The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject
- author: @parker-conley
Software Engineering
Machine Learning
- Andrej Karpathy, Neural Networks: Zero to Hero.
- 10+ years: Stanford PhD, research scientist at OpenAI & Tesla. (Website)
- Jeremy Howard, fast.ai live coding & tutorials.
- "He is the co-founder of fast.ai, where he teaches introductory courses, develops software, and conducts research in the area of deep learning. Previously he founded and led Fastmail, Optimal Decisions Group, and Enlitic. He was President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle" (Wikipedia).
Competitive Programming
- Neal Wu, competitive programming.
- CS at Harvard; SWE 1 year at startup; 4 years at Google (LinkedIn).
- Errichto Algorithms, competitive programming.
- Peak rating of 3053 (legendary grandmaster) on Codeforces.
Game Design
- Jonathan Blow, programming livestreams.
- Creator of Braid and The Witness.
- Casey Muratori (Molly Rocket), ongoing project [...] to create a complete, professional-quality game accompanied by videos that explain every single line of its source code.
- “[P]ast projects include The Granny Animation SDK, Bink 2, and The Witness” (Website).
- Gareth Murfin, looks at some reverse engineered GTA Vice City code.
- He was a programmer on the project. He now has 20 years of mobile development experience (LinkedIn).
- Freya Holmér, explaining math / shaders and coding. (via @talelore)
- Co-founder of an indie game development studio since 2012 and game developer since 2020 (LinkedIn).
Other
- George Hotz, programming livestreams. (via @RomanHauksson)
- “He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks, reverse engineering the PlayStation 3, and for the subsequent lawsuit brought against him by Sony. From September 2015 onwards, he has been working on his vehicle automation machine learning company comma.ai. Since November 2022, Hotz has been working on tinygrad, a deep learning framework" (Wikipedia).
- Matt Layman, "How To Build SaaS with Python and Django". (via roshan_mishra/X)
- Software Engineer since 2006 at Lockheed Martin, Storybird Inc., Serenity Software, Doctor on Demand, and Included Health (LinkedIn).
- Tim Ruscica, Tech with Tim livestreams.
- 3 years SWE; Microsoft Intern (LinkedIn).
- Alex Denisov, low level programming.
- 17 years of research, 10 years of web dev (LinkedIn).
- Jon Gjengset, implementing a BitTorrent client in Rust.
- PhD at MIT; 3 years SWE, some at Amazon (LinkedIn).
- Shashank Kalanithi, Day in the Life of a Data Analyst.
- Software/data stuff for 3 years at companies I've never heard of (LinkedIn).
- Dennis Ivanov, live programming.
- Dev for 5 years at random company (LinkedIn).
- Dave's Garage, exploring Windows 11.
- Former Microsoft shell developer.
- Joel Grus, live programming.
- Software Engineer since 2008 at companies such as Microsoft, Google, Allen Institute for AI, and Goldman Sachs (LinkedIn).
Research, Studying, & Problem Solving
Research
- Neel Nanda, Mechanistic Interpretability Research Walkthroughs. (via @RomanHauksson)
- Leads the Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team; worked at Anthropic with Chris Olah; interned at Jane Street and Jump Trading (Website).
- Andy Matuschak, doing research live.
- Crowdfunded researcher. “[H]elped build iOS at Apple and led R&D at Khan Academy” (Website).
- JoVE, a “Peer Reviewed Scientific Video Journal”.
- “18,000+ videos of laboratory methods and science concepts”, though most are paywalled and seem to require an institutional subscription.
- Steven Kenneth Bonnell II (Destiny), doing research for debates.
- "[L]ive-streamer and political commentator" (Wikipedia). Has debated/talked with, eg, Jordan Peterson, Lex Fridman, Bryan Caplan, and Ben Shapiro.
Studying
- Andy Matuschak, studying Quantum Mechanics with Dwarkesh Patel.
- Crowdfunded researcher. “[H]elped build iOS at Apple and led R&D at Khan Academy” (Website).
- Justin Sung, Study With Me.
- Learning coach and YouTuber (Website).
Problem Solving
- Tim Gowers, thinking about math problems in real-time (via @jsd, @depressurize)
- @depressurize specifically liked this series.
- "He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1998, he received the Fields Medal for research connecting the fields of functional analysis and combinatorics" (Wikipedia).
- Evan Chen, solving Math Olympiad problems. (via @jsd)
- "Evan is a math PhD student at MIT, and a math olympiad coach. In addition to helping train the United States team, Evan runs his own training program [...] Evan was an IMO gold medalist and a winner of the 2014 USA math olympiad, [...] He also wrote the popular textbook Euclidean Geometry in Math Olympiads while in high school, which was published in 2016" (Website).
- Tom Crawford taking Oxford Admissions Interview.
- Math communicator. Oxford math tutor for 6 years; Cambridge math PhD; Oxford math undergrad. (LinkedIn)
- Blackpenredpen, solving 100 integrals.
- Struggling Grad Student, doing math.
- Current math PhD.
Business & Business Communication
- Elie Hassenfeld, Holden Karnofsky, Timothy Ogden, Rob Reich, Tom Rutledge, Brigid Slipka, Cari Tuna, Julia Wise: GiveWell's Public Board Meetings (2007–2020 have audio).
- Holden Karnofsky. “Director of AI Strategy (formerly CEO) of Open Philanthropy and Co-Founder of GiveWell” (Website).
- Elie Hassenfeld. Co-Founder and CEO of GiveWell (LinkedIn).
- Timothy Ogden. Chief Knowledge Officer at Geneva Global, Inc.; founding editor of Gartner Press; founder of Sona Partners; chairman of GiveWell (Aspen Institute).
- Rob Reich. Political Science professor at Stanford for 26 years (Stanford).
- Tom Rutledge. Has worked in finance since 1989 (LinkedIn).
- Brigid Sliplka. Director of Philanthropy at ACLU (LinkedIn).
- Cari Tuna. President at Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures (Wikipedia).
- Julia Wise. Community Liaison at Centre for Effective Altruism (LinkedIn).
- Stephen Wolfram, “Live CEOing”.
- “Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. […] founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research where he works as chief designer of Mathematica and the Wolfram Alpha answer engine.” (Wikipedia).
- Sam Altman, Paul Graham, others; live Y Combinator office hours.
- Ray Dalio, “case study” recordings of business meetings and interviews with employees at Bridgewater on App Store app Principles In Action; I do not know of a way to access these through a web browser.
- Founder of Bridgewater Associates.
- Tegus, a library of expert interviews for finance professionals. Unfortunately, its price seems to start at $20-25,000 per user and year.
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