Giles Edwards-Alexander

Founder and CEO of @PanditaIo. The platform to put education and technology in the hands of everyone.

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When was the last time you sat through a safety briefing that you really listened to? How much of your training is just a safety briefing in disguise?

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What can the New Coke fiasco of the 80s tell us about personality tests?

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Any sort of reasonable language requires a module system: a way to use other people's code, including your own.

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Great thoughtleadership is education. Are you thinking about your writing as marketing and teaching?

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Technology can offer us more. But that's not a technology problem: it's a motivation problem. This is at the heart of Pandita's mission.

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More on implementing a VM. Assignment is an interesting special case. How do you handle an expression that doesn’t entirely evaluate like an expression?

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I’ve been blogging again, and I’ve been enjoying being it again.

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Lay-offs suck. But what can you do after the axe has swung? Learn.

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The next post in the story of implementing a virtual machine for a custom language.

Today: quick thoughts on parsing and representing syntax trees.

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On the Pandita blog today. We’ve all taken surveys, but how much knowledge depends on them? And how good are they, actually?

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Evidence matters. We’re on the hunt for good evidence. How good are surveys?

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There's a surprising amount of tech behind @PanditaIo, including its own language. I've started writing about building this.

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Hey @daveg, does this sound familiar? Has Melon Husk really only ever had one idea?

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The lettuce wins!

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@jchyip The Tyranny of Structurelessness had a second, implied, criticism: does the protest, or even the movement, have a goal beyond ‘raising awareness’?

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@becky_thorn @SuziEdwards Wow.

It is November 2024. The Queue has continued to grow. After a brief but vicious civil war in June ‘23, elections took place in mid ‘24.

The new Head of the Queue vows to find out what they were all queueing for.

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Good morning!

It's a chilly start out there ...even a bit of frost around for some of you

Matt | https://t.co/DZH80OEqu3

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@rbs_tito Tricky one. Reminds me of the Freakonomics (yes, I know) tale of the daycare.

Try removing all the ad hoc, 1:1s and add in a daily office hours chunk. Accept no invites, but open a video call to every in-bound request?

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@jonnyschneider @kitsonk @kitsonk @jonnyschneider

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@Grady_Booch I don’t know what you mean, that looks just like him

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@shs96c @PossiblyAlan Veep (made by basically the same people as The Thick of It) is even better

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@oysta Is this about the Knights or the ALP?