Geek Speak with Lyle Troxell
41 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsA 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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Large Language Models and Human Minds
June 06, 2023 07:05 - 1 hour - 39.5 MBMost 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
Tech News and Non Woo Meditation
June 01, 2022 22:00 - 28 minutes - 13 MBNFT 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 | Reuters Tech Experts Urge Washington To Resist Crypto Industry's Influence - Slashdot The World's Largest Plant Is a Self-Cloning Sea Grass in Australia - Slashdot New data shows only two browsers with more...
Delegate, Automate, Concentrate
January 19, 2022 07:35 - 1 hour - 32.2 MBQuincy 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
The Software Arts: Algorithm - Arithmetic
January 04, 2022 08:29 - 52 minutes - 24.1 MBProfessor 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.
Lasers for listening and seeing, music production, and recycling
September 16, 2021 18:38 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MBIn 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 Room Ben Here (Ben Jaffe's music) Recycling symbol can’t appear on non-recyclable items, California bill says | Ars Technica Gary Anders...
Internal Company Podcasts, Some Thoughts
January 27, 2021 23:11 - 22 minutes - 42 MBDue 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 provider One example of a company providing Private Podcast support – I have no affi...
Wildfire-Caused Water Contamination
September 07, 2020 00:15 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MBThe 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 fo...
Wildfire Caused Water Contamination
September 07, 2020 00:15 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MBThe 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 fo...
20 Years of Ubiquitous Rust
August 18, 2020 07:28 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBDedi 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 Unifi MTV Cribs: Quarantine edition Sketchup Blender Actix, the Rust Web Framework Web Framework Benchmarks Go, The Programming Language Waze Reports: Cloudy with a Chance of Pananoia e3 and Star Wars Home Networking - Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X
Motivations of Podcasting and Fretless Instruments
August 11, 2020 01:30 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBBen Jaffe deciding to end his fantastic podcast Linear Digressions, Lyle celebrating 20 years hosting GeekSpeak, and geeking out on playing instruments that do not have “frets” like the Cello and Trombone.
Vacation with Chainsaws, Motors, and Glasses
July 16, 2020 07:36 - 25 minutes - 12.9 MBMy vacation included fixing motors, accepting glasses, and milling redwood with chainsaws. My Replacement Fan Motor Thermal Fuse Cutoff New Thermostat Switch with "Firestat" Milling Redwood Here are some pix from our milling. The Logs: Me with my orange cap and our family friend Jack. My wife Maggi finishing a log: Samples of what we are making: I have Glasses Here I am with new readers…. and a great scotch, I mean it was still vacation!
The Software Arts: Language
May 24, 2020 06:44 - 53 minutes - 24.8 MBWarren Sack is back for a conversation of the Natural and Institutional Language from the French Encyclopédistes, touching on The Wealth of Nations, Babbage, Lovelace, Donald Knuth, Information Theory, Work vs Work, James Prescott Joule, Functions & Operations and much more. Learn why the true language of Software is not Physics.
Highschool Social Software Usage
March 20, 2020 21:27 - 40 minutes - 18.9 MBOn this episode Lyle interviews his daughter Gwendolyn about the social software she uses in High School – iMessage, Instagram, SnapChat, TikTok. And they play with Lyle’s new RodeCASTER Pro. Rode RODECaster Pro Integrated Podcast Production Studio RCP B&H All possible pythagorean triples, visualized - YouTube Cat puts paw in water and freaks out funny vine - YouTube The SnapChat video we record during this episode.
Elevating fears of Dropping Thoughts over Time
February 21, 2020 17:02 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBBen and Lyle chat about elevators, the fear of dropping things, Podcasting, how we experience thoughts, drawing, learning, music, meditation, Time Tracking, Theme:Focus, Memory and being Present. Are you a 1,2,3,4 or 5 in this apple visualization exercise? Toggl - Free Time Tracking Software Qbserve app - Mac Time Tracking and Productivity Improvement
Translation: The Software Arts (chapter 2)
January 06, 2020 01:40 - 1 hour - 32.1 MBWhat does it mean to implement “hailing a cab” in software and how does this new translation stack up to the existing institution? Discussions based around “The Software Arts: Chapter 2”, "Translation"with the author Warren Sack. We talk about the differences of the humanities understanding of translation where meaning is lost, created, or changed, and compare it with the software concepts of perfect translation like compiling code. Make sure to check out Part 1. Francis Bacon - Wikipedi...
