make the tone less doomer

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Michael Zhang 2024-10-21 05:49:15 -05:00
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Yesterday I gave my first talk about type theory at my school's grad student seminar series, about some of the work I had been doing with homotopy type theory and cubical Agda. Yesterday I gave my first talk about type theory at my school's grad student seminar series, about some of the work I had been doing with homotopy type theory and cubical Agda.
Here is a link to the <a href={slides}>slides</a>. Here is a link to the <a href={slides}>slides</a>.
It was not a very great talk so I had a couple of important takeaways. It was a very rushed talk, and a number of things went wrong during the talk, so here's my post-mortem on it from the day after.
First, unexpected things will happen. I had originally practiced my talk for an hour long session, but projector and Zoom issues reduced it by 15 minutes. First, unexpected things will happen. I had originally practiced my talk for an hour long session, but projector and Zoom issues reduced it by 15 minutes.
I panicked and started rushing my talk, which was already losing people. I panicked and started rushing my talk, which was already losing people.
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Third, I should've recorded the talk. Third, I should've recorded the talk.
I just kinda blanked out so much during the talk, it's hard to go back and remember what I said and what I didn't. I just kinda blanked out so much during the talk, it's hard to go back and remember what I said and what I didn't.
At least I hope people liked the pizza :/ It was a good experience, and I hope people at least enjoyed the pizza. :sweat_smile: