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Why ML Needs a New Programming Language with Chris Lattner

2025-09-04 •Jane Street

Chris Lattner is the creator of LLVM and led the development of the Swift language at Apple. With Mojo, he’s taking another big swing: How do you make the process of getting the full power out of modern GPUs productive and fun?

Life after TypeScript

2025-10-07 •Theo - t3․gg

This is one of the best pieces I've ever read on why you might actually want to move off of TypeScript... Thank you Blacksmith for sponsoring!

Movie Monologues that Radicalized my Moral Philosophy

2025-09-16 •Like Stories of Old

Start your free month of great cinema now at https://mubi.com/likestoriesofold To act in this world is to put yourself in moral peril, to shake the foundations of your own philosophy, sometimes overwhelmingly so. In such times, when you're no longer sure which way is right, where do you go?

Ants that are Computers

2025-06-07 •Emergent Garden

Ant Simulator: https://evolvecode.io/turmites/index.html Source code: https://github.com/MaxRobinsonTheGreat/turmites This is a video about Langton's ants, turmites, and turing machines. On and on and on it goes, will it halt?

You’ve Never Seen Tech Like This

2025-10-14 •Data Slayer

This is Inevitable. This video introduces a next-generation MANET (Mobile Ad-Hoc Network) device — a portable, open-source, military-grade router that enables encrypted, long-range communication without relying on towers or centralized providers.

How The Offspring "Sold Out"

2025-07-25 •Trash Theory

1994 was the year where punk truly went pop. Especially in the US.

Easy code Vedic Astrology complex calculation in Python

2023-07-15 •VedAstro

Quick guide to use Vedic astrology calculation in Python code via a open source project VedAstro.org. Complex kuta, rasi, dasa, aspect, bhava, house calculation easily done in Python.

Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search

2025-07-11 •Y Combinator

Aravind Srinivas on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. Aravind Srinivas started Perplexity with one goal: to rethink how we search, browse, and interact with information online.

The ADL’s CEO: ‘Anti-Zionism is an ideology of nihilism’ | The Interview

2025-08-09 •The Interview

Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, says this is a time of great concern for Jewish people in America, something he credits to the rise of antisemitism — and anti-Zionism. He thinks it's fair to criticize Israel and the war in Gaza, but he believes anti-Zionism crosses a line.

John Gray: Why I'm not a postliberal | UK Politics | The New Statesman

2025-10-17 •The New Statesman

Philosopher and author John Gray predicted the problems Keir Starmer faces. Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2DHAQOeEg-Z-4trARDXHRA?sub_confirmation=1 John Gray joins Will Lloyd for a wide ranging discussion, covering Keir Starmer's failings, Trump, Farage, Putin, Xi Jinping, the changing nature of geopolitics, and the past, present and future state of liberalism.

This Travel Show Accidentally Filmed the Last Real Adventure

2025-10-18 •Like Stories of Old

Want to restore the planet’s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with my code STORIES210 will get the first month for free at: https://planetwild.com/r/likestoriesofold/join/210 If you want to get to know them better first, check out their project protecting one of Europe’s last ancient forests: https://planetwild.com/r/likestoriesofold/m31/210 It's 2004, and two men set out on a trip not knowing they were about to create one of the last portraits of a world that was right on the precipice of changing forever.

SECURITY CULTURE 101: How Activists Resist State Repression

2025-05-27 •Prince Shakur

In Direct Action 101: Episode 9, we break down the basics of security culture—a set of essential practices that help activists, organizers, and communities stay safe while resisting state power. From COINTELPRO to Stop Cop City, this episode explores how governments surveil, infiltrate, and criminalize movements—and what we can do to fight back.

Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”

2025-10-17 •Dwarkesh Patel

The Andrej Karpathy episode. During this interview, Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why AGI will just blend into the previous ~2.5 centuries of 2% GDP growth, why self driving took so long to crack, and what he sees as the future of education.

How We're Redesigning Audacity For The Future

2025-10-03 •Tantacrul

This video digs into the research and design that went into gradually transforming Audacity 3 - a free and open source audio editor and production app - and how we've built on that work to develop Audacity 4. SUPPORT Help me become a full-time creator so I can release more videos: https://www.patreon.com/c/Tantacrul You can also support me on Nebula using this affiliate link: https://go.nebula.tv/tantacrul SOCIALS https://x.com/Tantacrul https://www.instagram.com/tantacrul/ https://bsky.app/profile/tantacrul.bsky.social LINKS A talk I gave about open source design in Berlin earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12TJ-zTgiH0 Matthieu Hodgkinson’s talk on how he created our time signature & tempo recognition system at ADC in 2024 https://youtu.be/yMbewdnupwU?si=QXFup9F_0EXHQNlB CHAPTERS 00:00 - Sigh - another PR issue 05:13 - Who is Audacity for?

Debate: Sanctions Don’t Work as a Tool of Foreign Policy

2025-10-14 •Intelligence Squared

*** VOTE and Q&A *** Click here to vote and to submit your questions for our panel: https://app.sli.do/event/hEqpZCEHFNLiMujZvCyax4 ----------------- In partnership with GlobalSanctions.com the world’s leading online resource for up to the minute information on sanctions and export controls worldwide. Sanctions have become one of the most widely used tools in modern foreign policy, imposed not only on states but also on individual leaders, oligarchs and corporations.