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Some Thoughts On Taking Notes
→: Some Thoughts On Taking NotesI read this article by Ben Casnocha on taking notes, and whilst my previous note taking had been somewhat sporadic, this motivated me to step it up and take notes at every talk I attend. I’ve also been taking more notes when I read, taking time at the end of every chapter to add some…
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Why Are We Still Geeks – Panel at GHC
→: Why Are We Still Geeks – Panel at GHCMarie Klawe Been worried about image in the media for 20 years. Been working on it, but no progress. But “if you don’t even try, you definitely won’t succeed”. Had many failures, but getting closer to success. There used to be very few female lawyers and doctors, now it’s 50%. Still not reaching power –…
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Valerie Taylor – Keynote at GHC 2013
→: Valerie Taylor – Keynote at GHC 2013Starts with comment that the 1994 GHC had 600 attendees, it’s wonderful to see it at 4800. Visited Anita Borg because of research, talked about GHC. Talked about under-represented groups. First Systers of colour. 10-15 women talking about Systers of colour. First GHC was the first conference that was technical, but at the end of…
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Megan Smith on Moonshoots at GHC 2013
→: Megan Smith on Moonshoots at GHC 2013Note: I had a hard time taking notes on this talk because Megan speaks really fast, and jumps around a lot. Her joy and excitement for technology was so apparent – there is no way I can capture that. You can watch the video here. Megan starts with a video – we are a species…
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Brenda Chapman at GHC 2013
→: Brenda Chapman at GHC 2013This talk – by the woman behind Brave (Amazon) was absolutely on of my favourite ever GHC talks. Warm, and funny, and inspiring. Talked about some difficult things, but overall positive. Scared to come to GHC, because she’s a technological dinosaur. Pixar was full of smart people, but kids. She was in the kids group.…
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Presenting Gives Me Nightmares, but I Still Do It: Here’s How
→: Presenting Gives Me Nightmares, but I Still Do It: Here’s HowI get very nervous presenting, although it’s something I do relatively often. This is not out of enthusiasm for getting up on stage, but rather because I find myself in the position of being the least unwilling engineer. After my last presentation I was told that I didn’t need to be nervous, because I was…
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Pycon AU: Making Python More Fun for Everyone
→: Pycon AU: Making Python More Fun for EveryoneInteresting talk from the creators of SingPath – games to help people learn to code. Left me wanting to try the game! Some insights about women and what they find off-putting – nothing unexpected. Notes below: Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation: autonomy, mastery, purpose (Dan Pink’s book – Amazon). Want to extrinsically motivate people without killing…
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Girl Geek Dinner Sydney: Life as a Network Engineer
→: Girl Geek Dinner Sydney: Life as a Network EngineerI was really excited for one of the network engineers to give a talk at Girl Geek Dinner. It’s easy to complain as a software engineer that people don’t appreciate what you do, but in networking that is actually true – people just complain when it goes wrong! I took a lot of notes, but…
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Pycon AU: Exploring Science on Twitter with IPython Notebook and Python Pandas
→: Pycon AU: Exploring Science on Twitter with IPython Notebook and Python PandasBrenda gave a great talk at Pycon-AU about using IPython and Pandas for her research. Slightly rough notes below. She has a dataset of 12 million tweets containing the word “science” – about a years worth of data, after filtering fout non-English tweets and spam. Using UTC for fewer timezone problems. Although still some – mostly…