Welcome to the first episode! Here I talk with my friend Matthew Handzy a Data Engineer about a variety of topics including his internship at Bell Labs, a Wordle solver he programmed, video games we enjoy, building computers in Minecraft, speed running LeetCode and our dogs. Hope you enjoy!

FROM THE PODCAST: Matt's Wordle Program on GitHub: https://github.com/mhdzy/wordle Solving Wordle using information theory by 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA&ab_channel=3Blue1Brown Cosine: The exact moment Jeff Bezos decided not to become a physicist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFnV6EM-wzY&t=27s&ab_channel=TidefallCapital Song Intro/Outro: Bumpy Knuckles Baby by Bumpy Knuckles

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CONNECT: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-dolinay-frm-96a289106/ GitHub: https://github.com/ad17171717 X: https://twitter.com/DolinayG Odysee: https://odysee.com/@adriandolinay:0 Medium: https://medium.com/@adriandolinay |-Video Chapters-| 0:00 - Intro 0:40 - Welcome to the Podcast! 1:16 - Internship at Bell Labs 4:28 - Matt's Wordle Program 10:11 - Speed running LeetCode 13:40 - Containers and Docker 15:33 - Video games 25:15 - Building computers in Minecraft 27:20 - Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) 30:37 - Tabs vs spaces 32:40 - What is Nuclear Physics? 33:51 - Business vs Academia 36:33 - Our dogs 42:57 - Pump fake 43:41 - Calling myself a "Scientist" and "Engineer" lol 44:31 - Contemplating your limitations 46:30 - Use your time wisely... 47:35 - Prompting ChatGPT for the best answers 50:20 - Outro

The Aspiring STEM Geek - Talking Tech with Matthew Handzy - #1