Weeks of Debugging Can Save You Hours of TLA+
Explore TLA+ for reliable system design through a hands-on approach, solving a subtle concurrency issue to demonstrate its power in preventing critical failures and reducing debugging time.
Dangerous Memes
Philosopher Dan Dennett explores the concept of memes as living ideas, using an ant's tale to launch a thought-provoking discussion on the power and potential dangers of infectious concepts.
Humanity's Biggest Problems Aren't What You Think They Are
Oxford philosopher explores potential alterations to human nature as solutions to fundamental problems, challenging conventional views on humanity's biggest issues.
True Success
Legendary coach John Wooden redefines success, sharing wisdom from his UCLA days, poetry, and his father's teachings in an inspiring talk on pursuing personal excellence.
Functional Programming Through the Lens of a Philosopher and Linguist
Explore functional programming through a unique perspective, blending linguistics and philosophy. Gain insights on its benefits, adoption, and practical applications in various programming languages.
Humankind - A Hopeful History
Historian Rutger Bregman discusses his book "Humankind: A Hopeful History," challenging negative perceptions of human nature and presenting research that supports a more optimistic view of humanity's inherent goodness.
If a Tree Falls in a Forest - Exploring Confidence and Its Facades
Exploring the philosophical question of a falling tree, Nicki Naeimi-Zaker relates it to confidence, discussing how to cultivate and project self-assurance to achieve personal growth and success.
How to Make Art Like an Astrophysicist
Explore the intersection of art and astrophysics as Jack Madden reveals how scientific discoveries can be transformed into meaningful artistic experiences, bridging the gap between cosmic wonders and human understanding.
Functional Programming Through the Lens of a Philosopher & Linguist
Explore functional programming concepts through unique perspectives of philosophy and linguistics, offering fresh insights and practical applications for developers.
Humankind - A Hopeful History
Historian Rutger Bregman discusses research from various disciplines that challenges pessimistic views of humanity, offering a more optimistic perspective on human nature and societal progress.
Steps to Wisdom
Discover key lessons for writing code, architecting systems, managing your career, and living wisely. Gain confidence to tackle challenges like a wise person and reap the benefits in your professional and personal life.
Fulfill Our Purpose Through Every Change in Life
Explore life's purpose and goal achievement amidst rapid changes. Learn philosophical insights on fulfilling your purpose and adapting to life's evolving landscape in this thought-provoking talk.
How We Learned Security from Steve
Learn Minecraft security concepts from experts, covering survival, expansions, trust, and building with logic in multiplayer environments.
Defining Brand Ideology
Discover how to define brand ideology by blending emotion, logic, and cultural insights with Genki Imamura, founder of Bees & Honey. Learn to create impactful brand designs rooted in Japan's "IKI" aesthetic.
How to Make Love, Correctly
Explore a new web-building approach rooted in creative equality, technical freedom, and constant play. Learn to overcome design limitations and bridge the gap between code and creativity.
Informational Models of the Phenomenon of Consciousness and the Mechanistic Project
Exploring informational models of consciousness, their methodological contributions, and limitations in guiding mechanistic research. Critiques panpsychist interpretations and discusses quantitative recharacterizations.
Insights from the Conscious Turing Machine - A Machine Model for Consciousness
Explores puzzling phenomena of consciousness using the Conscious Turing Machine model, including pain's impact on sleep, experiences vs. simulations, illusions, dreams, and free will.
Does Consciousness Emerge?
Explore the concept of emergence in consciousness theories, examining its meanings, applications, and implications for understanding the nature of consciousness.
Fusing Agents and Qualia - A Formal Solution to the Combination Problem
Explores a formal theory of consciousness, proposing that agent interactions create complex structures and fuse subjects and qualia, with spacetime as an interface for these interactions.
On the Degrees of Freedom Worth Having - Psychedelics and Free Will
Explore the intersection of psychedelics, free will, and consciousness. Discover how serotonergic pathways may influence volitional capacities and adaptive flexibility in human cognition and behavior.
To What Extent Are Machines Conscious?
Exploring machine consciousness: challenges, theories, and implications. Analyzes information, computation, and phenomenal experience in AI, discussing strong vs. weak machine consciousness and their achievability.