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.
Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not To Name Your Company | Conversations with Tyler
Tyler Cowen interviews Peter Thiel about technological stagnation, innovation, and lessons from Zero to One.
Anathem | Neal Stephenson | Talks at Google
Neal Stephenson visits Google in 2008 to discuss his novel Anathem as part of the Authors@Google series.
Edsger Dijkstra interview
A 24-minute interview with Edsger Dijkstra, the Dutch computer scientist, including his views on writing programs by hand and keeping errors out of them.
Chris Lattner: The Future of Computing and Programming Languages | Lex Fridman Podcast #131
Lex Fridman's long interview with Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM and Swift, covering the future of computing and programming languages.
Lamport on writing "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"
A short clip from an ACM and Computer History Museum interview in which Leslie Lamport discusses writing his paper on time, clocks and the ordering of events.
Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295
Lex Fridman interviews economist Richard Wolff, a Marxist, about Marxism, communism, capitalism and worker cooperatives.
HandmadeCon 2015 - Mike Acton
Mike Acton, in a HandmadeCon 2015 interview with Casey Muratori, discusses game engine development, hiring and learning on your own.
Human AI is Decades Away, But We Need to Start the Debate Now | Demis Hassabis | Google Zeitgeist
Demis Hassabis of DeepMind speaks at Google Zeitgeist, saying human-level AI is decades away but the debate should start now.
NeXTSTEP Release 3: A Demonstration with Steve Jobs
A 35-minute demonstration of NeXTSTEP Release 3 by Steve Jobs.
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
GitHub interviews Linus Torvalds on twenty years of Git, from its creation in about ten days as a Linux kernel tool to its role in modern software development.
John Carmack: Best programming setup and IDE | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
A clip of John Carmack on the Lex Fridman podcast discussing his programming setup, why he favors debuggers and IDEs, and his puzzlement at developers who avoid them.
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
Dwarkesh Patel interviews Google's Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer about 25 years at the company, from PageRank and MapReduce to the Transformer, mixture of experts and Gemini.
Steve Yegge, "What Would You Do With Your Own Google?" - OSCON Data 2011
Steve Yegge's OSCON Data 2011 talk imagines what you could do with Google-scale storage and compute a decade later.
A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat interviews Peter Thiel about technological stagnation, AI, longevity, space travel and politics.
Steve Jobs Introducing The iPhone At MacWorld 2007
Steve Jobs's January 2007 MacWorld keynote segment introducing the original iPhone.
Inventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google
A Talks at Google visit by Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse.
Building the Software 2 0 Stack (Andrej Karpathy)
Andrej Karpathy's Databricks talk on Software 2.0, the shift from human-written code to code produced by neural network training.
xkcd | Randall Munroe | Talks at Google
Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd, gives an Authors@Google talk in 2007 about the webcomic and his background, followed by audience Q&A.
Interview with Steve Yegge on Rhino on Rails and more
Steve Yegge is interviewed at Google's Kirkland office about the birth, growth and future of his Rhino on Rails project, a Rails clone on the Rhino JavaScript engine, and other web development topics.
John Carmack Keynote QuakeCon 2010 Part 1
Audio-only recording of the first part of John Carmack's QuakeCon 2010 keynote, taken from G4TV.
ELON MUSK, JAY LENO AND THE 2021 CYBERTRUCK (FULL SEGMENT) | Jay Leno's Garage
Jay Leno drives the Tesla Cybertruck with Elon Musk, who talks about the design, including the stainless steel body and bulletproof doors, and Leno demos the roll-up bed cover.
Terry Davis Demos SimStructure (2016-08-25)
Terry Davis, author of TempleOS, demonstrates his SimStructure physics simulator and builds a PID controller using math from Numerical Recipes in C.
USA's Leading Dissident Voice | Noam Chomsky | Talks at Google
Noam Chomsky speaks at Google Cambridge in 2017 about his political development and the control of information and media.
Joe Rogan Experience #2223 - Elon Musk
A long Joe Rogan Experience podcast episode with Elon Musk covering his businesses and views on a range of topics.