Ep. 029, Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Kindred's dad redirected his excess energy and curiosity to learning programming with a teach yourself in 24 hours book. The same thing happened in school, where a chance encounter (getting caught programming) led to a spot on the robotics team. We talk about lessons learned from robotics competitions, using AI and ML to improve software testing, and where the soft powder is in Colorado.

The FIRST robotics organization https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc
Brandon's company https://www.look-see.com/
Autodesk's 3DS Max - https://www.autodesk.com/products/3ds-max/overview?support=ADVANCED&plc=3DSMAX&term=1-YEAR&quantity=1
The conference that recognized Qanairy for Best in class for Transfer learning - https://aidevworld.com/
The company where Brandon's Dad is CTO - https://sqad.com/
The insurance group run by Brandon's old sales mentor Adam Schwartz - http://afoxassoc.com/our-family/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Under Serv, the Podcasts for the Rest of Under-Serve,
0:10.0	the podcast for the rest of the tech industry. I'm your host Andrew
0:14.2	Jalina. With me this week is Brandon Kindred, founder of Looksee. Brandon,
0:19.4	welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. So I know way back in the day I think your dad was in the industry too and you learned a bit about software from him?
0:29.1	Yeah, my dad got into the tech industry I would say in the mid 80s bought a computer
0:34.0	started programming and I just kind of grew up sitting on his lap just watching
0:38.3	a program I wouldn't say I was learning as much as just watching him and just
0:41.1	being kind of mystified by everything that was going on with what he was doing.
0:45.2	So I ended up going in and after a while he actually getting really annoyed with me because I was always
0:50.7	taking apart and putting the computers back together.
0:52.8	So he got me a book and he was like,
0:54.7	you're going to have to learn how this stuff works.
0:56.3	So he got me, I think it was two books actually.
0:58.1	One was like how computers work in 24 hours and the other one was
1:00.8	HTML and 24 hours. I think it took me like a week to get through everything.
1:05.5	48 hours later you must have been an expert.
1:09.7	I don't read so fast but yeah it didn't take very long.
1:14.8	You first got into coding where you just kind of putting together some simple HTML pages? Yeah well I mean I hacked around and whatnot with the Apple that we had in the house here and there
1:22.3	but I never really knew what I was doing I didn't know what commands were you know so I would consider me more like just pounding away at a keyboard and hoping for the best
1:30.3	You do any programming in high school? I did I kept programming over the years and in high school I kind of was confused with what you do with programming professionally if I'm being honest.
1:40.0	You know when I got there it was like well I've learned Java
1:42.5	learned JavaScript I don't really know what you do with these though other than these
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