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The windows malloc trash fire, nerd fight over kubernetes being a red flag, AI writing academic papers about itself, Google's Colossus, and more
Free CRDT desktop tool, using math to spot liars, blood pressure tattoos, Mr. Fusion garage-sized reactors, and more
Bananas and random numbers, Help Desk to anti-tank missiles, Web5, Silicon Photonics and more!
Wordle, brains, wifi your fat, AI, Settlers of Catan, and quality time versus quantity time. All that plus Terraform and hidden gold this week.
Constructors, Initializers, Compilers, oh my! Big bag of coding fun this week on Nerd Roundup!
It was a hunka hunka burnin nerds this week as we cover the new science of AI diagnostics, lock-free queues, and team topologies
No podcast this week, but we've got a bunch of cool articles with descriptions and links. Some cool coding stuff!
What is the boundary of your application? Does working remotely happen creativity? Sim City for information warfare and more this week on Nerd Roundup!
Lunar Lander for the web, the DSM-V, redefining the second, the birth of biocosmology and more this week.
This week we've got pointer provenance in language design, leasing your dog like you do cellphones, learning message queueing from scratch, DIY Oreo research, abandoning serverless compute, and more!
The Rock Band of Theseus, solar's on-demand problem solved, multicomputation: the fourth paradigm, AI Transformers, color night vision, and more this week on Nerd Roundup!
Why can't they build cars in sprints? The technical details of abstractions in programming. Volcanoes on Pluto. Time to shout it out: build less software!
I had a lot of fun talking with Jeffrey today about cloudops, architecture, microservices, programming languages, and more
Are we seeing the death of armor in warfare? What's algorithmic destruction and should you be concerned about it? The nightmare of windows source code, and more1
AI allows grandpa to tell you stories from beyond the grave. The computer science of wargaming. Testing asm directives in C++. All this and more this weeek!
Don't make me take down the internet again! Dad crashes entire town's internet because kids were bad. This and more on this week's Nerd Roundup
We busted out in all kinds of nerdness this week, from doodling on expensive paintings to idempotency and event orchestration. Much fun was had.
C# Desconstruction, wild astrophotography , our right to transact privately, the potential quantum winter, Decision-Centric Warfare, wrestling satellites and more this week on Nerd Roundup!
Join the fun!Discord had a very rare crash this week, and several guests couldn't make it, but we made up for it with some of the most nerdy stories of the year so far.
Is old music killing new music? Is gravity truly quantum? If so, what's the theory look like? Both questions seem to have an answer of "yes", but we're still working through the details. Exciting times to be a nerd!
This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2022-01-28 Nerd Roundup!
links | STORY | BUT WHY? | | Researchers build AI that builds AI | Because of course | | Has a new experiment just proven the quantum nature of gravity? At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is. | Seeing a lot of gravity research lately. Wonder why? Perhaps results of LIGO? | | BASH guide | Nice resource! It's referred to a lot in the reddit BASH and other expert/help forums | | Is old music killing new music? | Whoa. Wonder where commercial music is headed? | | Navy Cryptologic Warfare Officers Cannot Do Cyber | Oy vey | | Silcon Valley's new obsession | Fast grants. Cool idea, bro | | Researchers develop a new language for quantum computing | Need to look into this a bit more. Also, where the heck is the actual language? All I could find is a bunch of rewritten press releases | | Lost on the next battlefield
QuASAR for the win! Whoa, never heard of this. | First time I've heard of PNT services. This is a bad news, good news, bad news, good news, bad news situation | | Direct visualization of electron motion in atoms and molecules | Wow! How the heck would that work? | | Dinosaurs probably met their demise in June | This seems oddly specific. There goes the summer vacation plans! | | --- |
Yes you might get your very own quantum spacetime microscope! Microscope not included
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As you can see in the video, we're continuing to have hooting, hooting, hella time playing around with using Discord as a real-time streaming/messaging platform. This week we started allowing server members to drop by live during the podcast. Once we get all of those bugs worked out, hopefully we can add real-time chatting and feedback from the community!
Two stories I'm still thinking about: CRDTs on Matrix, and web3/blockchain allowing gamers to get paid for playing games. The next decade is goiing to be a really cool future in tech!
