Geek Speak With Lyle Troxell

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 EpisodePuss In Book - Branching Narrative TitleWhy Netflix move away from the 5 StarsBrené Brown and Vernā Myers Discuss Inclusion and Diversity

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 AdvanceAmazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Content After CNN Business ReportW3C 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 AndroidRuby Programming LanguageObject-relational impedance mismatchDjango and a Better ORMID3

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 2019How to recognize fake AI-generated imagesNeural Nets Play Cops and Robbers (aka generative adversarial networks) — Linear Digressions

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 ScreenNGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter CardMultiplatform Project: iOS and Android - Kotlin Programming LanguageWhy has the Groovy programming language lost its momentum? - Quorattfkam/pg_gnufind: GNU find output as PostgreSQL foreign tables (multicorn)

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 VideoNetflix Hack Day — Winter 2015 – Netflix TechBlog – MediumGeekSpeak About AR Tech: Martian Telescope Senses Wrecked TeslasGeekSpeak Episode: Engineering FlatBuffers Programing sans JSONTeleFlix - Full Blog PostThe real Hawkins National Labs from Stranger Things - BNL, the g-2 experimentScintillator - WikipediaCMS | CERNSuperconducting Super Collider - WikipediaMongol Rally - WikipediaThe Magic Modem: A Global Network Emulator – @ScaleBlog of Some Guy14quick.org - Final Fantasy 14 Done Quick for CharityWhat Is Extra Life? | Extra LifeFINAL FANTASY XIVExtra Life 2018 Live from Netflix HQ! - YouTubeGeekSpeak Episode: Ready Player OneFree Code Camp with Quincy LarsonRaspberry Pi Zero W - Raspberry PiTexas Instruments TI-99/4A - Wikiped