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K Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

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  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2016 to 2019.
  • Presented by K Lars Lohn, software engineer
  • Linked in the descriptionPyCon/2016-slides

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K Lars Lohn delivers a personal keynote weaving together music theory, programming, road trips, and fractals.

Speaker: K Lars Lohn Keynote Slides can be found at: speakerdeck.com/pycon2016 and github.com/PyCon/2016-slides

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6 people recommend this

What people say. Highly recommended as a beautiful, mind-blowing keynote that connects software development with music and life.

jordighon Hacker News • Recommends

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: link to this video

denfromufaon Hacker News • Recommends

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! link to this video

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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: link to 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…

smitty1eon Hacker News • Recommends

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. link to this video

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Under “Web Development”

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JordiGHon Lobsters • Recommends

What is the fractal dimension of your life? (Pycon closing keynote)

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On “Ask HN: Can you ID this video?”

First hit on Google for '"indian reservation" pycon' points to a Reddit page which points to link to this video , which must be it