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Jason Benn is an ML engineer and truly the epitome of a lifelong learner (Cal Newport even wrote about Jason in one of his books on learning!). Oz and Charlie catch up with Jason on his current self-directed ML sabbatical - which he's corralled into a co-working cohort called mleclub.com (similar to Recurse Center but with an ML / AI focus). We discuss the tactical, strategic, and emotional side to effective self-directed learning, and close out with a new segment tentatively called "Would you read the top article on Hacker News right now?".ShownotesMinerva University [book] So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport[book] Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned - Kenneth O. O. Stanley, Joel LehmanJason Benn's website MLE Club

Guest Julia Evans Panelists Richard Littauer | Amanda Casari Show Notes In this episode of Sustain, host Richard Littauer and co-host Amanda Casari talk to Julia Evans, a zine artist and programmer from Montreal. The discussion delves into Julia's journey in creating educational zines about technical topics like strace, Bash, and Git. Julia shares insights into her unique approach to making complex tools more accessible, how she uses feedback and beta readers to refine her work, and the importance of writing about stable technologies. The episode also touches on Julia's balance between art and sustainability, her collaborative work with her team, and highlights the significance of community-driven knowledge sharing. Press download to hear much more! [00:01:44] Julia explains her approach to creating zines, starting with the desire to simplify the usage of complex tools like strace. [00:03:14] Julia discusses her background as a programmer and the thematic focus of her zines, including making technical topics like Bash scripting more approachable. [00:04:54] Amanda praises Julia's method of demystifying technical concepts through zines. Julia shares the challenges of creating zines on complex topics like Git, discussing how user feedback helps refine content. [00:07:14] Julia details the iterative process of creating zines, including using beta readers and feedback tools to enhance the clarity and usefulness of her guides. [00:11:50] The discussion shifts to how Julia selects topics for her zines, focusing on technologies with strong backward compatibility guarantees, ensuring that the content remains relevant and accurate over time. [00:15:59] Richard questions Julia about her preference for creating zines over other formats like video tutorials or classes, despite the potential reach and educational impact of those mediums. She explains her preference for zines, highlighting her affinity for print and writing, and he challenge with video formats. [00:19:13] Julia discusses her transformative experience at the Recurse Center, which greatly enhanced her understanding of computer systems, inspiring her to help others feel like “wizards” who fully grasp their tools. [00:21:39] Julia mentions co-founding “bang bang con,” a conference focused on short, insightful talks about programming, and confirms the availability of these talks online. [00:22:46] Richard asks Julia about “weird stuff” she likes to do with computers. She describes creating a DNS server that open shares queries, reflecting her passion for making the invisible aspects of computing visible. [00:24:43] Julia reveals how she funds her zine-making and educational endeavors through sales, which has allowed her to focus full-time on this work and even hire help to manage operations, enhancing sustainability and enjoyment of her work. [00:26:05] Julia reflects on the unpredictability of her success, expressing hesitation to offer advice on replicating her business model due to its unconventional nature. [00:27:47] Julia shares her approach to team building and sustainability, focusing on treating and paying her collaborators well to endure ongoing successful partnerships. [00:28:44] Find out where you can purchase Julia's zines and find her online. Quotes [00:02:19] “I would have all these questions, what are people using this tool for?” [00:02:45] “I wanted to show people that this is not that big of a deal.” [00:06:26] “This is what I wish someone told me when I started using this tool.” [00:17:08] “I don't usually want to learn a book's worth of information about a topic. I'm a generalist.” [00:17:40] “My dream when learning about something is I just want to talk to someone who's really, really smart for two hours and they'll tell me everything I need to know.” [00:21:11] “You can do weird stuff!” [00:24:07] “I just thought it would be cool to make it, so I did.” [00:26:34] “Once I saw that I was working, I started to ask, is it sustainable? What do I need to learn about marketing to make it a sustainable business?” [00:28:29] “I try to be the last client to get fired. That's my dream.” Spotlight [00:29:43] Amanda's spotlight is she finally got to attend csv,conf,v8. [00:30:40] Richard's spotlight is Rafik Draoui. [00:31:26] Julia's spotlight is Atuin, a really nice way to search your shell history. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) SustainOSS Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/tags/sustainoss) Open Collective-SustainOSS (Contribute) (https://opencollective.com/sustainoss) Richard Littauer Socials (https://www.burntfen.com/2023-05-30/socials) Amanda Casari X/Twitter (https://x.com/amcasari?lang=en) Julia Evans Blog (https://jvns.ca/) Julia Evans Mastodon (https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk) Julia Evans X/Twitter (https://x.com/b0rk) Julia Evans GitHub (https://github.com/jvns) strace (https://strace.io/) Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick (https://writeusefulbooks.com/) Space Jam (https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html) Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/) Sustain Podcast-Episode 146: Anjana Vakil on the Recurse Center, Outreachy, and Learning to Code (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/146) !!Con 2024 (bang bang con) (https://bangbangcon.com/) Gazouilli by Rafik Draoui (https://github.com/rafikdraoui/gazouilli) Wizard Zines (https://wizardzines.com/) Wizard Zine on strace (https://wizardzines.com/zines/strace/) New zine: How Git Works! by Julia Evans (https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/04/25/new-zine--how-git-works-/) Mess with dns (https://messwithdns.net/) Csv,conf,v8 (https://csvconf.com/) Rafik Draoui GitHub (https://github.com/rafikdraoui) Atuin (https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Julia Evans.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: My first year in AI alignment, published by Alex Altair on January 2, 2023 on LessWrong. 