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A candid podcast return links workplace permission, online age gaps, and a daughter's move into public school.
Adversarial Restarting frames a podcast comeback as an easy, slightly self-conscious talk about work, permission, and the speed of online life.
A small coding exercise opens into a relaxed discussion of interviews, technical books, and conference change.
FizzBuzz gets a wide, conversational pass, starting with Joel Gruss's 2016 blog post, "Fizzbuzz and TensorFlow," and the book "10 Essays on Fizzbuzz." The familiar task of printing numbers from 1 to 100, swapping in Fizz, Buzz, and Fizzbuzz for multiples of 3, 5, and 15, becomes…
A quarantine catch-up finds its shape in chores, deliveries, and one last meal out.
Adversarial Distancing - Episode 2 treats quarantine as a matter of household logistics, not headline history. Yard work in Seattle, Lowe's runs, grocery delivery, masks, sanitizer, weed barriers, wood chips, Instacart tips, and a postponed craving for Thai food all become the…
A candid COVID-era discussion of Twitter curation, dashboards, and data-science judgment.
Adversarial Distancing treats COVID-19 disruption as a brisk, focused entry point into data science, Twitter curation, and skepticism toward dashboards.
AI research, explained by the people doing it.
Talking shop with the people behind data products
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Adversarial Learning: Adversarial Restarting links a move from Seattle to Texas with concrete changes in housing, family life, and work at a startup using AWS Amplify.
Joel Grus ties "10 Essays on Fizzbuzz" to his 2016 blog post "Fizzbuzz and TensorFlow," where a candidate used TensorFlow after a Fizzbuzz interview prompt.
Adversarial Learning presents two conversations with Jwanza Joseph, covering his blog post “How Racism Shapes My Habits,” protests in Salt Lake City, and his work as a Pluralsight infrastructure engineer.
The speaker says COVID certainty is a trap: “I don’t know, I don’t know man, I really don’t know.”
Joel says he is "cleaning out my feed" and blocking people turning COVID-19 into politics or dashboards.
An interview with Julia Hoagland, head of data science for engineering at Cloudera, discussing data science topics.
Joel and Andrew discuss data science and technology, with a political tangent on free speech and Nazi punching.
Joel and Andrew introduce their guest Sarah Guido, a data scientist, and discuss logistics before starting the interview.