Ask HN: What's the best YouTube lecture you've seen recently?

18 points·kamphey··10 comments

What's the best youtube lecture you've seen recently?

I just finished Brandon Sanderson's Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy so looking for more to dive into for a few hours a day.

This changed my view of software, on a foundational level. Refactoring to Immutability - Kevlin Henney, NDC Conferences

MIT 22.01 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation

Should keep you occupied for a few hours. Mostly approachable.

PowerPoint programming by Tom Wildenhain. He does not use VBA macros, just shows that PowerPoint transitions and slides are Turing Complete.

Dr. B. Sidney Smith, 2019, How to Enjoy the End of the World:

I don't understand where people see the optimism at the end of the video?

This is amazing... the end of the world is so close. My son will have a chance to see the end in 2100.

Stanford CS25: V4 I Hyung Won Chung of OpenAI - https://youtu.be/orDKvo8h71o

Hammock driven development by Rich Hickey https://youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc

already started on this one since your recommendation and it's great! Thanks edit: Finished the lecture. Now taking a hammock nap.