2022 was a pretty surprising year for me. In the beginning, I had just finished going through the Recurse Center retreat, and was expecting to go back into software engineering. As it turned out, I spent almost all of it getting increasingly committed to working on technical AI alignment research full-time. I think a lot of people are trying out this whole "independent alignment researcher" thing, or are considering it, and I think a lot of these people are encountering a lack of structure or information. So I figure it might be helpful if I just relay what my experience has been, to add to the available information. And of course, there's a ton of variance in people's experience, so this might be more of a data point about what the variance looks like than it is about what the average looks like. Some personal background I'm probably pretty unusual in that I've been involved in the rationalist community since 2010. I bought the arguments for AI x-risk virtually since I first read them in the sequences. I tried somewhat to do useful work back then, but I wasn't very productive. I have a life-long attention problem, which has mostly prevented me from being intellectually productive. Because I couldn't really do research, I went into software engineering. (This was still a struggle but was sufficiently doable to be a stable living.) A lot of this year's transition was figuring out how to do alignment work despite the attention problem. My technical background is that I majored in math and physics in college, took most of those required classes, and also dropped out (twice). I was well above average in school (but probably average for the rationalist community). I never really did math in the interim, but it always remained part of my identity, and I have always had a theory mindset. Goals and plans When I say I've been "working on AI alignment," what do I mean? What sort of goals or plans have I been following? This has evolved over the year as I got more information. First, I went through AGI Safety Fundamentals course. In the beginning I was just happy to be catching up with how the field had developed. I was also curious to see what happened when I interacted with alignment content more intensely. It turned out that I enjoyed it a lot; I loved almost every reading, and dived way deeper into the optional content. Next, I tried to see if I could figure out what optimization was. I choose this as my AGISF final project, which was obviously ambitious, but I wanted to see what would happen if I focused on this one research-flavored question for four whole weeks. I made a lot of progress. I decided it was a good project to continue working on, and then I started alternating between writing up what I had done already, and doing more research. The content continued to evolve and grow. After a few more months, it was clear to me that I could and wanted to do this longer-term. The optimization project was taking forever, but I had some inside and outside view evidence that I was spending my time reasonably. So while I continued spending some weeks focusing entirely on trying to get the optimization project closer to an end point, I also deliberately spent some weeks doing other tasks that a full-time researcher would do, like learning more about the field, others' agendas, the open problems, et cetera. I tried to improve my own models of the alignment problem, think about what the most critical components were, and what I could do to make progress on them, including what my next major project should be. I haven't made any decisions about this, but I do have a pretty solid shortlist. For much of December, I decided to do more focused reflection on how the optimization project was going. It...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: My first year in AI alignment, published by Alex Altair on January 2, 2023 on LessWrong. 2022 was a pretty surprising year for me. In the beginning, I had just finished going through the Recurse Center retreat, and was expecting to go back into software engineering. As it turned out, I spent almost all of it getting increasingly committed to working on technical AI alignment research full-time. I think a lot of people are trying out this whole "independent alignment researcher" thing, or are considering it, and I think a lot of these people are encountering a lack of structure or information. So I figure it might be helpful if I just relay what my experience has been, to add to the available information. And of course, there's a ton of variance in people's experience, so this might be more of a data point about what the variance looks like than it is about what the average looks like. Some personal background I'm probably pretty unusual in that I've been involved in the rationalist community since 2010. I bought the arguments for AI x-risk virtually since I first read them in the sequences. I tried somewhat to do useful work back then, but I wasn't very productive. I have a life-long attention problem, which has mostly prevented me from being intellectually productive. Because I couldn't really do research, I went into software engineering. (This was still a struggle but was sufficiently doable to be a stable living.) A lot of this year's transition was figuring out how to do alignment work despite the attention problem. My technical background is that I majored in math and physics in college, took most of those required classes, and also dropped out (twice). I was well above average in school (but probably average for the rationalist community). I never really did math in the interim, but it always remained part of my identity, and I have always had a theory mindset. Goals and plans When I say I've been "working on AI alignment," what do I mean? What sort of goals or plans have I been following? This has evolved over the year as I got more information. First, I went through AGI Safety Fundamentals course. In the beginning I was just happy to be catching up with how the field had developed. I was also curious to see what happened when I interacted with alignment content more intensely. It turned out that I enjoyed it a lot; I loved almost every reading, and dived way deeper into the optional content. Next, I tried to see if I could figure out what optimization was. I choose this as my AGISF final project, which was obviously ambitious, but I wanted to see what would happen if I focused on this one research-flavored question for four whole weeks. I made a lot of progress. I decided it was a good project to continue working on, and then I started alternating between writing up what I had done already, and doing more research. The content continued to evolve and grow. After a few more months, it was clear to me that I could and wanted to do this longer-term. The optimization project was taking forever, but I had some inside and outside view evidence that I was spending my time reasonably. So while I continued spending some weeks focusing entirely on trying to get the optimization project closer to an end point, I also deliberately spent some weeks doing other tasks that a full-time researcher would do, like learning more about the field, others' agendas, the open problems, et cetera. I tried to improve my own models of the alignment problem, think about what the most critical components were, and what I could do to make progress on them, including what my next major project should be. I haven't made any decisions about this, but I do have a pretty solid shortlist. For much of December, I decided to do more focused reflection on how the optimization project was going. It...

