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Intro topic: Lego event space & retail store: https://www.instagram.com/bambeecave  News/Links: • StackOverflow Question Count Going Down  • https://gist.github.com/hopeseekr/f522e380e35745bd5bdc3269a9f0b132 • DeepSeek claims its ‘reasoning’ model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks • https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/deepseek-claims-its-reasoning-model-beats-openais-o1-on-certain-benchmarks/  • Computer Science Papers Every Developer Should Read • https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/computer-science-papers-every-developer • Nvidia Cosmos - an AI platform to change the future of robots and cars - wins Best of CES 2025 • https://www.zdnet.com/article/nvidia-signs-largest-car-maker-toyota-to-use-its-self-driving-tech/  Book of the Show • Patrick: Alice’s Adventures in a differentiable wonderland • https://www.sscardapane.it/alice-book/ • Jason:  • A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Hulu/Netflix/etc) Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show • Patrick:  • Digseum • https://store.steampowered.com/app/3361470/Digseum/ • Jason:  • Sqlitedict - Python dictionaries saved to disk Topic: Project Planning and Management • Why? • Gathering feedback • Identifying risks • Deciding future headcount • Documenting / discovering dependencies • Critical path • Schedule • Reduce the bullwhip effect • How it works • SMART goals • specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound • MT is most important • Gantt Charts • Scrum • Agile • Kanban • Tools • Whiteboard (the generic IRL one) • Post it notes • JIRA • Asana • OpenProject • Dealing with uncertainty • Buffering • Issues with recursive padding • Project planning Post-Mortems ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ (https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown)