Raymond Hettinger gives a great, concise and immediately useful examples of idiomatic Python.
Tag: Recordings
Fareed Zakaria’s Talk at the Bon Mot Book Club
Fareed Zakaria talks about how where you come from deeply biases how you view world events, how this ties in with a truly global economy. He also talks about “how we are building a global economy [and] a global society quicker, than we have a global political system, that can deal with it.”
He argues that since the late 1970s two major forces are shaping our world:
1. secular, interconnected, interdependent markets and trade
2. large scale religious and nationalist movements
Dante, Islam and the Banking System
Dante, Islam and the banking system … interesting talk …
Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of this Presentation
One of the less serious, but still very interesting (and insightful) talks from 29c3.
Talks form RailsConf 2012
Two great talks from RubyConf 2012:
You can find more talks from that conference on YouTube … one I already mentioned. 😉
The Y Combinator
I take my head off to Jim, that’s a great way to approach a weird intersection of mathematics and programming. 😉 For those who are curious … he uses a very simple mathematical algorithm to explore how you can express recursions in Lambda calculus and thus “derives” the Y combinator.
Totally useless, but worth every minute. 😉
Secrets of Search
Douglas Merrill from Google talks about what it takes to build a search engine for the web.
Besides that what strikes me as interesting is their choice of languages “focusing” (he didn’t exactly say that, but it’s what you understand, when he says they won a prize for it) their efforts in machine translation on: Arabic and Chinese … o.O
29C3
As you may have heard the 29c3 is over and there is a ton of great talks … 😀
GoingNative 2012
If you are interested in C++11 and what might come afterwards I advise you to have a look at the conference recordings from this years GoingNative conference. 🙂
I especially liked the day 2 keynote, the STL11 guts and the static if talk. 🙂
Watch the 28c3 Talks
The 28c3 is about to end. 🙁 … but there have been some really interesting talks (as every year 😉 ) … and the best thing is they were quite quick with the recordings this year. Most of them were available a few hours after the talk on the 28c3 YouTube channel … so enjoy 🙂