Informatonauts

Episode 14 - APIs are the new black (again), the humility of genius, coffee cleansing, and coding sucks

May 09, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MB

[Originally Recorded on 5-2-14] Nick and Nikhil are off the ‘joe. Wood tables and hammers defeat little children. The Universe is not a toy, is something you learn in college. You don’t need to learn to code. College is worth more than $100K. APIs are in again (and so is Github)!

Episode 15 - UCSD Spits on Spritz, MapReduce for Rubes, BASIC is 50, Brain Rules

May 09, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MB

Nikhil runs for knowledge. IBM studies people. Study shows Spritz is terrible for comprehension, (but good for forgetting things, we think). Mapreduce uses a mafia structure (masters, mappers, groupers, reducers). A fondness for BASIC and variables named A1. You don’t need to learn to program. Yes, really. Nick mixes all the metaphors, in a pool.

Episode 13 - Brunch Life, Flu with a View, A Book By Any Other Name Would Smell As Old, Cockroaches are Smarter Than Ataris, Life Is Older Than The Universe, and Nick and Nikhil Browse the Web.

April 23, 2014 00:14 - 55 minutes - 77.2 MB

Nick is homesick and Nikhil is living the brunch life. Is reading books still a thing? Some models are useful, and Nick has the flu. Cockroaches are smarter than computers and may be older than the Universe. If XKCD doesn’t cut it, make your own. But if you do, your an idiot. Join us as Nick and Nikhil browse the internets.

Episode 12 - Smart Companies, Amazon Is For Lovers, Wolfram Is Smarter Than You, So Long XP, and Medical Ethics

April 11, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 32.8 MB

Smartest company in the world? Try Illumina (and Apple is nowhere to be found). Walmart Rises! Oculus VR and Father Putin, breaking all the rules! Amazon Smile is a great idea. Reminiscing about Windows XP (Goodbye old friend, we’ll miss your bubbly blueness). Nick rants on healthcare and ethics. Nikhil recounts how a hospitals screw peoples’ credit. Kickstarter is now a pre-startup incubator. Nikhil and Nick play with Wolfram alpha (and inflation between 2008 and now is 11% suckas)....

Episode 11 - In America, Facebook “Hack” You. Also, Workspaces and Microsoft Keynote

April 02, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.7 MB

Nikhil can’t buy the XBox One. Nick and Nikhil talk workspaces. No one works from home. Microsoft might not be cool, but that’s why REAL hipsters use it. Nikhil works on D3 stuff and Nick tries to be productive. Facebook releases its own language, Hack. Vinyl records may be better than Spotify--but probably not. Oh yeah, a banana has 105 calories. And men may have menopause.

Episode 10 - Are Watches Still a Thing? The Future is Hard, and Kids These Days….

March 20, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.4 MB

Nikhil can’t wait for his very own titan. Nick laments his lack of true nerdery. Whippersnappers actually install toolbars. Indie developers are just as cool as indie bands. Nikhil’s not making money fast enough, but the city’s still paying for it. The last piece of Nick’s childhood is dead in the snow. And we both try to predict the future, but we’re not engineers.

Episode 9 - 2048, California knows how to Ponzi, and Arscoin on AWS (don't try this at home)

March 12, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 38.8 MB

The unbeatable 2048. Umbrellas are for tourists (and Canadians). Against the Startups of the Age. Nikhil pulled the Chemex trigger. How blade grinders are like fruit ninjas. Some fish for your bash scripts. All your Arscoins are belongs to Nick. And he lost a lot of money doing so. Vim harder, Vim smarter.

Episode 8 - Standing Desks, Keurig Is The New Sony, and Re-living Jurassic Park

March 05, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 32.2 MB

HIMSS is an acronym for a reason. Better health and more painful feet can be as cheap as $25. Relive Jurassic Park on the internetz. Nick and Nikhil develop a coffee tasting experiment. S/MIME is awesome, cryptography is moot, and Google Keep is what Evernote wishes it could be when it grows up (and it works with GTD)!

Episode 7 - Our Caffeine Is Conceited (now in grams!) and How Facebook Is a disease

February 21, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.4 MB

Nikhil is now obsessed with Neo4J and other graphing databases, Java is the bane of our existence, Stephen Few and Edward Tufte know that practice makes pretty. Update on 3D printed glasses, so hip that hipsters aren’t even doing it yet. Princeton shoehorns Facebook into a disease model, and Nikhil might be a teenager because he uses Snapchat and Instagram.

Episode 6 - iPhone Phone Conceit, PowerPoint = Weak, and 3D-Printed Glasses

February 13, 2014 00:00 - 58 minutes - 32.9 MB

Preparing for the apocalypse with your own 3D printed glasses, Nikhil thinks PPTs are weak sauce, Hemingway app can help make your crappy writing a little less crappy, Flappy Bird iPhones are $1000 on eBay, and Nick and Nikhil berate every company in the mobile phone space because they are conceited academics who live in a bubble and think they can do better.

Episode 5 - The Seahawks, the new American Eagle

February 06, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.9 MB

A City United. Hail to the new Chief, Nadella, not Wilson. The Future is 30 Years Ago. Your Code Is Bad, and You Should Feel Bad. Statistical Errors, Croatian Style. I Got (new) Music in Me. All Your Hosts are Belong to Us.

Episode 4 - Sexy Morning Dancing, More Coffeescript, And Why Your Emails Really suck.

January 30, 2014 00:00 - 58 minutes - 34.3 MB

Store bought metaphors and organic CPUs. Dance to your happy place. The little app that could. Yuppy apps for Getting Things Planned (and then procrastinating). Email Fail. The Full Stallman, or how to be (marginally) safe on the internets. You have no culture, Nikhil doesn't finish books, and Nick only reads books about books. Larry Ellison is anti-Phasianidae, and your langage is in the Matrix (only if you took the Blue Pill).

Episode 2 - Internet Kittens, Now Endangered. And how!

January 23, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 29 MB

Coffee on the mind. Our data is better than your science. Coders moonlighting as data scientists (but just to ‘pay for med school’). The government is killing our internet kittens, but not really. Nvidia’s got a new kind of sexxy.

Episode 3 - Hipster Paradise: PDAs, IPAs, GMOs, and Afroeurasians.

January 23, 2014 00:00 - 1 hour - 31.2 MB

An alphabet soup of acronyms and methodologies. Pen and paper isn't so bad. Why Nikhil is obsessed with coffee, and Nick is still confused. The art of warring on steppes of Afroeurasia. Cheap services for cheapskates, and an apple for Snow White (NOW WITH MORE SCIENCE!!).

Episode 1: Unbounded Narcissism

January 16, 2014 00:08 - 1 hour - 30.6 MB

Time Travelers on the Internet, Space Rated Plants, Life Changing Books of 2013, Sounds of Where We're From, Excel and the Beautiful Future of the World, Genomic Pictures, and a Lifetime of Caffeine

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