Geek Speak with Lyle Troxell

<p>Most people say <span class="caps">LLM</span> are just language prediction systems… but how do human minds work comparatively? Can ChatGPT think, understand, or comprehend? Can you?<br /> It’s been a while since Ben, Brian, and Lyle geeked out… join us.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/sparks-of-artificial-general-intelligence-early-experiments-with-gpt-4/">Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4 - Microsoft Research</a></li></ul>

<p><span class="caps">NFT</span> 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.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/opensea-employee-charged-with-insider-trading-nfts-2022-06-01/">U.S. charges OpenSea ex-employee in first NFT insider trading case | Reuters</a></li><li><a href="https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/06/01/171201/tech-experts-urge-washington-to-resist-crypto-industrys-influence">Tech Experts Urge Washington To Resist Crypto Industry's Influence - Slashdot</a></li><li><a href="https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/06/01/1634247/the-worlds-largest-plant-is-a-self-cloning-sea-grass-in-australia">The World's Largest Plant Is a Self-Cloning Sea Grass in Australia - Slashdot</a></li><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/safari-has-1-billion-users-but-it-still-cant-touch-chrome/">New data shows only two browsers with more than 1 billion users | Ars Technica</a></li><li><a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-killing-money-excel-wolfram-alpha-data-types/">Microsoft is killing Money in Excel along with Wolfram Alpha data types</a></li><li><a href="https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/22/05/31/215235/samsung-to-close-lcd-business">Samsung To Close LCD Business - Slashdot</a></li><li><a href="https://lwl.troxell.com/episodes/question-your-perception">Question your Perception episode with Ben Jaffe on Lunch with Lyle</a></li><li><a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/how-the-muller-lyer-illusion-works-4111110">Muller-Lyer Illusion: Optical Illusions in Psychology</a></li><li><a href="https://wakingup.com/mindfulness-letter">The True Purpose of Mindfulness</a></li></ul>

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ossia">Quincy Larson</a> is founder and <span class="caps">CEO</span> 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.</p> <p>This episode was recorded for my podcast <a href="https://lwl.troxell.com/">Lunch with Lyle</a></p><ul><li>Quincy mentioned two corses on freeCodeCamp<ul> <li><a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/responsive-web-design-certification-redesigned/">Learn Responsive Web Design by Building 20 Projects</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-run-freecodecamps-relational-databases-curriculum-using-docker-vscode-and-coderoad/">Relational Database Course</a></li> </ul></li></ul>

<p>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.</p> <p>This is Part 1 of 2 on Algorithm.</p><ul></ul>

<p>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.</p><ul><li><a href="https://gizmodo.com/a-single-laser-fired-through-a-keyhole-can-expose-every-1847638281">NLOS Keyhole Imaging Can See Inside a Closed Room</a></li><li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/043xlOub76hcZJrxsbc2m2?si=soxdT-QoSrmWmr8Cn_X5kw&dl_branch=1&nd=1">Ben Here (Ben Jaffe's music)</a></li><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/recycling-symbol-cant-appear-on-non-recyclable-items-california-bill-says/">Recycling symbol can’t appear on non-recyclable items, California bill says | Ars Technica</a></li><li><a href="https://logoblink.com/img/2008/03/recycling_symbol_garyanderson.pdf">Gary Anderson - the creation of the "chasing arrows" Recycling symbol (pdf)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q75-yjQLfXc">This Episode as Video on YouTube</a></li></ul>

<p>Due to the popularity of the <a href="https://jobs.netflix.com/podcast">WeAreNetflix</a> 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.<br /> This episode is 20min of me talking about company internal podcasts. Feel free to ask me questions about this episode on twitter. -<a href="https://twitter.com/lyle">@lyle</a></p><ul><li>Lower Street - an example podcast provider<p>One example of a company providing Private Podcast support – I have no affiliation.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://lowerstreet.co/blog/building-internal-company-podcast">Blog Building an Internal Company Podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://lowerstreet.co/private-podcasting">Create, Publish, Host & Secure Your Private Podcast | Lower Street</a></li> </ul></li><li><a href="https://elitecontentmarketer.com/private-podcast/">How To Launch A Private Podcast With Exclusive Access</a></li><li><a href="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2016/12/21/">Episode with Michael Paulson - Engineering FlatBuffers Programing sans JSON</a></li><li><a href="https://jobs.netflix.com/podcast">WeAreNetflix Podcast</a></li></ul>

