Archive - The Peterman Post

Turing Award Winner: TPUs vs GPUs vs CPUs, Computer Architecture, RISC vs CISC | David Patterson

In college I briefly studied RISC vs CISC for my major but I forgot almost everything now.

Jul 13 • Ryan Peterman

59:11

Turing Award Winner: NSA, Public Key Cryptography, Crypto Wars | Martin Hellman

Interviewed Martin Hellman recently who was one of the inventors of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm.

Jul 6 • Ryan Peterman

1:01:41

June 2026

MIT Complexity Theorist: Why You Can Do Better Than “Optimal” On Leetcode & SAT | Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams is a professor at MIT and the winner of the Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science.

Jun 29 • Ryan Peterman

1:12:52

OpenAI Eng & Dev Tools Founder: How Software Engineering Is Changing | Charlie Marsh

Charlie Marsh is the founder of Astral, the Python devtool startup that was acquired by OpenAI.

Jun 22 • Ryan Peterman

1:22:56

Google DeepMind Pre-Training Lead: How To Get a Job at a Frontier Lab | Vlad Feinberg

Skills frontier labs need, differences between software engineering and research, concrete steps engineers can take

Jun 15 • Ryan Peterman

1:04:03

Co-Creator of Haskell: Functional Programming, Thinking in Types, Useless Languages | Simon Jones

Simon Peyton Jones is the co-creator of Haskell (pure functional programming language) and I interviewed him about functional programming, why it…

Jun 8 • Ryan Peterman

1:27:52

Turing Award Winner: P vs NP, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Quantum Computation | Avi Wigderson

His field of study & life's work

Jun 1 • Ryan Peterman

2:15:47

May 2026

3 Top Takeaways From Dropbox’s Former Most Senior Engineer | James Cowling

Advice for the AI era, fixing broken incentives, simplicity vs complexity

May 25 • Ryan Peterman

Dropbox’s Former Most Senior Eng: Building Great Systems and Advice for the AI Era | James Cowling

Transcript & Audio

May 25 • Ryan Peterman

2:01:53

Takeaways from Bjarne Stroustrup (Creator of C++)

What made Bell Labs special, negative overhead abstraction, C++ garbage collection

May 18 • Ryan Peterman

Creator of C++: Bell Labs, Negative Overhead Abstraction, Mistakes | Bjarne Stroustrup

Transcript & Audio

May 18 • Ryan Peterman

1:59:03

Takeaways from Harvard CS Professor David J Malan

Lecturing well, AI's downstream impact on students, why learn C in 2026

May 11 • Ryan Peterman

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