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[[!template text="""Hi! My name is Eduardo Ochs. I'm the author of""" start="00:00:00.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""an obscure package called eev and I""" start="00:00:03.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""think that it's better to start this""" start="00:00:07.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""presentation by the middle of the story -""" start="00:00:08.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""by this word here: Maxima.""" start="00:00:10.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Maxima is a computer algebra system""" start="00:00:12.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that has several interfaces. One""" start="00:00:15.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of them is WxMaxima, that looks very""" start="00:00:17.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""modern and is very pretty, and it""" start="00:00:20.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""looks like this...""" start="00:00:24.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it's a cell based interface. We can type""" start="00:00:26.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""an expression here and execute it...""" start="00:00:30.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""here's the result.""" start="00:00:32.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""But I don't like that interface""" start="00:00:35.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""because my memory is very bad, and I type""" start="00:00:38.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""very slowly and with lots of mistakes...""" start="00:00:40.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""so for me this ugly interface that""" start="00:00:42.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I'm going to show now is much better -""" start="00:00:46.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and here I'm going to show how I am teaching""" start="00:00:49.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that ugly interface to beginners.""" start="00:00:51.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""If I type f8 on these three lines here""" start="00:00:54.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it creates a Maxima running inside Emacs -""" start="00:00:58.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I mean, using a terminal and running inside""" start="00:01:00.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""a shell buffer in Emacs...""" start="00:01:04.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and if I type f8 on this other the lines here""" start="00:01:06.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the `f8's send lines to Maxima, and, ta-daaa,""" start="00:01:09.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""this small program drew this.""" start="00:01:15.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I live in Brazil and people in""" start="00:01:20.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""developed countries cannot imagine""" start="00:01:23.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""how are the beginners that we have here...""" start="00:01:26.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""in a sense Brazil is another planet.""" start="00:01:29.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Let me explain why, and also let me""" start="00:01:32.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""explain why Maxima, why Emacs... because""" start="00:01:35.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""people always say &quot;you should use""" start="00:01:37.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""programs that everyone finds intuitive,""" start="00:01:39.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""like VSCode&quot;...""" start="00:01:41.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""well, I teach Calculus in a bad Campus""" start="00:01:43.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of a good Federal University in Brazil.""" start="00:01:45.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""My university is called UFF, for""" start="00:01:47.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Universidade Federal Fluminense.""" start="00:01:50.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""The main campus of UFF is in Niterói,""" start="00:01:53.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that is a big city near Rio de Janeiro,""" start="00:01:56.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and I work in a city called Rio das Ostras,""" start="00:02:00.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that is is a small city 200 Kms away""" start="00:02:03.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""from Rio de Janeiro.""" start="00:02:03.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I started working there in 2009.""" start="00:02:07.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""My campus gets very little funding -""" start="00:02:09.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that's a long story that I don't have time""" start="00:02:13.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to tell now - and we get the""" start="00:02:16.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""students that don't get enough marks in""" start="00:02:20.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the admission process to go to better places.""" start="00:02:22.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Also, my campus has two institutes -""" start="00:02:25.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I call them The Institute of Humanities""" start="00:02:30.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and The Institute of Inhumanities.""" start="00:02:33.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Each of our institutes has a small building...""" start="00:02:35.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the Humanities building has lots of plants and""" start="00:02:38.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""lots of graffittis - I call it the Good Building -""" start="00:02:41.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and the Inhumanities building has lots""" start="00:02:46.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of rules and prohibitions, and I call it the""" start="00:02:49.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Evil Building.""" start="00:02:51.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I heard that the Inhumanities building""" start="00:02:51.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""has a laboratory with computers, and that""" start="00:02:56.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it doesn't have any machine that runs Linux...""" start="00:02:58.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but the Inhumanities building is""" start="00:03:00.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""shrouded in mystery, and basically""" start="00:03:05.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""humans avoid it - only inhumans go there.""" start="00:03:07.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I only discovered how much &quot;another planet&quot;""" start="00:03:09.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Brazil is a few months ago. In May and June""" start="00:03:12.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of this year the federal universities in Brazil""" start="00:03:15.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""paralyzed their activities in a nationwide""" start="00:03:18.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""strike for two months, and during the strike""" start="00:03:21.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the humanity students occupied the""" start="00:03:23.