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The World of Harmonics — with Coffee, Guitar, and Synth
A myNoise vlog episode by Dr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon exploring harmonics through coffee, guitar, and synthesizer. Personal and technical exploration of sound from the creator of myNoise.
The Future Of Reasoning
A YouTube video titled 'The Future Of Reasoning' — content unavailable for fetching, but likely covers the state and trajectory of machine reasoning capabilities in AI systems.
Neural Networks — 3Blue1Brown
3Blue1Brown's neural networks playlist is the canonical visual introduction to how neural networks and backpropagation work — four episodes, starting from scratch and building to the chain rule. The most-watched math explainer for deep learning fundamentals.
The breakthrough behind modern AI image generators: diffusion models (3Blue1Brown)
3Blue1Brown's visual explanation of diffusion models — part 1 covering the core breakthrough behind modern AI image generators. Classic 3B1B treatment: intuition-first, mathematically grounded, visually clear.
The Nabataeans: The Final Days of Petra
A YouTube documentary covering the final days of the Nabataean civilization and the city of Petra — exploring how one of antiquity's most sophisticated trade empires declined and eventually fell to Roman annexation in 106 CE.
Everything Y Combinator Teaches in 10 Minutes
A 10-minute YouTube distillation of everything Y Combinator teaches its founders — make something people want, talk to users, launch fast, and focus on growth. Essential startup operating principles in minimal time.
DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls (SBTB23 talk)
Omar Khattab's ScalaBytesConf 2023 talk introducing DSPy — the core presentation that launched the framework into wider attention. Covers the compile-don't-prompt philosophy and demonstrates self-improving LLM pipelines.
From Python to Rust: YouTube Playlist
A YouTube playlist teaching Rust to developers who already know Python — bridges concepts across the two languages rather than teaching Rust from scratch. Useful for Python engineers who want to understand Rust's ownership and performance model.
VDO.Ninja: Free P2P Live Video via WebRTC
VDO.Ninja (formerly OBS.Ninja) is a free, no-account P2P video streaming tool that brings live video from phones, cameras, and remote guests directly into OBS Studio or any browser via WebRTC. The simplest way to pull in a remote camera feed without third-party software or monthly fees.
AI's Human Factor: Fei-Fei Li and Mira Murati
A Greylock-hosted conversation between Stanford's Fei-Fei Li and OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on AI's human dimensions — ethics, access, creativity, and what it means to build AI responsibly. A discussion between two of the most influential women in AI at a pivotal moment.
Remotion: Virtual Coworking for Distributed Teams
Remotion was a virtual coworking platform for distributed teams — persistent video presence to replicate serendipitous office collisions. Later rebranded to Multi, pivoting toward remote pair programming and engineering collaboration.
Topaz Labs: AI Image Enhancement
Topaz Labs makes deep learning-powered photo and video enhancement software — noise reduction, sharpening, and upscaling. One of the earliest commercial successes applying neural networks to real-world creative workflows, predating the generative AI wave.
Crossminds: ML Research Video Platform
Crossminds was a platform for discovering and watching technical ML research videos — conference talks, paper presentations, and lectures organized by topic and institution. It aimed to be YouTube but with research-quality signal-to-noise filtering.
A Data Science Chat with Kevin Novak from Uber
A talk by Kevin Novak, data scientist at Uber, covering how Uber approaches data science in practice — from surge pricing models to driver supply forecasting. An early window into how a hypergrowth tech company used data science operationally.
slitscanner.js by Sha Hwang
Sha Hwang's slitscanner bookmarklet applies slit-scan photography to YouTube and Vimeo videos in the browser — collapsing a spatial slice through time to produce streak-style images. A clever application of a classic experimental film technique to browser video.
Big Ideas: Demystifying Hadoop
A 'Big Ideas: Demystifying Hadoop' YouTube explainer from 2012 — one of many educational resources that emerged as Hadoop moved from niche to mainstream. Aimed at explaining the MapReduce paradigm and HDFS to practitioners who hadn't yet had to deal with data at scale.
The Higgs Boson Explained
PHD Comics' RSAnimate-style video explaining the Higgs boson, saved just weeks before CERN confirmed its discovery in July 2012. An accessible breakdown of one of the biggest physics finds of the century.
The Miniature Earth: if Earth had 100 people
The Miniature Earth is a short video that reframes global statistics by imagining Earth as a village of 100 people. A classic early viral edu-video that makes global inequality concrete through proportional scale.
Death-defying longboard run down Berkeley's hills
A video of a death-defying longboard run down one of Berkeley's steepest hills — the kind of thing that exists only because of the UC Berkeley campus topography and college-aged risk tolerance.