GDC 2010: Sid Meier Keynote - "Everything You Know is Wrong"
GameSpot · 2 HN recommenders
Sid Meier's GDC 2010 keynote on how players perceive probability in games, including how Civilization's odds were adjusted because players misjudged them.
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GDC 2018: John McDonald (Valve) - Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in CSGO
max4warn · 5 HN recommenders
A GDC 2018 talk by Valve's John McDonald on VACNet, a deep learning system that analyzes CS:GO gameplay to detect cheaters. It covers how the model is trained on human-reviewed Overwatch cases and how its output feeds human moderation.
Gell-Mann Amnesia and Michio Kaku
Angela Collier · 2 HN recommenders
Physicist Angela Collier uses Gell-Mann amnesia to critique pop-science figures, especially Michio Kaku, and works through an eigenvalue problem along the way. It is a long, rambling commentary on how experts see simplified explanations of their own field.
Gender Neutral Pronouns: They're Here, Get Used To Them
Tom Scott · 3 HN recommenders
Tom Scott argues that grammatical gender is a silly concept and that the singular 'they' is an established gender-neutral pronoun. The description carries later corrections and reflections he added in 2019.
General Magic (1080p) FULL DOCUMENTARY - History, Technology, Business
Gravitas Documentaries · 3 HN recommenders
A feature-length documentary on General Magic, the 1989 startup that envisioned the smartphone and handheld connected devices, featuring Tony Fadell, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat. It covers the company's vision and eventual failure.
GENERAL MAGIC - Official Trailer
General Magic and the Soul of Tech · 2 HN recommenders
The official trailer for the documentary General Magic, about the secretive Apple spinoff that tried to build a handheld communicator in 1990 and whose ideas shaped the smartphone era.
Generative AI for Krita - With ControlNet
Acly · 2 HN recommenders
A short demo of an open-source Krita plugin that uses Stable Diffusion to generate and edit images in place. It adds ControlNet scribble and line-art support. You select an area, push a button, and new matching content appears.
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
Freya Holmér · 2 HN recommenders
Freya Holmer delivers a long critique of generative AI, arguing it degrades the internet by flooding it with machine-generated junk. The video grew out of her frustration finding reliable information about a technical file format.
Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · 2 HN recommenders
Kurzgesagt's animated explainer on CRISPR gene editing, covering how the technology works and what it could mean for curing disease, designer babies and aging. It frames genetic engineering as an irreversible change coming to humanity.
Genetics and Intelligence
Google TechTalks · 2 HN recommenders
Steve Hsu's 2011 Google Tech Talk reviews psychometric measurement of intelligence and the heritability of adult IQ, then discusses genome-wide association studies seeking the genes behind cognitive ability.
Geo Carncross: How to program computers (kos)
Justin Cormack · 2 HN recommenders
A 2014 talk by Geo Carncross (geocar) demonstrating kOS, a minimalist operating system and programming environment built around the k language, with early screenshots.
Geoffrey Hinton in conversation with Fei-Fei Li — Responsible AI development
Arts & Science - University of Toronto · 2 HN recommenders
A 2023 University of Toronto conversation between Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li on responsible AI development. They look back at the history of deep learning and ImageNet and discuss the ethics and risks of AI.
Geoffrey Hinton talk "What is wrong with convolutional neural nets ?"
trwappers · 2 HN recommenders
Geoffrey Hinton gives an MIT talk on what is wrong with convolutional neural networks and introduces his capsules project. The description points to the capsule network papers.
Geoffrey West on COMPLEXITY
FQxI · 3 HN recommenders
Physicist Geoffrey West speaks at an FQXi conference on time about complexity and scaling laws. He covers how metabolism, growth and lifespan scale across organisms and how the same mathematics applies to cities and companies.
Geographical limit between Balkan and Central Europe
kunc · 2 HN recommenders
A one-minute clip of Slavoj Zizek showing what he calls the official geographical limit between the Balkans and Central Europe, standing at a river in Ljubljana. It is a short, absurd and funny piece of cultural geography.
George Carlin - Euphemisms
poyani · 4 HN recommenders
A George Carlin stand-up bit on euphemisms, tracing how language gets softened, such as shell shock becoming PTSD, until it loses its emotional force.
George Carlin - Germs, Immune System
Geen Naam · 2 HN recommenders
A clip from George Carlin's "You Are All Diseased" special in which he riffs on germs, the immune system and white blood cells. It argues that modern obsession with cleanliness is misplaced.
George Carlin - Saving the Planet
Dadniel · 2 HN recommenders
George Carlin's stand-up routine arguing the planet will be fine and it is people who are in trouble. It mocks the idea of saving the planet.
George Carlin on Soft Language
CappyNJ · 2 HN recommenders
A George Carlin stand-up bit from Doin' It Again about soft language and euphemism, showing how softened words hide uncomfortable facts. It touches on topics like shell shock and aging.
George Carlin on soft language
Rob Logan · 2 HN recommenders
A clip from George Carlin's 1990 special 'Doin' It Again' in which he describes how American English has been sterilized with euphemisms, using examples such as shell shock becoming PTSD.
