3 month ago
Milo Vermeulen : Adam Savage (of Mythbusters) talks at HOPE hackers conference [via]
gleuschk : Hope2601 - Adam Savage - Fascination with the Dodo Bird - great talk, even better Q&A
Andy Baio : Adam Savage's "Obsession with the Dodo Bird" from the Last HOPE - great talk about geek obsession and the DIY attitude
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4 month ago
gleuschk : The World's Fair : Hopefully, the start of a definitive list of things to avoid at all cost when speaking publicly. - unnecessary math.
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6 month ago
jcgregorio : Google I/O Sessions (Google I/O Session Videos and Slides) - That's a lot of presentations.
joshua : Google I/O Sessions (Google I/O Session Videos and Slides)
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6 month ago
joshua : The New Yorker Conference 2007 - stories from the near future
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6 month ago
Andy Baio : Complete footage of Jason Scott's "Before the LOL" talk at ROFLCon - whirlwind tour of the evolution of memes from the telegraph and Xeroxlore to modern day [via]
gleuschk : Internet Archive: Details: ROFLCon 2008 "Before the LOL" (Complete Footage) - fascinating talk by Jason Scott
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8 month ago
joshua : Hidden Video Courses in Math, Science, and Engineering » Data Wrangling Blog
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adamrg : Samantha Power on American responses to mass atrocities and genocide - I'd love to get my hands on this TED talk ASAP, as we're going to be talking about genocide in my Current World Problems class in the next few weeks.
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9 month ago
Andy Baio : Roy Gould presents Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope - lovely, it's like Photosynth for the universe [via]
plasticbag : Roy Gould did an incredibly inspiring if totally short talk at TED about Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope - Lovely video clip. Really fascinating. It's like Google/Yahoo Maps, but for space. Stunning.
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joshua : Cool/Interesting videos (similar to TED.com) on the Internet?
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gleuschk : (Speaking in favor of) Redundancy, Inefficiency, Extravagance, and Waste. - a talk from the JMM in San Diego last January, which includes a math-poem that I like
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16 month ago
joshua : Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Video Lectures
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16 month ago
joshua : VideoLectures - exchange ideas & share knowledge - lots of good talks
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17 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : Peter Norvig talk on theorizing from data - (via programming.reddit) [via]
joshua : Theorizing from Data
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19 month ago
joshua : Pascal - VideoLectures - bunch of stats and technical talks
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20 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Authors@Google - Authors@Google: "The Authors@Google program brings authors of all stripes to Google for informal talks centering on their recently published books."
joshua : Authors Talks
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26 month ago
plasticbag : The people who benefit most from talks and lectures are the people who give them - I completely believe this. It totally meshes with my experience. The whole process of preparing, practicing and dellivering talks pushes me to clarify my ideas and then keeps them in a nice memorable structure that I find really easy to retain.
jimray : Lectures Work Against the Brain - Talking at people for more than about five minutes is useless. Or, at least, counterproductive.
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27 month ago
plasticbag : The upcoming Yahoo Hack Day's going to feature a full day of tutorials and talks - I have to say that this event really does look like it's going to be extraordinarily entertaining. It's the main reason I'm staying in the Bay Area for a little while longer.
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32 month ago
gleuschk : Mac Lane Lecture, by John Thompson - from back in December
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35 month ago
gleuschk : Internet Archive: MSRI Math Lectures - (hacked URL to get them all at once instead of 10 at a time) lots of excellent ones here, incl. Hochster, Haiman, Eisenbud, Sturmfels, Knuth, Bayer, and good historical talks
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Jeremy Zawodny : Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has been MIT's introductory pre-professional computer science subject since 1981.
joshua : Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures
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36 month ago
gleuschk : why mathematics is easy and life is hard - no, precisely "that which is easy" for an appropriate sense of 'easy'.
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