<p>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?</p> <p>Our guest is <a href="https://twitter.com/TheWheltonGroup">Andrew J Whelton</a>, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University.</p> <p>Professor Whelton has studied two other Wildfires in California with water contamination and has some thoughts on our situation for the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CZULightningComplex">#CZULightningComplex</a></p><ul><li>Topics by Time<p>13:49 Water Utility vs State Responsibility<br /> 22:28 Can you smell VOCs<br /> 24:07 Danger Long Term vs Acute<br /> 25:11 Stuck in the Pipes?<br /> 26:28 SVOCs<br /> 27:18 Can we just flush the system?<br /> 29:47 If you lived here…<br /> 31:00 Activate Mutual Aid<br /> 31:47 Testing Issues – <span class="caps">UCSC</span> help?<br /> 34:13 When would you be less concerned<br /> 36:49 What changes should we make?<br /> 39:15 California level issue?<br /> 43:20 Take Aways<br /> 44:24 Home Water Treatment</p></li><li><a href="https://awwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aws2.1183">Wildfire caused widespread drinking water distribution network contamination - Proctor - 2020 - AWWA Water Science - Wiley Online Library</a></li><li><a href="https://www.slvwd.com/">San Lorenzo Valley Water District</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cfscc.org/updates/fire-response-fund">Fire Response, How You Can Help – Community Foundation Santa Cruz County</a></li><li>Listener Miles Z made some notes while listening - here they are:<p>In case of doubt, consult the interview, as I am not an expert. The notes are about in the same order as the interview. <del>=miles=</del></p> <h4>Contamination and Testing/Monitoring</h4> <p>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.</p> <p>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 <span class="caps">HDPE</span> pipe through the forest.</p> <p>The monitoring tests that the water district routinely runs downstream are limited to only particular <span class="caps">VOC</span></p></li></ul>

<p>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.</p><ul><li><a href="https://michaelkummer.com/tech/amplifi-vs-unifi/">Amplifi vs Unifi</a></li><li><a href="https://vm.tiktok.com/Tmbpt3/">MTV Cribs: Quarantine edition</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sketchup.com/">Sketchup</a></li><li><a href="https://www.blender.org/">Blender</a></li><li><a href="https://actix.rs/">Actix, the Rust Web Framework</a></li><li><a href="https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/">Web Framework Benchmarks</a></li><li><a href="https://golang.org/">Go, The Programming Language</a></li><li><a href="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2013/06/15">Waze Reports: Cloudy with a Chance of Pananoia</a></li><li><a href="https://www.geekspeak.org/episodes/2005/05/20/">e3 and Star Wars</a></li><li><a href="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2016/09/07/">Home Networking - Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X</a></li></ul>

<p>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.</p><ul></ul>

<p>My vacation included fixing motors, accepting glasses, and milling redwood with chainsaws.</p><ul><li><a href="https://amzn.to/2Ow5y4U">My Replacement Fan Motor</a></li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/2ZxWX8g">Thermal Fuse Cutoff</a></li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/2ZyBV9G">New Thermostat Switch with "Firestat"</a></li><li>Milling Redwood<p>Here are some pix from our milling.<br /> The Logs: <a href="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2020/07/15/the-logs-original.jpg"><img src="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2020/07/15/the-logs-small.jpg" alt="" /></a></p> <p>Me with my orange cap and our family friend Jack.<br /> <a href="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2020/07/15/lyle-and-jack-original.jpg"><img src="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2020/07/15/lyle-and-jack-small.jpg" alt="" /></a><br /> My wife Maggi finishing a log:<br /> <a href="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2020/07/15/maggi-helping-jack-original.jpg"><img src="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2020/07/15/maggi-helping-jack-small.jpg" alt="" /></a><br /> Samples of what we are making:<br /> <a href="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2020/07/15/lumber-original.jpg"><img src="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2020/07/15/lumber-small.jpg" alt="" /></a></p></li><li>I have Glasses<p>Here I am with new readers…. and a great scotch, I mean it was still vacation!<br /> <a href="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2020/07/15/lyle_with_glasses-original.jpg"><img src="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2020/07/15/lyle_with_glasses-small.jpg" alt="" /></a></p></li></ul>

<p>Warren Sack is back for a conversation of the Natural and Institutional Language from the French Encyclop</p><ul></ul>

<p>On this episode Lyle interviews his daughter Gwendolyn about the social software she uses in High School – iMessage, Instagram, SnapChat, TikTok.</p> <p>And they play with Lyle’s new RodeCASTER Pro.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1445257-REG/rode_rcp_rodecaster_pro_integrated_podcast.html">Rode RODECaster Pro Integrated Podcast Production Studio RCP B&H</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYmyhnaaek">All possible pythagorean triples, visualized - YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W59uGWm96no">Cat puts paw in water and freaks out funny vine - YouTube</a></li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/ehdJVb7IwNw">The SnapChat video we record during this episode.</a></li></ul>

<p>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.</p><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/i/events/1226183524773875712">Are you a 1,2,3,4 or 5 in this apple visualization exercise?</a></li><li><a href="https://toggl.com/">Toggl - Free Time Tracking Software</a></li><li><a href="https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/">Qbserve app - Mac Time Tracking and Productivity Improvement</a></li></ul>

