Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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 Feb 201932min

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 Feb 201935min

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 Jan 201935min

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 Jan 201931min

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 Jan 201932min

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 Jan 201931min

Karen Catlin was a vice president of engineering at two public software companies, and served as the CEO of an early-stage startup. Today she's a leadership coach and author who is helping folks cultivate ally skills. Most recently she wrote "Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces." http://betterallies.com

28 Des 201829min

Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, an original signer of the Agile Manifesto, and the author of the Extreme Programming book series, and a proponent of Test-Driven Development. Today he's chatting with Scott about how "test && commit || revert" might offer us a new programming workflow to explore! https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd756864

21 Des 201831min