The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie

Software and technology has changed every aspect of the world we live in. At one extreme are the ‘mission critical’ applications - the code that runs our banks, our hospitals, our airports and phone networks. Then there’s the code we all use every day to browse the web, watch movies, create spreadsheets… not quite so critical, but still code that solves problems and delivers services.
But what about the code that only exists because somebody wanted to write it? Code created just to make people smile, laugh, maybe even dance? Maybe even code that does nothing at all, created just to see if it was possible?
Join Dylan Beattie - programmer, musician, and creator of the Rockstar programming language - for an entertaining look at the art of code. We’ll look at the origins of programming as an art form, from Conway's Game of Life to the 1970s demoscene and the earliest Obfuscated C competitions. We’ll talk about esoteric languages and quines - how DO you create a program that prints its own source code? We’ll look at quine relays, code golf and generative art, and we’ll explore the phenomenon of live coding as performance - from the pioneers of electronic music to modern algoraves and live coding platforms like Sonic Pi.
Check out more of our talks, courses, and conferences in the following links:
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ndc-london.com/

[@zeitgeisttv5312]

This guy is a great orator/storyteller/and probably DnD master

[@mythopoeic8236]

Yesssss thank you

[@snom3ad]

to be fair, he's also a great singer.

[@kool141]

Check out Critical Role here on KZbin if you like DnD :)

[@lafondawilliams]

@@snom3ad i was like what singing, glad i stayed to the end lmao

[@PablofMorales]

I died and resurrected with this comment,

[@degerertenerten7307]

if you are a bit into programming, math and some philosophy, this young man will gift you an hour that you will not compare to anything in your life. Salute you Dylan. My deepest respects.

[@haroldfinz4863]

you said it better than anything I was able to come up with.

[@coldheartednique6411]

Agreed

[@shabdasingh8954]

ikr

[@SK-ck9qu]

Will not compare to anything life? Don't you think that is kind of strong statement. How about making love to a gorgeous supermodel?

[@degerertenerten7307]

@@SK-ck9quhahahaha is there any proof that supermodels make great love?

[@sergeboisse]

In the early 1980's i created many programs on a TI-59 programmable calculator that often took hours or even days to complete. I then put an AM radio receiver close to the calculator, and by carefully tuning it, I was able to listen to the electronic "music" of calculation, and I could tell, just by hearing, in which loop the program was looping into, and how far it was from achieving its final task. That was a truly artistic moment.

[@QCLagstone]

That shit's fucking cool

[@garryiglesias4074]

We've lost this magic...

[@kinarkhar]

Thats amazing

[@eric549recon]

... this, this is art

[@xdnewsman7408]

Brilliant!!!!! I wish there was a recording of it

[@JonesySurvived]

"Taking lightning and sticking it in a rock until it learns to think" has to be the single greatest description of computers ever. Bravo to the orator!

[@yankeenobonagu6411]

id like it but you have 101 likes

[@auntiecarol]

@@yankeenobonagu6411 Decimal slave /s

[@t3hKazy]

When does he say that?

[@joehyginus6125]

We have tamed lightning and made sand think.💪🏽

[@brkmrt2]

@@t3hKazy 17:24

[@Megabushbuck]

This is not a talk it's a performance.

[@minall6889]

This must be the most epic talk I've ever seen!

[@olli9764]

Isn't a talk always a performance regardless?

[@DevsLikeUs]

it surely is !

[@marijnkneppers2340]

I agree

[@enriquegarciacota3914]

Every talk is a performance. It's just that most of them are really bad.

[@deadshxll]

this dude really sang in his own programming language

[@hazalstella656]

I can't believe i just spend an hour watching this amazing talk! Absolutely perfect talk!

[@MQXM001]

If that's not a flex, I don't know what is

[@deadshxll]

@@MQXM001 ikr

[@srtghfnbfg]

He not only sang, he played guitar and displayed the parse tree of the program he was singing right under the code he wrote in his own programming language XD

[@realking2184]

"they called me a mad man"

[@chuygamer2734]

I think the coding presentation was just an excuse to bring his guitar playing skills into action. BRAVO!

