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Best Computer vision, speech & NLP videos, as recommended on Hacker News

58 videos about computer vision, speech & nlp that Hacker News commenters keep recommending, mentioned between 2007 and 2026. Mostly demo, talk, explainer. Channels that come up most: Computerphile, Denis Shiryaev, Google TechTalks, Strange Loop Conference. Sorted by how consistently HN recommended them over the years.

The most recommended is Bay Area Vision Meeting: Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning: HN commenters recommended it for years as a simple, exciting overview of the deep learning wave.

• talkBay Area Vision Meeting: Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep LearningGoogle TechTalks · 9 HN recommenders · 2011–2013
• talk"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily SheaStrange Loop Conference · 5 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• talkAndrej Karpathy - AI for Full-Self Driving at TeslaMatroid · 4 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
• tutorialTensorflow and deep learning - without a PhD by Martin GörnerDevoxx · 6 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
• explainerJPEG DCT, Discrete Cosine Transform (JPEG Pt2)- ComputerphileComputerphile · 6 HN recommenders · 2015–2026
• explainerFourier Optics used for Optical Pattern RecognitionHuygens Optics · 5 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• lectureLet's build the GPT TokenizerAndrej Karpathy · 5 HN recommenders · 2024–2025
• talkMassive-scale online collaboration | Luis von AhnTED · 4 HN recommenders · 2012–2022
• talk!!Con 2017: HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! by Kevin ChenConfreaks · 4 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
• talkDasher: information-efficient text entryGoogle TechTalks · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2025
• lectureLSTM is dead. Long Live Transformers!Seattle Applied Deep Learning · 4 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• demoDual Photographymm648230 · 4 HN recommenders · 2013–2026
• lectureLecture 1 | Natural Language Processing with Deep LearningStanford University School of Engineering · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
• demoStealing Baseball Signs with a Phone (Machine Learning)Mark Rober · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
• talk[CVPR'21 WAD] Keynote - Andrej Karpathy, TeslaWAD at CVPR · 4 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
• talkGoogle Developers Day US - Theorizing from DataGoogleDeveloperDay · 3 HN recommenders · 2007–2009
• lecturePeter Norvig - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of DataUBC Computer Science · 3 HN recommenders · 2012–2026
• explainer3D Gaussian Splatting! - ComputerphileComputerphile · 3 HN recommenders · 2024–2026
• documentaryHow the US Postal Service reads terrible handwritingTom Scott · 4 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
• demoSpeaking Piano - Now with (somewhat decent) captions!TheMcphearson · 3 HN recommenders · 2010–2023
• explainerAI Language Models & Transformers - ComputerphileComputerphile · 3 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
• demoThis AI actually WORKS!!! - NVIDIA RTX VoiceShortCircuit · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
• demoBFS-Auto: High Speed Book Scanner at over 250 pages/minIshikawa Group Laboratory · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
• tutorialGeorge Hotz | Programming | Livecoding SLAM | twitchslam | Part1george hotz archive · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
• coursePractical Deep Learning for Coders: Lesson 1Jeremy Howard · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
• demo[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902Denis Shiryaev · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• demoHound Internal DemoHound by SoundHound Inc. · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2019
• demo3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2013Daniel CohenOr · 2 HN recommenders · 2013–2024
• talkMilitarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel HordesNext Day Video · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2023
• talkHow Google's Self-Driving Car WorksIEEE Spectrum · 2 HN recommenders · 2012–2016
• podcastDouglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221Lex Fridman · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
• demo#VoCo. Adobe Audio Manipulator Sneak Peak with Jordan Peele | Adobe Creative CloudAdobe Creative Cloud · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
• talk"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)Strange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• explainerGlitch Tokens - ComputerphileComputerphile · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2023
• talkDuolingo -- the next chapter in human computation | Luis von Ahn | TEDxCMU 2011TEDx Talks · 2 HN recommenders · 2011–2012
• demoLarynx Demosynesthesiam · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
• demo[4k, 60 fps] A Trip Through New York City in 1911Denis Shiryaev · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
• lectureGeoffrey Hinton talk "What is wrong with convolutional neural nets ?"trwappers · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
• lectureLecture 1 | Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual RecognitionStanford University School of Engineering · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• talkAutonomous Car - what goes into sensing for autonomous driving?Mobileye · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2016
• courseCS231n Winter 2016: Lecture1: Introduction and Historical ContextAndrej Karpathy · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023
• comedyBurnistoun - Voice Recognition Elevator in ScotlandVideoFunStation · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2018
• talkHuman ComputationGoogleTalksArchive · 1 HN recommender · 2013–2019
• demoFacebook's Prototype VR Face Tracking Got Even BetterUploadVR · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2022
• demoHigh-Speed Robot HandHizook · 1 HN recommender · 2012–2020
• demoPREDATOR - Tracker that learns and improvesZdenek Kalal · 1 HN recommender · 2011–2023
• demoDeep Visualization ToolboxJason Yosinski · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2025
• documentaryHow China Tracks EveryoneVICE News · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2026
• demoThe Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from VideoAbe Davis's Research · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2026
• talkAndrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 (see description for better quality version)YarrowFlower · 1 HN recommender · 2021–2022
• demoSpeech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated WordMicrosoft Research · 1 HN recommender · 2013–2024
• demoVimSpeak DemoAshley Feniello · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2026
• talkImaging at a trillion frames per second | Ramesh RaskarTED · 1 HN recommender · 2012–2019
• other[60 fps] A Trip Through Paris, France in late 1890s / Un voyage à travers Paris, 1890Denis Shiryaev · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2024
• demoMovie reconstruction from human brain activityJack Gallant · 1 HN recommender · 2013–2024
• demoCVPR 2018: Learning to See in the DarkChen Chen · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2020
• explainerReveal Invisible Motion With This Clever Video TrickSteve Mould · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2022
• explainerTesla Autopilot Crashes into Motorcycle Riders - Why?FortNine · 1 HN recommender · 2022–2024