Ep 052, Minimize the Entropy

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Morgan Creighton grew up watching Carl Sagan explain the wonders of our universe on PBS, inspiring Morgan to study physics. During his first job after college, a Nobel Physics Laureate famously opined that Computer Science would someday be declared a sub-discipline of physics. Morgan feels this is exactly the opposite of the truth - physics may eventually be declared a sub-discipline of CS! We cover the management of entropy in software, the Technicolor Dreamcoat that is functional programming, how your soft skills let you exercise your tech skills, and Morgan's Law for problem isolation.

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
St. John's High School https://www.stjohnshigh.org/
The X-ray telescope from Harvard https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1988/5/9/up-up-and-away-palthough-harvard/
Boston Area Scala Enthusiasts (BASE): https://www.meetup.com/boston-scala/
Morgan's Monad talk: https://vimeo.com/103647102

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome everybody to episode number 52 of Under-Served.
0:04.8	Today in studio, I have Morgan Creighton,
0:07.6	a senior scholar developer at Syrinks.
0:10.5	Let's get started.
0:12.9	Welcome to this week's edition of Under-Served,
0:17.1	the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.
0:20.4	Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders,
0:23.4	their insights, and their lessons learned.
0:26.4	And now, your host, Andrew Jalina.
0:31.8	Morgan, thank you so much for coming down today to record with us.
0:35.6	Andrew, the pleasure is all mine.
0:37.1	I'm so happy to be here in our wonderful studio,
0:39.9	and I hope I'm interesting.
0:42.1	Oh, I am 100% confident you will be.
0:46.0	So tell me, Morgan, way back in the day,
0:48.4	when you were a kid, what got you interested in science,
0:51.3	technology, and computers in particular?
0:53.9	Well, I've always been interested in science.
0:56.2	I knew from a young age I would have something to do in science.
1:00.9	You know, my family and I watched Carl Sagan's cosmos
1:03.6	when I was a kid, and like so many people,
1:07.6	he showed how cool, how inspiring,
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