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    A Beginner's Guide to Git & GitHub

    90% of the Fortune 100 run their code through GitHub, and this week it went down for 7 hours. If your reaction to that is questions and confusion .... this one is for you. Eden breaks down Git vs. GitHub (not the same thing!!): The 2005 drama that made Linus Torvalds rage-build Git in two weeks, the platform that built upon it and became a social network for developers, plus the bare minimum version control every vibecoder needs to know.

    A Beginner's Guide to Git & GitHub

  2. 17 aug.

    World Models: The Brains Behind Waymos & Humanoid Robots

    LLMs predict the next word. World models predict the next moment. Eden explains the AI "brains" powering Waymos and humanoid robots and Ellen gets into the real-world applications: simulated tornado testing, robot hands that can hold an egg, NVIDIA's Cosmos, and why people are getting paid to wear GoPros while doing chores. Your delivery robot is smarter than you think.

    World Models: The Brains Behind Waymos & Humanoid Robots

  3. 10 aug.

    Basics for the Baddies: Quantum Computing

    Ellen goes solo to tackle quantum computing! She walks through quantum computing basics: classical bits vs. qubits, what superposition and the Bloch sphere actually mean, why rotating qubits creates wave interference that amplifies right answers and cancels wrong ones, why that gives quantum computers an exponential edge over brute force, and why all of it points toward Shor's algorithm eventually breaking RSA-2048 encryption.

    Basics for the Baddies: Quantum Computing

  4. 3 aug.

    Tech Tea: AI Edition - OpenAI vs Apple, Hugging Face Hacked, AI 2040 and more

    Episode Description In this episode, Eden and Ellen cover recent AI news. 1. Apple v. OpenAI LawsuitApple's federal lawsuit against OpenAI, two former employees, and hardware startup IO over alleged theft of trade secrets — plus the Musk-Altman fallout on X. 2. OpenAI Sandbox EscapeHow an OpenAI model being tested for hacking skills broke out of its sandbox and breached Hugging Face. 3. AI 2040 Scenario ForecastA look at AI 2040, a long-form projection of AI's trajectory through 2040, including proposals for international coordination and universal basic income. 4. AI and the Jacobian ConjectureHow AI disproved an 87-year-old math conjecture with a single counterexample.

    Tech Tea: AI Edition - OpenAI vs Apple, Hugging Face Hacked, AI 2040 and more

  5. 27 juli

    The Phia Scandal: How an AI Powered Fashion App Got Caught Cookie Stuffing

    Phia was supposed to be the Google Flights for fashion. An AI shopping assistant co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, backed by $43.5M and a Coachella lineup of celebrity investors. Then researcher Ben Edelman caught their browser extension cookie stuffing: silently taking affiliate credit for sales it didn't drive, possibly even swiping commissions from your favorite influencers' links. In this solo episode, Eden breaks down how the scheme worked (feature flags, background tabs, and a setting literally called "enable coupon auto drop"), why it only targeted iPhone Safari users, whether Phia's Series A investors were misled, and what past cookie-stuffing cases, from the eBay wire fraud convictions to the ongoing Honey lawsuits, might tell us about what happens next. Sources mentioned in this episode: Ben Edelman's investigation: https://www.benedelman.org/phia-forced-clicks/Brian Dunning's Blog Post Alleging Ebay's Involvement in Cooking Stuffing: https://www.briandunning.com/fix_ebay.html

    The Phia Scandal: How an AI Powered Fashion App Got Caught Cookie Stuffing

  6. 20 juli

    The Full Stack of a Health Wearable: Silicon to Software

    It’s the golden episode (season 3, episode 3), and Eden and Ellen are getting a little science-y. This one’s all about health tech wearables — the rings, watches, and bands tracking your every move, and what’s really happening under the hood. We break down: How the hardware senses your body — optical PPG (photoplethysmography), ECG, LED light, and why the fingertip and earlobe are prime real estate for readingsThe metrics — heart rate, HRV, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, blood pressure, temperature, and how each one is actually derivedSignal vs. noise — why your ring is more trustworthy asleep than mid-workout, and the adaptive filtering that cancels out your footstepsAI, machine learning & inference — the difference between measured data and educated guesses, and why you are your own baseline (and why that baseline is the real product lock-in)The competitors — Oura, Whoop, Garmin, Apple, and up-and-comers like the Lumia ear cuffYour data & who’s protecting it — privacy policies, consent screens, Washington’s My Health My Data Act, Senator Cassidy’s proposed HIPRA, and what happens to your data when a company changes hands As always — we’re no doctors, lawyers, or geopolitical specialists. Stay safe out there.

    The Full Stack of a Health Wearable: Silicon to Software

  7. 14 juli

    DAIS Recap

    In this solo season-three opener, Ellen recaps Databricks' 2026 Data + AI Summit, unpacking the keynote's core framework — Context, Control, Cost, and Choice — and CEO Ali Ghodsi's argument that AGI already exists but lacks the enterprise access needed to be useful. She walks through the expanded Genie product family, including Genie Code, Genie One, Genie Agents, Genie ZeroOps, and Genie App Builder, along with the underlying Genie Ontology layer that powers them. The episode also covers two major infrastructure announcements: the Rayden engine for real-time analytics, and LTAP, which unifies transactional and analytical data, eliminating traditional data pipelines. The episode closes with a brief look at Omnigent, a Day 2 open-source tool Ellen has adopted into her own workflow.

    DAIS Recap

  8. 7 juli

    AI Needs a Mother

    Why does representation in tech (especially in AI) actually matter? Because we've seen what happens when it's missing. Eden and Ellen walk through a history of products built without women in the room: crash-test dummies modeled on the average man that left women 47% more likely to be seriously injured, drugs dosed for male bodies, heart attacks misdiagnosed because the textbook symptoms are men's, hiring algorithms that penalized the word "women," and facial recognition that couldn't see darker-skinned women. The through-line is simple. When women aren't in the room, tools get built without them in mind, and the harm is real. Now AI is being shaped in exactly those rooms. This episode is about why that can't happen again, what the numbers at the top labs actually look like, and why getting women in early isn't optional.

    AI Needs a Mother
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