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Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by NotPavlovsDog »

Paul Stamets, a legendagry mycologist and founder (A Scientist and entrepreneur that successfully founded a mushroom company that grew and grew and grew ). This talk is on psychedelic use, but there are multiple other sub-topic talks by him. Always a joy to hear about his new discoveries in mushrooms and an inspiration regardless of what you do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT-qQWOf98Y

You should check out all his talks if you like this one.

If you are pressed for time, check out his shorter TED prsentations (not necessarily 2020)

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by NotPavlovsDog »

akritrime wrote: post #25

For me, it was Art of Code by Dylan Beattie, but mostly because that talk has the best ending[0] I have seen. Also, introduced to me a side of programming that I instinctively knew existed but never sought out. [0]: https://youtu.be/6avJHaC3C2U?t=3366

An excellent presentation. I find his other presentation, the Cost of Code, more important but less entertaining. "Fix it in software" is going to be growing in magnitude and impact, as software eats the world. (Boeing Max crashes, Uber pedestrian accident, Volkswagen emissions cheating)

The presentation from 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001SxQCEuv8

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by jetru »

NotPavlovsDog wrote: post #81

Paul Stamets, a legendagry mycologist and founder (A Scientist and entrepreneur that successfully founded a mushroom company that grew and grew and grew ). This talk is on psychedelic use, but there are multiple other sub-topic talks by him. Always a joy to hear about his new discoveries in mushrooms and an inspiration regardless of what you do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT-qQWOf98Y You should check out all his…

OMG I just realized Stamets in Star Trek is named after a real scientist

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by [deleted] »

systemvoltage wrote: post #50
Biba89 wrote: post #12

My favorite is Naval’s talk at Tim Ferriss: https://tim.blog/2020/10/14/naval/amp/

It bugs me that everytime he goes on a talk show recently, he pegs himself up a horse with "I have stopped doing talk shows and I am doing it for you because ____". He comes across as an arrogant and self-serving. Most of his content is rehashing from other books. A lot of it straight from Feynman interviews on Youtube. Some spiritual stuff repeated verbatim from Jiddu Krishnamurthy. The interesting thing about Naval…

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Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by theodpHN »

Jeremy Howard's "I Like Notebooks" JupyterCon 2020 Talk

Howard makes the case for why even "real" programmers should give notebook environments a chance. In addition to supporting literate programming ("code as literature") and exploratory programming ("code as scientific notebook") in a live coding environment, Howard explains how notebooks can improve documentation, learning and sharing, testing, and deployment. And add-ins and tools, like Howard's own nbdev, can help address what's missing in Jupyter Notebook. As an example, Howard notes how fastdoc even enabled him to write and publish "Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD using Jupyter Notebooks." Excellent, inspiring talk!

Jeremy Howard - Creating delightful libraries and books with nbdev and fastdoc | JupyterCon 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKt19-GsA1I

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by mellosouls »

alex_anglin wrote: post #58

Not tech, but economics: Mark Carney, who is the former governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, is the BBCs Reith lecturer this year[1]. Plenty of interesting points, questions and topical discussion in the series. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000py8t

I came here to suggest that. There are some really cool old-school in-depth lectures in that series.

I heard both Jonathan Sumption's (2019) and Grayson Perry's (2013) this year and it's reminded me to go back through the archives:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9/episodes/player

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by Foxboron »

chrisseaton wrote: post #51
champtar wrote: post #16

2020 is not over, rC3 ( https://rc3.world/ https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3 ) starts on the 27 ;)

They scheduled a conference for a European audience between Christmas and the New Year? Why?!

And somehow it pulls together 14000 people for a 4 day experience I can only describe as defcon and burningman having an illicit child they dropped off somewhere in germany.

Been going there since 2014 and it's a great experience.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by Foxboron »

I really enjoyed the talk on Linux kernel memory management from Chris Down that was held during this years Arch Conf. It's well structured, funny, and gives nice insight into how you scale when you can't throw more hardware on the problem.

https://media.ccc.de/v/arch-conf-online-2020-6390-linux-memo...

Disclaimer: I helped organize the conference.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by akritrime »

JustinGarrison wrote: post #77

I'm going to humbly put my kubecon talk here because it's unlike any conference talk you've ever seen and I'm really happy with how it turned out. https://youtu.be/VtedIghTPzI

Really enjoyed that. I think I will also really enjoy a longer version that talks a little bit more concretely about the tech stack being used. Also, not sure if the qr code is just prop or not, scanning it didn't work.
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