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Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellLarge Language Models and Human MindsMost 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 Research2023-06-061h 25
No Harm In AskingWeAreNetflix with Lyle TroxellThinking of producing a podcast to showcase your corporate brand? We think every large corporation should explore this opportunity. But getting it right is harder than you might think, requiring effort and clarity of purpose. In this episode Mike and Eric deep dive into Netflix’s podcast for attracting future employees from engineers to creatives and break down why we think Netflix mostly misses the mark with this one.
That said, there’s still lots to like about the WeAreNetflix Podcast that features employees talking about work and life at Netflix, hosted by Netflix Senior Software Engineer Lyle...2022-10-0529 min
Let Free Audiobook Transport You to New WorldsForsaken Country Audiobook by Allen EskensListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 565551
Title: Forsaken Country
Author: Allen Eskens
Narrator: Brian Troxell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:09:56
Language: English
Release date: 09-20-22
Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories
Summary:
Three fathers collide far beyond the reach or safety of the law in this breathtaking thriller from the beloved author of The Stolen Hours and The Life We Bury:"one of our best crime writers at the top of his game" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author).
Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis ho...2022-09-2011h 09
Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveForsaken Country by Allen EskensPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/565551to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Forsaken Country
Author: Allen Eskens
Narrator: Brian Troxell
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Release date: September 20, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 11
Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Three fathers collide far beyond the reach or safety of the law in this breathtaking thriller from the beloved author of The Stolen Hours and The Life We Bury:"one of our best crime writers at the top of his game" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author). Max Rupert has left his position as a...2022-09-2011h 09
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellTech News and Non Woo MeditationNFT 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 | ReutersTech Experts Urge Washington To Resist Crypto Industry's Influence - SlashdotThe World's Largest Plant Is a Self-Cloning Sea Grass in Australia - SlashdotNew data shows only two browsers with more than 1 billion users | Ars TechnicaMicrosoft is killing Money in Excel along with Wolfram Alpha data typesSamsung To Close LCD Business - SlashdotQuestion your...2022-06-0228 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellDelegate, Automate, ConcentrateQuincy 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 LyleQuincy mentioned two corses on freeCodeCamp Learn Responsive Web Design by Building 20 Projects Relational Database Course2022-01-191h 10
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellThe Software Arts: Algorithm - ArithmeticProfessor 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.2022-01-0452 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellLasers for listening and seeing, music production, and recyclingIn 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 RoomBen Here (Ben Jaffe's music)Recycling symbol can’t appear on non-recyclable items, California bill says | Ars TechnicaGary Anderson - the creation of the "chasing arrows" Recycling symbol (pdf)This Episode as Video on YouTube2021-09-1637 min
WeAreNetflixNetflix Culture: FeedbackIn this special season of the WeAreNetflix Podcast, our host, Lyle Troxell, chats with Netflix colleagues from around the globe on various topics about Netflix's workplace culture. In this episode, we focus on feedback. Openness to feedback is one of the signature aspects of Netflix’s culture. 2021-07-2727 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellInternal Company Podcasts, Some ThoughtsDue 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. -@lyleLower Street - an example podcast providerOne example of a company providing Private Podcast support – I have no affiliation. Blog Building an Internal Company Podcast Create, Publish, Host & Secure Your Pr...2021-01-2822 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellWildfire-Caused Water ContaminationThe 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 for the #CZULightningComplexTopics by Time13:49 Water Utility vs State Responsibility22:28 Can you smell...2020-09-0753 min
The Art of ChangeJimin Lee: Print Media ArtistProfessor Jimin Lee's work explores themes of mobility, displacement and labor on the personal and social level as seen in traffic, places of transport, or objects that move or are "in transit" -- travel in both the daily and in the migratory sense. She talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about her ongoing work in print media that adopts emerging print strategies in an expanded art context.2020-09-0200 min
The Art of ChangeJennifer Maytorena Taylor: Producer, Director, Documentary FilmmakerProfessor Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's work is regularly seen around the world through broadcast, film festivals, and theatrical screenings at venues like the Sundance, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Locarno Film Festivals, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, New York Museum of Modern Art, PBS, Sundance Channel, Al Jazeera, and NHK-Japan. She talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about the fast-paced and unpredictable turns her filmmaking has taken her, from FBI raids to witnessing the effects of incarceration on disenfranchised populations.Professor Taylor’s new verité feature For the Love of Rutland explores three years in the life of a s...2020-09-0200 min
