Intel Research Berkley has been host to a whole slew of nerd gods lately, and they have been foolish enough to post the seminar videos. Ha, suckers! Now I will become smarter on your dime!
But seriously, Intel is awesome for doing this.
Past speakers include: Hans Boehm, Herb Sutter, Greg Morrisett, Guido van Rossum, Guy Steele, Martin Odersky, and Alan Kay. You’d better get to work watching all of those, because still to come are: Martin Rinard, Bertrand Meyer, Bjarne Stroustrup, Charles Leiserson, and Philip Wadler.
Update: The Alan Kay talk is tremendously good. Go watch it. I mean now, really. I’ll wait.
MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative is pretty cool. I just discovered the MIT 6.046J: Introduction to Algorithms home page. Here you’ll find notes (PDF), audio (MP3) and video (RealMedia) for the lectures. It’s been years since I learned this stuff, but it’s never too late for a refresher course.
If you like watching lecture videos, try searching for engEDU over at Google Video. Google is an important stop on the nerd lecture circuit, and they are cool enough to share their tech talks with the rest of us.
Here are a few good ones to get you started:
Last week NWCPP hosted Herb Sutter (and I cajoled Kevin into bringing his camera). Herb talked about the Concur project, which is a handful of language and library extensions to dramatically simplify correct concurrent C++ programming. Slides Here.
Here’s some video that makes my blog look cool on Google’s bandwidth dime:
Here’s a video of “Darkgigs_Xx” scoring 1649g in Big Brain Academy in a single practice test. This is insane. I’m not ashamed to say that this is better than my overall best score (which is the sum of five of these tests).
Update:
Apparently his best overall score is a jaw dropping 4071g!
GameSpot Forums, Cyberscore BBA Scoreboard
Update 2:
This BBA walkthru contains some good tips to improve your score.
After messing with mt-daapd, I began wondering what all this “mDNS” stuff was about. Turn’s out it’s part of Bonjour, Apple’s zero-conf networking tech. Here’s a cool video that taught me all sorts of stuff: Stuart Cheshire speaks to Google about Bonjour.
One component of zero-conf is Automatic Private IP Addressing, which is so simple you’ll wonder why it wasn’t part of TCP/IP from the start. APIPA is responsible for the typically dreaded 169.254 addresses, which I no longer hate because I finally understand them.
(If you’re too lazy to watch the video, the short story is, “It’s a feature, stupid!” If there’s no DHCP server you do random ARP requests until you find an IP for which there is no response — then you claim it.)
Here’s a video of Lessig speaking at the Rochester Institute of Technology (my alma mater).
I just discovered the video of Cory Doctorow’s talk, DRM and MSFT: A Product No Customer Wants, over at ResearchChannel.org. Cory gave this lecture at Microsoft Research two years ago. Legend has it that the transcript has since become the most widely linked text file on the internet.
Folks on the Microsoft corporate network have had access to this since the day it was recorded, but the public was left out until now. Kudos to Microsoft for “declassifying” it.
Update:
The official link “requires” IE6 and Windows Media player. For the rest of us, here’s a direct link to the ASF stream.
Update #2:
I sent this to Cory and he’s posted it to BoingBoing.
So I’ve begun to learn Lisp, and I’ve been quite pleased by the abundance of free (as in beer) resources.
The full-texts to the books Practical Common Lisp and On-Lisp (by Peter Seibel and Paul Graham, respectively) are available on the web.
You can also take MIT’s 6.001 course online. This is an introductory CS class which is based on the legendary text Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. The SICP site contains the full-text of the book, sample programming assignments, and a complete set of videotaped lectures for the course (text, lectures).
The internet is freaking amazing. 10 years ago, my less-than-stellar grades precluded any possiblity of ever viewing an MIT lecture.
(SICP lectures found via LtU)
Update: There’s a much more complete list of freely available Lisp resources here.
(Thanks again, LtU)
The CNN.com video experience is optimized for Windows Media Player 9 or above. No Windows Media Player detected.
This is the message which greets Linux users who attempt to view CNN news streams. I guess optimized for is officially euphemistic technobabble for restricted to.
What’s next? Restrooms “optimized for customers only?”
Luckily, we can out-nerd these dopes:
- Install the GreaseMonkey extension for Firefox
- Grab the CNN Video Link script over at Userscripts.org
- Head back to CNN.com, and exercise your newfound right to “Save Link As…” the .ASX file
- Extract the
mms: link from the plain-text .ASX file and feed it to MPlayer
- Enjoy!
Feel free to add the --dumpstream switch to archive the stream. Indeed, feel very free.
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