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Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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Post by binarymax »

bialpio wrote: post #28
binarymax wrote: post #19

Shameless plug for my talk in haystack in April, which was a couple years of casual research rolled up. I really enjoyed giving the talk and I've had lots of great feedback, so thought I'd share it with y'all. "Algorithmic extraction of keywords, concepts, and vocabularies." Sorry only slides and no video: https://www.slideshare.net/MaxIrwin/haystack-2018-algorithmi...

You forgot to mention the talk's subject.

Added, thanks for pointing that out.

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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Post by Asparagirl »

“Be Human To Your Machines” — Scott Ganz at TedXSanFrancisco 2018.

https://youtu.be/Y6eNSf4br5Y

Emmy-winning TV comedy writer becomes award-winning AI conversation designer, frets about the dismissive way humans interact with computers and the corrosive social effects of badly-designed bots. Explains why conversation interfaces need to stick up for themselves and push back on bad behavior, for the good of human discourse.

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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Post by danaos »

typon wrote: post #32
lejalv wrote: post #27

Why Germany cannot and should not pay to save the Eurozone, by Yanis Varoufakis (Video in English) http://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/events/seminars/Muench...

Any talk by Varoufakis is worth listening to.

He is a very controversial figure in both Greece and Europe as a whole.

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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Post by leesec »

gt5050 wrote: post #13

What bodies think about - by Michael Levin at NeurIPS 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg I dont really know anything about biology, but this piqued my interest.One of the most interesting talks of 2018.

Seconded. Had no idea what it was going to be about and thought it might have been the most interesting talk I've ever seen.

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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Post by maxhallinan »

ttiurani wrote: post #20

"Maybe Not" by Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug Another excellent talk by the creator of Clojure, and like the previous ones, relevant for all programmers.

I thought this was one of the notably bad talks this year. The whole premise that a function of Maybe a should be a function of a without an API change is neither intuitive to me nor really justified by Hickey. Different things are different. It's sad to see someone build such a wall around himself when faced by something (type theory) that he doesn't understand.

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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Post by acobster »

rrherr wrote: post #7

From Deconstruct: Nabil Hassein: Computing, Climate Change, and All Our Relationships https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-hassein-computing... Tom 7: Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0

This. I was at Deconstruct too, and Nabil's talk got a standing ovation. It ran way over time, and I didn't notice. Tech people need to hear this. Tom's talk is also amazing in its own right.

Let's Program a Banjo Grammar was also one of my favorites. :D

https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/ryan-herr-lets-program-...

Edit: I just looked at your username...that you, Ryan? :)

Re: Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

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Post by halfastack »

danaos wrote: post #35
typon wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any talk by Varoufakis is worth listening to.

He is a very controversial figure in both Greece and Europe as a whole.

Controversial in the very least. I also got the impression that he was quite anti-EU with his whole Greece rhetoric during the discussions about another Greek buyout. Maybe I got him wrong..?
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