These are some links I send people to get them interested (and excited) about (various) topics.
Writing
- There's plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore's law?
- "Can computers become conscious?": My reply to Roger Penrose
- 8 Bits Are Enough for a Version Number...
- A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
- Attention? Attention!
- Biohacking Lite
- Can You Trust a Compiler to Optimize Your Code?
- Hard Mode Rust
- How to Read a Paper
- MutexProtected: A C++ Pattern for Easier Concurrency
- Speech and Language Processing
- The Bitter Lesson
- The World's Smallest Hash Table
- The XY Problem
- Understanding LSTM Networks
- Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning: My Experience and Advice for Using GPUs in Deep Learning
- Gartner hype cycle
- Goodhart's law
- Lindy effect
- Moore's law
- Rice's theorem
- Wirth's law
- Zawinski's Law
- kNN vs. SVM
Videos
- 2021 AM Turing Award Recipient Jack Dongarra Turing Lecture: "A Not So Simple Matter of Software"
- Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad
- YOW! 2017 Brian Beckman - Kalman Folding for the Brave and True
- David Beazley - Python Concurrency From the Ground Up: LIVE! - PyCon 2015
- David Beazley | Keynote: Built in Super Heroes
- David Beazley: Discovering Python - PyCon 2014
- Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure
- Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out.
- Maybe Not - Rich Hickey
- Python 3 Metaprogramming
- The Langlands Programme - Andrew Wiles
- Simon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey
- William Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written"
- "Type-Driven API Design in Rust" by Will Crichton