This week, I wanted to refresh my memory and get back into programming . I fold a group on meetup called ‘Girl Develop it NYC’ which is a women coding group. They were founded in 2010 and they goal is to teach women how to code .  Today we are learning Numpy ,which is a open source python package for scientific computing .Numpy is used for data science, research, finance and data analysis. Our instructor today Vivian Lam , she was really helpful .

Today I attend three online webinars , the first two was hosted by a website called the Riveter . The Riveter is a women owned networking site ,they host events and have chatroom for different subject for example they have a chat room just for women with children or another chat was for entrepreneur . Today Topic was about  Covid-19 effects  on low-income communities and how we can better support less fortunate. they also spoke about the discrimination against Asian communities .  The second webinar was about investing into startup tech companies , the webinar had two guest speaker Courteney Real and Asra Nadeem . Asra Nadeem is the vice-president of Draper U and Courteney Real is the creator of podcast RiseHer.

The second webinar was hosted by Future for us , which is a platform dedicated to helping and advancing women of color careers. Today  guest was Natalie Torres-Haddad , she works in  finance  . she gave us finance advice how to prepare for after Covid-19 is over . Setting up a retirement fund and emergency fund. She told us  we need to change the stigma around money and save in the low income communities. we need to investing in our own communities.

This week  I attended two  online workshops, the first was  hosted by New York Public Library we learned how to create and publish our own podcast. Jenna was our host she was extremely helpful on how to make a creative and engaging  show. She showed us how to use Anchor.FM which is a free publishing site  , the app is very easy to use. Next, we listen to three different style of hosting a podcast , to get a ideas on how to open the show .Some hosts will have theme music other will play a clip from the  interview in the beginning . I learn so much , the public library has great resources .

The second workshop was hosted by Mark Cuban foundation , we learn about new A.I technology and how it effect our world . We learn the different between  ANI and AGI , a ANI is good at one thing like Siri or Facebook auto tag. AGI is A.I that is good at everything a human can do like Terminator or the main computer from iRobot . so far we don’t have any A.I like this yet .