Most people say LLM are just language prediction systems… but how do human minds work comparatively? Can ChatGPT think, understand, or comprehend? Can you? It’s been a while since Ben, Brian, and Lyle geeked out… join us. Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 - Microsoft Research…

NFT insider trading, tech experts urge to resist Crypto industry influences, larges plant is a Sea Grass in Australia, Safari is popular, Microsoft Excel reduces remote data types – and Lyle’s hot take on meditation. U.S. charges OpenSea ex-employee in first NFT insider trading case | Reuters Tech Experts Urge Washington To Resist Crypto Industry's…

Quincy Larson is founder and CEO of the non-profit software school freeCodeCamp, where anyone can go and lear to program for free. Quincy is making real change in the world. This episode was recorded for my podcast Lunch with Lyle Quincy mentioned two corses on freeCodeCamp Learn Responsive Web Design by Building 20 Projects Relational Database Cou…

Professor Warren Sack joins me to speak about the history of Algorithm, including Donald Knuth – Art of Computer Programing, Five Axioms of Algorithms, and When Computers Were Human. This is Part 1 of 2 on Algorithm.Bởi Lyle Troxell

In this non-edited episode of GeekSpeak Lyle calls Ben impromptu to chat about using lasers for listening to rooms remotely, lasers being used to view into rooms, Ben’s recent focus on Music Production, and finally a story about California being better about communicating recycling possibilities on packaging. NLOS Keyhole Imaging Can See Inside a C…

Due to the popularity of the WeAreNetflix podcast I am contacted a bit about my thoughts on company podcasts. The WeAreNetflix podcast started off based on an internal only podcast that Michael Paulson and I started as a hack-day project. This episode is 20min of me talking about company internal podcasts. Feel free to ask me questions about this e…

The San Lorenzo Valley in Santa Cruz County has a partial Do Not Drink / Do Not Boil order in affect: is that order appropriate, what causes Wildfire water contamination, and what are good actions we as a community can take? Our guest is Andrew J Whelton, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdu…

Dedi finds a wifi solution they like, Greg is on the road for the first time since the pandemic, Miles is playing with Rust, and Lyle is happy to have the Geeks virtually together to celebrate 20 years of hosting the show. Amplifi vs Unifi MTV Cribs: Quarantine edition Sketchup Blender Actix, the Rust Web Framework Web Framework Benchmarks Go, The …

Ben Jaffe deciding to end his fantastic podcast Linear Digressions, Lyle celebrating 20 years hosting GeekSpeak, and geeking out on playing instruments that do not have “frets” like the Cello and Trombone.Bởi Lyle Troxell

My vacation included fixing motors, accepting glasses, and milling redwood with chainsaws. My Replacement Fan Motor Thermal Fuse Cutoff New Thermostat Switch with "Firestat" Milling Redwood Here are some pix from our milling. The Logs: Me with my orange cap and our family friend Jack. My wife Maggi finishing a log: Samples of what we are making: I …

Warren Sack is back for a conversation of the Natural and Institutional Language from the French Encyclopédistes, touching on The Wealth of Nations, Babbage, Lovelace, Donald Knuth, Information Theory, Work vs Work, James Prescott Joule, Functions & Operations and much more. Learn why the true language of Software is not Physics.…

On this episode Lyle interviews his daughter Gwendolyn about the social software she uses in High School – iMessage, Instagram, SnapChat, TikTok. And they play with Lyle’s new RodeCASTER Pro. Rode RODECaster Pro Integrated Podcast Production Studio RCP B&H All possible pythagorean triples, visualized - YouTube Cat puts paw in water and freaks out f…

Ben and Lyle chat about elevators, the fear of dropping things, Podcasting, how we experience thoughts, drawing, learning, music, meditation, Time Tracking, Theme:Focus, Memory and being Present. Are you a 1,2,3,4 or 5 in this apple visualization exercise? Toggl - Free Time Tracking Software Qbserve app - Mac Time Tracking and Productivity Improvem…

