Stephen Leonard on STEM and the Frustration Inherent to Engineering

In this episode, Frank and Andy interview Stephen Leonard, Andy's son, about his upcoming first SQL Saturday Talk, digital natives, engineering and STEM, and old movies like "Aliens" and "the Matrix."AI Generated Transcript (experimental)Hello and welcome to data driven,the podcast where we explore the emerging field of datascience.We bring the best minds in data,software, engineering, machine learning and artificial intelligence.Now hear your hosts Frank Lavigna and Andy Leonard.Hello and welcome back to data driven,the podcast or we explore the emergent fields of datascience machine learning an artificial intelligence.If you like to think of data as the newoil then you can consider us.Car Talk 'cause we focus on where the rubber meetsthe virtual road and with me on this epic journeyroad trip down information superhighway.Although I think we have to be sequestered because ofthe pandemic is Andy Leonard,how's it going? Andy, hey it's going well Frank,how are you doing, brother?You know I'm doing OK,I'm doing OK, we're in lockdown.I'm in. My wife is actually on an important workmeeting and I have the kids.In the room with me so you might hear ina frequent interjection,but I understand that Speaking of kids,yeah, we have a very unique guest.We do, we do have Steven Ray.My older son is joining us for the first partof this an we want to talk to him becauseat least in this it is first part because heis about to deliver his very first sequel Saturday presentation.Yes Sir, very cool. So I know a little bitabout the back story to this so.Steven, why don't you, uh,kind of do an intro to yourself.You're just. Quick bio I know and he probably knowseverything about you,but most of the rest of his home.Well, I'm for the uninitiated.I'm Steven. I'm Andy's son and or as I normallyrefer to him.Dad, I do stuff with small AI and neural Nets.I also work with Raspberry pis specifically.Sorry iot devices, specifically Raspberry pie.Zan, Jetson, Nanos working a little bit less with thelatter.Recently I've been doing more work with the pies.And, uh, pretty soon on the 25th I will bepresenting my first sequel Saturday class and I guess Ijust got lucky enough to do it on the firstseveral virtual SQL Saturday. Call it whatever you want,lock or unlucky based on the world events.I'll be teaching class on how to install SQL Serveron a Raspberry Pi 3B and I'm working on asolution for the four as well.Very call and it's my understanding that you actually you'reactually studying.Was it telerobotic? Not telerobotics but.Was it? Does a really cold like $10 word forit that Angie,Oh, Mecatronics Mecatronics That's it?Yes, Sir. Cartoon yes it does.I'm uh, it's It's, uh,it's really just all the I believe there are like12 or 13 official realms of engineering,or at least the ones that they teach in college.And it's sort of all of those mixed into onelike hyper focused,really hard class and I really just chose it becausewhen I walk into the when I walk into aroom,if someone has a question,I just want to be able to answer it.I want to be sort of the most helpful Ican be and I figure if I'm well enough versedin.As much engineering as much as much of the realmsof engineering as I can be,I figure I can be pretty helpful.That's pretty, that's the plan.A chip off the old block there Andy.Well, he, uh, you know his.I'll say Frank, he's probably better at it than mebecause his mom has...

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