George Carlin Talks About "Stuff"
CappyNJ · 7 HN recommenders
George Carlin's classic stand-up routine about 'stuff' and how much of life is spent accumulating and storing it, from Comic Relief 1986. It satirizes American consumerism and possessions.
George Friedman, "Europe: Destined for Conflict?"
Chicago Council on Global Affairs · 2 HN recommenders
George Friedman of Stratfor speaks at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs about flashpoints in Europe that he expects to erupt again, including borderlands and cultural fault lines.
George Hotz | Programming | Livecoding SLAM | twitchslam | Part1
george hotz archive · 2 HN recommenders
A long livestream of George Hotz live-coding a toy SLAM implementation, twitchslam, over two days in May 2018. It is an unedited session of Python programming with computer vision and visualization.
George Hotz | Programming | we do coronavirus science aka hacking nature #lockdown part1 | COVID-19
george hotz archive · 3 HN recommenders
A long George Hotz livestream in which he explores the coronavirus genome and molecular biology from scratch using a browser and Python, hacking on the science in real time.
George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31
Lex Fridman · 7 HN recommenders
Lex Fridman's two-hour podcast with George Hotz, founder of Comma.ai, covering openpilot, autonomous driving and Hotz's views on AI and technology.
George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132
Lex Fridman · 6 HN recommenders
Lex Fridman interviews George Hotz, founder of Comma.ai, in a three-hour conversation. Topics include self-driving, Tesla and Waymo, crypto, GPT-3, immortality and book recommendations.
George Lakoff: Moral Politics
University of California Television (UCTV) · 3 HN recommenders
Cognitive scientist George Lakoff lectures on how political debates are framed through language and metaphors tied to values, and on the moral worldviews behind progressive and conservative politics. It was given in 2005 at UC San Diego.
George RR Martin asks Stephen King: "How do you write so Fast?!"
Aegon Targaryen · 2 HN recommenders
A short clip of George R.R. Martin asking Stephen King on stage how he writes so fast. King describes setting daily page goals, around six pages a day, and keeping focused hours.
Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America | Jeff Rosen | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool
TEDx Talks · 3 HN recommenders
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen explains in a TEDx talk why Germany has lower crime and far fewer prisoners than the US, and what American criminal justice could learn from German prisons.
GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary
Google TechTalks · 5 HN recommenders
Jason Scott discusses making his documentary GET LAMP at a Google Tech Talk and screens part of the film. It covers the history of text adventures and interactive fiction, with interviews of Infocom developers and others.
Get Perpendicular
teraera08 · 2 HN recommenders
A Hitachi promotional cartoon in the style of Schoolhouse Rock explaining perpendicular magnetic recording for hard drives.
Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018
GOTO Conferences · 2 HN recommenders
Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, gives a demo-heavy GOTO Chicago 2018 talk on live coding music. He covers the history of Sonic Pi, how it evolved, and what it can do for education and professional musicians.
Getting GPLv2 Compliance From A Chinese Company- In Person!
Naomi Wu · 3 HN recommenders
Naomi Wu visits the Shenzhen offices of smartphone maker UMIDIGI in person to get them to release source code they owed under the GPLv2, and they comply.
Getting Started With Org Mode
thoughtbot · 3 HN recommenders
Harry Schwartz gives a roughly hour-long tour of Emacs Org mode as an outliner, task manager, markup language and agenda tool. He demonstrates how he uses it for documents, presentations and todo lists.
Giant Robot Project, Part 1
Jaimie Stuff · 3 HN recommenders
The first installment of a hobbyist's video diary documenting his build of a giant walking spider-like vehicle. The footage is casual and self-shot, following the early stages of the project.
Giga Castings with Sandy | Evolution of Tesla Bodies In White
Munro Live · 2 HN recommenders
Sandy Munro and Cory discuss how Tesla Model 3 and Model Y bodies in white have evolved over five years, including giga castings and lean design.
GigCityElixir23 - Bryan Hunter
Groxio · 4 HN recommenders
Bryan Hunter's GigCityElixir 2023 talk on HCA Healthcare's Waterpark system, built on Elixir/Erlang. It describes how the architecture is distributed and fault-tolerant, with a multi-datacenter cluster and runtime code swapping.
Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)
Ace Records · 3 HN recommenders
Gil Scott-Heron's 1970 spoken-word piece, in an official audio upload. It contrasts the Apollo moon program with poverty and neglect at home.
Gimbal UFO - A New Analysis
Mick West · 8 HN recommenders
Mick West analyzes the Navy's Gimbal UFO video and gives four checkable observations suggesting it is an infrared glare that appears to rotate because the camera rotates while tracking. He argues the object is likely a hot craft hidden behind the glare.
GitHub Actions Feels Bad
fasterthanlime · 2 HN recommenders
A fasterthanlime video essay arguing that GitHub Actions is a poorly designed system, with a history of personal computing and CI, and a look at how it works behind the scenes. It is sponsored by Brilliant.
