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K Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016

K Lars Lohn's PyCon 2016 keynote weaves together music theory, programming, biking road trips and fractals. It is a personal, wide-ranging talk rather than a Python how-to.

Why HN readers recommended it

Commenters call it a mind-blowing, beautiful talk and cite it among their favorite tech talks.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
PyCon 2016
Topic
music and programming
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
5
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • They were available as the conference was unfolding, usually no later than a couple of hours after each talk. Really awesome work by the conference organisers. I feel so lucky I was able to attend. The closing keynote had everyone very excited. It's a beautiful …

    jordigh on Hacker News · 2016-06
    In Pycon 2016 videos now available
  • You should perhaps watch this incredible video from PyCon 2016 given by Lars Bark about music, road trips, software development, and fractals! [VIDEO]

    denfromufa on Hacker News · 2016-07
    In Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music
  • Finally made an account to post in this thread. I'm rather early in my career doing mostly Ruby, Python and JavaScript things. As you might expect, I consume mainly Ruby, Python and JavaScript related talks. The first two talks that really blew my mind are: …

    webdevatlurk on Hacker News · 2018-04
    In Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?

Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.