Hello again! (Update on bike accident)

Hello! I hope you can hear me. I don't

know if anybody's there. I hope I will see

some chat messages coming through.

This is not an episode of the
Coding Train.

Sorry, I am typing my password on
this other computer over here.

Do I have to press this to see the chat

let me see.

um no I see the messages there

'Oh hey, I'm alive. Hi! :)'

So I wanted to do a video to say 'Hello'.

I'm sorry that it's ben about two weeks

since I've actually done a video.

I don't have a plan for this. I should

have made a list of all the things to

talk about. 'Hello Boston. Hi hi hi hi hi'

See so many wonderful chat messages. I

can't believe there are already 202 people

here. So if you didn't see Twitter or

where ever else I might've posted this.

I unfortunately was in a bicycle accident.

I was the on riding the bicycle. The

bicycle accident was with the street and

mostly my elbow. And I'm trying to figure

out how to look at you. Where's the

camera? If I look over there, that's me

looking at you. Yes that's the camera.

So this happened almost a week and a half

ago, and just to let you know. This arm is

pretty much broken, mostly in the elbow is

the major area of destruction. This wrist

is also broken. It's possible that this

wrist is broken, but it's pretty

stabilised and will probably heal anyway
if it is.

I had surgery on the elbow to get it put

back together; there is now some metal in

my arm. I believe, I might've been in a

fog of the daze, but I think the surgeon

said they put some artificial bone that's

made out of coral in my arm. And so I'm

wondering if the universe is trying to

tell me something about machine learning.

First of all, I know this is totally

eschew. I will try to get a better setup

to do videos, streaming from my home.

I'm at my home now.

I think I've done one live stream from a

park and everything else has been from my

studio. I don't know if you guys remember,

but the first time that I started to do a

video about machine learning. I said,

"Something, something, machine learning."

and the fire alarm went off. Then I just

got started with my machine learning

videos and once I got started with that, I

just went to one day of the O'Reilly

Artificial Intelligence Conference, which

was really extraordinary. I went to this

wonderful Reinforcement Learning workshop

and I'm forgetting the fella's name who

ran the workshop. But anyway, then right

after that workshop, as I was riding a

bike to go to a dinner, that's when I had

the accident. If you're joining late you

can see I have some injuries here.

Uhm ... So ... Uhhhhhhh ..

Anyway, so I don't know what the universe

is trying to tell about this coding machine

stuff, but I will get better. I was

wearing a helmet. The first thing I

should've said at the very beginning of

this video is 'Please wear your helmet'.

My whole lip was split, my tooth is messed

up, these glasses were totally broken.

I should go get my helmet. Hold on a

second, I'm going to get my helmet to show

you the scratches. You can look at this

beautiful poster; this is my
favourite poster. It's a

poster of every single bird
of North America,

the complete collection which. tore my
apartment Talk amongst

yourselves, I'm going to get my helmet.

Here's a unicorn for you to look at. Oh,

you can't see the unicorn. Here. There you

go. Look at the unicorn while I go get my

helmet. I should've worn headphones.

Coming back now with the helmet.
Ok.

Here's the helmet. Let's see if we can

find the part that's all scratched up. It

actually doesn't look like much. I don't

know if this will come through.

I don't know if you can see those

scratches and scrapes on the side of the

helmet. And that that is the side that hit

the ground. I assume.

I did not lose consciousness. I did have

a head CT scan which was negative.

And yes, CellOfTheBride in the chat is

saying 'Get a new helmet'.

So if you didn't know this, which I did

know, helmets are only good for one crash.

Kind of like car seats, same thing for

kid's car seats.

So, sorry for everybody who's bored by

this. So I need to get a new helmet.

But to be honest with you, I think it

might be a while before I ride a bicycle

again, certainly in the city. Yeah.

I do need to shave. It's going to be a

while before I shave. I did get the

glasses fixed which was I was talking

about. Some people are asking a bit more

about the accident.

It's not really a great story to this, but

I guess I will tell it since people are

interested.

I was riding in Midtown, which I don't

usually do, I kind of only ever ride along

the West-Side Highway bike path because

I'm a little bit afraid of riding in the

city. Which makes sense.

I was riding in Midtown and there was a

street where the bike lane had a lip.

Like the bike lane was not in the same

level as the street and I went out of the

bike lane down the lip to go around

something. I think there was a car parked

there. It kind of happened sort of fast, so

I don't totally remember. And then,

when I turned to back in the bike lane

kind of avoiding traffic and kind of going
quickly. I just wasn't

careful and didn't really pay attention.