This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2022-01-21 Nerd Roundup!
links | STORY | BUT WHY? | | CRDT with Matrix as a backend
HN discussion | Easily the coolest programming nerdy article of the past month. Sometimes buzzwords collide with good results! Yjs is the shit | | Now, my friends, we will know who was responsible for the great goldfish invasion of 2054 | | Trace major supply chains | Way cool home programming project! | | Github to support mermaid diagrams
Mermaid | I think this is important news although I'm still digesting why. Why not graphviz, which almost owns the market so far? | | Firing Upheld for LAPD Officers Playing Pokémon Go Instead of Responding to Robbery | A Snorlax? Seriously? What's a snorlax? | | The code I'm still ashamed of | Probably the murkiest article this week. What would your morals prevent you from coding? How about your ethics. If a coder writes code that lures cops away from a burgarly in progress, are they somehow responsible? If not, at what point are they? | | ‘90 Day Fiancé’ star retires from selling farts after heart attack scare | Can one retire from selling their farts online? | | OCAML merge
Neat! Also check out algebraic effects, which are the future: https://dev.to/shimmer/why-algebraic-effects-matter-in-f-3m7g | Multi-core OCAML finally out | | Entangled microwave photons may give 500x boost to radar
Nice essay | Quantum radar for the win! I have come to believe that this is real tech and not just BS. It makes me wonder how far along the major nation states are | | Mass production of revolutionary computer memory moves closer with ULTRARAM™ on silicon wafers for the first time
Related overview: The Second Quantum Revolution | Behold: ULTRARAM! | | Reddit Co-Founder Says Play-To-Earn Crypto Games Will Be 90% Of Gaming Market In 5 Years | I wanted to monetize this in a startup ten years ago. Couldn't find a co-founder. Interoperability is going to be a bear. Sure would have been nice to have had a ten year head start. Wonder what the guys will come up with? | | Lessons in Game Design: Civilization and Wargames | Fun article. Want to play a game? | | How a routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions | A nice coding whodunit. Love reading these. | | A high-dimensional sphere spilling out of a high-dimensional cube despite exponentially many constraints | As I understand it, the more dimensions, the more "spiky" the cube, the closer all of the spikes come to being a smooth circular surface | | --- |
Algebraic Effects are the shit. Stick with us over the next year as we conversationally cover all the cool new places they'll be showing up
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Our new home on Discord is kicking ass, we've got some great tech stories, and Jon Kern dropped by to go over the news. The NASA Hall-Effect lifter for electrostatic levitation on planetary probes and my essay on TDD/ATDD and cross-checking were especially nerdy. Don't miss out on the story about coding in machine language in the 1980s on the TRS-80 CoCo! Good memories.
There were a lot of great stories, but I have to call my favorite as the open question on HN "How do you build a house to last 1,000 years?" For whatever reason, it's a thought experiment I've been kicking around since my teenage years, probably because there are so many interesting angles to the question.
Far, far too many cool tech stories and not enough time!
This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2022-01-07 Nerd Roundup!
links | STORY | BUT WHY? | | Exchange 2019 Anti-Malware - Bad Update? | You have to be freaking kidding me! This from software only a couple of years ago? | | Astronomers discover the largest group of rogue planets yet | In my mind I have a picture of a bunch of planets wearing leather jackets and riding motorcycles | | Companies that had successful pivots
original article | HN discussion regarding startup pivots | | Programming in 1987 versus today | Yup. Good times! | | You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Get a Hamster Drunk | I could speculate | | NASA hired 24 theologians to study human reaction to aliens: new book | Yikes! What the heck is that, anyway? | | Alternative statistical method could improve clinical trials | Interesting idea. Wonder if it'll get traction | | Emirates’ (Probably) Terrifying Boeing 777 Flight To Washington | Yikes. More computers almost killing people. When will we finally get enough of this story? | | MIT engineers test an idea for a new hovering rover | Whoa | | On the use of ffmpeg | All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) | | How to design a house to last a thousand years | This has been a pet thought experiment of mine since my teenaged years | | Masterclass: cross-checking | Had to include it | | --- |
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This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2021-12-31 Nerd Roundup!
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It was a great, wide-ranging roundup this week! Many thanks to the guys.
Consult the sacred chickens! This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2021-12-24 Nerd Roundup!
links | STORY | BUT WHY? | | from Twitter, consult the sacred chickens!