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Humanities Building and organized lots""" start="00:03:28.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of activities there.""" start="00:03:31.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""They asked me if I could give some workshops""" start="00:03:31.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and I offered two hands-on workshops""" start="00:03:34.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""on Free Software for beginners -""" start="00:03:36.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""basically on Emacs and eev, with""" start="00:03:40.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""tutorials with lots of &quot;try this&quot;s...""" start="00:03:45.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and, as usual, the students of""" start="00:03:49.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Computer Science and Engineering ignored""" start="00:03:54.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the workshop completely, and didn't come...""" start="00:03:56.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but some students of psychology and of""" start="00:03:59.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Producão Cultural, which is basically""" start="00:04:01.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""techniques for producing cultural""" start="00:04:04.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""activities, came to workshop... and they LOVED""" start="00:04:08.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the workshop - they found it FUN.""" start="00:04:11.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And after the workshop I told the""" start="00:04:14.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""students that there are lots of things""" start="00:04:17.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that, uh, &quot;everyone knows and I don't&quot;,""" start="00:04:19.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and I would like to learn them,""" start="00:04:22.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""but I find them too hard to learn by myself""" start="00:04:24.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""because I'm a dinosaur - I'm only used to""" start="00:04:27.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""interfaces that are very old,""" start="00:04:29.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and that are not graphical... and one""" start="00:04:31.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of the examples of the things that I""" start="00:04:35.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""would like to learn was Canva.""" start="00:04:37.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""And then the student of Produção Cultural""" start="00:04:39.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""taught me Canva in 10 minutes,""" start="00:04:42.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""AND THAT CHANGED MY LIFE.""" start="00:04:45.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Anyway, again, I'm working in that place,""" start="00:04:54.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Rio das Ostras, since 2009,""" start="00:04:58.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and the Computer Science students""" start="00:05:00.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""here know lots of programs and languages""" start="00:05:04.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that I would like to learn, but in all""" start="00:05:06.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""these 15 years the Computer Science""" start="00:05:08.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""students only helped me twice.""" start="00:05:11.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""It turns out that our Inhumanities""" start="00:05:14.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""students don't have a culture of sharing""" start="00:05:17.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and helping - but our Humanities students do.""" start="00:05:20.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Another detail about how much Brazil""" start="00:05:26.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""is another planet...""" start="00:05:29.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""well, I only discovered this very""" start="00:05:30.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""recently, too... my research is in Logic,""" start="00:05:33.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I sometimes go to conferences, usually in""" start="00:05:38.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Brazil, very rarely outside, and people""" start="00:05:40.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""here don't bring their laptops to the""" start="00:05:44.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""conferences - we don't have a culture""" start="00:05:46.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""of sitting together with friends""" start="00:05:49.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or colleagues to learn with them how to""" start="00:05:51.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""use the programs that they use...""" start="00:05:54.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""for example, many of my friends""" start="00:05:56.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""are logicians, so they have to draw""" start="00:06:01.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""lots of diagrams, and I don't know how""" start="00:06:05.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""they use their programs to draw diagrams...""" start="00:06:08.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I don't know how things are in""" start="00:06:13.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""universities with good computer labs but,""" start="00:06:15.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""anyway, consider these sentences""" start="00:06:18.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""sentences that sort of everybody says...""" start="00:06:22.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""&quot;Everyone knows VSCode&quot;,""" start="00:06:25.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""&quot;Everyone knows Jupiter Notebooks&quot;,""" start="00:06:25.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""&quot;Everyone draws diagrams with Quiver&quot;...""" start="00:06:27.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Here these things are not true -""" start="00:06:31.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and they are not relevant -""" start="00:06:34.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""here knowledge about programs does not""" start="00:06:36.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""propagate... and""" start="00:06:40.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""one of my goals in life is""" start="00:06:40.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to become friends with some people who""" start="00:06:43.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""know how to use for example, code blocks""" start="00:06:45.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""in Org, and JavaScript, and learn some of""" start="00:06:47.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""their workflows... or, rather one of my""" start="00:06:50.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""one or two semesters ago...""" start="00:28:31.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""So: thanks, and bye!""" start="00:30:30.000" video="mainVideo-maxima" id="subtitle"]]

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