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#20YearsACoder
In celebration of my #20YearsACoder, I am conducting a retrospective on the journey.
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What Makes a Coder
A machine learning approach to the tech pipeline.
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The Myth of Innate Ability in Tech
On the surface, it kinda makes sense, especially if you have ever found yourself marveling at the dexterity with whic...
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2016 Year in Review
My year was marked by intensity! Like most of the United States, 2016 had me bodied. It wasn't all bad though, it was...
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The Rise of the Merchant Princess
Ìyá Álaàfiá, aka Josephine Olaitan Thomas (nee Koya), was born March 29th, 1907 to one of the ruling families in Ìjeb...
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Babasola Thomas, my Father at 80
My father is that rare breed of humanity born with a capacity to tolerate high risk. Some might even say he courts ri...
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The Audacious Todd Park
I have never seen a technologist almost brought to tears over their love of country and the transformative impact of ...
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CSExperiencePrediction: Part Two
While students do not agree that women are smarter than men, half of them are undecided about this statement!
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CSExperiencePrediction: Part One, Two Birds with One Stone
Self-driving trucks are here. We can kill two birds with one stone.
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Stumbling into Cultural Analytics
Data-driven method applied to the experience of intro CS at Universities.
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Àsó Oké - Top Drawer
Deola Sagoe belongs alongside Demas Nwoko, Ikiré Jones ... African artist who transform their medium through their co...
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My Tears, Movies, and the Age of Obama.
I am a film fanatic. I suspect my father is too. Growing up in Lagos we were fed a steady diet of films from the gold...
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In Praise of Seymour Papert, the father of AI.
Seymour’s dream isn’t dead because he is, instead, he has left his work to us his devotees to continue.
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15+ Years of Computational Intelligence.
How I became an expert in both human and machine intelligence.
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A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of 'I Know'
We need to understand why rappers use words like “copping” to stand for buying drug or use the language of food “brea...
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Teju Cole in Interview with Eleanor Wachtel - On Becoming
And each one of us ... we all have to figure out what is our relationship to this culture. And the great thing is th...
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What I Learned from Peer Reviewed Rejection - Its not Personal
In truth, “my writing was an offense to good taste.” My ideas were not cogent and I had not developed the ability to ...
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The Beauty of Blackness
The US has a great Black life tradition. Unfortunately, most outsiders are acquainted with only the negative aspects ...
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On PhD, Organized Education and Shipping
Software engineering is both an art and a science. You can't go to university and become Gauguin, Picasso or Yeezy.
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An Ode to Demas
I have often wondered, what would happen when African ways of knowing meet Western thought.
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The Real Evil is Supremacy
At the root of many of these ills lies supremacist ideals. This is not an America problem, it is not an European prob...
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Redesigning Computer Science
Computer Science is the hottest thing on the streets, its like we are selling crack, but the crack that we are sellin...
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Microwave Food Versus Michelin Chef
Microwave Food Versus Michelin Chef: So want to Code? There is coding and then there is becoming a master developer. ...
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The GetYourLife Reading List
I admit, I am super extra. I put this list together for a then boyfriend, who I believe had lost his way, had stoppe...
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The State of the Computer Science Union
A month back, we had the great distinction of having Dr Forbes, a Duke University Computer Science Prof and a proud B...
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How Should I Choose?
I am in a fortunate position where I get a selection of companies that would like me to think about joining their eng...
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Automatic Essay Grading: An Exciting - But Not Yet Perfect - Tool
In April 2012, the Hewlett Foundation hosted a competition on Kaggle, the predictive modeling competition site, to fi...
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The Winner Tonight Diversity
We the people have just re-elect the 44th president of the United States. But I would like to point out that the real...
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Social Justice in the Age of Big Data
Last April, I got a chance to participate in a panel discussion at CITRIS on social justice in the age of big data. T...
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The Power of X
You can do the Impossible. You don't need to wait for someone else to do it. . . I can do it!
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Myth Busting Summer
I consider myself a myth buster. My summer internship experience at UniversityNow, has been another act in a myth bus...
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Bridging the Gap From Academic Research to Industry Research
As a researcher in an academic environment, one gets used to a certain kind of pace. Because we are somewhat the fina...
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My campaign for education access
For the next 10 years, I want to be a social entreprener focused on education. Education not for the upper class 1% b...
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On Encouraging Girls in Tech
Sometime in last year, I decided to be a technovation instructor for their technovation challenge, an after school pr...