Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life including the Practice of Programming, the Go Programming Language, his latest UNIX: A History and a Memoir. He co-created AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He co-designed AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for large-scale optimization.

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OUTLINE:
00:00 - Introduction
04:24 - UNIX early days
22:09 - Unix philosophy
31:54 - Is programming art or science?
35:18 - AWK
42:03 - Programming setup
46:39 - History of programming languages
52:48 - C programming language
58:44 - Go language
1:01:57 - Learning new programming languages
1:04:57 - Javascript
1:08:16 - Variety of programming languages
1:10:30 - AMPL
1:18:01 - Graph theory
1:22:20 - AI in 1964
1:27:50 - Future of AI
1:29:47 - Moore's law
1:32:54 - Computers in our world
1:40:37 - Life

#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

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(00:00) - Introduction
(10:53) - Human language
(14:59) - Generalizations in language
(20:46) - Dependency grammar
(30:45) - Morphology
(39:20) - Evolution of languages
(42:40) - Noam Chomsky
(1:26:46) - Thinking and language
(1:40:16) - LLMs
(1:53:14) - Center embedding
(2:19:42) - Learning a new language
(2:23:34) - Nature vs nurture
(2:30:10) - Culture and language
(2:44:38) - Universal language
(2:49:01) - Language translation
(2:52:16) - Animal communication

#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

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(08:53) - Walmart
(10:24) - Early life
(29:14) - Hitchhiking
(40:49) - Couch surfing
(49:50) - Quarter Confessions
(1:07:33) - Burning Man
(1:22:44) - Protests
(1:28:17) - Jon Stewart
(1:31:13) - Fame
(1:44:31) - Jan 6
(1:48:15) - QAnon
(1:54:00) - Alex Jones
(2:10:52) - Politics
(2:20:29) - Response to allegations
(2:37:28) - Channel 5
(2:43:04) - Rap
(2:44:51) - O Block
(2:48:47) - Crip Mac
(2:51:59) - Aliens

#425 – Andrew Callaghan: Channel 5, Gonzo, QAnon, O-Block, Politics & Alex Jones

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(00:00) - Introduction
(06:30) - Oct 7
(36:59) - Two-state solution
(52:37) - Holocaust
(1:00:24) - 1948
(1:09:17) - Egypt
(1:23:39) - Jon Stewart
(1:25:51) - Going viral during the Arab Spring
(1:49:55) - Arabic vs English
(2:02:18) - Sam Harris and Jihad
(2:07:25) - Religion
(2:26:37) - TikTok
(2:31:10) - Joe Rogan
(2:33:07) - Joe Biden
(2:37:33) - Putin
(2:39:21) - War
(2:44:17) - Hope

#424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

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(00:00) - Introduction
(07:14) - War in Iraq
(15:00) - Battle injuries and PTSD
(22:10) - War on terrorism
(30:51) - War in Gaza
(34:52) - War in Ukraine
(38:38) - Syria
(46:20) - Warmongers
(55:40) - Nuclear war
(1:11:08) - TikTok ban
(1:23:13) - Bernie Sanders
(1:28:08) - Politics
(1:46:59) - Personal attacks
(1:49:07) - God

#423 – Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex

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(11:10) - Entrepreneurship
(26:03) - Shark Tank
(36:29) - How Mark made first billion
(1:02:39) - Dallas Mavericks
(1:08:05) - DEI debate
(1:43:58) - Trump vs Biden
(1:46:20) - Immigration
(1:55:53) - Drugs and Big Pharma
(2:11:53) - AI
(2:16:05) - Advice for young people

#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

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