The Art of Changemicha cárdenas: Game Theorist and Performance ArtistProfessor micha cárdenas sees education as a path to liberation, and her teaching focuses on discussion, interactivity and creative practice as research. cárdenas is writing a new algorithm for gender, race and technology. As the director of the Critical Realities Studio, she talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about this hybrid studio/lab that uses multiple realities, in art, to address critical global issues including climate change, racism and gendered violence.2020-09-0200 min
The Art of ChangeMichael Chemers: DramaturgProfessor Michael Chemers, founding Director of the Bachelor in Fine Arts Dramaturgy program at Carnegie Mellon University and Associate Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz, talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about his "Ghost Light" model of dramaturgy, a muscular, creatively engaged, artistically vibrant approach to dramaturgy that requires thorough historical understanding, theoretical training broad and deep, and a passionate dedication to creating powerful, relevant performances of all types. Chemers, the founder of the FrankenCon conference, also has a thing for monsters and reveals to Lyle some of his deepest fears. 2020-09-0200 min
The Art of ChangeDee Hibbert-Jones: Academy Award Nominated, Emmy® Award Winning FilmmakerNominated for an Academy Award for her animated documentary film Last Day of Freedom (co-directed with Nomi Talisman), Professor Dee Hibbert-Jones talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about her work that incorporates animation, installation, public art, and documentary film examining power and politics. She also reflects on how surreal it is to walk the red carpet.2020-09-0200 min
The Art of ChangeRachel Nelson: Curator and Interim Director of the Institute of the Arts and SciencesRachel Nelson, PhD, talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about her artistic journey that has led her to become the interim director of UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS). Nelson also teaches in the UCSC’s History of Art and Visual Culture department (HAVC). Currently, Nelson is co-curating a multi-sited group exhibition, Barring Freedom, engaging art, prisons, and justice, which will be shown bi-coastally in New York City, San José, and Santa Cruz.2020-09-0200 min
The Art of ChangeIsaac Julien: Filmmaker and Installation ArtistInternationally renowned filmmaker and installation artist, Isaac Julien , Distinguished Professor, talks with guest host Lyle Troxell about his multi-screen film installations and photographs and how he incorporates different artistic disciplines to create poetic and unique visual language. His 1989 documentary-drama exploring author Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance titled "Looking for Langston" garnered Julien a cult following while his 1991 debut feature "Young Soul Rebels" won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival.Julien was awarded the title Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s bir...2020-09-0200 min
Geek Speak with Lyle Troxell20 Years of Ubiquitous RustDedi 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 UnifiMTV Cribs: Quarantine editionSketchupBlenderActix, the Rust Web FrameworkWeb Framework BenchmarksGo, The Programming LanguageWaze Reports: Cloudy with a Chance of Pananoiae3 and Star WarsHome Networking - Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X2020-08-1857 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellMotivations of Podcasting and Fretless InstrumentsBen 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.2020-08-1148 min
The Art of ChangeA.M.Darke: Conceptual Artist and Game DesignerGame designer, conceptual artist, and protester Professor A.M. Darke shares stories of her work around race, identity, gender (including Kanye West), and even a bit of joy for dungeons and dragons. Guest host Lyle Troxell also chats with her about the recent UCSC graduate strike and her support of the students.2020-07-1600 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellVacation with Chainsaws, Motors, and GlassesMy vacation included fixing motors, accepting glasses, and milling redwood with chainsaws.My Replacement Fan MotorThermal Fuse CutoffNew Thermostat Switch with "Firestat"Milling RedwoodHere 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 GlassesHere I am with new readers…. and a great scotch, I mean it was still vacation!2020-07-1625 min
The Art of ChangeWelcome to the Art of Change: Ted WarburtonAs part of the 2020 Arts Dean's Lecture Series, special guest host Lyle Troxell interviewed nine UC Santa Cruz Arts Division faculty artists:Ted Warburton, Interim Dean of the Arts and Professor of DanceA.M. Darke, Assistant Professor, Art & Design: Games & Playable Media BA Programconceptual artist and game designerIsaac Julien, Distinguished Professor, filmmaker and installation artistRachel Nelson, PhD, is interim director of UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS), and teaches in the History of Art and Visual Culture department.Dee Hibbert-Jones...2020-06-0900 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellThe Software Arts: LanguageWarren 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.2020-05-2453 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellHighschool Social Software UsageOn 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&HAll possible pythagorean triples, visualized - YouTubeCat puts paw in water and freaks out funny vine - YouTubeThe SnapChat video we record during this episode.2020-03-2040 min
The iDeveloper Podcast245 - Software Dev Podcast - With Stuff In It!This week the boys talk through the feedback they’ve been getting from the Architecture talks over the last few weeks. John talks his most recent mistake regarding data types and the nill/null/empty problem. Scotty talks importing problems with the latest MoneyWell news.
Lyle Troxell | The Man, The Myth2020-03-0632 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellElevating fears of Dropping Thoughts over TimeBen 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 SoftwareQbserve app - Mac Time Tracking and Productivity Improvement2020-02-211h 08The iDeveloper Podcast238 - The Boys Are Back In Town.This week Scotty and John talk the testing problems of using the correct test data, the scope of the FRC Robotics Competition and the lessons to learn from theft. Too late for New Years Resolutions? Not for these two.
