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- Jun 6, 20231h 25m
Large Language Models and Human Minds
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
- Jun 1, 202228 min
Tech News and Non Woo Meditation
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 | ReutersTech Experts Urge Washington To Resist Crypto Industry's Influence - SlashdotThe World's Largest Plant Is a Self-Cloning Sea Grass in Australia - SlashdotNew data shows only two browsers with more than 1 billion users | Ars TechnicaMicrosoft is killing Money in Excel along with Wolfram Alpha data typesSamsung To Close LCD Business - SlashdotQuestion your Perception episode with Ben Jaffe on Lunch with LyleMuller-Lyer Illusion: Optical Illusions in PsychologyThe True Purpose of Mindfulness
- Jan 19, 20221h 10m
Delegate, Automate, Concentrate
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 LyleQuincy mentioned two corses on freeCodeCamp Learn Responsive Web Design by Building 20 Projects Relational Database Course
- Jan 4, 202252 min
The Software Arts: Algorithm - Arithmetic
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.
- Sep 16, 202137 min
Lasers for listening and seeing, music production, and recycling
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 Closed RoomBen Here (Ben Jaffe's music)Recycling symbol can’t appear on non-recyclable items, California bill says | Ars TechnicaGary Anderson - the creation of the "chasing arrows" Recycling symbol (pdf)This Episode as Video on YouTube
- Jan 27, 202122 min
Internal Company Podcasts, Some Thoughts
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 episode on twitter. -@lyleLower Street - an example podcast providerOne example of a company providing Private Podcast support – I have no affiliation. Blog Building an Internal Company Podcast Create, Publish, Host & Secure Your Private Podcast | Lower Street How To Launch A Private Podcast With Exclusive AccessEpisode with Michael Paulson - Engineering FlatBuffers Programing sans JSONWeAreNetflix Podcast
- Sep 7, 202053 min
Wildfire-Caused Water Contamination
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 Purdue University. Professor Whelton has studied two other Wildfires in California with water contamination and has some thoughts on our situation for the #CZULightningComplexTopics by Time13:49 Water Utility vs State Responsibility 22:28 Can you smell VOCs 24:07 Danger Long Term vs Acute 25:11 Stuck in the Pipes? 26:28 SVOCs 27:18 Can we just flush the system? 29:47 If you lived here… 31:00 Activate Mutual Aid 31:47 Testing Issues – UCSC help? 34:13 When would you be less concerned 36:49 What changes should we make? 39:15 California level issue? 43:20 Take Aways 44:24 Home Water TreatmentWildfire caused widespread drinking water distribution network contamination - Proctor - 2020 - AWWA Water Science - Wiley Online LibrarySan Lorenzo Valley Water DistrictFire Response, How You Can Help – Community Foundation Santa Cruz CountyListener Miles Z made some notes while listening - here they are:In case of doubt, consult the interview, as I am not an expert. The notes are about in the same order as the interview. =miles= Contamination and Testing/Monitoring The state (CA) only requires the water district to test at the source of the water, i.e. where they start pumping it into the distribution system. The rest (downstream testing) is up to the water district. Contamination can come from multiple sources, including backflow when the system becomes depressurized and air contaminated with smoke leaks into the pipes. It can also result from homes that were equipped with plastic pipes that burned. As well as the pipes we know about that burned, i.e. the 5 miles of HDPE pipe through the forest. The monitoring tests that the water district routinely runs downstream are limited to only particular VOC
- Aug 18, 202057 min
20 Years of Ubiquitous Rust
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 UnifiMTV Cribs: Quarantine editionSketchupBlenderActix, the Rust Web FrameworkWeb Framework BenchmarksGo, The Programming LanguageWaze Reports: Cloudy with a Chance of Pananoiae3 and Star WarsHome Networking - Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X
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