[@superpj]

That's the first Bill and Ted movie guitar too..

[@stephclements6226]

brunel jasques atune waltz beach1z!! 2redbelzenz fishbass...

[@jadenirina9649]

Not a programmer but this presentation is truly a piece of art

[@MrSigmaSharp]

6 years of university studies and another 6 years of practical computer development and I have never seen many of the things shown in this video. I have just shared it everywhere. Amazing content.

[@Vscustomprinting]

me: "okay, ima watch my first coding video.."

[@connorgaughan9117]

Daniel Reynolds I started 2 days ago 😂

[@TheMrIndiankid]

@@Vscustomprinting same here :D

[@Comakino]

@@TheMrIndiankid This might not be the best place to start xD

[@eapo]

Don't worry, you are just young. We were born with these, you were born with something else ;)

[@Ali-lt1kb]

When you want to become a rockstar but your mom makes you learn programming.

[@zulzdn9348]

hahaagahhaahhaha

[@burntt999]

Typo... you meant mum Great talk tho :)

[@juwonadaniel]

@@burntt999 Not really, mom is American English while mum is British English

[@bowler1862]

TRUE!

[@TesterAnimal1]

Not a conflict!

[@AlambushaShukla]

This lecture will never get old. I've watched it 4 to 5 times in past 1 year. Every time I see it, it entertains like a movie and yet has the ability to impart knowledge!

[@lior_haddad]

So have I, it's executed incredibly well.

[@tejavathpavan1673]

Can u help mee

[@gunarcom]

currently watching for the 3rd time in so many years

[@shail0124]

@@gunarcomcan you please tell me what it teaches you? Should I watch it or not?

[@lukkkasz323]

@@shail0124 It depends if it's for you or not.

[@JH-wg7xe]

The auroboros quine is actually mindblowing.

[@TheJjedele]

This must be the most epic talk I've ever seen!

[@1995Shankar]

me too

[@nullplan01]

and the most metal!

[@TotoLakay]

He cranked it up to 11.

[@tensevo]

It's def up there. Lots of clever sh*t.

[@mikedoroshenko881]

best programming video. KZbin has been recommending me this for like half a year and here I am.

[@paulojose7568]

Ive ignored this recommendation so many times, but i finally watched it know... And it was a damn good recommendation Does youtube know what i like more than i know? xD

[@yalord5378]

me too man

[@jodazague8333]

@@paulojose7568 Unironically? yes

[@THEMATT222]

Relatable

[@homelikebrick42]

Same

[@jacobkamen9265]

The Rockstar fizzbuzz was awesome. A culmination of all the preceding layers of software and art packed into one performance

[@seenundercygnus6870]

I love how you can hear the passion and fascination of the person in the crowd with the distinct laugh. It makes me happy. It's how I feel about music theory, so I can relate.

[@asherael]

I can't believe the audience wasn't floored by Conway's Game of Life running in a computer made in Conway's Game of LIfe

[@AndresMartinez-ep5tt]

most likely they all are senior programmers and have seen it before

[@TheCookiePup]

It was a pretty viral youtube video a few times, a looping version of it with epic music

[@Lunsterful]

As Andres said, I'm a senior dev and I've seen almost all of this before, including having read Hoftstaeder, etc. There were some genuinely new things that were interesting/inspiring, but he can't expect developers to be new to most of this. Don't get me wrong, this was a great presentation and we need more like it. As the non-programmer commenter said, "I've never written a single word of code in my life and was absolutely enthralled by this from start to finish."

[@definesigint2823]

@@TheCookiePup Ah, that explains why some people laughed early (first time for me, I backed up the video trying to figure out how they knew so fast)

[@TheCookiePup]

@@definesigint2823 That or they saw it coming anyway because they were thinking "as above, so below" or in this case "as within, so beyond"

[@connerallen642]

"I got hooked because I made the computer do what I wanted" The exact reason I got hooked on coding myself. The unrecognized power behind just a keyboard is absolutely amazing in my opinion.

