Hi, Habr! In addition to creating practical programming courses, we also conduct webinars and open lectures on Hexlet, write articles and translations, and publish daily digests of interesting materials in social. networks.

Recently we launched a new project - the same name podcast about computer science. Thoughts, reasoning and the study of ideas of computer science, mathematics and programming. The presenter is your humble servant. While there were 3 releases, on release in a week. The duration of each is about 30 minutes.

1. Tools and artificial stupid intelligence

The first issue was devoted to development tools, a glut of frameworks, unfulfilled promise of the computer age and artificial intelligence that behaves like an unpleasant, unreliable person.

→ Play on SC / listen on YT / download

• Gitless
• Gitless talk on HN
• How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
• Too many tools and frameworks
• Unfulfilled promise of the computer age
• Artificial intelligence, and computers similar to people

2. Information, entropy and inhuman data

The second issue was devoted to the information theory of Claude Shannon, entropy in the context of information and data levels at which the human perception of meaning ceases to be relevant.

→ Play on SC / listen on YT / download

• Claude Shannon
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication ( PDF )
• Markov chains
• Entropy and Redundancy in English
• Two excellent video tutorials about Shannon’s theory of Art of The Problem: first , second
• Documentary Claude Shannon - Father of the Information Age

3. Mathematics, computer science and game rules

The third issue came out today; it is devoted to teaching mathematics and computer science, problems of the education system, different views on programming training, and the problem P vs. NP and the rules of the game that you need to convey to students.

→ Play on SC / listen on YT / download

• “How old is the shepherd?” - The problem that shook school mathematics
• Robert Kaplinsky's 3-minute video
• P vs. NP

Subscription

The best way to listen to podcasts is to use a special podcast client. For phones I advise Pocketcasts (Android, iOS) or Overcast (iOS). From free for Android - Podcast Addict , and in iOS there is an embedded application Podcasts.

• RSS podcast
• ITunes podcast
• Channel on YouTube (+ playlist )

Fresh issues are always published on our website and in all of our social networks (links to Habré in the sidebar on the right).