The Beyond Podcast: Recent Episodes
Vadim Yushprakh
The Beyond Podcast explores meta-topics and concepts. Note: this has nothing to do with Meta - the corporation. We will focus on mind-twisting subjects like recursion, self-similarity, self-reference, various paradoxes, and other fun puzzles and problems. We will discuss meta references in art and entertainment. And we will try to make these discussions fun and entertaining! Check out The Beyond Podcast at thebeyondpod.com, or wherever you get your podcasts.
In this episode we discuss paradigms for naming very large numbers, and how this connects to the power of algorithms, programming languages, and the machines they run on.
This episode discusses The Book of Tao, minimal descriptions of strings, as well as Kolmogorov Complexity.
This episode discusses the work of Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel, drawing parallels between the Halting Problem and the Incompleteness Theorems. We also review a fun book of puzzles!
In this episode we discuss Von Neumann probes, and also review Lewis Dartnell's "The Knowledge..." as well as “We Are Legion (We Are Bob)” by Dennis E. Taylor.
In this episode we will discuss JOOTsing - Jumping Out Of The System, in the context of software systems and security exploits.
This episode discusses metaness and Strange Loops in real life. We also review the 1985 novel "Contact" by Carl Sagan.
In this episode we will discuss the Chinese Room Argument, Turing Machines, and Fixed-Point proofs.
In this episode we will discuss cellular automations, Turing machines, and the novel Permutation City by Greg Egan.
In this episode we will discuss quines - computer programs that can reproduce their own code. We will also talk about Exhalation - a sci-fi short story by Ted Chiang.
Our first episode introduces the podcast and explores the idea of self-describing messages to send information far into the future.