[@connerallen642]

@Some exactly. That feeling right there is why true coders love coding.

[@firmware-jh5vk]

@Some And the more you learn about the internal of the system, it becomes pure addiction.

[@Southpaw101]

Same here , just seeing whatever you had in mind work exactly the way u thought is a beautiful feeling

[@ninjamonkey2251]

That makes one of us. I have never gotten a computer to do what I wanted outside of a small amount in the Roblox studio because every tutorial and teacher I have found is rubbish and no engine I've found so far is intuitive enough to just figure out on my own. Got a solution?

[@Explosivo55]

when you are shit at life an escape into what the keyboard can bring you is a no brainer

[@deimia6536]

You know if every single university professor made these kind of lectures I would be in uni forever.

[@stephclements6226]

COleg0Diffz?

[@matijavuk9468]

ok, I'll need to re-watch this several times, one of the most fascinating thing I've seen on youtube in this age of entertainment consumerism.

[@vinayseth1114]

TED speakers could learn a thing or two from this presentation.

[@danstermeister]

TED has devolved into adult Speech and Debate competitions.

[@Mystery207]

You must be able to pour coke without no one knowing what you’re pouring ? Or do you mean know your shit vs know you’re shit. Hehe 😉

[@Hals]

They don't learn, too busy hearing themselves talking

[@vinayseth1114]

@@Hals Hm true in many cases perhaps. But I still believe that there are genuine learners who talk at TED, as well. Hope we get to see more of them and less of the vain narcissists-a problem plaguing pretty much all digital domains today I guess!

[@oisin678]

Most TED talks are a complete waste of time. I have no idea why they are seen as any sort of standard.

[@DELPHIIII]

I've never written a single word of code in my life and was absolutely enthralled by this from start to finish. Brilliant, thank you.

[@gabrielsroka]

Have you ever sung any 80s heavy metal songs?

[@Ludabeat]

@@gabrielsroka hahahahah

[@MrTeathyme]

as someone whos been coding for almost two decades, i was equally as enthralled. This is the kind of stuff that made me fall in love with coding to begin with.

[@IDK-kv8ob]

@Amon Duul dude. Hell yea. Thank you. In gonna go down the list one by one. See you in 20 years!

[@rederdex]

I started to learn to code 6 months ago, and I'm getting more and more surprised by what computers and coders can do in general. This was an amazing watch!

[@jonirampo4796]

I often have doubts about what i am programming, but this speech gave me confidence to program just what i like, whether it's silly or not.

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

It's a creative endeavor as much as it is anything else. There's absolutely no reason not to treat it as such. It can be an outlet like any other.

[@milobanks9407]

The audience did not clap nearly as much as they should've. Amazing presetation/timing/performance!

[@stefan_popp]

*Complexity from simplicity* 4:39 Game of life 9:58 Mandelbrot set *Art from code* 17:45 Deep dream 22:07 Using software to create art *Code as art* 24:48 Artistic (obfuscated) code 27:49 Quines (programs which print their own source code) 36:40 Esoteric coding languages 41:33 Code to sound languages 46:37 The Rockstar language

[@redpencil1409]

Ah, yes Thank you!

[@newgoogleaccount3526]

thanx

[@alimahdi6379]

My thumb loves your index.

[@Joel_Thomas]

Not all heroes wear capes 🖖🏽

[@haywoodjablome440]

Thank you so much.

[@altunbikubra]

I have missed listening to such a good speaker. They are really rare.

[@jordansabourin4978]

"This thing beat me!" I'm that bad at chess, too.

[@kdk6572]

I can't believe i just spend an hour watching this amazing talk! Absolutely perfect talk! Kesinlikle :)

[@gabrielisuekebho880]

I just found out that programming languages can be used like this. The fact that programming languages that do silly things and create unimaginable things(ART) is mind boggling and the rockstar programing language is awesome.

[@gnarfgnarf4004]

"The thrill has never gone away." Amen brother.

