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2. James Mickens on JavaScript - James Mickens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xh0ZIEUOE
3. Creating containers From Scratch - Liz Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc
4. 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing - Panelists: J. Richard Gott, Jim Holt, Lawrence Krauss, Charles Seife, Eve Silverstein. Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLz6uUuMp8
5. 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation? - Panelists: David Chalmers, Zohreh Davoudi, James Gates, Lisa Randall, Max Tegmark Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSZA3NPpBs
6. Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak
7. Concurrency Is Not Parallelism - Rob Pike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_DpYBzKso
Automating (super dull financial industry department) is the industry of superstars
It sounds both incredibly interesting and a little frightening. I'd hate to think of the kinds of metrics that might be applied to professional programmers.
Although, the original paper of an idea, I often find, has the most human-readable explanation. Pearl's 1986 paper of Bayesian Networks, Gauss' 1800-whatever paper on the normal distribution, the original bitcoin/blockchain paper by that Japanese-sounding name, etc. They're still trying to sell the idea so they really need to talk to the idiots.
Anyone seen one really be useful?
Sharepoint, badly. Starting with confluence.