What does it mean to implement “hailing a cab” in software and how does this new translation stack up to the existing institution? Discussions based around “The Software Arts: Chapter 2”, "Translation"with the author Warren Sack. We talk about the differences of the humanities understanding of translation where meaning is lost, created, or changed,…

This episode kicks off a limited series of discussions with Warren Sack centered around his book The Software Arts, MIT Press, forward by John Rajchman The Software Arts offers an alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software’s evolution. Join us in this discussion... Warren’s book is available from MIT…

MicroLEDs, Google Chrome Extensions are more private, macOS is locking things down, Expanse and other shows we are watching, and a post show covering wonderfully geeky PostGraphile. MicroLED Displays Could Show Up in Products as Soon as 2020 Lyle Surgery Update Google to Minimize the Data Collected by Chrome Extensions macOS Lockdown and merging wi…

Brad Smith (@brad), the founder and CEO of Simplecast, talks with me about the creation of Simplecast from initial musings to venture capital infused growth, and building partnerships. Brad is also an expert on the podcasting landscape and walks us through some wonderful changes that Apple and Google have recently made that should help the podcasti…

Lyle Troxell and Ben Jaffe about the current state of the Geek Speak podcast, conversation styles, and Lyle’s L5 S1 Back Surgery Fusion with instrumentation.Bởi Lyle Troxell

New Geek Rich Zurad joins Ben and Lyle to cover the JRR universe badly, the Star Wars vs Star Trek argument, cover some of the podcasts they like, and their pet health problems. This gravity-powered battery could be the future of energy storage - Archpaper.comBởi Lyle Troxell

For the Netflix podcast I did a quick jaunt to Amsterdam – here is an audio-blog type entry of my time there – Lyle. Lyle's Photos Amsterdam - Kinda over-doing it. BanksyLaugh now - Moco Museum Yayoi Kusama - Moco Museum Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) - IMDb

Ben Jaffe and Lyle Troxell talk about the culture at Facebook and at Netflix and about vulnerability at work. Lyle tells a story about doing a branching talk about branching narratives. A quick chat about Star Trek Next Generation and even Ben’s broken dryer. Bandersnatch - Branching Narrative Black Mirror Episode Puss In Book - Branching Narrative…

Wind prediction with AI, Anti-Vax movies pulled from Amazon Prime, Web Authn, and Home Automation and the cloud. Alphabet Subsidiary Trained AI to Predict Wind Output 36 Hours in Advance Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Content After CNN Business Report W3C Approves WebAuthn, Web Standard for Password-Free Logins…

Miles and Lyle chat about software development esp. about Ruby and ORMs which leads to a bit about the GeekSpeak Rails website, podcast chapter marks, recording podcasting, including hardware and budgets. A bit of inside baseball. Kotlin and Android Ruby Programming Language Object-relational impedance mismatch Django and a Better ORM ID3…

Generative Adversarial Networks are a pattern of Machine Learning that can do some amazing things – in this episode we chat about them effecting our concepts of truth. And we include an episode of Linear Digressions from Ben and Katie to really explain how GANs really work. This Person Does Not Exist Is the Best One-Off Website of 2019 How to recog…

Miles walks us through buying a used 2015 MacBook Pro and upgrading it with a better hard drive. And we talk programing languages: Kotlin, Swift, Groovy, Java, Python and more. It’s a programing rich episode of GeekSpeak. Netflix Takes Broadband to the Broken Screen NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card Multiplatform Project: iOS and Android - Kotlin Prog…

Software engineer and “I’ll show it to you at hackday… chap”, Guy Cirino joins Lyle for a chat about hacking at Netflix, driving across Asia, high energy particle physics at CERN, and improving streaming video better for everyone. Netflix Stream Possible Video Netflix Hack Day — Winter 2015 – Netflix TechBlog – Medium GeekSpeak About AR Tech: Marti…