Priest of the Sacred Chickens, the real man in charge of ancient Rome | consult the sacred chickens? seriously? that was a thing? | | Mammoth Tusk Reveals Ancient Mammal’s Travels | Jon sent this one in. Who knew furry elephants got around so much? | | Does Superdeterminism save Quantum Mechanics? Or Does It Kill Free Will and Destroy Science? | Sounds like pilot wave stuff. Interesting concept | | Why architecture oriented programming matters
The essay he's responding to, "Why Functiona Programing Matters" | "...I'd venture to say that we need a lot more different kinds of glue, and we need our kinds of glue to be extensible, to be user-defined..." Yikes! Another person wrong on the internet! That's eight, I think. Pure function composition is an effort to minimize code complexity that actually works, as opposed to leaky abstractions, and mutable, heavily-coupled structured code. He's not completely wrong. He just doens't understand what the hell he's talking about, going on about generic OO goodness instead of the point of the essay he mentions. Every type of coding construct is not the same. | | Why is This Cancer Treatment Giving People Night Vision? | | Can Brain Organoids Be ‘Conscious’? Scientists May Soon Find Out | May be good reference for future book material. Fascinating issue here. We will see more along this line | | The FDA Just Approved Eye Drops to Correct Aging Vision | | Nixon and the Chiefs | OT, but I've been looking for this source/link for a while, good luck finding it on wiki. Fascinating bit of history most people don't know. From 2002. It happened 50 years ago this Christmas | | Imaginary numbers could be needed to describe reality, new studies find | bad naming. should've just called them tuples | | From Twitter: people stealing online art from artists and making NFTs out of them | Just when you thought the internet hadn't gotten weird enough | | HN discussion of "The Big DevOps Misunderstanding"
The original essay: the big DevOps misunderstanding. | Good DevOps discussion on HN ,with associated short essay they were talking about. It's all simple motherhood and apple pie, but I find it interesting to hear folks in the field re-process things we've all been through | | Harassment Of Navy Destroyers By Mysterious Drone Swarms Off California Went On For Weeks
Related: Eric Weinstein joins independent group investigating | Drip by drip, this story keeps moving along (and the incremental nature is, no doubt, part of the public relations promotions goals) | | --- |
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We were cursed by the tech overlords: we had at least ten drops in the hour we had to talk. We had a local maximum of four guests! Jon, James. Greg, and Scott hung out. It was most awesome.
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!This week it was friendship over struggle. The thing people never want to admit: social communication is active.
This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2021-12-17 Nerd Roundup!
links | STORY | BUT WHY? | | Light Field Lab's SolidLight offers a true holographic video display
For referernce: different types of holograms | Real 3D? yes please! | | The Comprehensive List of Product Management Conferences
A Complete List of Project Management Conferences 2020 | It's time (or already too late) to start thinking about conferences for next year. Which ones are the best for various aspects of technology development? Three easy first categories are Agile, Project Management, Programming, and Product Management. Which would you prioritize and why, and which are the best to attend? I'm picking product and project management because Agile/XP/#Buzzword seems to continuously fail when interacting with these disciplines. Each is probabluy an echo chamber. There are other categories, like testing. What a bunch of choices! | | The cannons keeping airplanes safe, one chicken at a time | Chicken guns trying to take down airliners. What's not to like? | | 2017: Universal Paperclips | Clicker games are a mostly undiscussed aspect of coding, including working with IDEs. Universal Paperclips is iconic | | Scientists Say We Should Rethink Moons as Planets... And Reinstate Pluto | Pluto, always and forever a planet! :) | | What is scientism, and why is it a mistake? | Scienticism is an important topic to know. Far too many people bandying about "science" like it's a new magic sword | | Gerald Bull
Project Babylon: Gerald Bull’s Downfall | Follow-up to SpinLaunch story of last week: the canadian who wanted to build a giant cannon to launch satellites and was assassinated by Mossad | | Sleep technique used by Salvador Dalí really works | Is good. Works for me, too! Now, dang it, our secret is out! | | Untold History of AI: How Amazon’s Mechanical Turkers Got Squeezed Inside the Machine
Underpaid Workers Are Being Forced to Train Biased AI on Mechanical Turk | Not sure this is a current news story or not, but my net was down and I didn't read like I usually do. Diego pointed out the role that mechanical turk-ers (Turkeys?) play in AI. Interesting, but also something that AI startup do NOT like talking about because it's a big part of their secret sauce | | A "talking" cat is giving scientists insight into how felines think | check out the article links. There's an entire world online of talking pets. Who knew? | | The Navy’s fusion plans could produce a world-shattering weapon | Fusion spacetime anti-gravity propuslion. If I can believe in Santa, I can believe in this | | --- |
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The tech overlords were kind to us this week. We only had two hang-ups with the connection, and a four-guest panel worked great. (In fact, I think it was one of the better/funnier roundups). We got into a couple of very interesting tech discussions that I had to cut short for time. One of them was about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs). I imagine most tech folks will be hearing more and more about them over the next several years or so.
