# Brilliant talk. Fascinating insights

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734>\
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**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734 "2020-06-04T14:23:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734/1 "2020-06-04T14:23:42Z")

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If you have nowhere to be and nothing to do for an hour (heck, even if you do) sit down and watch it.

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/3/3/33adf6ddb1a556e257266891ca62ed0f4374292f.jpeg "The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avJHaC3C2U)

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**Author:** ![pablosanjose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pablosanjose/32/7006_2.png) [@pablosanjose](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pablosanjose)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734/2 "2020-06-06T19:30:21Z")

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Haha! That was quite a crazy ride!

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**Author:** ![DNF](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dnf/32/10191_2.png) [@DNF](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/DNF)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734/3 "2020-06-07T11:40:24Z")

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What’s it about? I don’t have time, and need a very good reason to start watching.

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**Author:** ![Sukera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sukera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sukera)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734/4 "2020-06-07T12:03:42Z")

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I’m 10 minutes in and the best description so far seems to be “A celebration of computer science, information theory and code”. I’m definitely going to finish this.

Also there’s art.

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**Author:** ![hgeorgako](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hgeorgako/32/5518_2.png) [@hgeorgako](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hgeorgako)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734/5 "2020-06-07T13:24:00Z")

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One of those talks you have to watch no matter how busy you are. Thanks for posting this!

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**Author:** ![jlapeyre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jlapeyre/32/4514_2.png) [@jlapeyre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jlapeyre)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734/6 "2020-06-07T14:10:25Z")

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> [@DNF](#):
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> What’s it about? I don’t have time, and need a very good reason to start watching.

Some slides on engineering achievements that help us see things we couldn’t before (microscopes, photos from the moon). Game of life (this was a couple of months before Conway’s death ☹ ) I fastforwarded through most of that. [EDIT: but, my favorite part of the talk was the zooming view of an implementation of the GOL using elementary gates implemented in the GOL.] Several slides on unusual programming langauges, whitespace, rockstar, etc… let’s see what else, some slides on ML. the chihuahua-muffins picture and art derived from it. It may have been more interesting to me if I hadn’t seen so much of it before… or maybe had there been a bit more synthesis.

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**Author:** ![ImreSamu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/imresamu/32/20677_2.png) [@ImreSamu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ImreSamu)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734/7 "2020-06-07T14:23:03Z")

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No **“Rockstar-to-Julia”** transpiler yet 🙂

- [GitHub - RockstarLang/rockstar: The Rockstar programming language specification](https://github.com/RockstarLang/rockstar)

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**Author:** ![dlakelan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dlakelan/32/8491_2.png) [@dlakelan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dlakelan)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734/8 "2020-06-10T18:24:53Z")

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I watched this with my 9 and 10 year old sons last night before bed. They thought it was great! It was nice for them to see computers as a means of exploring ideas rather than just consuming content, and to get excited about that.

The result is that I think I’m going to make them a skeleton program that opens a GTK window and let them write the code to calculate and draw Mandelbrot sets.

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**Author:** ![LaurentPlagne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/laurentplagne/32/10103_2.png) [@LaurentPlagne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/LaurentPlagne)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734/9 "2020-06-11T07:06:05Z")

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What about scratch ? I think it is really well adapted for introducing programming to children. A modern Logo ;). I use scratch with my kids, and you can introduce programming, physics and math with simple bouncing balls. @ffevotte told me that it was also suitable to code Conway’s game of life 😉

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**Author:** ![dlakelan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dlakelan/32/8491_2.png) [@dlakelan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dlakelan)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734/10 "2020-06-11T14:58:30Z")

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Yes my kids have played with scratch, actually some Caltech students came to their school and taught it to a few classes last year.

@tamas_papp pointed me to [Racket](https://racket-lang.org/) and [bootstrap](https://www.bootstrapworld.org/) too

This morning they agreed to run through the [Hour of Code on the bootstrap site](https://www.bootstrapworld.org/materials/fall2020/en-us/courses/hour-of-code/lessons/hoc-wescheme-intro/index.shtml) and it was very good for their level. They’re most of the way done with that lesson, and I really liked the way it arranged the lesson in terms of slowly increasing complexity of building expressions.

I would definitely recommend it as a step up from scratch in terms of learning. Thanks @Tamas_Papp for the recommendation!

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**Author:** ![yakir12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yakir12/32/297_2.png) [@yakir12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yakir12)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/brilliant-talk-fascinating-insights/40734/11 "2020-06-11T19:40:37Z")

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Wonderful! Loved it, thanks for sharing!