I think I was never in the bike lane when

I turned onto the street and that's

partially why I didn't notice the lip. I

was just not in the bike lane because I

had to go past a car and when I went into

the bike lane - If I just had stopped and

pit walk the bike up.
So I don't really know

what happened. I don't really remember.

I think I would say that I just fell

sideways. I assume my whole right side of

my body just hit the ground, cause the

elbow must've been what hit first and

shattered. This wrist must've tried to

brace myself and my lip was cut and

glasses were smashed and this side of the

face was also it.

So anyway, that's the story. And actually

some nice car stopped to say 'Are you ok?'

I pulled the bike out the street and got

to the side and leaned against the post.

But a very nice man stopped and offered

to take the bike back, helped me get some

tissues out of my backpack for me so I

could put those on lip which was bleeding

quite a bit and helped me on phone to find

the nearest urgent care which I then

walked to. Cause I really actually thought

oh I cut my face and I probably bruised

my arm. I guess I can't go to this dinner

I was gonna go to, oh that will be a nice

excuse to not go to the dinner. Then

once I got to the urgent care, it was

quite obvious that my entire - nobody

wants to see these photos. There was a

swelling in my elbow that rivals the size

of this helmet. It was quite big. We're

talking about a large mango sized swollen

elbow.

Anyway, all said and done, I'm fine.

But I have to go on hiatus a little bit.

In terms of the kind of video I typically

make. I can not type right now. I don't

really have use - I mean I have some use

of this arm. I'm trying to be very

minimal about it, because the goal here

is for this to heal on its own without

having to have a second surgery on this

wrist. I should know more; I have another

appointment with a surgeon. Interestingly

enough, of course the surgeon started

talking to me about machine learning and

using machine learning to, you know,

diagnose disease and medically treat it.

So I'm trying to figure out what to do.

Couple things I'll mention. I'm seeing a

lot of wonderful messages, messages of

support. I'll read through those later.

Couple things: One is now is a nice time

for you to support the processing

foundation, processingfoundation.org,

while I'm on break, if you're looking for

something to support. If you want to

become a patron through my patreon:

patreon.com/codingtrain. If someone could

post that link in the chat. I'm going to

put it on pause while I take a break.

There's going to be at least 4 weeks of

losing in making video. You'll still get

an invite to the Slack community and

everything I have been growing around the

channel.

What else do I want to say?

I do have a couple people who might

hopefully work out to do some guest

videos. And so, the guest videos -

Oh, Kurt in the chat saying Connor

McDonald is doing a p5.js vision workshop

in Berlin, that's interesting.

I could do some live streams from my

apartment like I'm doing right now. I

had an idea to do some office hours or

something. But I loathe to create

something overly complicated. We have

enough stuff to keep up in the air. I

was also thinking of getting that Random

Number's book and just live stream all day

and read. [Please]

And I can definitely do a live stream Q&A.

I'm gonna go, sorry this computer just

keeps going to sleep. I have a second

computer to the side of me here.

I'm going to check.

It doesn't look like there's anything here.

I'm looking at the slack channel and see

if there's anything posted there.

I wanted to mention something about the

Patreon too. In terms of the Patreon

rewards - I can type better than write on

a whiteboard right now. Unfortunately,

this is my left hand, so if this were my

right hand I might be able to write, but

this arm I mostly have it in a sling and

completely immobilized. You can see I'm

all kind of like still cut up on the hand

and stuff here. And this arm, I can't

really use at all.

So.. Ah! I wanted to mention something

about the Patreon rewards. If you decide

to join the Patreon, those rewards can

take up to 6 months to a year for me to

get to you. I have somebody who helps me

with this by mostly shipping them out.

You know every few months, I have a day to

get a bunch of books together and put them

in packages. So if people are interested

in the books, the actual things that are

the rewards, then they should just buy

them directly rather than join the

Patreon, but you will get them.

And also, the actual expense of getting

the book and shipping it, it really costs

as much as someone backing the channel for

5 to 6 months depending on where you live

around the world.

Anyway so that's another reason why I, uh-

Do you guys hear a lot of noise. I'm

seeing a lot of those.

Ok!

Let me try to answer some of these

questions. 'How soon will you get back to

your regular coding videos?'

I hope to have an update on that at the

end of next week. So I have an appointment

with the surgeon. They're gonna take off

what's on my arm right now and have

another look at it and put something else

on it. And hopefully I'll have a better

sense of scheduling then.

Timothy is asking 'Tell me about the

accident'

This will be archived and I'll leave this

online and I won't put ads on it or

anything and so you'll be able to watch

that, where I talked about the accident.

