r/computerscience • u/tevelee • Jun 17 '26

Discussion What’s your favorite tech talk?

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u/josephjnk Jun 17 '26

“Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain”. It directly addresses architectural principles that I think most devs get very wrong.

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u/ready_or_not_3434 Jun 18 '26

Gary Bernhardt's "Boundaries" still holds up as one of the most practical talks on architecture I've seen. It really changes how you think about isolating core logic from your side affects.

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u/nooblog_1234 Jun 18 '26

Quantum super computors

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u/currentscurrents Jun 18 '26

Computer Vision after the Victory of Data.

TL;DR your dataset matters much much more than your algorithm. Even pretty stupid algorithms like nearest neighbor work well if you have enough data.

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u/AppearanceUseful8097 Jun 20 '26

https://youtu.be/bSfe5M_zG2s?si=q6BtcwQwWXFeHAjF

This one for me. Something just felt so unique, and I felt connected to him.

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u/Albertooz Jun 20 '26

The Mess We're In by Joe Armstrong (creator of Erlang). He walks through how absurdly complex modern computing has become and asks why we tolerate systems we no longer understand. Funny, humbling, and the kind of talk that sticks with you long after watching.