SpinLaunch looks really cool! But damn, it also really dangerous if a mishap happens.It was a very relaxed chat, and it made me want to build a giant potato gun.
This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2021-12-10 Nerd Roundup!
links | STORY | BUT WHY? | | QUESTION: which words used in #infosec do you consider to be "marketing words" and therefore meaningless when describing a tool or product?
Buzzword Bingo | fun game! | | For loops in CSS | Yikes! Make it stop! Make it stop! My eyes! My eyes! | | Worldline numerics applied to custom Casimir geometry generates unanticipated intersection with Alcubierre warp metric
DARPA project news. Accidental warp bubbles? Commentary from HN/physicists points out the huge number of orders of magnitutde between real-world spacetime bending and casmir. So ... so far, yes but no? | Warp drive? Sign me up! | |
Compare and contrast with Bob dole's last essay | 1 in 10 UK folks dropped a parent as a friend because of Brexit? Seriously? How are we doing on lumber tarrifs from Portugal? International cheese standards. Politics can be extremely important, but your parents? I just don't get it. Note that there are abusive families, but it seems we're casting the net quite broad here | | Kamikaze drones: A new weapon brings power and peril to the U.S. military | The switchblade 300. Welcome to the future. We had a lot of "nothing to see here" regarding drones over the last decade. People should know that drones aren't necessarily what we think they are. | | New snapdragons. Me want | | Ubiquiti Developer Charged With Extortion, Causing 2020 “Breach”
HN comments including backstory. I hear that insider ISP security hacks are no joke ... and becoming more and more common | Employee hacks his own company, tries to blackmail them, and when that doesn't work leaks to the press that his company was hacked? Sounds like a movie plot. And the kicker: Krebs, the guy doing this report, was the place the hacker leaked the original info! But somehow they overlook bringing that up | | Is SpinLaunch Viable?
Spinlaunch : Should be a MythBuster Episode | Want to do the spin launch guys | | Where is the CRDT for syntax trees
HN discussion | Been wanting to do CDRTs for a while, and this would be a freakin' incredible coding-based applciation if we could do it. Think Google docs with everybody editing asynchronously. An alternate in some situations to a big git setup? | | How to Read Less News But Be More Informed, According to a Futurist | good advice to help move away from bright and shiny syndrome | | Following the Unix philosophy without getting left padded | There's an acorn under that tree somewhere. Good luck! The key here is semantic scoping and how it relates to dynamicism. Nobody needed to have a live update to left pad. That had nothing to do with dependency issues | | --- |
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The internet was out, so I took us on a whirlwind tour of the weekly topics. Just as I was finishing, around thirty minutes in, the net came back up. James was still online! Who would have thunk it! I think I scared the crap out of him popping up on his screen. We talked for a brief minute and that was it. Not the usual roundup!
With the right flower, you too can become Barack ObamaBuncha cool topics, and we had four wranglers show up for the roundup and nobody could get on. But the sound is hella better than it was. Such is life.
This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2021-12-03 Nerd Roundup!
