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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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LLMs eat software development
LLMs for software development can go way beyond Github Copilot. In this episode, we talk about how these models could change the workflow for existing developers, but more importantly how they could change the very idea of what software is.
Links/Resources:
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/
https://github.com/RootbeerComputer/backend-GPT
https://lukebechtel.com/blog/gpt4-generating-code
===== 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 -
Dependent Types: Runtime assertions at compile time...whaaa? (S04E08)
Dependent types are a more expressive type system in programming languages used to catch a larger class of errors at compile time. What are would be typically assertions at runtime can now be caught at compile time.
Show notes:
Proposition as TypesParse, Don’t Validation“Scala vs Idris: Dependent types, now and in the future”Resources:
http://www.e-pig.org/downloads/ydtm.pdfhttps://gist.github.com/Hirrolot/27e6b02a051df333811a23b97c375196Proof Theory Impressionism: Blurring the Curry-Howard LineType Systems - The Good, Bad and UglyDependent types for practical useIdris: Practical Dependent Types with Practical ExamplesMaking Illegal States unrepresentableCan types replace validationhttps://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/WG2.8/26/slides/xavier.pdf -
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 -
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 -
io_uring: Two rings makes computers go Brrrrr (S04E05)
io_uring is a new asynchronous, API to enable fast and efficient system calls in the Linux kernel. It promises faster user-land programs that heavily use file system IO on Linux, for all applications, not just databases.
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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.