179: Project Planning

Intro topic: Lego event space & retail store: https://www.instagram.com/bambeecave News/Links:StackOverflow Question Count Going Down https://gist.github.com/hopeseekr/f522e380e35745bd5bdc3269a9f0b132DeepSeek claims its ‘reasoning’ model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarkshttps://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/deepseek-claims-its-reasoning-model-beats-openais-o1-on-certain-benchmarks/ Computer Science Papers Every Developer Should Readhttps://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/computer-science-papers-every-developerNvidia Cosmos - an AI platform to change the future of robots and cars - wins Best of CES 2025https://www.zdnet.com/article/nvidia-signs-largest-car-maker-toyota-to-use-its-self-driving-tech/ Book of the ShowPatrick: Alice’s Adventures in a differentiable wonderlandhttps://www.sscardapane.it/alice-book/Jason: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Hulu/Netflix/etc)Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=hTool of the ShowPatrick: Digseumhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3361470/Digseum/Jason: Sqlitedict - Python dictionaries saved to diskTopic: Project Planning and ManagementWhy?Gathering feedbackIdentifying risksDeciding future headcountDocumenting / discovering dependenciesCritical pathScheduleReduce the bullwhip effectHow it worksSMART goalsspecific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-boundMT is most importantGantt ChartsScrumAgileKanbanToolsWhiteboard (the generic IRL one)Post it notesJIRAAsanaOpenProjectDealing with uncertaintyBufferingIssues with recursive paddingProject planning Post-Mortems

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Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

178: Working from Home

180: Reinforcement Learning

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Intro topic: Lego event space & retail store: https://www.instagram.com/bambeecave**

**News/Links:

• StackOverflow Question Count Going Down

• https://gist.github.com/hopeseekr/f522e380e35745bd5bdc3269a9f0b132

• DeepSeek claims its ‘reasoning’ model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks

• https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/deepseek-claims-its-reasoning-model-beats-openais-o1-on-certain-benchmarks/

• Computer Science Papers Every Developer Should Read

• https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/computer-science-papers-every-developer

• Nvidia Cosmos - an AI platform to change the future of robots and cars - wins Best of CES 2025

• https://www.zdnet.com/article/nvidia-signs-largest-car-maker-toyota-to-use-its-self-driving-tech/

Book of the Show

• Patrick: Alice’s Adventures in a differentiable wonderland

• https://www.sscardapane.it/alice-book/

• Jason:

• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Hulu/Netflix/etc)

Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h

Tool of the Show

• Patrick:

• Digseum

• https://store.steampowered.com/app/3361470/Digseum/

• Jason:

• Sqlitedict - Python dictionaries saved to disk

**Topic: Project Planning and Management

• Why?

• Gathering feedback
• Identifying risks
• Deciding future headcount
• Documenting / discovering dependencies
• Critical path
• Schedule
• Reduce the bullwhip effect

• How it works

• SMART goals

• specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound
• MT is most important

• Gantt Charts
• Scrum
• Agile
• Kanban

• Tools

• Whiteboard (the generic IRL one)
• Post it notes
• JIRA
• Asana
• OpenProject

• Dealing with uncertainty

• Buffering

• Issues with recursive padding

• Project planning Post-Mortems

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