[@kubastachu9860]

Started watching this with "oh, another hour talk that could be condensed into 5 minutes of specifics". Quickly changed my mind. Definetly worth watching.

[@DineshSomu]

"If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself." - Alber Einstein. You sir, you explained it to even a fool like me, and this fool able to get it.

[@iracingtf5051]

Did he really say that though?

[@DineshSomu]

@@iracingtf5051 Yes, I saw this quote with his picture in the background. So, must be true 😛

[@byrospyro4432]

Einstein never said this, Richard Feynman come up with a learning technique where you explain an idea in a simple way to someone in order to understand, but Einstein never said that quote ever lol.

[@ASLUHLUHCE]

Didn't say it. If in doubt check Wikiquote

[@bonbondojoe1522]

Are you a 6yo tho

[@MrWaterbugdesign]

29:00 A program that prints its own source code reminded me of my first project in Programming 101 in college about 40 years ago. The project was to use Apple Basic on an Apple II to write a program and document the program in a flowchart. I thought flowcharting was dumb so I wrote a program that would create a flowchart of itself. Self documenting. Professor was a little pissed. Flowcharting was replaced with adding comments as programs became way too complex to make flowcharting useful. Add comments were largely replace with the reality that comments often mismatch code as code is changed and comments remain. But I still use a lot of comments but mostly as brainstorming.

[@everettlwilliamsii3740]

There is this global disdain for COBOL, but there are COBOL programs that are still running, basically untouched for over 40 years. If a programmer is careful with their variable names (spending enough time in the Data Division), COBOL can be essentially self-documenting, saving an extra step. I have always believed in paragraph documentation, where you write a paragraph describing what a procedure or block of code is intended to do and then add in descriptions of any particularly tricky techniques that are used therein. Line by line comments are essentially useless to any but the totally clueless and if they are that clueless, they don't belong in there in any case.

[@luuuzeta]

ToC (with new newlines!) 00:00 Introduction, Logo programming 4:44 Conway's Game of Life (GoL) 7:14 Can you create patterns that will grow infinitely in GoL? 10:00 Chaos Theory: The Butterfly Effect 10:40 Imaginary numbers 11:40 Complex numbers (e.g., Argand diagram) 14:12 Mandelbrot 14:55 The Mandelbrot set 16:35 Self-similar shapes 17:51 Tron (and CG movies) 19:40 Pareidolia 20:16 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) 21:27 A new kind of art 21:36 Deep Dreaming (CNN technique) 22:16 Robert Felker and generative art 24:54 Code as an art form in its own right 25:05 Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) 25:45 A safe haven for obfuscated and poorly-written code 26:08 Flappy Bird in obfuscated C 26:36 The Mandelbrot Set in obfuscated C 27:00 Playable chess game in obfuscated JS (< 1 kb) 27:40 Program that prints its own source code 28:28 Quines 29:30 Quines in C# 30:00 Quines in JS 30:31 Can you make a quine in HTML? 32:37 C, Ruby, Python and/or Perl code? 34:06 Polyquines 34:18 The Ouroburos quine 36:40 The Shakespeare programming language 38:05 The Whitespace programming language 38:34 The Chef programming language 39:42 The Piet programming language 41:37 Live demos and snowflakes structures/entities 43:00 The Sonic Pi programming language 43:38 Quick demo of Sonic Pi: Fizzbuzz Riff Edition 46:40 The "rockstar" developer trope 47:10 The Rockstar programming language 48:16 Hello World in Rockstar 48:24 Variables and assignment in Rockstar 49:08 Douglas Crawford, JSON creator 49:24 Types of variables in Rockstar 49:45 Numeric literals in Rockstar 50:37 PI in Rockstar 50:51 Arithmetic in Rockstar 51:18 Comparison in Rockstar 51:32 Functions in Rockstar 52:20 Introducing Rockstar to the world 54:32 Rocket interpreter in JS 54:48 Rockstar logo 56:05 Dylan performs Fizzbuzz in Rockstar live

[@novitrix9671]

Solid effort ty

[@wit2817]

"with newlines!" LMFAO

[@Dazed_04]

You should also edit it to say "For people who like to take the fun out of things" after the with newlines tag

[@cdelaorden]

This will be a classic talk in the years to come: thought provoking, informative, funny stuff being superbly delivered.