Guest Anjana Vakil Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman Show Notes On today's episode, Richard and Justin have joining them as their guest, Anjana Vakil, who's a Freelance Developer, Software Engineer, and Developer Advocate doing some amazing stuff in the world. Anjana takes us through her journey into tech that started out at the Recurse Center, which led her to Outreachy, the internship she did as a Software Engineer at Mozilla, which was pivotal in shaping her career, and how diversity scholarships she received helped her as well. She explains why sharing what she learned as an educator is so important to people who are trying to learn new skills, and we hear some of the great benefits of why people should sponsor an Outreachy project. Download this episode to learn more! [00:02:37] Anjana fills us in on the Recurse Center and Outreachy. [00:06:11] We learn what Anjana studied at the Recurse Center when she was there. [00:09:25] We hear if licensing ever came up for Anjana as something she was interested in along her journey, and how she interfaced with open source code as she started learning about all these things you could do with computer languages. [00:14:02] Richard wonders if Anjana thinks support is necessary in order to get involved in open source and keep the fire alive of learning, and she tells us how she feels about equity in open source, getting people into it, and how to make it happen. [00:21:12] Anjana shares tips for people who are in open source projects that want to help out and why it's so important to help people. [00:27:00] We learn how having the internship with Mozilla was so pivotal in shaping Anjana's career. [00:31:42] Anjana shares how working at Mozilla was a formative time in her tech career and how sharing what she learned with other people was such a great accountability moment. She also talks about the benefits of sponsoring an Outreachy project. [00:40:45] Find out where you can follow Anjana online. Quotes [00:17:31] “Programs like Outreachy and Recurse Center show a way to level the playing field and make it more accessible for those who have constraints on their time or finances.” [00:19:00] “Another great source of help, that I got along the way, was diversity scholarships to attend conferences in the tech space.” [00:34:55] “It really takes so many different hats to successfully run a sustainable, large open source project.” [00:39:12] “Coding is a human interaction.” Spotlight [00:42:10] Justin's spotlight is Warp. [00:42:46] Richard's spotlight is Irvin Hwang. [00:43:19] Anjana's spotlight is Outreachy. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) Richard Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Justin Dorfman Twitter (https://twitter.com/jdorfman?lang=en) Anjana Vakil Twitter (https://twitter.com/AnjanaVakil?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Anjana Vakil GitHub (https://github.com/vakila) Anjana Vakil YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anjana+vakil) Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/) Outreachy (https://www.outreachy.org/) Bang bang con (https://bangbangcon.com/) Sustain Podcast-Episode 78: Stormy Peters: Sustaining FLOSS at Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office (“Mentions Outreachy”) (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/78) Sustain Podcast-Episode 72: Eriol Fox on Open Source Design and Sustain (“Mentions Outreachy”) (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/72) Warp (https://www.warp.dev/) Irvin Hwang (https://irvin.quest/) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Anjana Vakil.