links | STORY | BUT WHY? | | The Museum of Plugs and Sockets | My people! | | An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and its Possibilities) | Long, but great summary and overview of web3 and associated crypto written for programmers | | RasPBX | I've been wanting to get into asterisk stuff for many years, and now there's a project where you can use a raspberry pi? Whoa! Standby for large telcos to lock us out of this tech in 3-2-1... | | What Virgil Abloh’s Drudge Report Inspired Personal Site Says About the State of Design | Also see HN. How much of site design is simply a popularity contest among designers and how much actually helps people? How much is industry/audience specific? And does a good design help a user in the end or the site owners? How ould you know? | | Adversarial image attacks are no joke | I'm hearing a lot of nothing-to-see-here from some folks. This leads me to think that there rmight be something to see here | | Pentagon Stands Up New Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Group As Congress Pushes For Even More Action | From the "no shit!" department. 80+ years of reliable witnesses seeing things in the sky they can't identify, perhaps we should get a bit serious about credible accounts of non-reproducible aerial phenomenon? This alens-or-swamp-gas thing has got to go | | K|Lens Unveils World’s First Light Field Lens That Works on Any Camera
Reference: Wiki on light field cameras | IT FINALLY HAPPENED! This was cool, then hype, now it's real again. Check out the video. | | New opioids, more powerful than fentanyl, are discovered in D.C. amid deadly wave of overdoses | When one person can smuggle enough drugs in one trip to supply a city for weeks, we've come to the end of the line as far as it goes with preventing drug smuggling | | Open Sea | Of note: world's largest NFT auction site | | md-block | Dude, you got markdown in your markdown. markdown was supposed to let folks easily do html, now we're adding html tags to put markdown inside. The endless cycle of "yay server" vs "yay client" continues | | NEXT WEEK | | --- |
Hey Daniel, what have you been doing this past week? Well, funny I should ask, because ... (Looks around for hand puppets)
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This week we're celebrating Thanksgiving in the U.S. and we had our Token Canadian, Scott Ambler, along with Jon Kern. I thought at first it would be a solo podcast, but it quickly turned into the usual back-and-forth nerdy fun. Very cool.
Amazing computational speed has turned photography into high-speed holography with the ability to see around corners and through fog.What a roundup! We talked about everything from Magic Negros to Gattica and banking with COBOL. It was a great show to kick off the holiday weekend.
This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2021-11-26 Nerd Roundup!
links | STORY | BUT WHY? | | HN comment on acroyms and names
Turns out this is difficult if not impossible to Google! Interesting. | This might be fun to follow-up with or riff on: too many overlaoded names. Oh Camel, my camel... | | Wind Rider: A High Performance Magsail | YAY! Finally some space propulsion tech that could open up the inner solar system! Fingers crossed. | | Split keyboard gallery | Neat! Would be fun to play with some of these | | Amazon Ion | I don't know why, but I like this. Probably because it's not a replacement for JSON, but adds on top. Could reduce workload in a lot of areas | | Misremembering may be a sign of an optimal memory | Hell, I've had a wonderful memory for years. Or was it weeks? | | “The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs | They stole the jpeg of my pony! Those bastards! (This is a satire site. Still funny) | | Queen’s University launches process to verify claims to Indigenous identity | SJW issues aside, Gattica-like DNA tests in order to assign special priviledges or punishments? What could go wrong? This is going to be even more fun when polygenetic testing goes mainstream over the next decade. Standby for sales pitches to new parent to have kids optimally positioned for future guaranteed success. Make a metric, people will manage to it. | | New Holographic Camera Sees the Unseen – Around Corners, Through Fog and Human Tissue | Cool | | Pony Messenger | I like this idea a lot | | China’s hypersonic nuke ‘fired a SECOND missile mid-flight’ leaving Pentagon reeling as experts say it ‘defies science’ | Tracking this for a while. Is this the new space race. We could have done this 50+ years ago. And where does Musk and Starship fit in? | | --- |
Jupiter in four weeks! Sign me up!
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We had The Bobster, aka Uncle Bob this week, along with Jon Kern and the one and only Scott Ambler. The entire thing went down with only one technical hitch. (We've come a long ways since the first NR) We were unable to take Scott's lunch money, but I guess he can be one of the nerd clan anyway. We need a token Canadian.
It's not Lizard People, but the inside of the Earth might be hella lot more interesting than anybody thoughtScott is proving to be a natural at Nerd Roundup, able to dive in and out of various technologies while keeping things appropriately silly. Jon gave us some pushback in defense of Ruby and dynamic types that was great to see. (It's a discussion that seems to pop up repeatedly when talking coding). Bob continues to regale us with stories of the retro game he's making in Clojure, Space Wars, which I'm hoping he will demo one week. When I started the roundup, I was concerned about having more than three people at a time, but it looks like so far it's working with four.