[@ithaca2076]

I absolutely love it!

[@shabdasingh8954]

@Angelo DeLuca yeah me too I am shocked how one hour flew by.

[@Sarimae23]

Fully Agreed, No Doubt.

[@janstehlik8713]

I love this guy! 17:22 "We invented computers, which means taking lightning and sticking it into rock until it learns to think.."

[@freeman9586]

I think that is a exurb1a quote

[@proxy1035]

@EramSemperRecta i mean same with us. we just react to whatever our sensors are outputting and our previous experiences with things, be that something that happend 5 years ago or 5 seconds. The Human brain is really complex, no question, but it isn't magic. Computers and the Human brain are both based on the rules of the universe, so why shouldn't computers be able to do the same as a brain?

[@javiersolisbolivar3339]

@EramSemperRecta no yet...

[@Dongdot123]

@EramSemperRecta Yeah? Why do you think we have the same basic construct of carbon? Why didn't carbon atoms or molecules just stay as they are? It's an order from chaos that basically portrayed by people making the conway's game of life. A banana is a banana. So does many variety of bananas, they are their own.

[@javiersolisbolivar3339]

@EramSemperRecta dear Sir, everything change, by evolution, engineering or extinction. Artificial Intelligence is just inevitable. But is normal to have a hard time trying to understand scales bigger than our lifetime. for example you talk about bananas being the same in a billion years. Only a thousand years ago the bananas you find in the supermarket doesn't exist, the bananas of our time had been developed by selecting seeds and species , and that process continue today, we try to develop fruits more resistant to plagues, that grow faster, use less water, etc. And if bananas change in less than a thousand years, what a computer will be in 1000 years is totally away of our imagination.

[@retrokoala5325]

I had just started coding 7 months ago, and I've seen this video once a moth since my first "Hello World". Every time I recap this awesome lecture, I discover something new and understand something intrinsic about the topics. Just awesome

[@PeterMoueza]

Personal bookmarks shared : A timeline : 3:47 contrast 4:44 game of life 7:00 grow 10:00 butterfly effect 11:00 complex (breadcrumbs : quaternions) 12:04 ? diagram 14:15 Mandelbrot 16:38 (always different) but self similar 17:48 Tron 18:25 Jurassic Park 18:40 character 19:20 Friends avatars 19:50 clouds shapes patterns CNN 20:45 dog vs muffin 21:20 Deep Dreaming 22:15 ART 22:45 Flutter dev 23:00 generative art (breadcrumbs : generative programming) 24:59 Knuth books (breadcrumbs : Mathematica) 25:45 Obfuscated CLI Flappy Bird 27:12 game in URL 27:30 JS 27:50 Obfuscated contest (breadcrumbs : virus) source code recursion C# 27:37 string templating (breadcrumbs : grammar ... FSM) 30:34 HTML Quine 32:30 prints itself 32:40 C 33:00 Ruby 33:50 Py Perl ... PolyQuine 34:22 Ada ... Uroboros Quine language 35:45 fractal text 36:35 Github Actions 36:50 Shakespear text Hello World ! 38:06 Whitespace 38:36 Souffle in Chef (breadcrumbs : CSP + COP) 2 domains 39:47 Piet (mix) cross rules 16 bit art Hello World 42:30 snowflake processing (never repeated anywhere) 43:03 Sonic Pi music language (breadcrumbs : CCRMA ) live loop (breadcrumbs : Pharo) 46:15 live coding 46:40 HE Rockstar programming (words songs) : rock song compiled to something 48:42 Flutter 49:02 Json 50:29 Pi ex 51:10 arithmetic 52:20 Github refs 53:10 Issues fix requests 54:36 Rockstar in JS 55:12 Logo 55:50 guitar song live demo

[@billionaireno1]

wow man thank you

[@PeterMoueza]

@@billionaireno1 You're welcome... so interesting !