Today on the podcast, Matt Dole is joined by former Artsyer Justin Bennett to talk about what he's up to these days. Turns out he's up to quite a lot! Tune in to hear about his podcast (devtools.fm), his time at Recurse Center, his current work at Oxide, and much more.Justin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/zephraph

Nick Bergson-Shilcock is the CEO and co-founder of the Recurse Center (recurse.com), a self-directed and community-driven educational retreat for computer programmers. Nick describes his background as a lifelong unschooler (he's the son of Peter Bergson, a recent podcast guest), as well as his early interest in gaming and programming and his transition into college, career, and Y Combinator (the startup incubator). We discuss how RC differs from “coding bootcamps,” who applies, who gets in, how the whole thing is funded, RC's unique social rules (no well-actually's, no feigning surprise, no back-seat driving, and no subtle -isms), and Nick's evolving views on unschooling. Visit Nick's personal website at https://nick.is/ Recorded on July 20, 2021.

"I feel like the whole process has to feel like play as I'm working on it or else I get bored. I have to be learning something new. One of the reasons my solo projects end up being so all over the place is because I want to have a little play and chaos in my growth as a developer and to keep me energized in general." - Kofi GumbsFor a lot of programmers, their day job pays their bills while their side projects fuel their passion. UI programmer Kofi Gumbs sees his side projects as an opportunity to grow.In our latest episode of Collaborative Craft, we talked to Kofi about making design playful. He shared insights on why programmers need to develop the confidence not to reinvent the wheel, the role of ambitious design, and how to approach the process of design in a way that is motivating to you.Listen for Kofi's ideas and see if you can infuse your work with a sense of curiosity and wonder.05:37 - What gave you the right?07:03 - Codec Beam and Multi 11:30 - Typebeat12:39 - Play, fun, and curiosity14:49 - Trying to Solve Ambitious Projects 18:01 - Leveraging GitHub21:59 - The Coolest Thing about Software24:04 - Spend Most of Your Time on the Interesting Part28:26 - Test Coverage29:55 - Hold it in your Head32:58 - Idealized Workflow at the Day Job36:36 - The Unsexy Stuff40:29 - Final Thoughts with Thomas & JeromeKofi Gumbs is a UI programmer currently based in Baltimore, MD, where he works remotely for Twitter. Most of his professional work centers on the Web platform, but Kofi's personal projects span a much wider spectrum -- from assembly compilers to realtime graphics and audio. He recently spent a batch at the Recurse Center iterating on those personal projects, as well as discovering his love of NYC dollar-slice pizza. When he's not programming, you can find him listening to music or trying to make his ownThomas Countz is a Senior Software Crafter at 8th Light where he works with a variety of ambitious teams on a variety of ambitious projects. A true curious nerd at heart, Thomas digs into everything from robotics and cider making to bouldering and Shakespeare's comedies. To hear even more about Thomas, you can follow him on Twitter at @thomascountz and visit his blog at https://thomascountz.com.Jerome Goodrich is an adoring husband, new dog dad, and all-around curious explorer. Through his work as a Principal Software Crafter at 8th Light, Jerome leads amazing software teams to design and develop thoughtful solutions to complex problems. He loves pairing strenuous hikes with deep conversations and is always trying to see things clearly and with an open heart. Jerome lives much of his life off of the internet, but he occasionally writes on his website: https://jeromegoodrich.com 8th Light partners with businesses and community groups to craft software that unlocks human potential and makes the world a better place. We're passionate about designing for people, inspiring through education, and empowering the future. With teams spread across the globe—including Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Austin, and Madison—we're always eager to hear about ambitious new projects. Learn more about our team and reach out at