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SOTA Cyberdragons Shop Break-Ins2020-01-1731 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellTranslation: The Software Arts (chapter 2)What 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 - WikipediaHistory of calculus - WikiquoteLudwig Wittgenstein - WikipediaSoftware is not problem solving...What I am saying i...2020-01-061h 09
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellIntroduction to The Software ArtsThis episode kicks off a limited series of discussions with Warren Sack centered around his book The Software Arts, MIT Press, forward by John RajchmanThe 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: Introduction (this episode) Translation Language Algorithm Logic Rhetoric Grammar ConclusionRead...2019-10-2439 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellMicro Extensions Expand State of EmergencyMicroLEDs, 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 2020Lyle Surgery UpdateGoogle to Minimize the Data Collected by Chrome ExtensionsmacOS Lockdown and merging with iOSExpanse fans, no need to worry—Amazon orders season 5 of its new sci-fi showWe’ve got our first peek at S4 of The Expanse and an airdate: December 13Louisiana declares state of emergency in response to ransomware attackIs the Phone DeadGraphile | Powerful, Extensible and Performant GraphQL APIs...2019-08-271h 35
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellSimplecast - Podcasting and Business DevelopmentBrad 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, Distribution & Analytics - SimplecastPodnews podcasting newsGoogle Podcasts rolling out to desktop, iOS in Google Search - 9to5...2019-07-301h 16
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellLyle's Back Surgery and Podcasting ConversationsLyle 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.2019-06-3045 min
WeAreNetflixS1: How We Hire at NetflixNetflix recruiters Chrissy Running and Mike Jones discuss the hiring process at Netflix; diversity, freedom and responsibility, compensation, vacation, and more. A lively and fun conversation with Lyle Troxell and Michael Paulson.2019-05-2857 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellOruk-hai's Eugenics Star Trek in 1996New 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.com2019-05-251h 01
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellLyle Update from AmsterdamFor 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 MuseumYayoi Kusama - Moco MuseumExit Through the Gift Shop (2010) - IMDb2019-05-1812 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellBen Joins NetflixBen 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 EpisodePuss In Book - Branching Narrative TitleWhy Netflix move away from the 5 StarsBrené Brown and Vernā Myers Discuss Inclusion and Diversity2019-04-241h 02
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellWeb Auth; Predicting Wind; Anti-Vax VideosWind 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 AdvanceAmazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Content After CNN Business ReportW3C Approves WebAuthn, Web Standard for Password-Free Logins2019-03-221h 09
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellSoftware: Android, Ruby, ORM, & PodcastingMiles 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 AndroidRuby Programming LanguageObject-relational impedance mismatchDjango and a Better ORMID32019-03-0950 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellFake Images Undergo Existential CrisisGenerative 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 2019How to recognize fake AI-generated imagesNeural Nets Play Cops and Robbers (aka generative adversarial networks) — Linear Digressions2019-03-0141 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellUpdating Broken Laptops with Bad LanguagesMiles 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 ScreenNGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter CardMultiplatform Project: iOS and Android - Kotlin Programming LanguageWhy has the Groovy programming language lost its momentum? - Quorattfkam/pg_gnufind: GNU find output as PostgreSQL foreign tables (multicorn)2019-02-2339 min
Geek Speak with Lyle TroxellHacking NES Across Kazakhstan for Better NetflixSoftware 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 VideoNetflix Hack Day — Winter 2015 – Netflix TechBlog – MediumGeekSpeak About AR Tech: Martian Telescope Senses Wrecked TeslasGeekSpeak Episode: Engineering FlatBuffers Programing sans JSONTeleFlix - Full Blog PostThe real Hawkins National Labs from Stranger Things - BNL, the g-2 experimentScintillator - WikipediaCMS | CERNSuperconducting Super Collider - WikipediaMongol Rally - WikipediaThe Magic Modem: A Global Network Emulator – @ScaleBlog of Some Guy14quick.org - Fin...2019-01-091h 34
WeAreNetflixS1: How We Hire at NetflixNetflix recruiters Chrissy Running and Mike Jones discuss the hiring process at Netflix; diversity, freedom and responsibility, compensation, vacation, and more. A lively and fun conversation with Lyle Troxell and Michael Paulson.
2018-05-2657 min
The Chiropractic Philanthropist with Dr. Kelly Polzin077: Dr. Lyle (Kiroman) Koca: Behavior Never LiesDr. Koca is an honors graduate of Palmer College. While there he had an opportunity to intern and later become Head Intern at the famous Troxell Chiropractic Clinic. This offered him an opportunity to work side by side with Dr. Larry Troxell who refined his skills with Dr. Clarence Gonstead. As a result of this experience Dr. Koca attended hundred of hours of Advanced Gonstead Training and was allowed the opportunity to work side by side with many clinically advanced Doctors of Chiropractic.
After establishing Koca Chiropractic Clinic, Dr. Koca has remained an active member of the...2015-01-0551 min