Somewhere a while back I got semi addicted to watching Youtube rather than watching our free to air TV here in Australia. This is partly because as TV funding has been eroded by the Internet TV is now dominated by cheap shitty reality TV. So I started searching Youtube for more interesting content, and as an experiment when I found that when something held my attention I would subscribe to that Youtube channel, this lead to an interesting effect. I found this meant that Youtube began to start to make reasonably good suggestions of videos to watch. Obviously that’s what you would expect, but I had just never bothered to subscribe to channels. Anyway, now that Youtube has begun making better suggestions I started thinking that maybe I should share some of the more memorable videos, of course it would also serve as a nice way of preserving my own list.
- GOTO 2018 • Computer Science – A Guide for the Perplexed • Joe Armstrong
I love this cranky old guy, reminds me of myself, or at least what I’ll be like in the future.
- “Uncle” Bob Martin – “The Future of Programming”
I think this comment by IceThatJaw sums it up – “This was such a great story telling of history. A must see for young programmers!”
- Roadmap: How to Learn Machine Learning in 6 Months
From my experience so far if you want to get into Data Science I think this talk by Zach Miller is pretty bang on.
- GOTO 2012 • Scaling Yourself • Scott Hanselman
Boy can I relate to some the things Scott says, the one I’m the most worried about is his spiel from 2:08 to 2:48. – “…[honey] I just need to work late to catch up…”
- The mind behind Linux | Linus Torvalds
This one is a bit cheesy but I think it really does provide a great insight into one of the world’s most influential programmers. One day I would like to do a post on whether “good taste” code really matters.