Introduction to The Software Arts
October 24, 2019 18:44 - 39 minutes - 18.4 MBThis episode kicks off a limited series of discussions with Warren Sack centered around his book The Software Arts, MIT Press, forward by John Rajchman The Software Arts offers an alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software’s evolution. Join us in this discussion... Warren’s book is available from MIT Press – grab a copy and enjoy a multi-episode virtual book club with me and the author. We plan to release an episode for each chapter: Introd...
Micro Extensions Expand State of Emergency
August 27, 2019 19:52 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBMicroLEDs, Google Chrome Extensions are more private, macOS is locking things down, Expanse and other shows we are watching, and a post show covering wonderfully geeky PostGraphile. MicroLED Displays Could Show Up in Products as Soon as 2020 Lyle Surgery Update Google to Minimize the Data Collected by Chrome Extensions macOS Lockdown and merging with iOS Expanse fans, no need to worry—Amazon orders season 5 of its new sci-fi show We’ve got our first peek at S4 of The Expanse and an air...
Simplecast - Podcasting and Business Development
July 30, 2019 08:02 - 1 hour - 35.1 MBBrad Smith (@brad), the founder and CEO of Simplecast, talks with me about the creation of Simplecast from initial musings to venture capital infused growth, and building partnerships. Brad is also an expert on the podcasting landscape and walks us through some wonderful changes that Apple and Google have recently made that should help the podcasting community. And, of course, this wouldn’t be GeekSpeak if we didn’t get technical – Brad is a geek and is proud of it. Podcast Hosting, Distri...
Lyle's Back Surgery and Podcasting Conversations
June 30, 2019 17:01 - 45 minutes - 20.9 MBLyle Troxell and Ben Jaffe about the current state of the Geek Speak podcast, conversation styles, and Lyle’s L5 S1 Back Surgery Fusion with instrumentation.
Oruk-hai's Eugenics Star Trek in 1996
May 25, 2019 07:48 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBNew Geek Rich Zurad joins Ben and Lyle to cover the JRR universe badly, the Star Wars vs Star Trek argument, cover some of the podcasts they like, and their pet health problems. This gravity-powered battery could be the future of energy storage - Archpaper.com
Lyle Update from Amsterdam
May 17, 2019 22:13 - 12 minutes - 6.55 MBFor the Netflix podcast I did a quick jaunt to Amsterdam – here is an audio-blog type entry of my time there – Lyle. Lyle's Photos Amsterdam - Kinda over-doing it. BanksyLaugh now - Moco Museum Yayoi Kusama - Moco Museum Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) - IMDb
Ben Joins Netflix
April 24, 2019 05:57 - 1 hour - 28.9 MBBen Jaffe and Lyle Troxell talk about the culture at Facebook and at Netflix and about vulnerability at work. Lyle tells a story about doing a branching talk about branching narratives. A quick chat about Star Trek Next Generation and even Ben’s broken dryer. Bandersnatch - Branching Narrative Black Mirror Episode Puss In Book - Branching Narrative Title Why Netflix move away from the 5 Stars Brené Brown and Vernā Myers Discuss Inclusion and Diversity
Web Auth; Predicting Wind; Anti-Vax Videos
March 22, 2019 07:02 - 1 hour - 32.2 MBWind prediction with AI, Anti-Vax movies pulled from Amazon Prime, Web Authn, and Home Automation and the cloud. Alphabet Subsidiary Trained AI to Predict Wind Output 36 Hours in Advance Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Content After CNN Business Report W3C Approves WebAuthn, Web Standard for Password-Free Logins
Software: Android, Ruby, ORM, & Podcasting
March 09, 2019 08:44 - 50 minutes - 23.5 MBMiles and Lyle chat about software development esp. about Ruby and ORMs which leads to a bit about the GeekSpeak Rails website, podcast chapter marks, recording podcasting, including hardware and budgets. A bit of inside baseball. Kotlin and Android Ruby Programming Language Object-relational impedance mismatch Django and a Better ORM ID3
Fake Images Undergo Existential Crisis
March 01, 2019 09:20 - 41 minutes - 20.1 MBGenerative Adversarial Networks are a pattern of Machine Learning that can do some amazing things – in this episode we chat about them effecting our concepts of truth. And we include an episode of Linear Digressions from Ben and Katie to really explain how GANs really work. This Person Does Not Exist Is the Best One-Off Website of 2019 How to recognize fake AI-generated images Neural Nets Play Cops and Robbers (aka generative adversarial networks) — Linear Digressions
Updating Broken Laptops with Bad Languages
February 23, 2019 18:40 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBMiles walks us through buying a used 2015 MacBook Pro and upgrading it with a better hard drive. And we talk programing languages: Kotlin, Swift, Groovy, Java, Python and more. It’s a programing rich episode of GeekSpeak. Netflix Takes Broadband to the Broken Screen NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card Multiplatform Project: iOS and Android - Kotlin Programming Language Why has the Groovy programming language lost its momentum? - Quora ttfkam/pg_gnufind: GNU find output as PostgreSQL foreig...
