Diabetes and Data Science with Dr. Alex Constantin
Dr. Alex Constantin is a Data Scientist and Diabetic on a mission to take the mental burden and frustration out of living with diabetes. She and Scott have nearly a half century of diabetes experience between them, but only Alex is a PhD, so in this episode she teaches Scott how data science can improve the lives of diabetics everywhere!
9 Jul 202032min
How Design Makes The World with Scott Berkun
Scott Berkun is the bestselling author of eight books on design, creativity, public speaking and more. He sits down with Scott Hanselman to talk about his latest book, "How Design Makes The World." Everything you use, from your home to your smartphone, from highways to supermarkets, was designed by someone. What did they get right? Where did they go wrong? And what can we learn from how these experts think that can help us improve our own lives?How Design Makes The World
2 Jul 202034min
Dismantling barriers to participation in programming communities with Dr. Denae Ford
Dr. Denae Ford is a Research Scientist investigating identity-based signals to support retention in Socio-Technical Ecosystems. What does that mean? It's using science to make programming communities more inclusive and welcoming!https://blog.denaeford.me/2019/07/01/how-programmers-really-look-at-pull-requestshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/denae/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/saint-group/http://denaeford.me/
25 Jun 202032min
Will your next laptop use an ARM processor? with Jeremy Sinclair
The Surface Pro X is thin, light, and is absolutely silent because it has no fans! It uses a power-sipping ARM processor rather than an Intel processor. Jeremy Sinclair schools Scott on why it's significant that Windows can run on ARM now. We'll also learn what this means for developers and tools like Visual Studio Code. Can this ARM machine also emulate x86 processors? Will your next laptop run ARM?
18 Jun 202035min
Red Teaming with Leron Gray
"A red team is a group that helps organizations to improve themselves by providing opposition to the point of view of the organization that they are helping." What's that mean in layperson's terms? They are the internal pen testing team that attacks company resources to make them better and more secure! How does one get a cool job like this? How can you get a start in infosec?
11 Jun 202031min
Social Friendships and Internet Creativity with Cassidy Williams
Scott and Principal Developer Experience Engineer Cassidy Williams talk about social friendships, internet life, making code, videos, and videos about code.
4 Jun 202031min
Language Understanding (LUIS) with Dr. Riham Mansour
Dr. Riham Mansour is the Principal Engineering Manager running the Language Understanding Service (LUIS), which is the product offering from the Machine Teaching Innovation Group. LUIS has been the entry point of Microsoft in the Machine Teaching market. Riham founded LUIS in collaboration with the Machine Teaching Group in Microsoft Research in 2015.https://www.luis.ai/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/luis/what-is-luis
28 Mai 202034min
A path to technical leadership with Keavy McMinn
Keavy is an engineering leader who believes that the management path isn't the only way to be a technical leader! In fact, she doesn't want to be a manager! How do you "become senior" and move into a technical leadership path without becoming a people manager?https://keavy.com/work/thriving-on-the-technical-leadership-path/
21 Mai 202029min
