David Tan

Episode 022: Not Sure What We Talked About, Part V

June 11th, 2021  |  1 hr 29 mins

Hi, it's Grace, weeks after the recording of this episode. I can't remember what we talked about but these are our show notes, so we must have talked about birds (surprise), urban geography, Freiburg, shipping containers, something about modelling the financial markets, and more Freiburg.

Episode 021: Not Sure What We Talked About, Part IV

April 18th, 2021  |  1 hr 23 mins

Hi, it's Grace, weeks after the recording of this episode. I can't remember what we talked about but these are our show notes, so we must have talked about scientific literacy (again) as it relates to Covid (again), big ships being stuck, highly unlikely accidents, and oddly photogenic Australian veterinarians.

Episode 020: Not Sure What We Talked About, Part III

April 18th, 2021  |  2 hrs 17 mins

Hi, it's Grace, weeks after the recording of this episode. I can't remember what we talked about but these are our show notes, so we must have talked about Java being terrible, programming horrors, and college-level remote learning.

Episode 019: Not Sure What We Talked About, Part II

April 18th, 2021  |  1 hr 51 mins

Hi, it's Grace, weeks after the recording of this episode. I can't remember what we talked about but these are our show notes, so we must have talked about David travelling on a ferry to see some birds, and lots and lots about museums. Also, David's mic cut out partway, again, so we have a Zoom recording for a bit. We're super professional podcasters that way.

Episode 018: Not Sure What We Talked About, Part I

April 17th, 2021  |  1 hr 13 mins

Hi, it's Grace, weeks after the recording of this episode. I can't remember what we talked about but these are our show notes, so we must have talked about games and building things, or something. Also, David's mic cut out partway, so we have a Zoom recording for a bit. We're super professional podcasters that way.

Episode 017: Tries and Trees

February 14th, 2021  |  1 hr 6 mins

biology, computer science, linguistics, phylogenetics

We talk about tries, phylogenetic trees in biology and historical linguistics, and other trees in linguistics.

Episode 016: The One About Games Done Quick

February 14th, 2021  |  1 hr 24 mins

games done quick, gaming, video games

This was recorded over a month ago, I have had no time since to listen back and make show notes, and all I know is that we talked a lot about video games and Awesome Games Done Quick 2021.

Episode 015: Flooding, Ponding, and Draining

January 16th, 2021  |  1 hr 4 mins

desire paths, draining, environment, flooding, ponding, urban design

David and Grace talk about flooding, environmental effects and urban design.

Episode 014: Landscape of Death

January 1st, 2021  |  1 hr 54 mins

birds, blue light, dead birds, home office, niche modelling

David talks about trying to figure out where birds will die. Grace talks about a two-computer, one-monitor, no-KVM-switch setup.

Episode 013: Trees and Maps

December 20th, 2020  |  1 hr 23 mins

academia, education, evolutionary biology, gis, linguistics

Trees and maps are data structures much beloved by linguists, evolutionary biologists and computer scientists, so of course we have a lot to say about them.

Episode 012: Bad Education

October 19th, 2020  |  1 hr 2 mins

academia, assessment, education, teaching

More meandering conversation about grading, teaching, and educational outcomes. Not a lot of links this week, since we're mostly talking about our own experiences.

Episode 011: Too Many Head and Eye Movements

October 19th, 2020  |  1 hr 24 mins

algorithms, assessment, exams, online learning, teaching

A meandering conversation about academic assessment, computerised proctoring, gaming the system, and instructional delivery.

Episode 010: Games and Mental Models

August 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 22 mins

games, gaming, mental models, models, speedrunning

We made it to Episode 10. Games, mental models, games as models, and broken models.

Episode 009: A Perception-Themed Episode

August 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 21 mins

animal navigation, color, colour, computer science, cs50x, education, le wagon, perception, uv light

Human colour perception, animal navigation, things that fluoresce under UV light, and a little bit about learning software engineering tacked on at the end.

Episode 008: Babies are really sh*tty neural nets

August 16th, 2020  |  58 mins 46 secs

birds, coalescent theory, language acquisition, linguistics, rsa cryptography

David talks about birds (surprise), we talk a little bit about RSA cryptography, and Grace struggles to remember her undergraduate language acquisition class.

Episode 007: True bugs and true foods

June 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 25 mins

bugs, food, migration

This episode is about bugs, bugs as food, and then global cuisines and what happens to foods that are transposed outside of their original habitat.

Recorded on 24 May 2020, before Bon Appetit imploded.