Hacking NES Across Kazakhstan for Better Netflix
January 09, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBSoftware engineer and “I’ll show it to you at hackday… chap”, Guy Cirino joins Lyle for a chat about hacking at Netflix, driving across Asia, high energy particle physics at CERN, and improving streaming video better for everyone. Netflix Stream Possible Video Netflix Hack Day — Winter 2015 – Netflix TechBlog – Medium GeekSpeak About AR Tech: Martian Telescope Senses Wrecked Teslas GeekSpeak Episode: Engineering FlatBuffers Programing sans JSON TeleFlix - Full Blog Post The real Hawkin...
Computational Medicine
December 29, 2018 21:11 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MBUCLA Health technical project manager Robert Smith joins for a discussion on the state of personalized medicine and computational medicine. The goal of personal genomics is to move toward being able to interpret each person’s individual genetic sequence, and predict it’s effect on their bodies and health. Preoperative predictions of in-hospital mortality using electronic medical record data | bioRxiv Large-scale transcriptome-wide association study identifies new prostate cancer risk regi...
Supersonic Git Mansplains to Facebook
November 28, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBSome flight in the news, laws managed by git source control – and how awesome collaboration can be using git. A large discussion: does Facebook’s benefit outweigh its drawbacks and how can we make social networks better for society or do they just represent who we are. The geeks chat about Geek Speak being Therapy for Mansplaining. New experimental Lockheed supersonic jet starts production First ever plane with no moving parts takes flight How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request ...
Noble Ape with Tom Barbalet
November 07, 2018 20:39 - 1 hour - 32.9 MBIn 1996 Tom is in Australia dumpster diving to find a computer… he needs this already out-of-date hardware to prove that “you can simulate ecosystems.” For the last 22 years Tom has been maintaining and improving Noble Ape a software “ecosystem” which allows one to simulate life, language, weather, and internal thought. Noble Ape
A Wifi Mesh of Meditating on Podcasting
October 23, 2018 06:56 - 25 minutes - 12.6 MBiPhone Max, Meditation, Amplify Mesh, Adobe Apps, Procreate, and Podcasting “I chat about a few things I am into lately.” – Lyle Waking Up Podcast with Sam Harris | Stream Episodes Now AmpliFi Wi-Fi Home Networking - Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X iPad Software for Drawing - Procreate
Robot Apologizes for cutting Antenna with Chainsaw ARM
September 25, 2018 16:10 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBJapanese robots are hopping around on an asteroid, Linus Torvalds apologizes for being a jerk, and ARM chips have a new trick up their sleeves. All this and more on the latest GeekSpeak. Two Japanese robots are now happily hopping on an asteroid ARM pointer authentication A new antenna using single atoms could usher in the age of atomic radio I did a thing to convince myself the XS MAX 512 GB wasn't so expensive A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linu...
Martian Telescope Senses Wrecked Teslas
September 03, 2018 16:50 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBA bunch of great news stories from Miles, and a wonderful tail of VR exploration at Siggraph 2018 from Ben. Plus goat sounds, stories of the geeks hurting each other, and thoughts on existential VR. Six Things About Opportunity's Recovery Efforts Scientists found the moon has ice in the shadows of its poles Higgs Boson (10) The Infinadeck Omnidirectional Treadmill - Smarter Every Day 192 (VR Series) - YouTube 9 telescopes that will change how we see space The latest in a new generatio...
