Here's a very good personal account of the "illusion of competence," as it relates to how we consume digital information—"digital products make it uniquely easy to trick yourself into thinking that you’re learning when you are actually being entertained"…

I'm so excited to go back to SciPy this year after a long hiatus for me! #SciPy2025

Python: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER] youtu.be/pqBqdNIPrbo OMG! I can’t wait for this! #Python

The Global Head of Education Impact at Google calls it "GameChanger for Education"—to me it's the COLLAPSE of education: teachers use AI to make lessons and assessments, students complete work with AI, and teacher gives AI-assisted feedback… Full circle! youtu.be/mLnFCJhYRnE

Well, that's that.

Presentation slides for my talk yesterday at #SciPy2025 Barba, Lorena A. (2025). Embracing GenAI in Engineering Education: Lessons from the Trenches. figshare. Presentation. doi.org/10.6084/m9.fig…

At the 2nd-day #SciPy2025 keynote: "My Dinner with Numeric, Numpy, and Scipy: A Retrospective from 2001 to 2025 with Comments and Anecdotes" by Charles R Harris—he showed a picture of the location for the first SciPy meeting… It's where my office was as a grad student!

Had a hallway conversation at #SciPy2025 about #GenAI in coding education → one week later, a (partial) solution is shipped in Colaboratory 🤯 The magic of conference serendipity never gets old. Longer post with story on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…