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Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online?

• sidsavara 18y ago
  Love TED. Another great one was the New Yorker conference: http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/conference/conference2008 http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/conference/conference20... Also, if you want you can see all the ones I've bookmarked on my delicious account: http://delicious.com/sidsavara/video http://delicious.com/sidsavara/video Some may be off topic, but in general I think it's as good a place to find videos as anything else. I tend to bookmark 1-3 a week, if it is tagged +someday or +todo then all bets are off on quality, as it means I saw it referenced somewhere or tweeted and bookmarked it for future reference.
• lacker 18y ago
  Here's some specific suggestions. I was most recently fascinated by this video on head tracking "virtual reality". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw Another cool thing if you're into DIY robots (not really educational, but I found it inspiring) is the Yellow Drum Machine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RyodnisVvU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RyodnisVvU Not sure why I got on the robot tangent but here's another good one, a 4-legged robot that's pretty good at navigating hills and obstacles. Especially the recovery from a fall sequence around 1:25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww And here is hacking the Wii Fit controller and a Roomba to do a sort of vacuum-by-surfing... thing? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLbprdjTX0w&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLbprdjTX0w&feature=relat...
• kalvin 18y ago
  Stanford has a weekly speaker seminar class called Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders that has a free podcast. (You can't see the video unless you log in as a student, but hopefully that will change in the near future.) Not all of them are great, but there's enough that you're bound to find a topic/speaker that you're interested in: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html (Past speakers you might be interested in: Marissa Mayer, Reid Hoffman, Mitchell Baker, Mitch Kapor, Ron Conway, Sue Decker, Larry Brilliant, Vinod Khosla, William McDonough, Mark Zuckerberg, et. al) (Also, I highly recommend David Rothkopf's talk if you're interested in policy/current affairs/the world.) edit: I guess I should add that I help out with the class, but I'd have posted this either way :)
  • jacobscott 18y ago
    I work near stanford, maybe I will check out the series in person. Thanks!
  • ciscoriordan 18y ago
    Also http://see.stanford.edu http://see.stanford.edu which is open to everyone, if you're looking for actual class lectures.
• michael_dorfman 18y ago
  The SICP videos are awesome. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
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• Glimjaur 18y ago
  I enjoy listening to the audio podcasts from SXSW and FOWA, they are both available in the iTunes store.
• tlrobinson 18y ago
  It seems like there's a Google Tech Talk for just about everything. YUI Theater also has some good web stuff, not just YUI related: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/
• chrisbroadfoot 18y ago
  There are some nice ones on InfoQ. I just watched this one today: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/gosling-jvm-lang-summit-keynote http://www.infoq.com/presentations/gosling-jvm-lang-summit-k... Gosling talking about how the JVM came about. Great stuff.
• narag 18y ago
  I would very much appreciate talks with written transcription. They're very valuable for us struggling with spoken English.
  • vrs 18y ago
    I was looking at the Stanford videos (specifically the David Rothkopf) mentioned above ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=344141 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=344141 ). I just noticed that the online video has a subtitle option Edit: and have transcripts too.
• riklomas 18y ago
  The last Future of Web Apps conference in London now has most of the talks available online: http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/content http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/content
• djm 18y ago
  Have a look at http://videolectures.net/ http://videolectures.net/
• ntoshev 18y ago
  http://videolectures.net/ http://videolectures.net/ Supposedly on every topic, but the machine learning selection is especially good.
• Alex3917 18y ago
  It's becoming pretty standard practice now for authors to put their book talks online. There are a few websites that host them, including CSPAN's book talk. When authors come to talk at Google their talks usually get posted on Google video as well. There are lists of the best free documentaries floating around too.
• alex_c 18y ago
  Also see: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=181164 http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=181164
• rami 18y ago
  http://sciencehack.com/ http://sciencehack.com/
• sjs382 18y ago
  Not exclusively tech-related, but this is one of my favorites: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigi...
• tocomment 18y ago
  What are the best ones on TED?
• adldesigner 18y ago
  Very nice links, guys! Thanks!
• ricree 18y ago
  I may be a bit biased here, but University of Illinois's ACM chapter puts on a fairly good conference every year, and posts the videos online. http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2008/ http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2008/