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**Intro topic: Lego event space & retail store: https://www.instagram.com/bambeecave) **
News/Links:
StackOverflow Question Count Going Down
https://gist.github.com/hopeseekr/f522e380e35745bd5bdc3269a9f0b132)
DeepSeek claims its ‘reasoning’ model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks
Computer Science Papers Every Developer Should Read
https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/computer-science-papers-every-developer)
Nvidia Cosmos - an AI platform to change the future of robots and cars - wins Best of CES 2025
https://www.zdnet.com/article/nvidia-signs-largest-car-maker-toyota-to-use-its-self-driving-tech/)
Book of the Show
Patrick: Alice’s Adventures in a differentiable wonderland
Jason:
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Hulu/Netflix/etc)
Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h)
Tool of the Show
Patrick:
Digseum
Jason:
Sqlitedict - Python dictionaries saved to disk
Topic: Project Planning and Management
Why?
Gathering feedback
Identifying risks
Deciding future headcount
Documenting / discovering dependencies
Critical path
Schedule
Reduce the bullwhip effect
How it works
SMART goals
specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound
MT is most important
Gantt Charts
Scrum
Agile
Kanban
Tools
Whiteboard (the generic IRL one)
Post it notes
JIRA
Asana
OpenProject
Dealing with uncertainty
Buffering
Issues with recursive padding
Project planning Post-Mortems