Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages [audio]

Post by CoffeePython » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 10:05 AM UTC

Post by janvdberg » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 10:12 AM UTC

st1x7 wrote: post #2

Every time I run across an episode of this podcast I need to weigh in my interest in a great guest versus having to listen to Lex's monotone voice and meaning-of-life type questions. The disparity is amazing - the list of guests is easily the best out of any podcast that has guests that I've ever come across; and the delivery of the host is just about the worst I've come across too. I guess I'll listen to this one.

Post by madbkarim » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 10:20 AM UTC

versteegen wrote: post #5

st1x7 wrote: post #2

Every time I run across an episode of this podcast I need to weigh in my interest in a great guest versus having to listen to Lex's monotone voice and meaning-of-life type questions. The disparity is amazing - the list of guests is easily the best out of any podcast that has guests that I've ever come across; and the delivery of the host is just about the worst I've come across too. I guess I'll listen to this one.

I've never felt that Lex's interviewing was so poor that it was a reason not to listen to one of his interviews. He still gets interesting people to talk about interesting things. Yes, amazing guest list, I do wonder how it took off like that. Edit: in contrast, Rob Reid's After On podcast has somewhat similar guests (not an all-stars list, no AI folks except Stuart Russell & Rodney Brooks), but he's my favourite int…

Post by adwn » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 10:35 AM UTC

auggierose wrote: post #17

st1x7 wrote: post #2

Every time I run across an episode of this podcast I need to weigh in my interest in a great guest versus having to listen to Lex's monotone voice and meaning-of-life type questions. The disparity is amazing - the list of guests is easily the best out of any podcast that has guests that I've ever come across; and the delivery of the host is just about the worst I've come across too. I guess I'll listen to this one.

After 3 minutes of commercials and this voice I had to switch off. Too bad, I am sure CL had interesting stuff to say.

Post by auggierose » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 11:06 AM UTC

adwn wrote: post #18

auggierose wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After 3 minutes of commercials and this voice I had to switch off. Too bad, I am sure CL had interesting stuff to say.

This is not a radio broadcast, you can skip ahead to the interesting stuff (there's an outline with timestamps lower on the linked webpage). You can even download the episode and listen to it in your favorite player.