WillSen

I’m Will Sentance, an ML/AI/computer science educator/founder - right now I'm in Davos, Switzerland, attending the World Economic Forum for the first time - it’s ‘insider’ as hell which is both fascinating and truly concerning

Proof here – https://imgur.com/a/davos-ama-0m9oNWK

It's full of people making decisions that affect everyone - v smart people like Andrew Ng (Google Brain founder), Yann LeCun (Meta Chief AI scientist) & lots of presidents/ceos

But there’s a total lack of transparency at these closed-door sessions - that’s why I asked the mods if it was cool to do an AMA here - and they very kindly said yes.

Here are a few key takeaways so f

I’m Will Sentance, an ML/AI/computer science educator/founder - right now I'm in Davos, Switzerland, attending the World Economic Forum for the first time - it’s ‘insider’ as hell which is both fascinating and truly concerning

Proof here – https://imgur.com/a/davos-ama-0m9oNWK

It's full of people making decisions that affect everyone - v smart people like Andrew Ng (Google Brain founder), Yann LeCun (Meta Chief AI scientist) & lots of presidents/ceos

But there’s a total lack of transparency at these closed-door sessions - that’s why I asked the mods if it was cool to do an AMA here - and they very kindly said yes.

Here are a few key takeaways so f

I'd love to get your feedback

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Berlin Global Dialogue, which has been likened to Davos but with a stronger focus on technology and AI . The lineup was impressive: Hermann Hauser, the founder of ARM, executives from OpenAI and ASML, and a mix of founders from emerging startups tackling everything from quantum ML to supply chain optimization. Even leaders like President Macron and the German Vice Chancellor were there, engaging with critical tech issues that impact us all.

As the CEO of Codesmith – a small, independent tech school with a data science and machine learning research group (last year we contributed to TensorFlow) – I was invited to announce our latest endeavor: Code

I’m at the Berlin Global Dialogue (https://www.berlinglobaldialogue.org/) – an exclusive event where the world’s top tech and business leaders are deciding how to shape the future. It’s like Davos, but with a sharper focus on tech and AI - with VP of Global Impact at OpenAI, Herman Hauser (founder of ARM), and French President Emmanuel Macron.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1fufbfm/im_a_tech_ceo_at_the_berlin_global_dialogue_w/

Edit 3: I think all done for now but I want to say a true thank you to everyone (and the to the mods for making this happen) for a discourse that was at least as valuable as the meeting I just left.. I’ll come back and answer any last questions tomorrow. If you want to talk more feel free to message me here or on 'x/twitter'

Edit 2 (9pm in Berlin): Ok I’m taking a break for dinner - I'll be back later. I mostly use reddit for lego updates, I knew there was great discussion to be had, but yep it's still very satisfying to be part of it - keep sending questions/follow-ups!

Edit (8pm in Berlin) It says "Just finished" but I'm still fine to answer ques

I’m Will Sentance from Frontend Masters where I teach the JavaScript the Hard Parts series (and UI and Node Hard Parts). I'm about to do an AMA over on r/codesmith for next 24 hours
https://www.reddit.com/r/codesmith/comments/1dofj3a/im_will_codesmith_founder_ceo_i_teach_codingtech/

I’ve been teaching coding/tech/career things for over a decade, and I'm doing a workshop on AI for Software Engineers in September - would love to know what you'd like to have explained there!

I love to think about how to teach programming/ML/AI and the future of tech/job/society so will be great fu

I’m Will Sentance from Frontend Masters and Codesmith. 

I love to think about how to teach programming/ML/AI and the future of tech/jobs/society so will be great fun to answer your Qs on all those topics (and lego if you're interested - as you can see from my post history).

I started Codesmith almost 10 years ago, and since then we’ve had 3000+ alumni come through and are out in the world doing impactful work across so many domains. 

Over the last year I’ve been developing our ML/AI curriculum with James Laff (curriculum lead at Codesmith) and Alex Zai (Codesmith cofounder and Amazon Self-driving Vehicles ML lead) which we’re going live with today —> you can check this out [here](https://

Hello, I’m Will Sentance - I've taught JavaScript, UI engineering and Node.js the Hard Parts to 100,000+ people on Frontend Masters and I’m Founder/CEO of Codesmith - I also do the talks on youtube

My next talk in AI for Software Engineers in September - I’d love to hear what you want to learn in that workshop (frontendmasters live streams it for free)

I’m co-developing it with James Laff, Senior Software Engineer & amazing Curriculum lead at Codesmith & Codesmith cofounder - Alex Zai, author of “Deep reinforcement learning” and currently ML Lead at Zoox (Amazon’s self-driving car company) and

I’m doing an AMA on r/codesmith tomorrow, Tuesday 18 June, at 4pm ET (1pm PT).

I’ll be answerin