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

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.

"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!

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.

This is not a talk it's a performance.

this dude really sang in his own programming language

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

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

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

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.

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!

The auroboros quine is actually mindblowing.

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

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

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

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.

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

"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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

*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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

"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.

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.

I regret not watching this video a few years back when UKposts 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

when UKposts 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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!

Thank you Dylan. You Sir, ROCK

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

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

I was about 40 minutes in before I realized it was an hour long speech and I only realized that because I had to rewind a bit. Great presentation.

I was loosing my will to code but I am inspired now. Great, great talk. Thank you 🙏

"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

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 :)

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

HOLY SHIT, Dylan. Rockstar is a triumph, but ending the talk with an actual performance of FizzBuzz is pure genius. What a legend.

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.

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!

Simply mindblowing

This is a multi-talented guy. One of the best lectures I've ever seen.

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

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

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

I studied C programming about 30 years ago (DOS was still the dominant PC OS; Windows was a mere shell). I'm thrilled to hear that the Obfuscated C contest still exists!! However, I'm not sure which I'm more impressed by: Mandelbrot code that looks like the Mandelbrot set, or the Game of life played on a computer generated by the Game of life! Both are pretty damned meta. The Uroboros PolyQuine is a real standout as well, but all of these examples are truly awe-inspiring!

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

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

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

Okay after listening to this talk I have started programming now!! And this will be my hobby for the rest of my life

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.

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

Last night, I was having trouble going to sleep, so I resorted to listening to a short, but dry, UKposts talk about recursion. I must have fallen asleep within minutes. When I woke up an hour later (about midnight), UKposts was just getting to the great ending of this video. It was so good, I then stayed awake for another hour watching it right through!

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!

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

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

I am from Kerala, India... Really I like this video❤👍🙏 Thank you so much 🙏

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

Came for the title, stayed for the art ;)

So my product manager goes in Slack not two minutes after I finished watching this calling everyone rockstars. Epic.

2nd time I watch it. Every minute is gold.

The audience are some of the toughest crowd I have ever seen, how are they not excited in the end bruv? this is some of the coolest stuff I have ever seen!

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 !!

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

Devotion and dedication to his craft is inspiring

If you are ever going to speak in a conference where Dylan is also speaking, make sure you don't get scheduled after him. Absolutely mind blowing YT video. Best 1:00:48 ever spent on You Tube.

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

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

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

Pure awesomeness. Brilliant worth of hour

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!!

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

This is one of the best videos of all time

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

Legendary talk!

Oh yeah, man ! You should see the smile on my face after watching your video ! Rockstart remids me of Hypercard, but written by Kiss ;) Brilliant !