Sunday, June 12, 2011

New Complexity Vidcasts

The newly renamed Computational Complexity Channel features two new vidcasts Bill and I hosted last Thursday from San Jose.



12 comments:

  1. What a fawning interview. Awful.

    Thanks for trying, though.

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  2. Awful and pathetic.

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  3. Do not forget that these people are not professional journalist whose job is to interview people and appear in front of the camera. Maybe for the next vidcast you can hire a professional...

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  4. Anonymous #1 & #2:
    These are not controversial people and
    issues. What questions would you have
    liked to have been asked? (Maybe they
    can still submit them in writing.)

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  5. Thanks for both videos. It's great to see a bit of FCRC for those of us that couldn't make it.

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  6. Thanks Ryan for the advice you gave in the last minute of the interview.

    As an obscure grad student advised by a prof with no perseverance, my only successes so far were due to that philosophy. Now I am motivated to push more.

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  7. Are the conference talks going to be available online?

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  8. What is the link for the online proceedings?

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  9. Thanks Ryan for the advice you gave in the last minute of the interview.

    You're welcome! Had I prepared at all for this question, I would have phrased my advice with fewer cliches:

    Whenever possible, avoid competitions or worries about what others are doing. (This is different from *learning* from others or *working* with others, which you should definitely try to do!) Study questions that excite you so much that you can effectively communicate your excitement. Interesting questions are not sacred: you do not have to ask for permission to work on them. Continuously challenge your intuitions to understand your questions better.

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  10. Thanks, it was fun to watch.

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  11. It would help if you prepare some questions for the video cast before the interview. Reading a tutorial on carrying out interviews might also help.

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  12. Great interview!
    I like Ryan. He's nice.

    I wish to see more interviews with more complexity people.

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