Greater Than Code

01:50 - Getting Sucked into Twitter Vortexes

03:06 - Dynamics of Human Emotion

05:36 - Creating Safe Spaces for Emotionally Charged Conversations

07:57 - Radical Inclusion

09:49 - Overidentification/Over Attachment to Tribalism

12:15 - Digital Activism

15:22 - Tribal Dynamics

16:45 - People From Oppressed Groups Have the Right to Rage

24:30 - The Changing Frequencies of People

26:58 - Call-Out Culture

32:20 - We Are All Human!

Reflections:

Arty: How much our connectivity is an opportunity to see our diversity and the strength and power and creative coolness of one another and if we can come together in shared space, what is the vision we can craft together.

Chanté: Synchronicity and thinking about the way things happen. Glad to have this conversation.

Jacob: How to make a community of people that can have difficult conversations, certain boundaries need to be respected.

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On this day in Paris in 1948, the United Nations issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that sets out the fundamental rights and privileges of all people and all nations. In honor of the anniversary of this document, the panelists of Greater Than Code have come together to share their reading of the document with all of you.

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02:26 - Lauren’s Superpower: Remembering Useful Yet Sentimental Facts About People

03:57 - Lauren’s Professional Background

07:35 - Bias in the Downsides of AI

11:15 - Media and AI/How the Media Affects People’s Perception of AI

14:32 - Concerns of Small and Midsize Businesses Pertaining to AI

18:37 - How to Mitigate Bias in AI

22:23 - Ethics in AI

25:39 - Defining Bias in AI

32:04 - Fairness vs. Accuracy in Algorithms

38:30 - Preventing Bias in AI Resources

41:00 - Working Remotely

50:45 - Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Reflections:

John: Lauren talking about the work she’s doing to pre-educate people so they can prevent themselves from getting in trouble even before they build their models.

Chanté: It’s not enough to just be doing this internally. Bias happens in all shapes, sizes, and forms and it’s important to recognize that.

Jacob: In a biased society we can’t expect completely unbiased data; therefore we can’t train an algorithm on the theoretical equitable world that we want to create. There will always be a trace of the bias we have now.

Lauren: The first step is acknowledging the bias exists in the first place.

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Special Guest: Lauren Maffeo.

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01:22 - Ariel’s Superpower: Extreme Irritability

07:30 - Accessibility Needs - Learning What Irritates Others

16:05 - Rabbinical School

20:30 - Developing Company/Corporate Values

Reflections:

John: Using the process of establishing and/or revising values as a way of pulling in the experience of marginalized people in the company.

Jamey: Think about who your values put pressure on.

Jacob: Balance between whether values should be aspirational or should they be a reflection of things that people in the company have already internalized.

Ariel: Aspirational vs. Reflective values and when is the right time for each. Also, there is a point of giving too much weight to the values.

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Special Guest: Ariel Caplan.

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01:12 - Willem’s Superpower: Meta

02:20 - Accelerated Community Learning

12:45 - Reimagining the Education System

24:20 - Stages of Human Life

41:10 - The Thermodynamics of Emotion Symposium

57:01 - Listening to What the Community Needs

The Fall of Civilizations Podcast

Reflections:

Jacob: Local communities can surely agree on and find really innovative ways they can provide for each other.

Arty: The magic can only happen with the existing system being out of the way and space being created for the people with the spaces and the people with the programs to work together around the shared interest.

Willem: Our culture has all these impediments to navigating complex systems in wise ways. We should get out of the way of people we have more power than and listen to the system and provide resources to the system.

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Special Guest: Willem Larsen.

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01:30 - James’ Superpower: Spending time chasing his daughter and her robots around. Helping with her robotics club at school.