My arm really does itch. I'm sorry the

stream is terrible. I thought I had such a

good Verizon FiOS connection at my house,

but I guess not. I wonder if this iPad is

not so great at it.

'Do I watch much YouTube? And if so, what

channels?'

I don't watch much YouTube. I think it's

a old folgy [what?] thing. But I've been

watching this 3Blue1Brown Calculus videos.

And, Srirodges [sp?] videos and also The

Happy Cats videos, so I guess I do watch

a lot of YouTube.

Well great, I'm glad people are saying the

quality is fine.

I do know Computerphile; I haven't watched

it very much.

I'm reading the chat to look for more

questions. (Slightly amused chuckle)

'Do I watch Tom Scott's videos?'

I've heard the name, but I have not
watched Tom Scott's videos.

'Can you do some videos about you and
history with coding?

I could do that. I could do some some
talking videos.

I'm not really a production value/video
editing kind of person.

So it's just going to be me rambling, kind
of like this. Which I don't know if

anybody really wants to watch.

Oh, FunFunFunction I also like to watch.

I know that he does these great musings
which is just kind of talking.

But I feel like they're just tightly
thought out and planned and edited.

I don't know if I could do that.

'Are you in pain?' Somebody asked.

Yes, it's painful, but it's not so bad.
And it's getting much better now

especially after the surgery. I didn't
realize the surgery was more difficult to

recover from than the accident itself.

The accident was just scary and weird and
they wrapped everything up and I was kind

of feeling ok. But once I had the surgery,
I had a lot of soreness and pain in my

right side. I'm definitely going to have
a lot of physical therapy.

'High-tech games?' (chuckles no)

'How far was it for me to walk to the
Urgent Care?'

I think it was probably, if I had to
guess, half a kilometer/quarter of a mile.

I haven't been out much. I live near
Central Park which is lucky.

I've been going for walks there which is
pretty nice.

'Is my Pink Book written in Java or
JavaScript?'

One of the things that I'm really sad
about is - This month, in a way this is a

lucky time for me. I'm not teaching in
summer times. - I've had to adjust

travel plans. I can't do some of my travel
plans. Workwise this is a low-stress time

for me to just relax at home and heal. But
because I have this time period of so much

extra time on my hands, I was going to
really work on finally finishing up the

new Chapter 10 and 2nd edition of the
Nature of Code, the Pink Book.

That's going to be difficult for me to do.

If anybody has any ideas for things I can
do or ways that you can help, I'm totally

open to that.

Anyway, the Pink Book is written in Java.
All the examples are reported to

JavaScript, that's the Nature of Code book
and I was planning to have a 2nd Ed. done

by the end of the summer and I don't know
that might be a little bit [difficult].

'Learn ES6'! That's perfect.

So I was thinking of doing a video course
or a reading [on ES6].

This is a little ironic that I think I
prefer to learn by reading books than

watching videos. So if anybody has any
suggestions on -

It's hard for me to read a book that I
have to flip the pages, but I can read on

the Kindle really easily.

- So programming books about creative
coding, machine learning, ES6, maybe React

I shouldn't do anything that's useful so
I shouldn't learn React.

If you guys have recommendations of that
that I can read on the Kindle that would

be useful. Tweet me @Shiffman is the best
way to give me your recommendations.

I could do a video on book recommendation
myself.

Hi, Chris!

'Do I play video games normally?'
Not really, I used to.

If you guys are resourceful, you can find
an old New York Times article about my

video games playing. [Title: I Don't Know
Who You Are, But You're Toast]

There are two NYT articles about me. The
video game was about 2001 [1998] and

another one about some artwork in 2003
which I'm less excited about.

Find that old NYT article and tweet it at
me.

Bungie was this company, that I guess now
makes Halo, that was bought by Microsoft,

But I played their early games, Myth: The
Fallen Lords, was the game that I played

the most. Also Marathon. Anybody play
these games? These were old, old times.

Oh! And I do have some exciting news to
report which is that progress is being

made on music video. I actually shot the
new music video which is really lucky

cause I did all sorts of ridiculous stuff
in the music video that I would not be

able to do now with all my broken limbs.

Wow, Josh found one of the articles, 'What
If Jackson Pollock Were a PC?'. There's

another one written two years earlier by
Michel Michaels or Michael Michel

[Michel Marriott]

I met him when I was at a game conference
at Javits Center just as a fan. He started

asking me questions about gaming.

'Old school Bungie' that's exactly right
PeaDoll615.

'I Don't Know Who You Are, But You're
Toast' That's it. Is it still online?

My age is 43, and my birthday is July 29th
coming up soon.

