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Succeeding from Anywhere: The Remote Work Revolution with Tsedal Neeley Dec 03, 2020

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Tsedal Neely is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School and founder of the consulting firm Global Matters. Her book The Language of Global Success can give you the tools you need to understand how language shapes multinational and multicultural organizations. She talks to Scott about her upcoming book "Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere.: How will virtual work and global work change how YOU work?

Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere

A self-driving AI and Raspberry Pi powered Trash Bin with Ahad Cove Nov 26, 2020

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Why NOT make a self-driving AI and Raspberry Pi powered Trash Bin? Programmer Ahad Cove saw a problem and he took it upon himself to solve it. Ahad and Scott talk through the design and conception process, how it was coded, limitations, and future plans! Now, why don't YOU solve a problem in your home with coding and IoT?

YOUTUBE - Self-Driving Garbage Can That Takes Itself Out

TL;DR - Extreme Summarization as a service with Isabel Cachola Nov 19, 2020

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Isabel currently a PhD student studying Computer Science at Johns Hopkins. Previously she was a Pre-Doctoral Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI. She and Scott talk about her PhD thesis where she's taught a model to look at scientific texts and pull out a "TL;DR" summary that is both accurate AND useful!

https://isabelcachola.com/

Growing the next generation of technologists with CodeCrew's Meka Egwuekwe Nov 12, 2020

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Meka Egwuekwe is Executive Director of CodeCrew, an innovative, mentorship-based youth coding initiative guiding young people in Memphis to be tech producers. Scott talks to Meka about CodeCrew's multifaceted plan to fill the pipeline through summer camps, after school programs, and Code School for adults learning to code!

https://www.code-crew.org/

Programmatic Problem Solving with Nicole Archambault Nov 05, 2020

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Nicole Archambault believes we can scale back on learning to code and we should ramp up on learning problem solving. She believes this so much she's launched a whole online course - Newbie Coder Problem Solving School - that teaches tons of problem solving skills...with not a single line of code! Is this possible? A good idea? We find out this week!

https://www.lavieencode.net/launchpad

Creating with Constraints with Python Africa's Marlene Mhangami Oct 29, 2020

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Marlene Mhangami is a Python Software Foundation Director and the co-founder of ZimboPy, a Zimbabwean non-profit that empowers women to pursue careers in tech. Marlene is also the current chair of Pycon Africa, the first pan-African gathering of the Python community. Today she talks with Scott about working and creating with constraints, as well as her views on the incredible technology talent promise of the African Continent.

Greatly Accelerating Machine Learning with Intel's Huma Abidi Oct 22, 2020

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Scott talks to Huma Abidi, the Senior Director of AI Software Products at Intel. Huma leads a team of software engineers and today she sits down and gets deep with Scott on AI, machine learning, deep learning, optimization...and painting! What is the role of silicon and hardware instructions when doing AI and ML? How does Intel interact with the open source community?

Virtual Desktop is what VR needs - with Guy Godin Oct 15, 2020

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Why can't I control a Virtual Desktop of my PC from my VR headset? Guy Godin asked this question...and made the answer. Is VR Desktop VR's killer app? Scott talks to Guy about how he did it, and how VR Desktop made a $400 VR headset into Scott's primary rig...wirelessly! And it's written entirely in C#? With latency in the low milliseconds!? Impossible.

https://www.vrdesktop.net/

Normalizing Failure with Susana Benavidez Oct 08, 2020

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Susana Benavidez has had an interesting path into technology and she wants to normalize that path. Sometimes it's not straight and narrow, sometimes it's windy and filled with bumps. What would tech look like if we normalized failure and gave folks a space place to fail fast, fail often and come out on the other side better than ever?

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!

Enjoyable Code Reviews with Dr. Michaela Greiler Oct 01, 2020

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Do you dread code reviews? Dr. Michaela Greiler believes they are essential and if done right, can be enjoyable and powerful. She talks about the general practice of code reviews, what goes wrong, and how we can get better at them! What are the responsibilities of the reviewer and the reviewed? Here are the links we discussed in the episode:

awesomecodereviews.com workshops!
codereviewbook.io pre-release sign-up for the code review book!
https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com/ Dr. Greiler's Podcast
https://www.michaelagreiler.com/ all her blog posts about code reviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNXk_WJzyMI YouTube video on how to give respectful code review feedback
https://www.michaelagreiler.com/code-reviews-at-microsoft-how-to-code-review-at-a-large-software-company/ Blog post about code reviews at Microsoft
https://twitter.com/mgreiler

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