The Wu-Tang way (Changelog & Friends #42)

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Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere: from high-altitude weather balloons, to life on Mars, to Zeno’s paradox applied to ML, to what open source devs should learn from the Wu-Tang Clan & more.

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Featuring:

• Ron Evans – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Book: A City on Mars
• Bio-Dome - Wikipedia
• Zeno’s paradoxes
• TinyGo on Hackaday
• ggerganov/llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++
• What exactly is Open Source AI? with Stefano Maffulli
• On the dangers of stochastic parrots | The Alan Turing Institute
• 2053: A Go Odyssey (Go Time #235)
• Getting started with TinyGo
• Looking back at Go from 2053 with Ron Evans - YouTube
• The Hybrid Group
• Ali Spagnola - YouTube
• GopherCon 2024 - Register Now
• FOSDEM 2024 - Home

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Chapters

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Intro to Ron Evans (00:00:38)

3. Starlink & Friends (00:01:21)

4. The guy has balloon projects (00:03:23)

5. Sponsor: Cloudflare (00:16:13)

https://www.cloudflare.com/developerweek

6. Geiger counters (00:18:34)

7. Life on Mars (00:22:25)

8. Scientific incentives (00:28:34)

9. Zeno's paradox (00:33:08)

10. Dangers of stochastic parrots (00:35:31)

https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/dangers-stochastic-parrots

11. Meta's Llama "leak"? (00:39:21)

12. Sponsor: Sentry (00:44:52)

https://sentry.io/

13. Meta's new open(ish) ways (00:48:01)

14. Open source models (00:52:15)

15. Wu-Tang style open source (00:56:29)

16. Advancing TinyGo (01:01:36)

17. Gotta have some flow (01:11:29)

18. Lifestyle open source (01:15:49)

19. Improving the human condition (01:20:31)

20. 2053: A Go Odyssey (01:27:34)

https://gotime.fm/235

21. Ali Spagnola (01:36:02)

https://www.youtube.com/c/alispagnola

22. FOSDEM & GopherCon (01:37:22)

23. Bye friends! (01:43:05)

24. Coming up next (01:43:57)