On this week’s episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews software engineer and live coding streamer Code;Life.
For those of you watching the video version of this interview, she lives in Iraq and she uses a 3D avatar to protect her identity.
We talk about:
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Training language models to work well with low-resource languages from Africa and the Middle East
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Growing up in Iraq and her early experiences with computers and the internet
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How streaming yourself coding can be a good way to practice your skills, update your knowledge, and motivate fellow devs
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How to participate in coding competitions and hackathons even if you feel intimidated
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Links we talk about:
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Quincy’s interview with Eammon Cottrell who automated his coffee shop chain: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/self-taught-coding-automating-coffee-shop-chain-eamonn-cottrell-interview-151/
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MNIST character dataset: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNIST_database
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Zepeto tool for creating your own V-tuber avatar: https://page.zepeto.me/en/u4EEl3wK89atkdyUiivGEck
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Hugging Face AI Agent course (freeCodeCamp also has several courses on this on YouTube but this is the one CL mentioned): https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/en/unit0/introduction
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A video of Code;Life doing a Kaggle data science competition: https://youtube.com/live/WGLqd_sGiVA?feature=share
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