#99 Anjana Vakil mastered her debilitating curiosity
Episode description
Anjana started by clarifying what Computational Linguistics is, and the research she did in this field. We then talked about idiomatic programming and echo-chambers, which led us to talking about communities. Anjana then described the coding retreat she did in 2015 and how it was a forming experience in her life. We finished the interview by talking about Developer Advocacy and Public Speaking.
Anjana suffers from a debilitating case of curiosity, which led her from philosophy to English teaching to computational linguistics to software development. As a developer/advocate at Observable, she can often be found coding from her home base in San Francisco; that is, when she's not speaking at events around the world to share the joy of programming and promote a more diverse, equitable, and ethical tech industry. Ask her about the Recurse Center, Outreachy, and Mozilla TechSpeakers!
Here are the links of the show:
- https://www.twitter.com/AnjanaVakil
- https://observablehq.com
- https://www.recurse.com
- https://www.outreachy.org
Credits
- Music Aye by Yung Kartz is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
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