Keynotes 'So you want to be a wizard?'

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Claims that asking dumb questions is a superpower and shows concrete methods: reads source code to find mystery strings, runs experiments like 100 Python threads to reveal the global interpreter lock, and builds a baby TCP stack in Python that actually performs an HTTP GET to google.com. Demonstrates tools (profilers, Linux debugging utilities), reports a real case where changing two lines yields a 15× speedup, and separates learning experiments from production work so prototypes may be crude but teach what matters.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:30Computers are not magic
3. 1:28Learning how computers work
4. 2:12Understanding abstraction
5. 2:30Getting lost
6. 3:13Dictionary
7. 3:47TCP
8. 4:44Interfaces
9. 5:00What is it worth understanding
10. 5:20How to debug
11. 6:27Understanding interfaces
12. 8:20Building your own
13. 9:24Programming experiments
14. 10:02Security vulnerabilities
15. 11:12The most important thing
16. 12:08Asking questions
17. 13:08Whats a good question
18. 13:56What do I know
19. 14:46What I know helps
20. 15:15Do research
21. 15:41Be specific
22. 16:23Yes or no questions
23. 16:53Guess the answer
24. 17:35How do you do that
25. 18:21Asking a public
26. 19:59Figure it out
27. 20:44Read code
28. 21:33Search for strings
29. 22:49Look for loops
30. 23:19What is a loop
31. 24:03Explore internal code
32. 24:59Refactoring
33. 25:14Understanding Projects
34. 26:24Wizardly Feeling
35. 27:09Why are bugs important
36. 27:26Learning from bugs
37. 28:07Bugs are a gift
38. 28:20Three types of bugs
39. 29:57How do you get better
40. 30:07A useful thing to remember
41. 30:42What to do about it
42. 30:53Bugs take time
43. 31:41One thing per millisecond
44. 32:29Train your intuition
45. 32:48Computer game
46. 33:25Debugging tool kit
47. 35:22Debugging tools zine
48. 35:38Learning
49. 36:10Bugs
50. 36:28Hard Projects
51. 37:12Im Me
52. 38:00Ideas

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