[@arnerademacker]

@@PeterMoueza Some people don't believe in semicolons. You don't seem to be believing in newlines. :D

[@subhradipporel285]

thanks man

[@maleck25]

Thank you Peter for this timeline. Great job and also great altruism of yours. The more we dig into the internet and the more accessible this virtual world becomes, the more certain I am of the existence of numerous good people out there who anonymously and freely sacrifice their own time to save hundreds of people's time. We definitely work better if we work together.

[@GoddamnAxl]

can't believe i watched the whole thing..that was 1 hour of my life! and it was damn worth it!

[@hafsaryuzaki3295]

Same the time just went by

[@f.d.3289]

Once you begin delving into Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming", you'll quickly realize that programming is, indeed, an art. Even though it's nearly half a century old, even though it uses outdated computer models and languages, it still never fails to amaze me. Knuth is a genuine genius.

[@raijinnathanmatthews8092]

My favourite talk I’ve found on the internet. What a brilliant man. What a brilliant world we live in.

[@itsjustboarsley]

I was unaware they made Conway's game of life out of Conway's game of life. Blown away at like 10 minutes in.

[@brianh.000]

That was pretty astounding.

[@djtbone001a]

Programs writing programs and their own source codes, Codeception. We must go deeper.

[@SaMusz73]

Conway's RIP video of ElJj kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3nTqmmDgLJggJo in FRENCH, sorry if you don't speak it, (there might be subtitles, or request them if you need them) is a must seen about the Game of Life and some (about 10) of Conway's majors mathematical ideas .

[@ishikani]

@@djtbone001a have you heard of the code that writes itself through 128 languages? yeah, that's pretty cool. Edit: nevermind, he did reference it

[@ithaca2076]

Same!

[@DavesGarage]

The first two minutes are the best description of discovering the love of coding that I've heard.

[@quetzapollo]

litterally the smarter of us made sand learn play Minecraft. Alchemy and witchcraft are just annoying bitches bitchung about stitching stiches in a meadow of itches. Do That!

[@Epinardscaramel]

I think learning LOGO in school awoke something in me as well 😊

[@iskandar5321]

@@Epinardscaramel u Oooooniioozzzo😊😆😆🎫😇🙄🥲🎎🎅🚣🏿‍♀️🤽🏿🥝🍖🧈

[@sbjncn]

how do i become a unethical hacker? do i have to learn how to be a ethical hacker first?

[@eternalheckler]

Watching this has seriously impacted my youtube algorithm recommended videos...I'm not sorry

[@TeoAl]

A whole hour of absolute joy. This man is brilliant!

[@DimitriGigot]

I can't believe i just spend an hour watching this amazing talk! Absolutely perfect talk!

[@simonmasters3295]

I loved Hofstadter and GEB. This is next level. Respect

[@andrewrich6905]

Do you know what makes this presentation amazing, except this guy's skills? The fact that it is full of visualizations...that's how our brain understands!

[@peterg5383]

actually, there are different paths to understanding; visualization is only one of them.

[@andrewrich6905]

@@peterg5383 i think that the final part is to visualize every idea...you can use metaphors,similes, analogies but in the end ,in my opinion, everything is converted into an image

[@peterg5383]

@@andrewrich6905: maybe for you. different people are different. not everybody is like you.

[@robin_birdie_]

@@peterg5383 excuse me, that's bs.

[@nathanepimetheus8530]

Perhaps what Peter g is referring to are blind people.

[@shasherazi]

ok youtube, after recommending me this video for a crazy long time, you win. I'm here now

[@shasherazi]

should've watched earlier

[@TheMehranKhan]

this was the best one hour of my life, i've never been more focused on someone's presentation than this guy, you're amazing.

