Grace Teng
Co-Host of Monkey Mind
I'm a full-time software developer and a part-time grad student. As an undergrad I double-majored in film production and Spanish, and minored in linguistics. So it makes perfect sense that I am now studying computer science. It also makes perfect sense that I would do a podcast called Monkey Mind, about switching between disciplines with a marked lack of discipline. I prefer call it "intellectual curiosity".
Grace Teng has hosted 38 Episodes.
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Episode 006: Dependency Hell and Browser Wars
May 24th, 2020 | 1 hr 32 mins
cs50x, debugging, web development
Grace is still obsessed with CS50x. We talk about development frameworks, rooting out bugs that are not your fault, and demonstrated skill as a professional calling card.
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Episode 005: This is All About CS50x
May 23rd, 2020 | 1 hr 52 mins
c programming, computer science, cs50x, online education
Grace has a new obsession: Harvard's CS50x Introduction to Computer Science, so we talk about online education, and how to teach and learn online.
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Episode 004: All Abstractions Are Wrong But Some Are Useful
May 23rd, 2020 | 1 hr 13 mins
abstraction, computing, population genetics
David and Grace talk about abstraction in statistics, computing, mathematics and a few other things besides.
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Episode 003: Foods, Farms and Pets
May 23rd, 2020 | 58 mins 41 secs
farmed food, meat, pets, wet market
David and Grace talk about the relationship between human beings and the rest of the animal kingdom.
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Episode 002: On Data Formats and Speciation
May 17th, 2020 | 1 hr 23 mins
data formats, data wrangling, evolutionary biology
We talk about remote audiovisual production, wrangling data, and genealogy in evolutionary biology.
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Episode 001: From Bad Wi-Fi to Bad Science
April 18th, 2020 | 1 hr 12 mins
David is serving his Stay-Home Notice at a hotel with bad wi-fi. We talk a little bit about the state of Covid-19 in Singapore on 28 March (ahh, such innocent times), how science gets done, and what happens when science is done badly.
Recorded on 28 March 2020.