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Aug 4, 2017 • 35min

Tracking your life and health with the Gyroscope app and Mahdi Yusuf

Mahdi Yusuf is the CTO of Gyroscope Innovations. They are using AI and the cloud along with ALL the sensors and health trackers that you're already wearing to create amazing reports, visualizations, and insights into your health and your mind. How many sensors and apps already create valuable information that you can use to improve your lifestyle? Is this the start of the Quantified Self for the mainstream?
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Jul 28, 2017 • 32min

Preparing a city for self-driving cars with Leslie Caceda

Leslie Caceda is a Transportation Technologist at the Atlanta Regional Commission. In this episode she talks to Scott about the design and ethics of self-driving cars. What will this revolution mean to car ownership? To people who were otherwise unable to travel? What about the ethics of how a self-driving car decides to drive...and stop?
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Jul 21, 2017 • 34min

Live Coding on Twitch for a year with Suz Hinton

Suz Hinton has been coding LIVE on Twitch for over a year. How did she start and how did she stick with it? Is it hard to code with someone watching? How about a thousand people watching?
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Jul 14, 2017 • 33min

Making your path to development with Anjana Vakil

Anjana is fascinated by languages, both human and machine, and the connections between the two. She recently completed a MS in computational linguistics at Saarland University in Germany, where she studied speech technology, machine learning, and computer-assisted language learning. Her spontaneous talk "Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript" has been viewed over a half-million times on YouTube. She talks to Scott about her thoughts on languages and her strategies for learning.
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Jul 7, 2017 • 32min

Brandon Bouier on the Defense Digital Service and deploying code in a war zone

Brandon Bouier works at the Pentagon at the Defense Digital Service. He's travelled to Afghanistan to deploy code and migrate data. He talks to Scott about what it means to support US Defense IT resources and how the military is innovating at new speeds with new techniques and fresh thinking.
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Jun 30, 2017 • 33min

YOU should write an interpreter with Thorsten Ball

Thorsten Ball has a thirst for knowledge, so one day he decided to make a new Programming Language. He went from 0 lines of code to a fully working interpreter written in Go for the "Monkey" Language. Check it out at https://interpreterbook.com!
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Jun 23, 2017 • 31min

Data Science with Angela Bassa

Angela Bassa is the Director of Data Science at iRobot. In this episode she sits down with Scott and demystifies the major concepts. Is this a new science and an old one? What's the traditional path for a Data Scientist - and is that the only path?
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Jun 16, 2017 • 31min

Get on the Coding Train with Processing and Daniel Shiffman

Daniel Shiffman is a programmer, a project lead with the Processing Foundation, and an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Dan uses the popular Processing Language to teach people to code on his popular (an wild and wacky) YouTube Channel "The Coding Train."
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Jun 9, 2017 • 28min

Being hired as a Functional Programmer with Eric Normand

Functional programming expert Eric Normand shares practical techniques and ways to think about functional programming. They discuss transitioning careers, the limitations of object-oriented programming, the role of side effects, managing state and complexity, and hidden inputs in programming.
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Jun 2, 2017 • 28min

Apps without Code with Tara Reed

Tara Reed non-technical founder building software without writing code. How far can a non-coder get? Pretty far actually! There's a ton of tools and resources available that can allow you and your friends or family to create very polished apps and websites without code.

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