[@joeharrison8571]

One of the best talks i've ever seen, after delivering a flawless presentation like that for almost an hour of course you deserve our indulgence at the end

[@mayurravindra9433]

It's high time to thanks KZbin algorithm for recommending me this masterpiece to watch! Happy new year 😊

[@kainsteel4317]

Q

[@chibuzor_]

Now, this is one of the best presentations I've listened to in a while. What an amazing speaker...was hooked in at every minute!

[@goodyfett6427]

i watch this talk about once a month to not only laugh and smile, but also to humble myself realizing art,science,math and computing are so simple yet so complex at the same time!

[@ard-janvanetten1331]

This video got me into programming again. Halfway into the first year of computer science college, loving it. Thank you.

[@monemperor1559]

god on you isaac! maybe you can program a physics engine for your laws of motion

[@chaotickreg7024]

Thank you Newton, please write the next great physics engine for us.

[@SolidIncMedia]

This was an amazing talk. Well put together, full of surprises, full of languages I forgot existed. Well done!

[@the__void__spaghetti__girl]

this is one of the best talks i've ever seen. DEAR GOD the genius of this man and other coders

[@MrHotSpurs1]

"A complex number is like a project plan: It has a path that is real, and a path that is imaginary" LOL LOL LOL LOL

[@adityarajkhowalama]

I was confused, whether to laugh or not

[@samiraperi467]

*part

[@Bitfire31337]

"... and it's very difficult to predict, what is going to happen next." Was looking for this quote - epic 😂.

[@billthomas2652]

I'm telling this to everybody at work today.

[@AdityaPrasad007]

@@samiraperi467 I think you can think of the real and imaginary parts of a complex number as paths along the real and imaginary axis. If you think about the argand plane it makes sense. So the pun is even better that way!

[@mejiab19]

This was beautiful! You had me smiling at many different parts of this video from the beauty of combining math, code, and art.

[@captainteach007]

Well said!

[@ariesdane5876]

From now on whenever I interview for a "rockstar" developer I'm going to hire the first person that shows up with a guitar.

[@GuiPurri]

"If you have logic gates, you can make circuits, computers, run programs." I was applausing.

[@n3rcn3rc]

Fabulous! I started professionally in Fortran in 1963 and ended up as the CIO of two federal departments. He captures the joy and power of coding!

[@stephclements6226]

FFFunKeynasaz??....

[@chunkaifu1284]

He’s gotta be the coolest dude I’ve ever seen in a long time

[@Epinardscaramel]

34:45 “we got BEGIN in capital letters, it's definitely from the 70s” 🤣

[@vorpal22]

I'm a programmer with terrible ADHD such that it takes me three hours to watch a 30 minute TV show, but was so enrapt with every second of this brilliant video that I couldn't look away.

[@kbrnsr]

The talk is amazing by itself, but the ending is what makes it legend

[@nullcheque]

I've skipped over this video in my recommendations for months. Glad I finally watched, this is amazing.

[@gustavo9758]

Holy cow, this HAS to be the best conference I've seen in my life.

[@raymitchell9736]

Just when I thought I've seen everything... awesome performance at the end, wasn't expecting a musical performance!

[@E.Chizzy]

This is by far the best talk I have ever watched and I'm confident it will remain for quite a while.

[@muddaurth5825]

Everything about this lecture is Absolutely Fascinating. This video has a better explanation of Conway’s Game of Life than Veritasium.

[@themannyzaur]

I regret not watching this video a few years back when KZbin recommended this to me Then I am glad i finally made time to watch this If you're reading this and have been putting this video off for a long time, this is your cue to give this video a watch An absolute gem of a video

[@andrewferguson7859]

I was introduced to “Hello World” when I entered college and took my first programming course. Pascal was all the rage at the time and we all got a taste for “ type it in, it will work.” It didn’t for most and confusion over ‘ and ` was the issue. I have worked un software development for decades and seen my share of interesting talks. This one, pardon the pun, Rocks. Thank you.

[@eeddmm99]

I too was duped into paying for the PL experience, After Fortran and Pascal I was about as useful as Betamax, However it was very useful when I took other PL's because of the logic.Dylan is very entertaining and a knowledgeable source of information.

