Happy International Women’s Day! Today, we turn 12. After a hiatus since 2021—while Dr. Phoenix Perry completed her CS PhD—we’re back for 2025! You can now find us on BlueSky. Follow us here: bsky.app/profile/codeliberat…
This year, our major piece of work was this 16 hour course we offer for free at Future Learn for the first four weeks. Learn to make games to tell your story from an inclusive set of women and non-binary queer folks here -> futurelearn.com/courses/crea…
Happy Eight birthday to us!
Andrew Ng:
- suggesting Google didn't fire Timnit
- has never graduated a woman PhD student
- requires employees to work 70-90 hrs per week, which is impossible for many folks w/ chronic illness & many parents
AI darling Andrew Ng doing some mighty wild rewriting of facts in his weekly newsletter.
"Gebru and Google subsequently parted amid further disagreements around bias."
blog.deeplearning.ai/blog/th…
I'm glad to see Biden/Harris taking abuse seriously. During the pandemic, harassment is affecting lots of people in their personal and professional lives. @ekp, @mckensiemack and I are measuring remote workplace harassment. Share and fill out our survey: survey.projectinclude.org/ta…
A Maze has easily been the best digital festival this year. So much care was taken into crafting the entire experience. Highly recommend! 2020.amaze-berlin.de/
CROWDSOURCING CHALLENGE
In 2018 Michael Sorkin (RIP) wrote "250 Things an Architect Should Know"
readingdesign.org/250-things
The items on the list are poetic, thought provoking, introspective, practical, canonical... many connect architecture with broader issues.
¿What are the...
The most important thing you can do for yourself as a creative is to work every day, even if it's only for 5 minutes. Do anything, doodle, code, take some photos - just keep practicing.
Today we were reminded just how important it is to document your process for future you. It's really hard to remember all of the coding structures you invented later on...
The hardest part of teaching is trying to have a beginner's mind. This is why we think everyone who just learned to code should teach it straight away. It solidifies your learning, and empowers others. Win, win!