Anjana started by clarifying what Computational Linguistics is, and the research she did in this field. We then talked about idiomatic programming and echo-chambers, which led us to talking about communities. Anjana then described the coding retreat she did in 2015 and how it was a forming experience in her life. We finished the interview by talking about Developer Advocacy and Public Speaking.Anjana suffers from a debilitating case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. As a developer/advocate at Observable, she can often be found coding from her home base in San Francisco; that is, when she's not speaking at events around the world to share the joy of programming and promote a more diverse, equitable, and ethical tech industry. Ask her about the Recurse Center, Outreachy, and Mozilla TechSpeakers!Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/AnjanaVakilhttps://observablehq.comhttps://www.recurse.comhttps://www.outreachy.orgCreditsMusic Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.Your hostSoftware Developer‘s Journey is hosted and produced by Timothée (Tim) Bourguignon, a crazy frenchman living in Germany, who dedicated his life to helping others learn & grow. More about him at timbourguignon.fr.Gift the podcast a ratingPlease do me and your fellow listeners a favor by spreading the word about this podcast. And please leave a rating on the podcasting platforms. This is the best way to increase the visibility of the podcast. Find all the links here: https://devjourney.info/subscribe.htmlPatreonFinally, if you want to help produce the podcast, support us on Patreon. Every cent you pledge will help pay the hosting billsSupport the show (http://bit.ly/2yBfySB)

Rob and Jason are joined by Satabdi Das. They first discuss a new Visual Studio update and an article written by Bjarne Stroustrup. Then Satabdi talks about debugging and why it's beneficial to write or give conference talks on difficult to fix bugs, she also talks about her work on a hardware emulator and static analyzers.   Satabdi has over 10 years of experience in C++. Currently she is working on a cloud based high performance file system in AWS. She has previously worked on an emulator, parser and static analyzer. She is also one of the co-founders of Boston Hack && Tell, a fun meetup for programmers to showcase their work. Long back she contributed to Gnome as an Outreachy intern. And not so long back she spent three months at Recurse Center learning assembly, debugger internals and distributed systems. News Visual Studio 2019 16.4.0 Released How can you be so certain? Bjarne Stroustrup Indicators: Activity Indicators for Modern C++ Links CppCon 2019: Satabdi Das "A Series of Unfortunate Bugs" How to debug long running programs Hack && Tell Boston The Recurse Center Sponsors Write the hashtag #cppcast when requesting the license here One Day from PVS-Studio User Support JetBrains  

We interview J Haigh about their experience organizing this year’s first-ever Colorado Gold Rust conference, what brought them to Rust, and what inspired them to give back to Rust’s community. Twitter: @rustaceanfm Discord: Rustacean Station Github: @rustacean-station Email: hello@rustacean-station.org Timestamps & referenced resources [@00:41] - Colorado Gold Rust [@01:48] - What got you into Rust? RustConf @ag_dubs (Ashley Williams) @carols10cents (Carol Nichols) [@03:01] - Getting involved with the Rust community Rust Boulder/Denver Meetup @focusaurus (Peter Lyons) [@07:50] - What is the Recurse Center? [@09:21] - Organizing a conference Auraria Campus @argorak (Florian Gilcher) Rust Fest Rust Community Events Team’s example timeline for organizing a conference Rust Belt Rust Rust Belt Rust 2018’s budgeting report [@17:27] - What have you learned for next time? [@19:36] - Who is helping with the conference? Nicholas Young [@22:05] - Community Inclusivity [@24:44] - CFP software [@25:34] - Finding a venue for a conference Credits Intro Theme: Aerocity Audio Editing: Reece McMillin Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset Show Notes: Jeremy Jung Hosts: Ben Striegel

