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.
The First Principles Method Explained by Elon Musk
A short excerpt of Elon Musk, interviewed by Kevin Rose, explaining first-principles reasoning with the example of the car versus improving horse carriages.
Oral History of William David "Bill" Mensch Jr.
A Computer History Museum oral history with Bill Mensch, designer of the 6502 and 65816, covering his path from a Pennsylvania farm through Motorola and later work.
Steve jobs on why xerox failed
A short clip of Steve Jobs explaining why Xerox failed to capitalize on its inventions.
Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #109
Lex Fridman interviews Brian Kernighan, co-author of The C Programming Language and co-creator of AWK and AMPL.
Theo de Raadt (ruBSD 2013)
A roughly 14-minute interview with OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt at ruBSD 2013.
The mathematician who cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons
A TED interview in which Chris Anderson talks with Jim Simons about his life: code-breaking, math, founding Renaissance Technologies, and his philanthropy in math education and origins-of-life research.
Mr. Startup: Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, and his "no asshole" rule
Robert Scoble interviews Paul Graham at Y Combinator's Mountain View headquarters as 36 new startups debut.
Douglas Engelbart Interviewed by John Markoff of the New York Times
A Computer History Museum interview in which John Markoff of the New York Times talks with Douglas Engelbart about his life and research.
The Cantrill Strikes Back | BSD Now 117
An episode of the BSD Now podcast in which Bryan Cantrill joins the hosts to rant about Linux interfaces, alongside the week's BSD headlines.
S1E8: Show And Tell: Efrit: When Steve Gives Claude Full Access To 50 Years of Emacs Capabilities
Steve Yegge shows Efrit, a tool that gives Claude full control of Emacs, on the Vibe Coding with Steve and Gene show.
Grace Hopper Lecture
A lecture by Commodore Grace Hopper on the future of computing, posted by MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
The History of Unix, Rob Pike
Rob Pike gives an insider's account of the history of Unix and the development of key pieces of modern computing, including Bell Labs anecdotes.
Joe Rogan Experience #1236 - Jack Dorsey
Joe Rogan interviews Jack Dorsey, then CEO of Twitter and Square, for about two hours.
Steve Jobs on Virtual Reality (D3, 2005)
A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs at the D3 conference in 2005 discussing virtual reality.
Intelligence is not Enough | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2023
Bryan Cantrill's Monktoberfest 2023 talk takes on AI doomerism, weighing the theoretical existential risks against the reality on the ground.
Bill Atkinson: Hypercard
A short clip of Leo Laporte interviewing Bill Atkinson about developing HyperCard, including his story that the idea came during an LSD experience.
Moore's Law is Not Dead (Jim Keller) | AI Podcast Clips
A clip from Lex Fridman's podcast in which chip architect Jim Keller argues that Moore's Law is not dead and that transistor scaling still has lots of room.
Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC
Ted Nelson, in his Computers for Cynics series, gives a critical history of Xerox PARC's vision of personal computing.
Clojure for Lisp Programmers Part 1 - Rich Hickey
Rich Hickey presents an extensive introduction to Clojure at the Boston Lisp meeting, assuming prior Lisp knowledge.
Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot | Lex Fridman Podcast #18
A Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Elon Musk focused on Tesla Autopilot, covering the motivation for Autopilot and Musk's views on self-driving safety and autonomy.
Don Knuth - Constraint Based Composition
Donald Knuth explains at Stanford's CCRMA the constraint-based methods he is using to compose a major work for pipe organ.
Change w/ Jim Keller
Jim Keller, CTO of Tenstorrent, gives a keynote at Stanford's System X conference on change, understanding and the future of computing.
No Priors Ep. 80 | With Andrej Karpathy from OpenAI and Tesla
A No Priors podcast conversation with Andrej Karpathy covering self-driving (Tesla versus Waymo), the Optimus robot, bottlenecks in AI development, and his education project Eureka Labs.
Ladyada interview with Paul Horowitz - The Art of Electronics @adafruit @electronicsbook
Adafruit's Ladyada interviews Paul Horowitz, co-author of The Art of Electronics.