I think I started answering the question
of 'When do I expect to be making coding

videos again?' I certainly got the sense
from the doctors that by the Fall I would

be able to teach my classes without much
of an issue. I mention that I do a lot of

writing on a whiteboard. But I'm hoping,
if I had a goal for myself, for beginning

of August, but we'll see if that's
realistic or not.

'What do I think about MATLab?' MATLab
looks awesome to me; I don't know it very

well.

Eat a lot of eggs and yogurt, calcium.
That is good advice. I was actually

wondering what was good for bone healing.
I was told protein was good too.

I do eat a lot of yogurt. I do have kids.
This is my daughter's unicorn stuffie.

It's not my own. They're not here right
now; I'm actually home by myself.

Just finished a puzzle, this is puzzle
that I did with my kids last night that's

sitting over there. I'll show it to you.
This is the puzzle that we did together,

the glitter puzzle. The Glitter Princess,
a 100 pieces. 100 pieces is the perfect

puzzle for a 6-year old. There's a wand
here too. There's just like random toys.

Anyway, 'Do I know any working picture
detection algorithm for Processing?'

Hmm, I don't. I'm trying to think if the
Processing library does that.

'Next Challenge: Tetris JavaScript w/out
Canvas' that's really interesting.

I would probably do ... it with Canvas.

'Do you think VR programming will be in
high-demand?'

Hey Kyle Greenberg! Kyle has helped me a
lot with this channel. Kyle is a

researcher, an IT alum at where I teach,
who is here in the chat.

What was I just talking about? Ugchh,
brain. I was talking about ..

the Tetris Coding Challenge. I would love
to do that.

Oh, VR games! Do you the nice thing about
this? This live streaming has a less of a

delay than the usual setup that I have.

So, VR programming. What the students are
interested in and hyped up about at NYU,

there is certainly quite a bit of activity
and interest around storytelling and

related interactive experimental works
with VR.

Now, I think Gabe, who I work with at ITP,
has said this, but he likes to think of

the field more as of an experimental
cinema, 360 cinema.

I think VR is a small piece of what's
happening with video and the ability

to manipulate and work with video in new
immersive environments, AR, VR, 3D, etc.

But I would love to learn and get better
at is working with environments like

Unity, Real Engine, and different
environments like that where you can do

programming.

Wow, I really never get to follow the chat
so I don't get to see as much of the

troll-ish messages.

'Make a PNG to ASCI Code Challenge please'
That's a great idea.

Hello, to India.

'Would you prefer C++ or Python?'
Actually, that's another thing I should

do. I should read a Python book and learn
Python.

I'm not sponsored by Khan Academy or
anybody.

Right now this channel is independent.
I do get support from NY University in an

informal way. I use a room there and I
help -

I have another guest video. I think there
could be some guest videos coming which

could be nice.

I would love that, Peter!
Peter says, 'I wrote a Python Book'

If you have a Kindle version of it, that
would be ideal. Though I think I could

read a PDF on a Kindle.

There's no such thing as VR programming
just two camera projection matrices.

Yes, that's probably accurate.

'Am I able to shave?' Not really.
I probably could, but it would just be so

awkward so it's not worth it.
I can brush my teeth. I can eat!

Fungilious asked 'Is there a Slack channel
for the Coding Train?'

There is a slack channel, but it's
currently open to only Patreon subscribers

right now. That doesn't preclude anybody
from making their own community Slack

channel, but that's one of the ways that
I am using crowd funding to raise a little

money for the work that I am doing. Which
is to use Patreon for membership to the

Slack channel. There is also a Discord
that I don't know too much about, but

that's something that there's a community
using.

Quaternions, I should [learn about that].

Oh, I can't really get up and run to do my
joke. Ow.

I feel like I should just always have my
cast in this. I can't. I don't know.

I have this goose neck thing that my iPad
is on.

NickTucker asks 'What role does AI play in
medicine?'

Interesting question. I can't claim to
have any expertise in this whatsoever.

But if you think about image
classification and how often doctors and

medical professionals use images to make
diagnoses from echocardiograms, you could

imagine that, though I'm really
speculating without knowledge of the

healthcare industry or anything, but I
could imagine a scenario where you had a

large dataset of images of broken and
unbroken arms then you could train an

image classifier to recognize broken vs.
non-broken arms. So that's kind of a

simplistic way of thinking about it. I
think that there a probably a lot of other

ways of thinking about that.

'Do I have a Raspberry Pi?' Yes.
I have wanted to Raspberry Pi tutorial

videos, but I just haven't gotten around
to it yet.

I don't have much to say about BitCoin.

