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When Does AI Generate Nonsense?

I’m worried you might trust AI generated summaries and AI generated code because of how surprisingly good AI tools can be at some tasks…

Jun 12

A map that has part of South America with a Africa sticking out sideways from Brazil (with a weird connection). Some country labels are correct, but there is both “Brazil” and “Brasil” and a country called “Duraguay.”

Jun 12

Social Media, Ethics, and Automation (we wrote a textbook!)

Along with most people in my college dorms, I was excited to join Facebook as soon as they opened it up to my university. I had been using…

Dec 18, 2023

Social Media, Ethics, and Automation (we wrote a textbook!)

Dec 18, 2023

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Three types of knowledge developers need when using APIs

As a programmer, I’ve used and struggled with the APIs of many code libraries and frameworks: from data visualization (d3.js, ggplot2) to…

Dec 11, 2020

The content of the above paragraph visualized as three circles with arrows between them, along with labels.

Dec 11, 2020

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HCI & Design at UW

There Is No “Blue” in Korean

Different Languages Have Different Colors

May 20, 2019

There Is No “Blue” in Korean

May 20, 2019

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Measuring Values and Culture

While working on my last project, I learned about how scientists try to measure culture. Culture, of course, is an incredible complicated…

Dec 21, 2018

Measuring Values and Culture

Dec 21, 2018

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How Culture Influences Debugging

When I moved to Peru a decade ago, I began to notice how much of the computer programming world was centered in the US (and within the US…

Oct 8, 2018

How Culture Influences Debugging

Oct 8, 2018

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Coding Bootcamps: Women Overcoming Intimidation

How do the motivations of women who attend coding bootcamps differ from the motivations of women who attend undergraduate computer science…

Aug 11, 2018

Coding Bootcamps: Women Overcoming Intimidation

Aug 11, 2018

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Coding Bootcamps vs. Computer Science Degrees: What Employers Want and Other Perspectives

Employer Views

Mar 2, 2018

Coding Bootcamps vs. Computer Science Degrees: What Employers Want and Other Perspectives

Mar 2, 2018

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What I Learned From Researching Coding Bootcamps

A year and a half ago, my wife, Kristen, was an English teacher. Now she is a full-time software engineer at Microsoft. I followed her…

Jun 29, 2017

What I Learned From Researching Coding Bootcamps

Jun 29, 2017

Kyle Thayer

Kyle Thayer

Assistant teaching professor in the iSchool at the University of Washington. I research programming, culture, and education. (he/him) http://kylethayer.com

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