Nick Bergson-Shilcock joins me this week! In a nutshell, Nick grew up unschooling and now runs the Recurse Center in New York. It’s a wonderful space for both new and experience programmers to take a sabbatical and vastly improve their programming skills. It was fascinating to hear the story of how the Recurse Center came […]

Jennifer Wang (@jenbuilds) spoke with us about machine learning, magic wands, and getting into hardware. For more detail about her magic wand build, you can see Jen’s Hackaday SuperCon talk or her !!ConWest talk. The github repo is well documented with pointers to slides from her SuperCon talk and an HTML version of her Jupyter notebook. Check out this good introduction to machine learning from scikit-learn. It was their choosing the right estimator infographic we were looking at. (Elecia has bookmarked this list of machine learning cheat sheets.) Jennifer’s personal sites are jenbuilds.com and jewang.net. She recommends the Recurse Center and wrote a blog post on her experience there.

Support these videos: http://pgbovine.net/support.htmhttp://pgbovine.net/PG-Podcast-47-Yang-Hong-returns.htmOn Social Capital:- [Status as a Service (StaaS)](https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service) by Eugene Wei- [market for lemons tweet](https://twitter.com/wolfejosh/status/980546522919112704)- [Bowling Alone](http://bowlingalone.com/)On Funding Gaps (for non-unicorn businesses, SMBs):- [Indie VC](https://www.indie.vc/)- [Tiny Seed](https://tinyseed.com/)- [Wefunder](https://wefunder.com)- [Alibaba and the Future of Business](https://hbr.org/2018/09/alibaba-and-the-future-of-business) On Funding Gaps (for people and projects):- [CDFIs](https://www.cdfifund.gov/Pages/default.aspx)- [Lambda School](http://lambdaschool.com)- [Recurse Center: $10,000 Fellowships for women working on open source programming projects, research, and art](https://www.recurse.com/blog/145-fellowships-for-women-working-on-open-source-programming-projects-research-and-art)- [The Awesome Foundation](https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en)- [Pioneer: A home for the ambitious outsiders of the world](https://pioneer.app)- [AI Grant](https://aigrant.org)On Renaissance Concepts ("apprenticeship", "patronage", "interdisciplinary salons"):- [Gumroad helps creators do more of what they love](https://gumroad.com/)- [Fellowship.ai](https://fellowship.ai/)- [AI fellowships](https://github.com/dangkhoasdc/awesome-ai-residency)- [Suffering for Your Art? Maybe You Need a Patron](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/fashion/what-is-a-patron.html) (New York Times)- [MIT College of Computing](http://news.mit.edu/2019/founders-new-college-computing-human-element-reif-schwarzman-0301)- [House On Fire: The Fight To Eradicate Smallpox](https://www.amazon.com/House-Fire-Eradicate-Smallpox-California/dp/0520274474) (William Foege helps eradicate smallpox globally through massive coordination of interdisciplinary groups)- [Birth of a Theorem](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NS3174O/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) (Cedric Villani wins the Fields Medal for being interdisciplinary in math x physics)- [TCM wins the Nobel Prize](https://qz.com/india/517202/how-traditional-chinese-medicine-finally-won-its-nobel-prize/) (Youyou Tu wins the Nobel in Medicine by combining traditional chinese medicine and western scientific methodology)Other:- [PG Vlog #173 - Knowledge is Hyperlocal](http://pgbovine.net/PG-Vlog-173-knowledge-is-hyperlocal.htm)- [PG Vlog #277 - suburbs beyond high school](http://pgbovine.net/PG-Vlog-277-suburbs-beyond-high-school.htm)- [PG Podcast - Episode 36 - Yang Hong on alternative work lifestyles](http://pgbovine.net/PG-Podcast-36-Yang-Hong.htm)Recorded: 2019-03-05