<p>What does it mean to implement “hailing a cab” in software and how does this new translation stack up to the existing institution?</p> <p>Discussions based around “The Software Arts: Chapter 2”, "Translation"with the author Warren Sack.</p> <p>We talk about the differences of the humanities understanding of translation where meaning is lost, created, or changed, and compare it with the software concepts of perfect translation like compiling code.</p> <p>Make sure to check out <a href="//geekspeak.org/episodes/2019/10/25/">Part 1</a>.</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon">Francis Bacon - Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/History_of_calculus">History of calculus - Wikiquote</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein">Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wikipedia</a></li><li>Software is not problem solving...<blockquote> <p>What I am saying is that software is an art and a form of design. Where you don’t necessarily know what the problem is.</p> </blockquote></li><li>Narrative Intelligence<p>In the after-show Warren mentions a chapter he pulled from the book about narrative.. here is a paper and talk on the subject:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://people.ucsc.edu/~stamp/200a/FILM_200A/Readings_files/Sack,%20Narrative%20Intelligence.pdf">Narrative Intelligence</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUweBjL1yUY" class="9">JS.everywhere(2013): Warren Sack – JS in Research – YouTube</a></li> </ul></li></ul>

<p>This episode kicks off a limited series of discussions with <a href="https://twitter.com/warrensack">Warren Sack</a> centered around his book <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-arts">The Software Arts</a>, <span class="caps">MIT</span> Press, forward by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rajchman">John Rajchman</a></p> <p><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-arts">The Software Arts</a> offers an alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software’s evolution.</p><ul><li>Join us in this discussion...<p>Warren’s book is <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-arts">available from <span class="caps">MIT</span> Press</a> – grab a copy and enjoy a multi-episode virtual book club with me and the author. We plan to release an episode for each chapter:</p> <ol> <li>Introduction (this episode)</li> <li><a href="https://geekspeak.org/episodes/2020/01/05/">Translation</a></li> <li>Language</li> <li>Algorithm</li> <li>Logic</li> <li>Rhetoric</li> <li>Grammar</li> <li>Conclusion</li> </ol> <p>Reading along is not necessary to enjoy this series or episodes. And feel free to give us feedback and ask questions. Please contact us via Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/warrensack">@WarrenSack</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/lyle">@Lyle</a>.</p></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/@triketora/where-are-the-numbers-cb997a57252">Where are the numbers? - Tracy Chou</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_A._Havelock">Eric A. Havelock</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan">Marshall McLuhan</a></li></ul>

<p>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.</p><ul><li><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/microled-displays-could-show-up-in-products-as-soon-as-2020">MicroLED Displays Could Show Up in Products as Soon as 2020</a></li><li>Lyle Surgery Update</li><li><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/369714/google-to-minimize-the-data-collected-by-chrome-extensions">Google to Minimize the Data Collected by Chrome Extensions</a></li><li>macOS Lockdown and merging with iOS</li><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/07/expanse-fans-no-need-to-worry-amazon-orders-season-5-of-its-new-sci-fi-show/">Expanse fans, no need to worry—Amazon orders season 5 of its new sci-fi show</a></li><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/07/weve-got-our-first-peek-at-s4-of-the-expanse-and-an-airdate-december-13/">We’ve got our first peek at S4 of The Expanse and an airdate: December 13</a></li><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/louisiana-declares-state-emergency-in-response-to-ransomware-attack/">Louisiana declares state of emergency in response to ransomware attack</a></li><li>Is the Phone Dead</li><li><a href="https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/">Graphile | Powerful, Extensible and Performant GraphQL APIs Rapidly</a></li></ul>

<p>Brad Smith (<a href="https://twitter.com/brad">@brad</a>), the founder and <span class="caps">CEO</span> 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 podcasting community.<br /> And, of course, this wouldn’t be GeekSpeak if we didn’t get technical – Brad is a geek and is proud of it.</p><ul><li><a href="https://simplecast.com/">Podcast Hosting, Distribution & Analytics - Simplecast</a></li><li><a href="https://podnews.net/">Podnews podcasting news</a></li><li><a href="https://9to5google.com/2019/05/09/google-podcasts-desktop-ios/">Google Podcasts rolling out to desktop, iOS in Google Search - 9to5Google</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sKP_rZW1N0&t=10s">Lyle's Setup for Podcasting</a></li></ul>

<p>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.</p><ul></ul>

<p>New Geek Rich Zurad joins Ben and Lyle to cover the <span class="caps">JRR</span> universe badly, the Star Wars vs Star Trek argument, cover some of the podcasts they like, and their pet health problems.</p><ul><li><a href="https://archpaper.com/2018/11/energy-vault-gravity-powered-battery-35-ton-concrete-blocks/">This gravity-powered battery could be the future of energy storage - Archpaper.com</a></li></ul>

<p>For the Netflix podcast I did a quick jaunt to Amsterdam – here is an audio-blog type entry of my time there – Lyle.</p><ul><li><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/8i9kbbGNdHZWmp8T8">Lyle's Photos Amsterdam - Kinda over-doing it.</a></li><li><a href="https://mocomuseum.com/artists/banksy/">BanksyLaugh now - Moco Museum</a></li><li><a href="https://mocomuseum.com/artists/kusama-exhibition-amsterdam-night-of-stars/">Yayoi Kusama - Moco Museum</a></li><li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587707/">Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) - IMDb</a></li></ul>