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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.

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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.

    Xanadu: The lost vision of the hypertext future

    Xanadu: The lost vision of the hypertext future

    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.

    • 1 hr 46 min
    ChatGPT Part 2 (S04E03)

    ChatGPT Part 2 (S04E03)

    Part 2: 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.

    • 1 hr 49 min
    ChatGPT Part 1 (S04E03)

    ChatGPT Part 1 (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.

    • 1 hr 30 min
    Nix Package Management (S04E02)

    Nix Package Management (S04E02)

    Nix is a functional package manager. It creates completely reproducible builds and package management, including support for multiple versions of packages side-by-size with no issues.

    • 1 hr 35 min
    Visual Programming (S04 E01)

    Visual Programming (S04 E01)

    'Visual Programming' refers a style of programming that allows the user to specify a programs in a two-(or more)-dimensional fashion. Visual programming environments represent the data, control flow, or program state in a graphical way, allowing them to be directly manipulated. It has been a hot area of research from the very beginning of personal computing, to today.

    This week we will cover a few major visual programming environments, why visual programming has remained compelling over the decades, and whether there is untapped potential for VP today.

    • 2 hr 4 min
    Lightning Network: Payments so small, it's a stream (S03 E10)

    Lightning Network: Payments so small, it's a stream (S03 E10)

    Lightning Network is a network of payment forwarders layered on top of Bitcoin to enable small, fast micropayments with low fees.

    • 1 hr 31 min

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