How to look smart in meetings and how to be successful without hurting men's feelings with Sarah Cooper
Sarah Cooper spent a decade working in tech at companies like Yahoo! and Google when she stopped it all to focus on comedy! Since then she's become a best selling author, comedian, writer, speaker and general trash-talker. Her book "100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings" is fantastic and her new book "How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings" has some amazing 1-star reviews from people who have no humor in their lives. http://sarahcpr.com/books/
21 Helmi 201931min
Privacy and Security on today's internet with Melanie Ensign
Melanie Ensign is the Security + Privacy Communications Lead for Uber and has worked with DEF CON, and Facebook. She and Scott talk about security and privacy on today's internet. Where is the happy medium between user experience, expectation, and real security? How do we leap the uncanny valley of privacy?
15 Helmi 201932min
Coding for the ZX Spectrum and Netflix/Black Mirror's Bandersnach with Matt Westcott
As an enthusiast of retrogaming and retrocomputing, Matt Westcott has been in ZX Spectrum and demo scene for many years. Recently when Netflix's Black Mirror needed an easter egg for their interactive episode Bandersnatch, they reached out to Matt to write a new game for the ZX Spectrum in 2018! Bandersnatch's plot had the main characters writing video games in the 80s and a secret easter egg led to "nohzdyve." How do you write a game for the ZX Spectrum in the 21st century? Use a ZX Spectrum in your browser! Matt's Twitter thread on the experience https://tuckersoft.net/ealing20541/nohzdyve/
8 Helmi 201932min
Exploring Algorithms of Oppression with Dr. Safiya Noble
Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School of Communication. She's the author of a best-selling book called Algorithms of Oppression. Today she talks to Scott about how commercial search engines have algorithmic bias that shape how we see the world. How can we identify biases in our search results and still find the information we need? https://safiyaunoble.com/
1 Helmi 201935min
Getting started with Machine Learning and Sabrina Smai
Sabrina is a Commercial Software Engineer and serial hacker who has attended over 32 hackathons! She was also a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Today she sits down and gets Scott (and you!) started with the basics of Machine Learning. What are the tools and concepts you should explore to start? https://www.edx.org/course/essential-math-for-machine-learning-python-edition https://academy.microsoft.com/en-us/professional-program/tracks/artificial-intelligence/ http://www.deeplearning.net/software/theano/ https://www.tensorflow.org/ https://keras.io/ https://academy.microsoft.com/en-us/professional-program/tracks/data-science/ https://www.kaggle.com/c/humpback-whale-identification https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning https://www.kaggle.com/competitions https://www.kaggle.com/ https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/iris http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/ http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/
25 Tammi 201935min
A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics with Jeremy Kun
Like Programming, Mathematics has language and culture. Jeremy Kun has written A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics as a way to bridge these two worlds and make the power and magic of mathematics available and understandable to programmers everywhere. https://pimbook.org https://github.com/pim-book https://medium.com/@jeremyjkun/on-self-publishing-a-programmers-introduction-to-mathematics-1472b7511c99
18 Tammi 201931min
Episode 666 - Game Engine Black Book: Doom with Fabien Sanglard
I love that an exploration of Doom is Episode 666. Fabian Sanglard has written The Game Engine Black Book: Doom as a deep exploration of the history, impact, and code that made Doom a cultural phenomenon. The book was released exactly 25 years after DOOM.zip was first published on the University of Wisconsin FTP server in December 1993. http://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom
11 Tammi 201932min
Regine Gilbert on the Essence of Accessibility
Regine Gilbert is a user experience designer, educator, and international public speaker with over 10 years of experience working in the technology arena. She has a strong belief in making the world a more accessible place—one that starts and ends with the user. Regine is an Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, teaching User Experience Design to students in the Integrated Digital Media Program. In addition, she teaches the part time User Experience Design course at General Assembly. Regine is passionate about making websites and apps that work for everyone! https://twitter.com/reg_inee http://reginegilbert.com/ https://equalentry.com/ https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/incredibles-2-strobe-light-warning-1202848920/ https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/regine-gilbert/6945 https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-bills-jets-game-is-complete-torture-for-color-blind-people/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a11y-why-you-should-pay-attention-regine-gilbert/ https://webaim.org/ https://www.gilbertconsultinggroup.co/
3 Tammi 201931min