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Katherine Ye is a PhD student at CMU, where she works on representation, including programming languages, visualizations, notations, and interfaces to enable thinking and creating. She's been affiliated with MIT CSAIL, Princeton, Distill at Google Brain, and the Recurse Center. In this conversation we discuss Penrose, her project to _democraize visual intuition_. Katherine envisions "a magical machine where you can dump in a math textbook and out comes a fully-illustrated math textbook, or more specifically a platform where you can simply type mathematical notation in plain text and automatically get many useful and beautiful diagrams out illustrating the notation." It's a fascinating project in the intersection of mathematics, intuition, education, visualization, communication, programming, domain specific languages... basically, all of the interesting topics in one project. As you'd expect in a conversation about the edges of representation, this is a wide-ranging conversation that I can described by a collection of keywords that came up: embodied intuition code as rhetoric asemic language Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. univalence, homotopy, equivalence, equality modeling the notation of mathematics knot notation, dance notation, and the periodic table of juggling notation a studio class on notation design explorable explanations speculative nonfiction the unexpected futures next door Transcript provided by repl.it at https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/34#transcript

This week, Chris and Soroush talk about impostor syndrome, starting a new job, team dynamics and rockstar developers. Then: toggling booleans and the Law of Demeter!“No Feigning Surprise” - Recurse CenterFear, Uncertainty, and Doubt - CocoaLove 2014Impostor SyndromeThe Inner JSON EffectBus FactorSalary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued“’You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take’” - Wayne Gretzky” - Michael Scott"Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it." - Patrick McKenzie“People sometimes ask me how I learned the crazy stuff I like to do. This is how.”SE-0199 – Adding toggle to BoolLaw of DemeterYou Deserve Nice ThingsGet a new Fatal Error episode every week by becoming a supporter at patreon.com/fatalerror.

Intro music by Rod Johnson (https://twitter.com/springrod): Prelude in C# minor, commonly known as The Bells of Moscow. 01:07 – Welcome to “Anarcho-Suyndicalist Tech!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:03 – Writing Blog Posts: “Blogging is shipping.” The Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/) Adam Perry: Baby Steps: Slowly Porting musl to Rust (https://blog.anp.lol/rust/2016/06/11/baby-steps-porting-musl-to-rust/) 07:17 – How to Ask Good Questions Eric Steven Raymond: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) The Google Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_effect) 20:26 – Operations (Ops); Testing in Ops "There's this exciting thing that happens when you run software, which is that stuff goes wrong in unexpected ways!" @b0rk @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) January 18, 2017 Ryan Kennedy: Fear Driven Development @ OSB 2015 Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale by Jennifer Davis and Katherine Daniels (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039846.do) Continuous Integration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration) 38:42 – Zines & Drawings (http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/11/14/why-cute-drawings/) Reflections: Sam: Having concrete strategies for asking question more effectively. Julia: If something is painful, then do it more often. Jessica: If asking questions is scary, put some work into the question and then you can ask it with confidence and know you’re not wasting someone’s time. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Julia Evans.

Sonali Sridhar is Co-Founder of The Recurse Center, a free three month educational retreat for new and experienced programmers. Sonali talks about building a successful learning organization for programmers and how to establish and maintain a diverse environment through a set of lightweight social rules. She also explained what people work on while they are at The Recurse Center and strategies to become a better programmer. The Recurse Center is a very unique experience because it is not a boot camp and there is no curriculum, programmers build their own path to learning.

Learning to program is about self-driven exploration. Universities help guide you, coding boot camps provide a rigorous environment to work in, and online coding courses provide content for you to study. But none of this will turn you into a great programmer unless you have the drive to improve and the curiosity to explore.   The post The Recurse Center with Nick Bergson-Shilcock appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Project management, open source and social justice as tools of empowerment, self-image as a coder, how Sumana got into open source and why, learning programming (and its culture and tools) as an adult, computer science vs software engineering, managers as sysadmins of social infrastructure, media preservation and digitally archiving a literary estate, fixed vs. growth mindsets, debugging as a hero's journey, the Recurse Center, Hamilton.

