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#math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dTyOl1fmDo
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Why colliding blocks compute pi
The physics behind one of the most surprising occurrences of pi
Next video on Grover's Algorithm: https://youtu.be/RQWpF2Gb-gU
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An equally valuable form of…
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#lang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSdV1M7n4gQ
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Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction
Originally published on Channel 9
The way this story starts is pretty interesting: one day in the lunch room in building 25 I happened to have a chat with the great Anders Hejlsberg about compilers (yeah, it was pretty cool). One thing he mentioned (in passing…
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#lang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ7bcCrJMHc
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A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Programming Languages
I wrote this talk for a friend's "Psychology of Programming" class, but it should be accessible to mainstream audiences. It covers "esoteric programming languages" (esolangs), their history, and why I find them so interesting.
There's also a companion article…
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#think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsSDvflzJbc
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Coding isn't Programming - Closing Keynote with Leslie Lamport - SCaLE 22x
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/presentations/closing-keynote-leslie-lamport
Join us for a captivating closing keynote with the legendary Leslie Lamport, Turing Award winner and pioneer in the field of distributed computing. We'll discuss computing…
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#perf
#gamedev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAVbI1HIzCE&t=1493s
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Practical Optimizations
So with all the talk about optimization happening on Twitter, some people who saw me give this talk at a private conference asked for me to do a public version.
If you want to play with the code yourself, a more complete version of the monster example is…
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#lang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4_DHiDsgsA
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"Delphi's Object Pascal Evolution" by Marco Cantù
Summary: In this session we will discuss how software developers can use a single language Object Pascal to create applications for machines ranging from SBCs to mobile devices, desktop operating systems, browsers and servers. This can be reached via native…
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#lang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7IFUYUTgg
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The Past, Present & Future of Programming Languages • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2024
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph
https://gotocph.com
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer @KevlinHenney
RESOURCES
https://bsky.app/profile/kevlin.bsky.social
h…
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#arch
#db
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32LMicc0gRA
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Redesigning OLTP for a New Order of Magnitude
QCon San Francisco, the international software conference, returns November 17-21, 2025. Join senior software practitioners from early adopter companies as they share real-world insights and actionable advice to help you adopt the right technologies and practices.…
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#cpp
#math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhUxIVf1qok
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CppCon 2018: JF Bastien “Signed integers are two's complement”
http://CppCon.org
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Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2018
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There is One True Representation for signed integers, and that representation is two’s complement. There are…
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#history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT-eOzeY4M
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The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
Let’s uncover the secrets of the NATO phonetic alphabet!
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The NATO phonetic alphabet is not a phonetic…
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#algo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpSkBV5vydg
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UTF-8, Explained Simply
This video provides an introduction to text encoding on computers, and outlines the history that led to the creation of the Unicode standard, and eventually, the famous UTF-8 text encoding.
"The History of UTF-8, as told by Rob Pike"
https://doc.cat-v.o…
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#distributed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8cG2hh10SQ
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ACID Jazz - Kyle Kingsbury
One photo is a snapshot. A lifetime of photos is an exhibition.
Maybe the same is true of breaking databases? One broken database is a bug. A hundred broken databases…
Kyle Kingsbury, the author of Jepsen, has broken so many databases, he’s turned it…
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#gamedev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQbEBcQ0bo
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Modern Games vs Old Games | Lost Technology Edition
"#losttechnology #comparison #gaming
Comparing NEW games (2020 - Present, essentially 9th generation) to OLD games (1996 to 2018) with focus on disappearing or forgotten "technology." Technology encompasses the tools, trick and techniques used to create…
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#parallel
#phys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvsvd67XUKw
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Dennis Gustafsson – Parallelizing the physics solver – BSC 2025
Dennis Gustafsson's talk at BSC 2025 about parallelizing the physics solver in for an upcoming game.
Dennis' links:
- https://voxagon.se/
- https://x.com/voxagonlabs/
- https://teardowngame.com/
BSC links:
- https://BetterSoftwareConference.com/
- http…
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#security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUCyExOr3sE
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DEF CON 33 - HTTP 1 1 Must Die! The Desync Endgame - James 'albinowax' Kettle
Some people think the days of critical HTTP request smuggling attacks on hardened targets have passed. Unfortunately, this is an illusion propped up by wafer-thin mitigations that collapse as soon as you apply a little creativity.
In this session, I'll introduce…
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#perf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv03NAT4Mwc
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Latency Profiling and Optimization - Dmitry Vyukov
About Dmitry Vyukov
Dmitry is a Principal Software Engineer at Google. He works on dynamic analysis tools for C/C++ (like Address/Memory/ThreadSanitizer), similar tools for the Linux kernel, and fuzzing. He's the author of several notable projects, including…
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#design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ
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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecessarily pit programmers against designers, but it also limits our vision of what we could be doing.…
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#design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGpBQgZ5IsI&list=PLsfH1Ahi4SzE-QmrsrtyZubGmi66iP45V
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Liber Indigo - Metaphysical Prisoners of the Desktop
Sorry about the voice audio quality. It gets resolved in the next video.
Part One of a video series echoing the themes of 'Liber Indigo: The Affordances of Magic'
https://www.amazon.com/Liber-Indigo-Affordances-Justin-Kirkwood/dp/1304172147/
https://ww…
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#design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G0MzlfMPuM
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Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you
http://www.ted.com Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at…
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#distsys
#arch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2_BqkKTbD8
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A Trillion Transactions
What is scale? We often talk about throughput and latency, or adding machines, and yet systems still fail at scale. Scale isn't just performance and distribution, scale is survivability. Because the hardest part of scale isn't how much work you can do when…