This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2021-11-19 Nerd Roundup!
links | STORY | BUT WHY? | | C# 10 new feature CallerArgumentExpression, argument check and more | Maybe we could start adding emoji parameter support and little pictures of the author who is using the function | | Goodbye clean code
Previous HN discussion | DRY and premature abstraction: a continuing discussion among nerds | | Online Identity Assassination | Parts of FBI infrastructure hacked. TIL about "identity assassination" | | Truth ledgers | hoo boy. Looking back, I guess this was coming all along. Many social failure modes here | | The Moon’s top layer alone has enough oxygen to sustain 8 billion people for 100,000 years | There's oxygen in dem der hills! CO2 buildup looks like the real problem, not water or oxygen | | The Hunt for Earth’s Deep Hidden Oceans | Another one of those submarine (Ha!) science stories that keeps percolating in the background. Wonder what will come of it? | | A New Theory for Systems That Defy Newton’s Third Law | What's going to happen to the lawbreakers? | | Russia blows up a satellite, creating a dangerous debris cloud in space
HN thread | I think we're reaching a WTAF moment with Russia. See HN comments | | Kessler Syndrome | Some folks think we're already here | | Cyber Marines could be empowered to act boldly under commandant’s future force vision | This is a really cool idea. I just can't see it ever actually happening | | --- |
The Kessler Syndrome is no jokeAlso, here's the US Coast Guard essay on desperately needing to switch from monoliths to microservices. Below is the Monty Python Cheese Shop Sketch which I've captured to prevent it from disappearing off YT at some random later date.
Classic Python from ~60 years ago
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Really happy to have Scott Ambler on this week along with Jon Kern. Scott is the Vice President and Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at the Project Management Institute. Because Scott was the New Guy, we told Scott he had to buy lunch and beer for the gang. I don't think he bought it though. Maybe we should have asked for donuts?
Using beehive graphs to explain how AI arrives at a conclusion. Very cool.Scott's yet another super-smart friend of mine and I've been looking forward to having him on the show for some time now. Scott and I probably disagree about most things politically, but we both love tech, product management, and bad dad jokes. I love hanging out with people with differing opinions who are relaxed and easy-going. Gives me a better chance of figuring out where I'm wrong and could get better.
This should work in iTunes. (This link http://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/rss is a podcast feed) If it doesn't work, here's a direct link to the mp3: 2021-11-12 Nerd Roundup!
links | STORY | BUT WHY? | | These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops | It seems like once the data leaves your fingertips, everybody owns it but you, even when its provided in a public API | | Opening This Article Voids Warranty | Some nice takes on the right-to-repair argument. Especially like the brick-thru-window comment on HN | | Explaining Machine Learning Models: A Non-Technical Guide to Interpreting SHAP Analyses | And the paradigm is to provide us answers without reasoning. I do not understand this article, but I need to. So many of our AI conversations revolve around the explanatory (or lack thereof) power of AI. We can't have a faith-based techno future | | Science Publisher Retracts 44 Papers for Being Utter Nonsense | We do science a great disservice by putting all sorts of things under the "science" rubric. If it's non-reproducible, it shouldn't be science. Otherwise, it's just a race to the bootom, where these kinds of things live "“Simulation of sea surface temperature based on non-sampling error and psychological intervention of music education”" | | Escaping cosmology’s failing paradigm | Spider sense (and history) tells me that figuring out what's next means putting it all on the table, not just tweaking some numbers here or there | | What I Learned From Losing $200 Million | Nice story, nice conclusion: " [I learned]...to fully appreciate how unlike physics markets are, how crucial to outcomes other people and luck are, and how, no matter how hard I worked or how much I prepared, there would always be some things I couldn’t completely fathom. " | | Nuclear Power Is the Best Climate-Change Solution by Far | We've known this for 40+ years and have done nothing about it. Perhaps a bit of honest introspection will prevent us going yet another 40+ years, maybe with some new tech? | | Helion | Sam Altman drops $375M into fusion startup Helion and continues to sing their praises. It's no longer in 20 years, now it's who's going to win the fusion race? | | WebFrame | Both cool and awful at the same time. Great work, but over and over again devs go down this same path "Why can't I take my dev skills and make the lives of other devs easy?" and it always ends up in either oblivion or pain | | Ford's new custom electric pickup truck is a blast from the pas | Cool ride, dude! | | Why testicles have tastebuds | Somebody has to ask these questions | | The Joy of Collecting Stamps From Countries That Don’t Really Exist | Funny | | --- |
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