Raquel is back and shares her experience at the Recurse Center, where she was a resident last week. We then discuss the difficulties of search in general and how this applies to npm's package search. Kahlil introduces Henning and Raquel to Observables and various patterns in Angular2.

While Raquel is Hacker in Residence at the Recurse Center in NYC this week Kahlil and Henning do their best to record a late night Reactive episode and discuss a range of topics, such as Henning's apparent abandoning of vim

Ben talks to Pam Selle on the importance of self-impossed structure, voice coding, and living with RSI. Recurse Center Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs MacVimSpeak Hands-Free Coding Keyboardio It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! Choosing a JavaScript Framework Pam on Twitter Turing-Incomplete Podcast Haymakers For Hope: Ben's Charity Boxing Match

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Check out ReactRally: A community React conference in Salt Lake City, UT from August 24th-25th! 03:36 - John Sonmez Introduction Twitter GitHub Simple Programmer The Entreprogrammers Podcast Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Sonmez How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course 04:29 - Mastermind Groups Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century by Napoleon Hill 05:53 - “Soft Skills” Why Care About Soft Skills? People Skills Finances Fitness 11:53 - Learned vs Innate Lifting Limited Beliefs Practice 14:14 - Promotion (Managerial) Paths The Peter Principle 17:52 - “Marketing” Value: Give Away 90% / Charge For 10% Seeming “Spammy” (Resistance to Sell) Neil Patel's Blog Documentation for Yourself AJ O'Neal: How to Tweet from NodeJS 29:53 - Get Up and CODE! #086: Figure Skating and Software Development with Aimee Knight #067: Weight Loss Plan for Charles (Max Wood) 33:47 - Burnout Do the Work by Steven Pressfield The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield Systems and Habits (Routines) Methods of Execution Get John’s How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course for $100 off using the code JSJABBER Comment on this episode for your chance to win one of two autographed copies of Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Sonmez Picks The Recurse Center (Jamison) Code Words Blog (Jamison) DayZ Player Sings (And Plays Guitar) For His Life (Jamison) Demon (Jamison) Mastodon: Leviathan (Jamison) Jan Van Haasteren Puzzles (Joe) Hobbit Tales from the Green Dragon Inn (Joe) AngularJS-Resources (Aimee) Superfeet Insoles (Aimee) Good Mythical Morning (AJ) The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz (Chuck) Streak (John) The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber (John) Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini (John) Do the Work by Steven Pressfield (John) The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (John)  

Check out ReactRally: A community React conference in Salt Lake City, UT from August 24th-25th! 03:36 - John Sonmez Introduction Twitter GitHub Simple Programmer The Entreprogrammers Podcast Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Sonmez How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course 04:29 - Mastermind Groups Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century by Napoleon Hill 05:53 - “Soft Skills” Why Care About Soft Skills? People Skills Finances Fitness 11:53 - Learned vs Innate Lifting Limited Beliefs Practice 14:14 - Promotion (Managerial) Paths The Peter Principle 17:52 - “Marketing” Value: Give Away 90% / Charge For 10% Seeming “Spammy” (Resistance to Sell) Neil Patel's Blog Documentation for Yourself AJ O'Neal: How to Tweet from NodeJS 29:53 - Get Up and CODE! #086: Figure Skating and Software Development with Aimee Knight #067: Weight Loss Plan for Charles (Max Wood) 33:47 - Burnout Do the Work by Steven Pressfield The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield Systems and Habits (Routines) Methods of Execution Get John’s How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course for $100 off using the code JSJABBER Comment on this episode for your chance to win one of two autographed copies of Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Sonmez Picks The Recurse Center (Jamison) Code Words Blog (Jamison) DayZ Player Sings (And Plays Guitar) For His Life (Jamison) Demon (Jamison) Mastodon: Leviathan (Jamison) Jan Van Haasteren Puzzles (Joe) Hobbit Tales from the Green Dragon Inn (Joe) AngularJS-Resources (Aimee) Superfeet Insoles (Aimee) Good Mythical Morning (AJ) The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz (Chuck) Streak (John) The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber (John) Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini (John) Do the Work by Steven Pressfield (John) The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (John)