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Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by zarkov99 »

theodpHN wrote: post #85

Jeremy Howard's "I Like Notebooks" JupyterCon 2020 Talk Howard makes the case for why even "real" programmers should give notebook environments a chance. In addition to supporting literate programming ("code as literature") and exploratory programming ("code as scientific notebook") in a live coding environment, Howard explains how notebooks can improve documentation, learning and sharing, testing, and deployment. An…

This is a great talk, thanks. There is so much potential in the idea of improving our artifacts. If you think about it it’s insane that we just use flat text for the most part.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by 747fulloftapes »

p1esk wrote: post #106
theodpHN wrote: post #85

Jeremy Howard's "I Like Notebooks" JupyterCon 2020 Talk Howard makes the case for why even "real" programmers should give notebook environments a chance. In addition to supporting literate programming ("code as literature") and exploratory programming ("code as scientific notebook") in a live coding environment, Howard explains how notebooks can improve documentation, learning and sharing, testing, and deployment. An…

If you're interested in this talk, watch this one first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U

This is the first talk I've considered listening at less than 1x speed.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by Foxboron »

Answerawake wrote: post #127
Foxboron wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Soo hard to get a ticket. I was there for 35c3. Worst part is that since you don't know if you will get a ticket or not and you book hotels/flights only after you nab a ticket, you are paying increased prices vs booking far in advance. Which is why you join one of the manymany assemblies and get into the voucher rounds. >I just wish it was cheaper to make it to Leipzig from the US but I understand that they are stre…

>Which is why you join one of the manymany assemblies and get into the voucher rounds. Can you elaborate on this further? I do not know what this means. I was not part of any local assemblies as I am not German, nor do I speak German, and many of the assemblies at 35c3 seemed to be treating me very coldly as they are just local clubs from all over Germany. (Understandable, I do not fault them). >My only recommendatio…

>Can you elaborate on this further? I do not know what this means. I was not part of any local assemblies as I am not German, nor do I speak German, and many of the assemblies at 35c3 seemed to be treating me very coldly as they are just local clubs from all over Germany. (Understandable, I do not fault them).

You don't need to be german. International hackerspaces also get vouchers for CCC and travel in groups. Check with your local hackerspace.

Think of assemblies as "interest groups" and several are quite approachable over IRC/Matrix.

A list from previous years: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/index.php/Static:As...

Feel free to also poke me next time you travel if you need people to chat with or hang around.

>yes. I was looking into this, Do you have a recommendation for a good website to explore train timetables and routes? What I have to be careful about is timing because if I need to stay overnight in Berlin then it may increase the cost such that if it wastes a lot of time, then it may not be worth saving the additional plane money(as many flights have stops in some other city on the way to Leipzig anyway).

Google maps covers most of the train transits in Europe. But the leipzig train went almost every hour except for in the middle of the night if i recall correctly. This isn't a transit that goes twice a day and should be easy to jump onto if you don't arrive in veryvery odd hours.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by gnoffa »

curiousmindz wrote: post #10

I am not sure if this qualifies, but I found the discussion between Scott Hanselman and Dr. David Kellermann on "Effective Remote Teaching with intention and creativity" fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LaTamAIinc They mix a number of fairly simple technologies to achieve some really cool new ways to teach remotely. Also, Scott Hanselman makes a series of well-made videos on "Computer Stuff They Didn't T…

I found this to be very Microsoft specific, more of an ad for products. Not sure there was enough general ideas and advice about being effective in teaching remotely. It wasn't awful, but for the whole 2020 I think I saw more interesting suggestions in the comments here.

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by samcal »

zarkov99 wrote: post #128
jhncls wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This talk is especially noteworthy as Jeremy apparently got accused very harshly of breaking a code of conduct[0]. [0] https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/

Jeezus. What is wrong with people? If this woke nonsense is not stopped we are going to chase away all the people who actually create things and be left only with the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs.

From the article:

"I would rather not have to write this post at all. However I know that people will ask about why my talk isn’t available on the JupyterCon site, so I felt that I should explain exactly what happened. In particular, I was concerned that if only partial information became available, the anti-CoC crowd might jump on this as an example of problems with codes of conduct more generally, or might point at this as part of “cancel culture” (a concept I vehemently disagree with, since what is referred to as “cancellation” is often just “facing consequences”). Finally, I found that being on the “other side” of a code of conduct issue gave me additional insights into the process, and that it’s important that I should share those insights to help the community in the future."

With this quote in mind, I highly recommend that you take a look at the rest of the piece, it may challenge some of your views on the topic :)

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by MurizS »

747fulloftapes wrote: post #132
p1esk wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're interested in this talk, watch this one first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U

This is the first talk I've considered listening at less than 1x speed.

Funnily enough, someone tells am after a minute he should "slow down and breath a little bit".

Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?

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Post by rewq4321 »

zarkov99 wrote: post #128
jhncls wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This talk is especially noteworthy as Jeremy apparently got accused very harshly of breaking a code of conduct[0]. [0] https://www.fast.ai/2020/10/28/code-of-conduct/

Jeezus. What is wrong with people? If this woke nonsense is not stopped we are going to chase away all the people who actually create things and be left only with the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs.

> the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs

Most "people who actually create things" like communities with an explicit, reasonable code of conduct. This is of course not to say that mistakes haven't ever been made in enforcement, or that some COCs are poorly designed.

People under-appreciate the difficulty of building a community that people want to participate in. The problem is a close analogue to maintaining a desired company culture as it scales.

The reason all these communities have "woke" guidelines for behavior is because the ones that didn't have reasonable guidelines no longer exist, or have remained at a size where a COC isn't necessary.

Again, there's a fine line to be walked, so mistakes will sometimes be made, but if you think the "free for all" approach works, then you should try it. It won't scale once your community gets past a certain size. A few bad apples will spoil the barrel.

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