Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

This week on the podcast, Eric, John, and Thomas welcome 2021 and kick off the year with a ton of discussion on what they would on over the holiday and what they are looking forward to in the new year.

Show Links

• Slack outage on first Monday of 2021 causes disruptions
• Open-source developer and manager David Recordon named White House Director of Technology
• Alphabet Workers Union
• JetBrains plays role in Russian hack???? NOT
• Statement on the story from The New York Times regarding JetBrains and SolarWinds
• US Passes Spending Bill With CASE Act and Felony Streaming Proposal * TorrentFreak
• Sync your team's local .env variables - Envault
• TabFS
• Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group

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Andy Teichholz, Head of Industry Strategy for Compliance and Legal at OpenText joins the show to discuss some of the regulatory directives most critically impacting the public and private sector organizations around the World, and why you need to know about them. We also talk about some of his 2021 trends for compliance driving digital innovation in government and best ways to align your strategy with some of these directives.

Veryable is a marketplace for on-demand labor for manufacturing and distribution, which provides businesses with higher productivity and fewer administrative burdens and workers with flexible work arrangements.

Noah Labhar is a startup founder, CTO, and podcast host. Noah shares his startup story and personal experience building an engineering team of non-CS grads.

In a tech startup, how do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin to a fully functioning product? Code Story is a podcast hosted by Noah featuring tech leaders, reflecting the roads they travelled and the products they created.

He interviews tech visionaries on his show, digging into the critical moments of what it takes to change an industry and build & lead a team that has your back. Code Story is a window into the digital startup world. In their own words, tech veterans share what it feels like to create a world-class product, how to recover from critical mistakes, and how to scale your solution to the masses.

We talk about all this and the shifting landscape for on-demand workers, and the tech hurdles Noah has overcome in his career.

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The starting point for today's conversation was an argument made by Guillermo Rauch in this blog post. "And each time, your frontend has an opportunity to impress, delight, perform, be accessible and memorable. What's more, frontend is an area of technological and artistic differentiation, while backend becomes increasingly commoditized, turnkey and undifferentiated."

Sure, programming in PowerPoint isn't very practical. That doesn't mean it can't be lots of fun, and teach you a few things.

Speaking of learning things, we chat a bit about Alan Kay, who has a wonderful talk on the ways we can use computers to illustrate complex concepts to children.

In June 2019, New York Times reporter Kevin Roose wrote The Making of a YouTube Radical, a story about how a 26-year-old man, Caleb Cain, was radicalized through YouTube. For the story, Roose examined Cain’s entire YouTube history, and plotted the path he took toward radicalization. Software engineer and researcher Mark Ledwich took issue with the story, citing his own research and claiming the notion that YouTube could radicalize was a myth.  

Instead of yelling at — and past — each other, Ledwich and Roose came together for a moderated debate on the Big Technology Podcast, where both stated their points of view, got a chance to respond to each other’s points, and ask each other questions. 

Further reading:

Kevin's story:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html

Rabbit Hole podcast:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/podcasts/rabbit-hole-prologue.html

Ledwich's story:

https://mark-ledwich.medium.com/youtube-radicalization-an-authoritative-saucy-story-28f73953ed17

Ledwich's research visualization:

https://recfluence.net/

Topics covered in this episode:

• 5 ways I use code as an astrophysicist
• A Visual Intro to NumPy and Data Representation
• Qt 6 release (including PySide2)
• Is your GC hyper active? Tame it!
• Top 10 Python libraries of 2020
• Adoption of pyproject.toml — why is this so darned controversial?
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/215

Yeehaw! “Data Cowboy” is in the building. Join us as Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla sit down with Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, aka “Data Cowboy” at Microsoft, for an exciting conversation about the release of a new adversarial ML threat matrix created for security analysts. Have no fear, we made sure to find out how Ram acquired the name, “Data Cowboy”, so saddle up and get ready for the ride!

Stick around to hear Nic and Natalia explore the urgency of surfacing threats at a faster rate with Justin Carroll, a Threat Analyst at Microsoft, and why it is more important now than ever before.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• How Microsoft is using the new ML threat matrix against cyber attacks 
• The approach and philosophy for putting the threat matrix on GitHub  
• ML applications in regard to healthcare and why it is worrisome 
• What needs to happen in order to be successful in combating certain threats 

Some Questions We Ask:

• What is an adversarial ML threat matrix? 
• How will the community on GitHub contribute to the evolution of the ML threat matrix? 
• What resources are available to learn about all things VM? 
• What techniques are being used to find threats at a faster speed? 
• How do AI and ML factor into the role of managing data and collaborating with other teams? 

Resources

Ram’s Blog

Ram’s LinkedIn

Justin’s LinkedIn

Microsoft Security Blog

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn

Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts

Security Unlocked is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of The CyberWire Network. 

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Sophy Lee was born in China, but grew up in a lot of countries and places. She grew up in Australia, lived all over Texas, and went to Harvard for undergrad, studying economics. She is an avid bike racer, mainly on the road, and a triathlete. The combination of living in difference places, school, and racing lead her into the tech world. In fact, she moved to San Francisco to race - though he had taught herself to program post college and had an idea brewing in her head on how to become a better engineer in San Fran.

Sophy has been working on her current product for 6.5 years, starting at a different company formerly known as Shuttle. The product was built originally to map out a trip from point a to b, and have a driver give a protected ride to a child. Four years ago, her current company acquired the product, at which point she joined as CTO to lead the Technology & Information Security team.

This is the creation story of HopSkipDrive.

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Links

• https://www.hopskipdrive.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophylee

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If you're interested in learning a bit of BBC Basic, there is a fun introduction here. You can tweet at this bot, and it will run the contents as code and reply with a video of the results.

If you are interested in life-logging and want to see it done with a lot of very pretty graphs, check out this post, My Year in Data.

Last but not least we chat about Svelte, which lets you create "cybernetically enhanced web apps." Shout to Murali, a listener who suggested this topic.

Our lifeboat of the week goes to koekenbakker for answering the question:  R plots: Is there a way to draw a border, shadow or buffer around text labels?

 

 

Season 4 of the Code Story podcast is now live!

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