PickVidsBest Tech pioneers & interviews Videos
The 369 Tech pioneers & interviews videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 91 intermediate, 272 for a general viewer, and 6 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an interview. What they share is that the guest explains a past choice instead of reciting a glossary. Channels you will keep seeing include Lex Fridman, Computer History Museum, PowerfulJRE.
Keynote by John Carmack at Oculus Connect 2014
John Carmack's roughly 90-minute keynote at Oculus Connect 2014, covering mobile VR and the Gear VR work, followed by audience questions.
Seymour Cray's Only Surviving Talk: "Cray-1 Introduction" (1976, LANL)
Seymour Cray's only surviving recorded talk, introducing the Cray-1 supercomputer in 1976.
Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart
Ted Nelson's short eulogy for Douglas Engelbart, delivered at the Computer History Museum in 2013, reflecting on his friend and Engelbart's ideas.
Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk
A roughly 2.5-hour Joe Rogan conversation with Elon Musk covering AI, simulation theory, climate, his companies and his mindset.
Grace Hopper on Letterman
Grace Hopper appears on Letterman and uses a foot-long piece of wire to show how far light travels in a nanosecond.
TypeScript is being ported to Go | interview with Anders Hejlsberg
An interview with Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of TypeScript, about porting the TypeScript compiler to Go.
Steve Jobs Microsoft has no taste
A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs saying Microsoft has no taste.
[11] Mike Clark, AMD Zen Chief Architect
Ian Cutress interviews Mike Clark, AMD's chief architect of Zen, about his career since the K5, how Zen began and how CPUs are designed.
A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston
Y Combinator's Geoff Ralston interviews Paul Graham about startups and founders in a Startup School conversation.
CNN, Feynman and the Challenger disaster
A June 1986 CNN interview with physicist Richard Feynman about the Challenger disaster and the management failures he found while serving on the investigating commission.
Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416
Lex Fridman's long podcast interview with Yann LeCun on Meta AI, open source, the limits of LLMs, AGI and the future of AI.
Donald Knuth - My advice to young people (93/97)
A five-minute clip from Donald Knuth's Web of Stories interviews in which he gives advice to young people, including being wary when too many people adopt an idea.
Joe Rogan Experience #2255 - Mark Zuckerberg
A nearly three-hour Joe Rogan interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, covering Meta's products, AI, smart glasses, and his views on culture and company direction.
Jim Keller - Moore's Law in the age of AI Chips
Jim Keller's talk at the 2020 Scaled Machine Learning conference on Moore's Law in the age of AI chips.
Paul Graham Keynote Speech At OPT412
Paul Graham gives a keynote in his hometown of Pittsburgh, reflecting on the old and new city and arguing that it could become a startup hub.
Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75
Lex Fridman interviews Marcus Hutter of DeepMind about universal artificial intelligence, AIXI, Kolmogorov complexity, Solomonoff induction and the idea of intelligence as compression.
What is it Like to Work for Elon Musk?
A 12-minute clip from Joe Rogan's podcast in which former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman describes working for Elon Musk at SpaceX.
Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series
A 1992 MIT Sloan talk and Q&A by Steve Jobs, then CEO of NeXT, covering NeXT's strategy, co-creating Apple, his ouster, and the value of direct experience.
Linus Torvalds on his insults: respect should be earned.
A short TFiR clip in which Linus Torvalds explains his view that respect should be earned rather than given, in defense of his blunt and insulting style.
Steve Jobs: Sale/Marketing People vs. Product People
A short clip of Steve Jobs explaining how sales and marketing people take over mature companies from product people, leading to product decline.
Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)
An edited excerpt of Steve Jobs introducing Mac OS X at Macworld San Francisco in 2000.
Elon Musk and Kevin Rose
Kevin Rose interviews Elon Musk in 2012 about his companies PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla.
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
Andrej Karpathy's keynote at AI Startup School laying out software 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, with LLMs seen as utilities, fabs and operating systems.
Jordan Hubbard - FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years
Jordan Hubbard, FreeBSD co-founder, discusses where FreeBSD might go over the next decade at MeetBSD California 2014.