Michael Nielsen

The most remarkable short interview I've seen:

These lectures are terrific:

While I'm mentioning talks, I also enjoyed (eg) this talk about ambitious projects, by Jonathan Blow: Recording quality is, alas, poor, but the talk is extremely thoughtful.

(The video is fascinating, well worth watching through.)

Interesting video essay:

Stunning and arresting:

Really enjoyed this comment on gravitational wave detection, from @preskill:

It's a tangent, but here's one of my all-time favourite movies (28 sec). It's of Picasso painting, not the (famous) self-conscious clip, but just him in his studio: [link] I find it both incredibly moving & intellectually & creatively stimulating.

Amazing video, in the Holmesian sense of what _doesn't_ happen. The video shows the changing age distribution of NIH Principal Investigators. What doesn't happen? The doubling of the NIH budget 1998-2003 seems *invisible* in this video(!)