People are asking if they can intern. I am
definitely accepting help with things, but

you'll have to be pretty self-directed.
So if you want to poke through all my

GitHub repositories and look at GitHub
issues...

I'm trying to answer some emails. I'm
using Dictation on the iPad which has been

working quite well for me to respond to
things. So I'm definitely accepting all

help.

'Do you think we live in a Matrix?'
Good question. What if I told you

I knew the answer to that question.

Is web development in high demand in the
East Coast?

'Any thoughts on coding bootcamps?'
I don't know too much about them.

I think they're great.

Nicholas asked 'What would you like help
with?' Let me think about that.

I honestly haven't thought about it.

So this has been about thirty minutes. So
I think I'm probably going to get going

soon and thank you for all the nice
comments, the tweets that I've gotten,

messages I've gotten. It's been really
nice and supportive. All things considered

this is a pretty minor accident in the
grand scheme of things that happened in

the world. I'm doing just fine and I have
really nothing to complain about.

If people are interested in me coming on a
live stream like this and just answering

some questions, I'm definitely
happy to do this pretty often.

I think the thing that could be useful for
me is to think about, is there kind of a

lowkey way that I can generate content or
answer questions or do stuff while I'm

waiting for this stuff to heal.

Thank you for tuning in.

'Ping-pong AI tweet' have I seen? I
haven't looked through all the tweets that

I've gotten in the last week and a half
yet. So I'm going to go back and do that.

'What's my favorite restaurant?'
Big fan of Japanese food and there are

some very delicious and very expensive
restaurants.

There's a place that I went to. Oh, what's
it called?

omg, it wuz so gud.
I have to look this up.

Do you guys want to wait for me to look
this up?

I'll look it up on my other computer. I
should also check the slack channel here.

It's on like West 44th or something? No,
East 44th. It's right by Grand Central

Station. Masumi? [sp?] No, that's a place
I go downtown. Hold on.

I can't remember this.
Alright, I can't find it.

'Is anybody watching?'
'No'

I love that I can see a real time amount
of audience here.

I will find out what this restaurant is
and I will let you know in the next live

stream for the people that are desperate.
I do live in New York City. Yeah.

I have some people offering to do guest
videos that I upload to the channel.

It's not Nobu [sp?], I mean Nobu's amazing

'Sakagura' It could be that. That sounds
right. How come I can't remember the name

of this. I wanna say that it starts with
an M.

So I teach at NY University, go to
ITP.NYU.edu

and that is a 2-year Master's Program.
That's part of Tisch School of the Arts.

You can find more information about that
program if people are interested in

applying or visiting, you're always
welcomed to.

And I hope I'll be better at teaching
three classes in the Fall.

I think Python is awesome. I wish I knew
it better and did more with it.

I have lived in New York since 1995. So
not always.

I gotta find out what this restaurant is.
Is it not by Grand Central? It is, I think

it is. Let me look.
Sushi Yasuda! 204 E 43rd St. I think this

is it. I just had one meal there at the
sushi bar that was just like totally,

totally amazing.

I do not own a bike; this happened on a
city bike. And yeah.

'Have I ever been to Europe?' Yes.

I actually lived in London for 8 months
pretty recently in 2015.

I did a semester at NYU London and I
would love to go back to the UK and spend

some time there. I found it to be a very
enjoyable place to live.

And it was nice to get away from..
never mind. I don't want to get into

American politics. And that was 2015!
It was just nice to be away for a while

from this crazy country.

I'm just reading the chats. It's pretty
interesting to read all your messages.

'Make community projects so we can code
together'

That would be an interesting thing to do.
I could make them as - ♪ (phone ding) ♪

Sorry, I'm getting a text message from my
mother. I don't know. She's apparently not

watching this.

Somebody asked about guest videos! I
might try to do some guest videos. I

prefer to have a strict curation of them
and actually have the guests working with

me here in New York. If people making
coding tutorials, what I'm not opposed to

doing is making a curated list of them and
doing like a live stream that has a video

that links to other people's tutorials to
watch them. Kind of like a highlight reel

of things to watch this week or something.
Like a This Week in Creative Coding.

I feel like there have been some things
recently that I want to mention.

There is a medium post about the new p5.js
web editor.

I did hurt both arms. The right arm is
unfortunately more serious and had surgery

and it's going to be a much longer
recovery than this broken wrist.

The surgeon gave me the option to have
surgery on both, but I opted not to have

surgery on this one and hope that it heals
on its own. So we'll see.

'Private lessons?' I love to help people
and I guess teaching at NYU is my form of

private lessons for people who are in
that. [Stopped @36:06]