[@evgenkonyshock4913]

When he drew out a guitar i thought this speak can't be any more epic

[@pauln07]

I come back a rematch this every few months because it's one of the greatest pieces of art and code ever

[@cccomputerchannel629]

This talk will never grow old. I will show this to my grand children in 40 years from now to get them into programming :)

[@nevereveravailable]

On a scale from crazy to genius this guy goes to 11! Such a wonderful and unique talk.

[@gui42cmzx98]

Absolute legend, this conference was incredibly entertaining from start to finish. This guy has such an awesome mind, i love it, thanks a lot for this hour !!

[@OrangeDurito]

This is astonishingly utterly mind blowing to me. The ingenuity of these people are remarkable. Thank you for this wonderful video!

[@jeffbrownstain]

I'm so happy to find people like this among the net. Dang introvert creatives gotta stop hiding behind their screens and show the world their work so us plebs can collab with them.

[@christopherhanel8743]

This was by far the most beautiful "pattern" I saw this year. Thank you for this overwhelming inception

[@MBTIMemes]

when KZbin recommended this to me I had no clue what this video possibly could've been about, and I also had no clue that watching this 1 hour video to the end definitely wouldn't feel like 1 hour at all :o

[@llamasarefluffy6270]

OMG why are you here lol I watch your vids

[@CharmPeddler]

I read your message and I had to verify for myself because it really didn't feel like an hour at all!

[@kevinngetich3784]

Can't believe this just sat there in my "Watch Later" for over a year.

[@user-wn4yj5uk5d]

This entire hour long video explains why we love Computer Science so much

[@MrLinker44]

As a begginer programmer this blew my mind all the way to oblivion. I will forever remember this talk thank you so much

[@joeangell5652]

I know absolutely zero about coding. No idea how this ended up in my suggestions. But one of the BEST talks ever. Fantastic job Dylan!

[@AlexGBY9]

One of the best, most entertaining talks of all times! Makes me want to write the "Game of life" in rockstar and then compile it to JS!

[@skywind1403]

Listening to this guy is never boring. He's a great epic storyteller.

[@kilo.ironblossom]

My first KZbin 1 hour video that I didn't skip for a second. It was a journey.

[@RevolverSnake412]

I still until this day repeat this wonderful presentation, I watched it for the first time with a limited knowledge in computer science, and yet I loved it. and now as a junior software engineer, I love it even more than before

[@sanches2]

Me and my best friend got together for a week to work on our year end projects and wasted half the week by playing with Winamp visualization studio and came up with some strange equations, which made really great animations and images. Best procrastination adhd episode i've ever had :)

[@Guacamole42]

Mind blown! Best talk I ever seen on KZbin. Thank you Dylan Beattie, you are awesome!

[@qoobes]

Legit one of the best talks i've heard in a while

[@itsmedante.5325]

Uwu ?

[@qoobes]

@@itsmedante.5325 yes

[@zednotdead]

Well this has been probably my second favourite conference talk ever. And man The FizzBuzz riff is a bop and a half.

[@Disco2FiB]

Devotion and dedication to his craft is inspiring

[@SubbingForFree]

I feel like I just watched an entire movie, complete with the end credit song. Incredible.

[@jean-benoistbrault1549]

Came for the title, stayed for the art ;)

[@peynao]

This is the freakiest programming speech I've seen so far lol I love it!

[@TipsyCHUBBZ]

I'm happy i found this today, i've been struggling to find motivation in code lately but this was the spark i needed thank you

[@kerningandleading]

Thank you, KZbin algorithm and auto-play. I would never have found this on my own and my life is better for it.

[@greymatter33]

As an artist, designer, developer, lover of film making, rock music, philosophy and many other thins creative and academic (not to mention rebellious)-this is one of the most fascinating videos I've ever seen in my entire life. THANK YOU!!

[@chad0x]

At the end would've been amazing if he'd said "And THAT! Is how you output "Hello World" in Rockstar!"

[@59secondsin84]

I am not into coding or into math and was hooked into this within the first minute or so! Fascinating stuff