Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

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/

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

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

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/

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

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

Angie speaks all over the world on Test Automation strategies, and she got Scott excited about Selenium again! She keynoted Selenium Conf 2018 and currently works at Applitools making automated visual testing tools. She's most recently launched on a new "Test Automation University" that's free and community driven. http://testautomationu.com http://angiejones.tech

Glenn Vanderburg works as the VP of Engineering at First and has spoken all over on the notion of software development as engineering. What should an engineering discipline of software development look like? What's "REAL" Software Engineering? Does the analogy of software engineering as home construction hold water? What should software engineering look like? https://vanderburg.org https://vanderburg.org/speaking/#rse Video of Glenn speaking at "Software Art Thou?"

Scott talks to author Andrew Lock about his new book ASP.NET Core in Action! What made Andrew write a book on this new technology and how did he find the process? What about ASP.NET Core was so compelling and how does Andrew use it? More importantly, should you? Use coupon code "podhanselman18" for 40% this book or any Manning product! https://www.manning.com/books/asp-net-core-in-action

Hanna Oh Descher is a data scientist at PlayFab with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience. She is passionate about understanding player behavior to help developers make games more fun. Scott and Hanna talk about what PlayFab allows game developers to do - focus on fun games! https://playfab.com/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/gaming/