Hate Speech and Mistrust of Pseudo AI are a matter of Timing
July 16, 2018 21:40 - 1 hour - 31.6 MBNew time, see RBG, Facebook vs Jefferson, AI and Humans, Humans as AI, Humans as resources, Mistrust of tech, AI better then humans medical addition, space mission, CFCs found, and much more with Miles and Lyle. Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants Facebook Flags Declaration of Independence as Hate Speech Whitelisting - Wikipedia Black sheep - Wikipedia Quotations on the Jefferson Memorial Box CEO Aaron Levie says mistrust of Google and Facebook could spread...
Mapping Database Abuse with Better Apps
July 03, 2018 19:00 - 59 minutes - 28 MBWeek in News: Police officers fired in California after abusing privacy through large databases. Microsoft gives to OpenStreetMap, Lyle plays with HoloLen, Supercomputers and Linux, and #FamilesBelongTogether bot attack. And a long form discussion on software/apps/programs performance and change over history with a bit about Podcasting software. Brian's Trailer The California Attorney General’s Office Says It’s Finally Taking Database Abuse Seriously—But Time Will Tell | Electronic Fronti...
Public Domain Brains Program Siri
June 29, 2018 16:36 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBDigital assistants talking gooder, EU legislating worser, long copyright worstest, cryptocurrencies downing, and spaceships fartherest. These stories and more as the Geeks critique each others’ communication skills and discuss the ability to excel in various areas including programming through nature versus nurture. Public Service Announcement: 911 Acidental No Public Domain Until 2067? On June 20, an EU committee will vote on an apocalyptically stupid, internet-destroying copyright propo...
Zach on Law
June 03, 2018 05:09 - 1 hour - 40.4 MBAttorney and candidate for Santa Cruz Judge, Zach Schwarzbach geeks out with Lyle about law. We chat about Public Defender, Bad Choices vs Luck, Prosecution for Manslaughter, Cell Phones – Rights, Cell Bright, No Naked Pics on your Phone, Rational Prosecution, Harassment and Threats, When to Prosecute?, Compassion, Bad guys going free, Social Media Parole, Washington Nationals, Who Decides Defense?, Cell Company Data, Stings and Data, Paranoia and Privacy, Knowing a Crime, Be Polite, Secrec...
Illuminating the Pentagon's Bumper Sticker for Bitcoins
May 30, 2018 18:37 - 1 hour - 39.3 MBAre the Warriors worth talking about? What is an Astroboffin? A new solution to identity from the Pentagon. AI recognizing cars. Ben tries Siempo. And much much more – including Bitcoin power usage with Cake and Lightbulbs. Astroboffins spy the most greedy black hole yet gobbling a Sun a day The FIRST app of its kind! Apollo: Immersive illumination Photo of Miles “Natural Light”, “Stage Light”, “Contour Light”, and “Studio Light” The Pentagon Has a Big Plan to Solve Identity Verification...
Self Destructing Solar Powered Chrome Extensions
May 23, 2018 01:36 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBForty years of spam email Google sells the future, powered by your personal data Gmail's 'Self Destruct' Feature Will Probably Be Used to Illegally Destroy Government Records One Of LLVM's Top Contributors Quits Development Over CoC, Outreach Program Stack Overflow Isn't Very Welcoming. It's Time for That to Change. Body-cam giant snaps up its biggest rival to create near-monopoly California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes Installation costs so much that it’s ...
Augment your Pictures at Ikea
April 26, 2018 01:29 - 45 minutes - 22.4 MBThe Geeks often spend time discussing the pitfalls of technology; today they look at some of the upsides. From microscopes that help find cancer to simpler directions from your mapping app, and even IKEA furniture building robots; Geekpeak is your source for trends in tech. We also have a great discussion about Git and how it works. Google's Augmented Reality Microscope Quickly Highlights Cancer Cells SmugMug acquires Flickr | VentureBeat KUSP Studios - Photos by Lyle Troxell Lyle's Sm...
Self-driving Robot Fooled by Facebook
April 20, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 33.2 MBThe Geeks are back with stories from Self-driving cars to Facebook, Facebook, and Facebook. California proposes new rules for self-driving cars to pick up passengers There’s growing evidence Tesla’s Autopilot handles lane dividers poorly Self-Driving Car Ticketed In San Francisco; Company Disputes Violation Is tricking a robot the same thing as hacking it? Elon Musk Delete Facebook - "It is time. #deletefacebook" Cambridge Analytica may have had Facebook data from 87 million people Ad...