Geek Speak With Lyle Troxell

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Sinopse

A weekly talk show about technology, science, and human creativity that excites, educates, and fosters curiosity. Discussions touch upon how technology affects society and how we react to that change. Hosts are passionate about explaining complex concepts in simple, easy to digest, chunks. We bridge the gaps between Geeks and the rest of humanity.

Episódios

  • Large Language Models and Human Minds

    06/06/2023 Duração: 01h25min

    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

  • Tech News and Non Woo Meditation

    01/06/2022 Duração: 28min

    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

  • Delegate, Automate, Concentrate

    19/01/2022 Duração: 01h10min

    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

  • The Software Arts: Algorithm - Arithmetic

    04/01/2022 Duração: 52min

    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.

  • Lasers for listening and seeing, music production, and recycling

    16/09/2021 Duração: 37min

    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

  • Internal Company Podcasts, Some Thoughts

    27/01/2021 Duração: 22min

    Due to the popularity of the WeAreNetflix podcast I am contacted a bit about my thoughts on company podcasts. The WeAreNetflix podcast started based of 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 Episode with Michael Paulson - Engineering FlatBuffers Programing sans JSONWeAreNetflix PodcastHow To Launch A Private Podcast With Exclusive Access

  • Wildfire Caused Water Contamination

    07/09/2020 Duração: 53min

    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 contamin

  • 20 Years of Ubiquitous Rust

    18/08/2020 Duração: 57min

    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

  • Motivations of Podcasting and Fretless Instruments

    11/08/2020 Duração: 48min

    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.

  • Vacation with Chainsaws, Motors, and Glasses

    16/07/2020 Duração: 25min

    My vacation included fixing motors, accepting glasses, and milling redwood with chainsaws.My Replacement Fan MotorThermal Fuse CutoffNew Thermostat Switch with "Firestat"Milling RedwoodHere 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 have GlassesHere I am with new readers…. and a great scotch, I mean it was still vacation!

  • The Software Arts: Language

    24/05/2020 Duração: 53min

    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.

  • Highschool Social Software Usage

    20/03/2020 Duração: 40min

    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&HAll possible pythagorean triples, visualized - YouTubeCat puts paw in water and freaks out funny vine - YouTubeThe SnapChat video we record during this episode.

  • Elevating fears of Dropping Thoughts over Time

    21/02/2020 Duração: 01h08min

    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 SoftwareQbserve app - Mac Time Tracking and Productivity Improvement

  • Translation: The Software Arts (chapter 2)

    06/01/2020 Duração: 01h09min

    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, and compare it with the software concepts of perfect translation like compiling code. Make sure to check out Part 1.Francis Bacon - WikipediaHistory of calculus - WikiquoteLudwig Wittgenstein - WikipediaSoftware is not problem solving... 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. Narrative IntelligenceIn the after-show Warren mentions a chapter he pulled from the book about narrative.. here is a paper and talk on the subject: Narrative Intelligence JS.everywhere(2013): Warren Sack – JS in Research – YouTube

  • Introduction to The Software Arts

    24/10/2019 Duração: 39min

    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 Press – 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: Introduction (this episode) Translation Language Algorithm Logic Rhetoric Grammar Conclusion 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: @WarrenSack, @Lyle.Where are the numbers? - Tracy ChouEric A. HavelockMarshall McLuhan

  • Micro Extensions Expand State of Emergency

    27/08/2019 Duração: 01h35min

    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 2020Lyle Surgery UpdateGoogle to Minimize the Data Collected by Chrome ExtensionsmacOS Lockdown and merging with iOSExpanse fans, no need to worry—Amazon orders season 5 of its new sci-fi showWe’ve got our first peek at S4 of The Expanse and an airdate: December 13Louisiana declares state of emergency in response to ransomware attackIs the Phone DeadGraphile | Powerful, Extensible and Performant GraphQL APIs Rapidly

  • Simplecast - Podcasting and Business Development

    30/07/2019 Duração: 01h16min

    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 podcasting community. And, of course, this wouldn’t be GeekSpeak if we didn’t get technical – Brad is a geek and is proud of it.Podcast Hosting, Distribution & Analytics - SimplecastPodnews podcasting newsGoogle Podcasts rolling out to desktop, iOS in Google Search - 9to5GoogleLyle's Setup for Podcasting

  • Lyle's Back Surgery and Podcasting Conversations

    30/06/2019 Duração: 45min

    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.

  • Oruk-hai's Eugenics Star Trek in 1996

    25/05/2019 Duração: 01h01min

    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.com

  • Lyle Update from Amsterdam

    17/05/2019 Duração: 12min

    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 MuseumYayoi Kusama - Moco MuseumExit Through the Gift Shop (2010) - IMDb

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