Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA
HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8
Zebras All the Way Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE
Solving Layout Problems with CSS Grid and Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkzpgWoYEI
Console Security - Switch https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8941-console_security_-_switch
Let's move SMM out of firmware and into the kernel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEaw4msq6g
Bringing Linux back to server boot ROMs with NERF and Heads https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9056-bringing_linux_back_to_serv...
Sharing the Chisel https://youtu.be/2C8F7GBRluY?t=11m31s (looks like the actual conference video wasn't released)
As an atheist I found his explanations extremely interesting. Peterson is a brilliant scholar and draws connections between psychology and brain structures, human evolution, and religion.
I don’t believe in any trascendental being, but listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral value of these stories, regardless of belief in the supernatural.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQD_IZs7y60I...
Roughly speaking ;)
Previous attempts stalled because I couldn't really make sense of it, and because it didn't seem very interesting.
I get a certain feel of skepticism every now and then whether he actually represents any fascist ideas. Not because of his talks, but rather how they are edited out of context, used in "Stupid liberal got owned by Jordan Peterson" videos with these kind of aggressive titles.
That aside, he is really enlightening in these frustrating times.
They are usually one-hour long videos or more, I know. But that clears every doubt.
You might enjoy the Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
I'm really skeptical about IQ in general, but anyone popular with the far right really makes me suspicious.
I'll take a look at the link you provided...But man, there are an awful lot of 1488 types that support this guy. It really makes me question where he is coming from.
But I've made an exception for Peterson. He's not as super left wing as much university staff, sure, but to call him extreme right is very far fetched.
My impression, if this means anything to you, is that his political opinion fits well with that of centrist Christian Democrat parties in Europe (eg Merkel's CDU). That makes him more conservative than me, but because he's also totally brilliant, I don't mind.
I don't know why the alt right likes him, but my guess is that he's a great speaker who presents something like a very moderate version of alt right opinion.
I guess the most extreme thing he did, that he's somewhat infamous for, is refusing to use different singular personal pronouns than "he" and "she". While I think that he was an ass about that, to call someone far right for not wanting to say "ze" in a classroom is a few bridges to far for me.
EDIT: I got 4 downvotes already but really tried to make a balanced argument. Maybe I missed some of his "oeuvre" that would change my mind, maybe I'm outright wrong somewhere? Would appreciate someone pointing it out.
You should convert some of that politically biased 'skepticism' into dispassionate inquiry.
> Isn't Jordan Peterson also famous for being a proponent of racial IQ theories?
If he is, it's remarkable that I've been able to miss that over listening to his course lectures since 2015 on top of the more recent bible/other lectures.
My personal location on the political spectrum right now is pretty partisan Democrat, largely out of the opinion that the Republican Party and most of the conservatism in the US is a dumpster fire, and in particular that the GOP is almost completely incapable of doing policy in the public interest. I say this to make it entirely clear that I'm hardly "far right." :)
And I still think taking in Peterson's stuff has been probably the single best thing that's happened to me for sharpening my thinking over the last few years.
I also think there are some reasonable arguments that he's wrong about a number of things, and I think you should be suspicious about how some of his ideas are functioning in certain political conversations. I see lower-resolution versions of his thinking being pressed into service of conventional conservative partisan narratives. But I strongly suspect that the solution, if there is one, is going to be engaging with the political ideas and trying to criticize them as effectively (and intellectually) as he advocates for them. Ad hominem attacks aimed at his status are only going to feed the beast.
And to the extent that you think progressivism or liberalism or centrist technocratism or whatever are based in reason and argument (and I do), it would be a gift if Peterson's thinking became more prominent, even where it might be wrong. You can engage reason and argument with reason and argument. It's pretty hard for me to tell how to engage Trumpism.
And finally -- Peterson is super popular in large part because he's primarily working in the realm of applied personal philosophy. He's done a lot of compelling work to distill the interpretation of religious narratives, philosophical thinking, and psychology into some concrete guidance that's digestible for those of us culturally centered in western modernity. I think it'd be a rare person who can't find some of what he has to say interesting and useful.
There are many other things that correlate with race, both phenotypically and genetically, there advantages and disadvantages to different ethnicities and races. Why is it so radical to say that IQ is different between races? Is it really different from saying that the fastest runners are black?
Dude, you broke the Future! https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future
Pointing Fingers at 'The Media' https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9106-pointing_fingers_at_the_med...
Social Cooling - big data’s unintended side effect https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s...
Full list here: https://media.ccc.de/c/34c3
We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...
The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk (https://youtu.be/xx7Lfh5SKUQ)
https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017/evan-czaplicki-on-story...
Whether you like Elm or not, Czaplicki is an highly charismatic conceptual thinker and his talks are very relevant.
[1]: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/easier-software-developm...
