Summary:
It's been a while! The boys meet in a local establishment to discuss Jody's only topic idea in a long time...'scale'; How do you scale as a human?
Recording in public made Jody self-conscious, but Matt still talks a bunch about the education system.
Jody had to scale immediately to 2 children
- ...he's still struggling with that.
Matt scales his knowledge to N-students-per-day
- Matt might be able to adjust value of N to be inspiring or depressing how depressing this number might be.
- Jody was impressed with Matt's handling of Net Neutrality for his students
- Matt answers with direct call to action to vote...nice way to scale that message :)
- take opportunity to discuss NN since it went well at the Indy over the holidays
A bit of SpaceX talk led into recommendations:
- Elon tried to catch the Falcon Heavy fairing with a boat named Mr. Steven
- Matt says the boat's name is a reference to a sci-fi book series, but couldn't come up with the title at the time...
- It's the "Culture Series" by Iain M. Banks
- Other SpaceX boat names come from these books (like "Of Course I Still Love You" and "Just Read the Instructions"), but the origin of the good-ship Mr. Steven is unclear
- Matt had never heard of Ray Kurzweil
- You might recognize the name as a brand of music synthesizer from the 1980s (same guy)
- Or you might also be hoping that The Singularity Is Near and that you'll soon be able to live forever once you upload your mind into...well, something other than your body
- One of Jody's top sci-fi pics is Altered Carbon
- Which now has new life as a heavily-promoted Netflix series
- Jody watched immediately and recommends, even if it goes to far with the ultra-violence
Matt's new/expensive hobby...Airsoft Army LARP-ing!
- Matt's foam sword gun:
- Dr. Katz...you know what the music means
Podcast picks:
Matt:
