The Technium

The Technium

The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.

  1. 03/03/2023

    ActivityPub: A Pu Pu Platter of Internet Content (S04E07)

    Activity Pub is a decentralized social networking protocol. It allows different web applications to interact so that their users can share information, even if the websites or applications are running different software.  00:00 S04E07 Activitypub02:13 What is Activity Pub?15:02 Interoperability33:00 A New Kind of Social43:53 Providing Distribution53:03 The Use Cases01:07:41 Ideology01:14:25 The Wild West01:24:07 Deconstructed Content01:34:52 Taking a Position ===== About “The Technium” ===== The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.  Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more! ===== Socials ===== WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545 Links/Resources: https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/ActivityPub-as-it-has-been-understoodhttps://web.archive.org/web/20201124231343/https://cjslep.com/c/blog/an-activitypub-philosophyhttps://overengineer.dev/blog/2018/02/01/activitypub-one-protocol-to-rule-them-all.htmlhttps://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.htmlhttps://www.jeremydormitzer.com/blog/what-is-activitypub.htmlhttps://tinysubversions.com/notes/decentralized-social-networks/https://kyefox.com/post/707900440336039936/activitypub-could-be-the-futurehttps://ariadne.space/2019/01/07/activitypub-the-worse-is-better-approach-to-federated-social-networking/https://activitypub.rocks/https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.htmlhttps://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/introduction-to-activitypub/508https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodonhttps://victoria.dev/blog/why-pixelfed-wont-save-us-from-instagram/https://web.archive.org/web/20190713233100/https://blog.dereferenced.org/federation-what-flows-where-and-whyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20190108060531/https://blog.dereferenced.org/activitypub-the-worse-is-better-approach-to-federated-social-networkinghttps://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/9/29/and-you-will-know-us-by-the-company-we-keephttps://twitter.com/AIMindFlow

    1h48min
  2. 16/02/2023

    APL: You need a special keyboard to program in this language (S04E06)

    APL is an array based programming language developed by Kenneth Iverson in the 1960s. Its central data type is the multi-dimensional array and hence it's very useful for workloads involving a lot of matrix math. APL predominantly uses symbols and it leverages consistent composability and execution rules to enable it as a notation as a tool for thought.  Links/Resources:* https://mathspp.com/blog/why-apl-is-a-language-worth-knowing* https://www.quora.com/What-made-APL-programming-so-revolutionary?share=1* https://tryapl.org/* A Personal View of APL* Notation as a Tool for Thought* Heaviside Operator Calculus* Conway’s Game of Life in APL* Maxwell’s Equations: From 20 to 4* Alan Kay’s answer to “What made APL so revolutionary?”* Testimonies    * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27463149    * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27464005    * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27465512* https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial/blob/main/01-intro.md00 - Objectives and Prerequisites | "Learn APL with Neural Networks"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3315454.3329960 Chapters:[00:00:00] Intros[00:03:36] What is APL?[00:05:42] Yes, it uses weird symbols[00:06:51] A language should change your thinking[00:13:08] Notation as a tool of thought[00:20:33] Connections to functional programming[00:28:23] What it feels like to program in APL[00:33:10] APL and IBM = big bucks[00:35:20] The echos of APL in modern data science tools[00:43:52] APL for big data pipelines[00:48:56] APL for Machine learning[00:54:59] APL for JSON manipulation[01:03:18] APL as a spreadsheet language[01:16:11] Superhuman programming: APL and LLMs[01:26:59] Making APL more explainable[01:38:18] Outro ===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more! ===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545

    1h42min
  3. 19/01/2023

    Xanadu: The lost vision of the hypertext future (S04E04)

    Xanadu was the first hypertext project founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. It aims to facilitate a type of media called hypermedia, which is non-sequential writing in which the reader can choose their own path through an electronic document. Links/Resources:http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/14.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanaduhttps://mimix.io/en/blog/xanaduhttps://sentido-labs.com/en/library/201904240732/Xanadu%20Hypertext%20Documents.htmlhttps://www.notion.so/blog/ted-nelsonhttps://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/https://xanadu.com.au/ararathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-5cGEU9S0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intachttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKbRcvIZT8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyzgoeeloJAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYwgJW7T8ohttps://jasoncrawford.org/the-lessons-of-xanaduhttps://blockprotocol.org/https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere/blob/main/design/explainer.mdhttps://maggieappleton.com/xanadu-patternshttps://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/05/01/spreading-threading/https://www.zombo.com/https://stratechery.com/concept/aggregation-theory/https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thoughthttps://cdixon.org/2015/01/31/come-for-the-tool-stay-for-the-network Chapters:[00:00:00] Intros[00:03:22] What is Xanadu?[00:15:49] Transclusion and Bidirectionality[00:26:32] Versioning[00:29:47] Vision divorced from implementation[00:35:13] Baked in Payments[00:46:15] Hypermedia as Envisioned[00:56:20] Tiktok as Hypermedia[01:01:52] Alternative business model for the web[01:16:19] Failure to Launch[01:26:15] Linearization as a forge[01:31:51] Success of Xanadu's Vision[01:37:04] Passing the torch ===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more! ===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545

    1h46min
  4. 12/01/2023

    ChatGPT Part 2 (S04E03)

    ChatGPT is a language model by OpenAI which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. 00:00 S04E03 ChatGPT Part 2 02:30 Expanding Humanity's Limits 11:33 Tool-assisted speedrun of Science 16:18 As a Civic Moderator 24:32 Social Upheaval 28:40 Platform Risk 49:51 Billion Dollar Solo Founder 58:35 Running out of Data 01:03:22 In other industries 01:24:52 Limitations 01:31:50 Build something that gets better as AI gets better Links: https://chat.openai.com/ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulator#Simulators http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html https://xyproblem.info/ https://yaofu.notion.site/How-does-GPT-Obtain-its-Ability-Tracing-Emergent-Abilities-of-Language-Models-to-their-Sources-b9a57ac0fcf74f30a1ab9e3e36fa1dc1 ===== About “The Technium” ===== The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more! ===== Socials ===== WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7 APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545

    1h50min

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The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.