01:34 - Brian’s Superpower: Communicating and Listening
02:36 - The Role of Empathy in Teaching/Communicating
* Process Empathy
* Empathetic Report
04:11 - Learning and Teaching Functional Programming
* Lawful Composition
Thinking Functionally with Haskell (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107452643/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1107452643&linkId=b8c8bcf8f27165517d6b53a2b87fedd6)
Compositional Thinking
Category Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory)
11:13 - Compositional Programming in JavaScript
16:02 - Problems That Can Be Solved by Learning Functional Programming
Livable Code by Sarah Mei (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI77oMKr5EY)
Scalable program architectures (http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/04/scalable-program-architectures.html)
25:03 - Category Theory
Categories for the Working Mathematician (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0387984038/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0387984038&linkId=0aa85e8a54efad0135dbd75f39abe43c)
Reading Papers
Finding Applications for Concepts
32:41 - Machine Learning and AI
Generative AI
L-Systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system)
Do be do be do (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.09259.pdf)
53:54 - Discrete Representations of Continuous Phenomena
56:17 - Making Teaching Fun, Engaging, and Interesting
Learning as a Conversation
Reflections:
Brian: Looking into L-systems further and thinking in terms of ranges.
Rein: Dimensionality is imperative.
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