K Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016
Why Hacker News recommends it
Commenters call it a mind-blowing, beautiful talk and cite it among their favorite tech talks.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 4 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2016 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec jordigh · 2016-06 · on “Pycon 2016 videos now available”
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 talk about music, programming, biking, and life: [this video]
Strong rec denfromufa · 2016-07 · on “Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music”
You should perhaps watch this incredible video from PyCon 2016 given by Lars Bark about music, road trips, software development, and fractals! [this video]
Strong rec webdevatlurk · 2018-04 · on “Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?”
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: - K Lars Lohn's PyCon Keynote from 2016: [this video] - Jim Weirich's (RIP) "Y Not" talk from RubyConf 2012: [LINK] There are many other presenters who I have a good opinion of: - Raymond Hettinger: his presentation/teaching style is something I'd like to model my own after, also he gave the first talk on writing proper threaded/concurrent python that I was able to understand and make use of. - Brandon Rhoades: another speaker with a presentat
Strong rec smitty1e · 2019-08 · on “Thank you, Chris”
Need to figure out a subscription model to ensure that a non-Google browser continues to flourish. Also, K. Lars Lohn is the man. [this video]
Cites guidovranken · 2021-06 · on “Ask HN: Can you ID this video?”
First hit on Google for '"indian reservation" pycon' points to a Reddit page which points to [this video] , which must be it