Geek Speak with Lyle Troxell

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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.

  1. 06/06/2023

    Large Language Models and Human Minds

    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

    1 giờ 26 phút
  2. Tech News and Non Woo Meditation

    01/06/2022

    Tech News and Non Woo Meditation

    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

    28 phút
  3. Delegate, Automate, Concentrate

    19/01/2022

    Delegate, Automate, Concentrate

    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 Lyle Quincy mentioned two corses on freeCodeCamp Learn Responsive Web Design by Building 20 Projects Relational Database Course

    1 giờ 10 phút
  4. The Software Arts: Algorithm - Arithmetic

    04/01/2022

    The Software Arts: Algorithm - Arithmetic

    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.

    53 phút
  5. Lasers for listening and seeing, music production, and recycling

    16/09/2021

    Lasers for listening and seeing, music production, and recycling

    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

    37 phút
  6. Internal Company Podcasts, Some Thoughts

    27/01/2021

    Internal Company Podcasts, Some Thoughts

    Due to the popularity of the WeAreNetflix 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. This episode is 20min of me talking about company internal podcasts. Feel free to ask me questions about this episode on twitter. -@lyle Lower 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 How To Launch A Private Podcast With Exclusive AccessEpisode with Michael Paulson - Engineering FlatBuffers Programing sans JSONWeAreNetflix Podcast

    23 phút
  7. Wildfire-Caused Water Contamination

    07/09/2020

    Wildfire-Caused Water Contamination

    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 #CZULightningComplex Topics 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 Treatment Wildfire caused widespread drinking water distribution network contamination - Proctor - 2020 - AWWA Water Science - Wiley Online LibrarySan Lorenzo Valley Water DistrictFire Response, How You Can Help – Community Foundation Santa Cruz CountyListener Miles Z made some notes while listening - here they are:In case of doubt, consult the interview, as I am not an expert. The notes are about in the same order as the interview. =miles= Contamination and Testing/Monitoring 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. 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 HDPE pipe through the forest. The monitoring tests that the water district routinely runs downstream are limited to only particular VOC

    53 phút
  8. 20 Years of Ubiquitous Rust

    18/08/2020

    20 Years of Ubiquitous Rust

    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

    57 phút
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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.

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  • Nhà sáng tạo
    Lyle Troxell
  • Năm hoạt động
    2005 - 2023
  • Tập
    26
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    Sạch
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