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Ask HN: Can you ID this video?
I likely watched this video right after it came out and that was likely around four to six years ago. I most likely found it via HN, which is why I am asking here.
I believe it was a speech at a convention, possibly PyCon.
The speaker was a man with a long beard that he braided into two braids. This seemed to be kind of a personal "trademark" and he had apparently looked that way for some years already.
As part of his speech, maybe a speech about math and programming or math and Python, he told a personal anecdote that goes roughly like this:
He used to teach on a reservation and he lent a math book of his own to a Native teenage boy and the boy got beat up real bad and quit school, apparently over having accepted the math book from a White man and taken it home to read it. The boy returned the book to him at some point.
Years later, he noticed funny stuff in the margins and was able to identify it as the boy's Native language and found a way to translate it and the boy was grateful for having read the book in spite of the high price he had paid for doing so.
I think the Native boy referred to the speaker telling this story as something like "Two Beards" in his notes in the book.
This may have been a keynote speech.
I spent maybe an hour looking for it last night and I'm stumped. I have no idea how to find this and I would like to rewatch it.
If you can post a link to the video or tell me who the man is or something like that, I would appreciate it.
- guidovranken 5y agoFirst hit on Google for '"indian reservation" pycon' points to a Reddit page which points to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s , which must be it
- DoreenMichele 5y agoWow. Thank you. That is likely it. Keynote speech Pycon 2016. Will check it out shortly. Edit: Yeah, this is it. It's incredible. I didn't remember most of it because it's a lot of math, music and programming that's over my head. Thank you very much.
- webmaven 5y agoI don't recognize the story, but I suspect the speaker is K. Lars Lohn, aka 2braids/twobraids: https://mobile.twitter.com/2braids https://mobile.twitter.com/2braids
- DoreenMichele 5y agoThank you. I actually searched Twitter with the phrases two beards and 2beards. I didn't think to use two braids. Not sure if I tripped across his account and just didn't recognize him or what.