Glass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass
Applied Science · 2 HN recommenders
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science shows how to make small batches of specialty glass with minimal equipment, including designing and making photochromic glass. He covers ingredients, melting and the challenges involved.
Glenn Gould and Leonard Bernstein: Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 1 (I) in D minor (BWV 1052)
AntPDC · 2 HN recommenders
A 1960 CBS clip in which Leonard Bernstein introduces and conducts Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor with a 28-year-old Glenn Gould at the piano. Gould's performance starts around 5:08.
Glenn Vanderburg of LivingSocial on why software development is an engineering discipline
O'Reilly · 2 HN recommenders
Glenn Vanderburg argues at the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference that software development is an engineering discipline, even if immature. He contends the discredited body of knowledge called software engineering has led people to wrongly reject the label.
Glitch Tokens - Computerphile
Computerphile · 2 HN recommenders
Rob Miles explains "glitch" tokens, odd strings in large language model vocabularies that make the model produce gibberish. He covers how they likely arise from tokenizer training data, such as Reddit usernames, that never appeared in the model's own training.
Glitter Bomb 1.0 vs Porch Pirates
Mark Rober · 3 HN recommenders
Mark Rober builds a glitter-bomb booby-trapped package to take revenge on porch pirates, filming the thieves' reactions. Some reactions were later acknowledged as partially staged.
GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future
/noclip · 2 HN recommenders
A /noclip documentary on GOG, covering how it finds and re-releases classic games and pushes DRM-free releases. It also touches on the company's origins in Poland.
Going Native 2012 Keynote Stroustrup
savage309 · 2 HN recommenders
Bjarne Stroustrup's keynote at Going Native 2012 covers the ideas behind C++11, including using types to prevent errors and simplifying code with the STL.
Golang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let's write one in Go from scratch
GopherCon UK · 3 HN recommenders
Liz Rice builds a container from scratch in about 100 lines of Go, showing that a container is not a lightweight VM but a set of Linux kernel features and flags.
golden balls. the weirdest split or steal ever!
spinout3 · 5 HN recommenders
A Golden Balls episode in which one contestant announces he will steal, leading to an unexpected outcome in the split-or-steal prisoner's dilemma.
Google Developers Day US - Python Design Patterns
GoogleDeveloperDay · 2 HN recommenders
Alex Martelli's Google Developers Day talk on classic design patterns (creational, structural and behavioral) and how they appear in Python. He stresses that patterns must be studied in the context of the implementing language.
Google Developers Day US - Theorizing from Data
GoogleDeveloperDay · 3 HN recommenders
Peter Norvig's 2007 Google talk on theorizing from data, covering what huge datasets can do for language understanding, translation, information extraction and inference. It argues that more data often beats cleverer models.
Google Earth’s Incredible 3D Imagery, Explained
Nat and Friends · 2 HN recommenders
A short explainer from Nat and Friends on where Google Earth's 3D imagery comes from, how it is stitched together, and how often it is updated. It describes aircraft carrying camera rigs and photogrammetry that turns the photos into 3D models.
Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim
Bloomberg Tech · 3 HN recommenders
Bloomberg Technology interviews Google engineer Blake Lemoine about the experiments that led him to believe LaMDA was sentient and why he was placed on administrative leave. He also raises concerns about AI ethics at Google.
Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer
Google for Developers · 5 HN recommenders
Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman argue that the 'genius programmer' ideal harms collaboration. They advocate trading ego for growth, sharing work early, and understanding how tools shape social behavior.
Google I/O 2011: Chrome Dev Tools Reloaded
Google for Developers · 2 HN recommenders
Paul Irish and Pavel Feldman present the newest Chrome Dev Tools features at Google I/O 2011, including live CSS editing, saving changes, breakpoints and network analysis. It also covers remote debugging.
Google I/O 2011: Java Puzzlers - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
Google for Developers · 2 HN recommenders
Josh Bloch and Jeremy Manson present the eighth installment of Java Puzzlers at Google I/O 2011, a set of surprising corner cases in the Java language and libraries. It includes puzzlers on traps such as regular expression performance.
Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns
Google for Developers · 9 HN recommenders
Rob Pike's Google I/O 2012 talk shows how goroutines and channels solve tricky concurrency problems with simple Go code. It features a playful goroutine demo with gophers passing messages and a search engine example.
Google I/O 2012 - Meet the Go Team
Google for Developers · 2 HN recommenders
A fireside Q&A with the Go team (Pike, Thompson, Griesemer and others) at Google I/O 2012. They answer audience questions about Go's design, goals, garbage collection plans and future.
Google I/O 2013 - High Performance Audio
Google for Developers · 4 HN recommenders
A Google I/O 2013 talk by Android audio engineers on why reliable, low-latency audio is hard on the platform. It covers problem areas across the stack, platform work underway and techniques apps can use.
Google Python Class Day 1 Part 1
Google for Developers · 3 HN recommenders
The first part of Google's Python Class, taught by Nick Parlante, introducing the language and its strings. It is aimed at people with some programming familiarity and comes with exercises.