things) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIE22e0cW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIE22e0cW8
• RandomCSGeek 8y ago
  How to make Package Managers cry by Kenneth Hoste. https://youtu.be/NSemlYagjIU https://youtu.be/NSemlYagjIU It's funny, but still useful.
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• Vektorweg 8y ago
  Peter Sewell: Why are computers so @#!*, and what can we do about it? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBIHPLFmcgA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBIHPLFmcgA
• hotwire 8y ago
  John Carmack is an absolutely brilliant speaker. Conversational, captivating and effortlessly natural. I could listen to him talk all day about the most arcane bits of graphics development which i'll never understand but am fascinated by regardless. His QuakeCon talks are particularly good. QuakeCon 2011 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28 QuakeCon 2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk I like his talks because he's always interested by what he's doing and it tends to make me interested again in code. Linus Torvalds is another surprisingly good speaker. His talk on git - one of the dryest possible topics - was very interesting. There's not many other people I'd sit and listen to talk about SCM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
• deadcoder0904 8y ago
  Philip Roberts: What the heck is the event loop anyway? | JSConf EU 2014 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ
• wkandek 8y ago
  If you like Wat, you should like this talk by James Mickens on computer security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF24WHumvIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF24WHumvIc
• decasteve 8y ago
  Meta-comment regarding the videos posted on this thread: It’s concerning to me that 90%+ of these videos are hosted by a single entity. The significance to me (and I assume many others here) is a cultural one. These videos relflect on our livelihoods and our day-to-day interests and pursuits. My advice is to not get complacent about always having access to this content. Use youtube-dl and keep a local backup of what’s important to you.
  • abustamam 8y ago
    I'm not sure why you're singling out YouTube here. YouTube is the main go to place for videos on the web, so it shouldn't be surprising that most of the videos posted here are hosted by YouTube. Concerning, maybe, but the same could be said of a lot of other centralized mediums (such as Medium, WordPress, even HN threads itself). When you rely on someone else to host your stuff, you always run the risk of it disappearing. Important stuff should always be backed up, whether it's video stored on YouTube or an amazing blog post on medium. If YouTube disappeared tomorrow and all these videos disappeared, I'm sure within a week or month, people will have reuploaded many of the really great talks posted in this thread on some other site.
  • rrcaptain 8y ago
    I'm pretty sure you can also backup stuff to the Internet Archive.
• O_H_E 8y ago
  Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
• komeijist 8y ago
  not necessarily favourite, but very entertaining Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012 (by Thomas Figg) https://hooktube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c https://hooktube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c
• gatorek 8y ago
  Worst programming language ever: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6088-the-worst-programming-language-ever https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6088-the-worst-programm... Hell of a fun, and still little bit of an education ;)
• bobosha 8y ago
  Anything by Doug Hofstadter * Analogies are the core of thinking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORB92BU7zk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORB92BU7zk * Analogy as the Core of Cognition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk If you haven't read Godel, Escher & Bach, go read it now. Will change your thinking.
• cutler 8y ago
  Anything by Rich Hickey, especially "The Value of Values" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsiVyC1kM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsiVyC1kM .
• cbHXBY1D 8y ago
  Past and future of hardware and architecture - David Patterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9KRq2Ns0ZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9KRq2Ns0ZE Programing Should Be More Than Coding - Leslie Lamport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QsTfL-uXd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QsTfL-uXd8
• mmmuhd 8y ago
  Linus Torvalds | TED2016 The mind behind Linux. https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_linux https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_lin... I loved it when says 'i am not a people person'
• Mironor 8y ago
  Silver bullet: Hadi Hariri (2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyd6J3yjcs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyd6J3yjcs Every time people think a technology will solve all their problems (remember guys from NOSQL back in the days?), they need to see this talk. The speaker also did this talk as a keynote a couple of times during other conferences.
• SpaceEncroacher 8y ago
  David Beazley on being an expert witness in an intellectual property lawsuit.
• WillKirkby 8y ago
  115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go (Dan Tentler) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtu7vV_HmY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtu7vV_HmY
• latexr 8y ago
  Neil Harbison: Life in the age of new body parts and extra senses: https://livestream.com/accounts/6779986/events/2928486/videos/51486919 https://livestream.com/accounts/6779986/events/2928486/video... Neil is completely colour blind; he sees no colour at all. So he implanted an antenna on his skull that detects the information he choses (like colour) and converts it to vibrations on his skull. So not only can he now perceive colour, he can even perceive more colours than regular humans, since the antenna can be augmented.
• dshacker 8y ago
  I've made a playlist of all the youtube videos on this page. Find it here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSkXABXNKIo2eKpTsnWWjcfiDz9vA0RQa https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSkXABXNKIo2eKpTsnWWj...
• enkiv2 8y ago
  Ted Nelson's Computers for Cynics probably doesn't contain technical information that's new to any of you, but Ted has a knack for reframing things in ways that make the arbitrariness of certain historical decisions clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk On the subject of hypertext, The Web That Wasn't gives a nice history of the idea (for anybody who thinks it starts with TBL -- surprisingly many people!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8 Another reframing-oriented talk is Clay Shirky's "It's not information overload, it's filter failure", which ultimately leads to Shirky suggesting the kinds of user-oriented filtering features that Mastodon has implemented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI At the intersection of neurology and information science, Peter Watts always has something interesting to say, and as a former marine biologist focusing on the nervous system of starfish, this is absolutely in his wheelhouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAicTW7MGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAicTW7MGo This one ("moving away from defensive programming") justified strong typing in a pretty clear way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj3lzsr0_I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj3lzsr0_I Dan Dennett is just as relevant as Doug Hofstadter when it comes to metacognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsD-3jtXz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsD-3jtXz0 Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science starts slow, but if you don't have much of a historical background (like, if you're only vaguely aware of what happened in CS in the 70s), it's a laundry list of things you should look up and be aware of before you start your next project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ Everybody should understand procedural generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU Likewise, since AI is hyped up right now, we should all remind ourselves that IA is a thing too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narjui3em1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narjui3em1k More hypertext history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8 Even more hypertext / UX stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs A great explanation of Fourier transforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY Allison Parrish does mindblowing things with corpus statistics by treating term vector spaces as generalizations of 2d image formats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D0JEA1Jdc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D0JEA1Jdc Finally, these aren't tech talks but instead UI demo reels. If you have any interest in UI or UX, you should watch them. They are wonderfully cheesy, mostly doable, and despite being more than 20 years old, nobody has bothered actually implementing the useful features shown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKJNxgZyVo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKJNxgZyVo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4AzF6wEoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4AzF6wEoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAJPoc23-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAJPoc23-M