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Mike and Steve discuss the Abbott government's feelings on teaching kids to code, John Nash (1928-2015), Google getting sued by Oracle, Valve's amazing new Lighthouse tracking technology and Mike's personal experience with the Marginal Utility of Toddlers.

Hosts: Mike Wise & Steve Rogers
Running Time: 1:03:50

Topics

• Abbott Government: Tony Abbott ridicules his own party in school coding gaffe, Schools teach coding to get ahead of the pack
• Programming Language: The worst programming language ever
• John Nash: John Forbes Nash, Jr.
• A Beautiful Mind (Movie): A Beautiful Mind, Metacritic
• OK Cupid: Christian Rudder, The New Yorker, NPR, The Verge
• API Stuff: Google and Oracle are at it again with Java API usage and copyright. Apart from Android, there's implications for API usage. Fortune, Gizmodo
• Mike's Toy collector story: DisneyCollectorBR
• Marginal Utility: I figure that a 3 year old .... er ... nahr she's relentless. Marginal utility
• UI/UX - Affordance: Affordance
• NY Subway - Monotony (Consistency -Vs- Monotony): The mostly true story of Helvetica and the New York City subway, One Thing Well
• Unicode 9: Unicode 9 emoji candidates, The Humane Interface
• Why is it so hard? Complexity and Depth, Reach: Apple's Human Interface Guidelines

Media

• Martian (Movie): Martian Movie Images
• FunToyzCollector: FunToyzCollector YouTube Channel

Notes

• Game Theory: Behaviors in strategic settings. Used in economics. Game: needs 2 players (agents) + payoffs (outcomes) + rules. Not obvious how people behave. "Prisoner's dilemma" (choices: testify or keep quiet) own self-interest. Much like decision grids with weights based on outcomes.
• Coding: "Yesterday, Prime Minister Tony Abbott made a very odd comment in Parliament, effectively suggesting that teaching coding to all kids was tantamount to child labour. Today, he avoided that analogy, but he still wasn’t ready to commit to basic coding skills being taught to every student."
• Internet of Things: Google announces Brillo and Weave to control your smart home, http//lifehacker.com/all-the-important-stuff-google-announced-at-i-o-2015-1707454800, IoT for Pot Plants
• Use Cases: Apart from the tech of this, what's some good use case Farming, Mining and public safety, things like pollen, smog monitors, creek levels for flood monitoring. Building bigger and bigger emergency response capabilities, make the public more resilient. So using common IoT protocol and cheap sensors check things like creek levels for flood monitoring, the build-up of combustible leaf matter for bush fires, methane levels.