Michael Kreil: Social Bots, Fake News und Filterblasen
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_f...
(German talk, but the video contains an audio track with a good English translation.)
My favorite talk that I watched in 2017 was Durham Goode's talk at Git Merge 2017, concerning scaling Mercurial at Facebook. It's always good to share knowledge about version control and scar difficulties:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL0lo9MOBetEGRAJzoTCdco_fOK...
My favorite talk that I gave was at GitHub Universe. I spoke about how Microsoft adopted the Git version control system and - ultimately - open source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8
Really changed how I think about programming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9vRcSAneiw
About the application of Lisp on quantum hardware.
"Artificial intelligence is not like electricity (quoting Andrew Ng), but alchemy"
New Tech Start-Up Bubble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vrCpWbmDw
https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/02/naval-ravikant-read...
An amazing introductory video to Functional programming from a hardcore Java developer.
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8948-low_cost_non-invasive_biome...
As it presented an interesting technique I'd never heard of before, along with an implementation.
Also I thought the 'Breaking the x86 Instruction Set' talk was extremely clever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2017/71-how-demo...
A small group of people could use AI and social media to virtually sit down with every single person and convince them of something using a detailed micro targeting profile. It would be like diapatching an individual evangelist to work on each of a billion people in parallel.
We saw very primitive and still largely manual versions of this in 2016. When the real thing arrives it will be the hydrogen bomb of persuasion.
This is also what I think an "AI takeover" would look like. Forget about terminators. A superintelligence would find us trivial to con and manipulate. We will just be convinced to do what the AI wants. Skynet will launch words not bombs, but much like the nukes in the Terminator story we are building the infrastructure of our own destruction ahead of time.
Maybe a bit on the optimistic side? But exciting to consider the possibilities!
- How the reputation economy is creating data-driven conformity https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s...
- DEF CON 25 (2017) - Weaponizing Machine Learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbRx18VZlYA&t=2121s
- BlackHat 2017: Breaking the x86 Instruction Set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
It's nothing I didn't know intuitively, but it really lays out, with great examples, how to provide feedback accurately while not forgetting about being kind and humble. This is in stark contrast to an attitude I see often that confuses being direct and critical with being hostile or rude. It really deconstructs some of those dynamics in a way I hadn't paid attention to before. Also, it has a great summary of a simplified version of "getting things done" that made it appealing to me.
Saw this in-person and really recommend it. Detailed historical example of revolution and key takeaways for establishing a great culture at your company.
https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/ben-horowitz-on-how-to-cre...
"A deep dive into Bitcoin Core v0.15" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-08-28-deep-d...
"Advances in block propagation" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-11-27-advanc...
"Discreet log contracts" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/discreet-log-contracts/
"Signature aggregation" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-core-dev-tech/2017...
"Programmable organoids" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/organ...
"Ultra-safe cell line" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/hgp-write/2017-05-09/ultra...
"New address type for segwit addresses" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2017-03-...
Bram Cohen on merkle sets and memory management http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2017-07-...
"Making humans a multiplanetary species" http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/spacex/elon-musk-making-hu...
LAMBDA Functions: Powerful And Elegant Abstractions - https://youtu.be/OLH3L285EiY
Andy Wingo's talk "Channels, Concurrency, and Cores: A new Concurrent ML implementation" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7IcI6sl5oBc
Because it made me discover that concurrent programming can actually be nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cm3N4Yi3b0
* Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right. Jon Moore is the Chief Software Architect at Comcast Cable, where he focuses on delivering a core set of scalable, performant, robust software components for the company's varied software product development groups.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64SWl9bfvk
* Keeping Time in Real Systems. This talk will tour the fascinating timekeeping mechanisms used in real systems. We will explore atomic clocks, NTP and GPS through systems that use them, and logical clocks in the context of systems built on logical time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRvj8PykSc4
* Level Up Your Concurrency Skills With Rust. This talk will show you how Rust will catch many concurrency errors at compile time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIikwmeGVYY
* Diablo: A Classic Game Postmortem. Diablo developer David Brevik returns to the GDC stage to give a classic post-mortem on Blizzard's action RPG hit Diablo in this 2016 talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc
* The Flash Games Postmortem. In this 2017 GDC talk, Kongregate's John Cooney attempts to encapsulate the immense history of Flash games and how it has shaped the current game industry by giving game developers their first chance to build and publish their games quickly to the web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65crLKNQR0E
* Siege Battle AI in Total War: Warhammer. In this 2017 GDC session, Creative Assembly's Andre Arsenault shows the approach used in Total War: Warhammer to create the very specialized high-level AI to guide these massive armies in a way that provides a convincing, epic-scale battle.
Computer History Museum
Hear the stories from the computing legends themselves with video selections from CHM’s oral history collection
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQsxaNhYv8daKdGi7s85ubzbW...