02:37 - “Just Be Yourself” is Terrible Advice

03:50 - What Are You Trying to Accomplish in the Interview

06:00 - Be Authentic: Which Parts of Yourself to Show

07:25 - Turn Your Interviewers into Your Advocates

12:42 - Technical Interviews

16:00 Interviewee as the Interviewer

18:53 - Prepare for Common Interview Questions

23:34 - Intrinsic Motivation

29:29 - Storytelling in the Interview

37:15 - Management Techniques

45:00 - Why Technical Interviews are Challenging

Reflections:

John: Setting the context for being approachable as an interviewer is important.

Rein: Some of this advice works all the time, and some of this advice only works when you have been able to develop a personal connection with the interviewer/interviewee.

James: Think about if this is a place you want to work while interviewing.

Avdi: Turning your interviewer into your advocate can help them also be able to tell you if this place will be a good fit for you.

Jessica: It’s not just about being able to interview well as the interviewee, but we need to choose a company that can interview well too. Ask your personal contacts about what it is like to work at a certain company.

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Special Guest: James Edward Gray.

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01:10 - Don’s Superpower: He is a generalist. He has lots of skills he can bring together in one place.

02:25 - Ethics and Open Source

08:34 - Consequentialism vs Contractualism

18:15 - The Paradox of Tolerance/Paradox of Openness

19:15 - Is Licensing the Right Mechanism for Bringing Ethics into Open Source

23:40 - Enforceability of Open Source Licenses

28:40 - Compensation as an Ethical Consideration

34:30 - Quantifying the Value the Open Source Software Gives

38:24 - Empowering People Who Participate in Open Source

48:31 Tierney Cyren @bitandbang

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Special Guest: Don Goodman-Wilson.

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01:12 - Ambreen’s Non-Technical Superpower: She is Very Good at Zoning People Out

03:20 - Ambreen’s Technical Superpower: Any Challenge She is Given She Will Try to Just Do It

06:03 - Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset

08:40 - Ambreen’s Hobbies Outside of Software

10:10 - Thinking About Things in a Molecular Way

13:45 - Ambreen’s Journey to Software Engineering

20:30 - Self-Advocating for New Work Experience

22:00 - Empathy in Engineering

Reflections:

John: Intentionally recognizing uncomfortable learning situations and be okay with it.

Jacob: Your emotional state does matter at work and we as professionals need to recognize that this has relevance to one’s ability to do work.

Arty: It is important to help others to be able to come out of their comfort zone and be ok with not knowing everything.

Ambreen: Likes Jacob’s idea of being productively lost, but there is progress being made. There are many different styles of learning.

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Special Guest: Ambreen Hasan.

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01:16 - Mannah’s Superpower: He is Comfortable in His Own Skin

02:17 - Assessing Identity and Evaluating Sense of Self in New Culture

03:42 - Quoting Beyoncé and Using the B Word

06:25 - Moments of Self Doubt When Someone Doesn’t Believe You

09:14 - Empathy

11:22 - Retaliation is a Thing

16:33 - How to Deal With Coming Across a Viewpoint You Don’t Think Has Merit

18:56 - The Supreme Court Voting on Protections

23:23 - Origins of Thoughts and Root Causes

28:57 - Recognizing Privilege

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Special Guest: Mannah Kallon.

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02:35 - Philip’s Superpower: Being Not Afraid of Mathematics

04:07 - Programming Language Foundations in Agda

Propositions as Types

Isomorphism

Software Foundations by Benjamin C. Pierce

The Coq Proof Assistant

15:32 - Using a Proof Assistant

22:57 - Human Creativity + Insight

QuickCheck

CompCert

30:02 - Specifications

Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services

The Evolution of Testing Methodology at AWS: From Status Quo to Formal Methods with TLA+

How Amazon web services uses formal methods

35:25 - How To Translate Abstract Concepts So Practitioners Can Use Them

Reflections:

Rein: The way we are taught math makes us hate it.

Jess: There’s a difference between learning the foundations of programming and learning the skills of programming

Chanté: How do we make conversations like this more accessible?

Jacob: Ways of getting quick and seamless feedback as you are writing a program.

Joint Cognitive Systems: Foundations of Cognitive Systems Engineering

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Special Guest: Philip Wadler.

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