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A Philosophy of Planetary Computation: From Antikythera to Synthetic Intelligence https://longnow.org/ideas/a-philosophy-of-planetary-computation/

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Long Now—Sara Imari Walker: An Informational Theory of Life

8 days ago

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“What is life?” In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker explores the many dimensions of that seemingly simple question. Starting from the simplest precursors, Walker assembled a grand cathedral of meaning, tracing an arc across existence that linked the fundamentals of organic chemistry, the possibility space of lego bricks, and the materialist philosophy of Madonna. As the leader of one of the largest international theory groups in the origins of life and astrobiology, Walker has worked an interdisciplinary team of researchers to devise assembly theory: a theory of life and its origins that finds that life is the only way to create complex objects, and that the existence of complex objects is fundamentally and quantifiably rare. Assembly theory’s focus on complexity and countability allows astrobiologists like Walker to grapple with the sheer vastness of combinatorial space — the set of all things that could possibly exist. https://pod.link/186908455/episode/ac33284df78590ef8712d9f26c8d8841…

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#69 – The Fugitive – Settling the Score

10 days ago

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Follow along as Jon and Andy do a hard-target search of James Newton Howard’s score to the 1993 man-on-the-run thriller The Fugitive. How do this film and its music match this cultural moment? What technical rule does Howard break, and why doesn’t it matter? And, wait a minute, does this plot actually make any sense? https://www.settlingthescorepodcast.com/69-the-fugitive/…

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Troika #56: Ambient Country - Hicks.design

10 days ago

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A second instalment of Ambient Country tunes, featuring Ry Cooder, Yo La Tengo, William Tyler, Jim Wallis, Hayden Pedigo and Yasmin Williams. https://hicks.design/troika/troika-56-ambient-country

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Too Bad About the Internet (with Anil Dash)

18 days ago

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Where did the Internet go wrong, and how do we fix it? To find out more, we talk to entrepreneur and activist Anil Dash about the alternate history of technology. But first, we talk about why Doctor Who is better than ever, and why we're loving the current season — but where is this venerable TV show headed next? We explore our hopes, dreams and anxieties about our favorite Time Lord. https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/2025/5/1/too-bad-about-the-internet-with-anil-dash…

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Episode 250: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

28 days ago

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EPISODE 250. JASON CONCEPCION. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. THE GREATEST LETTERS SEGMENT IN THE HISTORY OF PODCASTS. MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU. https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1746364475

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Ethical Machines: A Culture of Online Manipulation

29 days ago

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Developers are constantly testing how online users react to their designs. Will they stay longer on the site because of this shade of blue? Will they get depressed if we show them depressing social media posts? What happens if we intentionally mismatch people on our dating website? When it comes to shades of blue, perhaps that’s not a big deal. But when it comes to mental health and deceiving people? Now we’re in ethically choppy waters. My discussion today is with Cennydd Bowles, Managing Director of NowNext, where he helps organizations develop ethically sound products. He’s also the author of a book called “Future Ethics.” He argues that A/B testing on people is often ethically wrong and creates a culture among developers of a willingness to manipulate people. Great conversation ranging from the ethics of experimentation to marketing and even to capitalism. https://podcastaddict.com/ethical-machines/episode/196738491…

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Computer Freaks episode 6: Unintended Consequences

6 weeks ago

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We return to speaking to Joseph Haughney about his recollections of the Arpanet and its long-term impact. We ask other founders how they feel about what the internet has become. We also speak to internet early founder Hans-Werner Braun’s daughters about how they reconcile themselves to the world their father helped create. https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-6…

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Computer Freaks episode 5: The Protocol Wars

6 weeks ago

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It is the late 1970s and early 1980s and the Arpanet is in decline. NSFnet is on the rise in its place. Why did the Arpanet get eclipsed by other networks, and is that OK? https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-5

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Computer Freaks episode 4: The French Connection

6 weeks ago

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Louis Pouzin is a French academic who some experts say deserves more credit for his contributions to the internet. But is that true, and should any one person be give all the credit? https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-4

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Computer Freaks episode 3: Let’s Have A Ball

6 weeks ago

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It’s the 1970s and both the government and academia are doing everything they can to spread the word of the Arpanet. But as the Arpanet gains popularity everywhere after its 1972 coming-out ball in Washington, D.C., through its new phone book, it also faces detractors who don’t want it to be available to all. https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-3…

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Computer Freaks episode 2: In The Air

6 weeks ago

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Many historians say the Arpanet (and ultimately the internet) was born on October 29, 1969. But is that really when the Arpanet began, and who should be given credit for this key moment in internet history? https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-2

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Computer Freaks episode 1: The Doll House

6 weeks ago

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After World War II, the U.S. had to change the way it communicated if it was going to keep up with the Soviets in the Cold War, especially once Sputnik was launched. It was the vision of a Missouri boy called Lick that would solve those communication issues and spark the creation of the internet. https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks#episode-1…

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#68 – 2025 Oscars Special – Settling the Score

9 weeks ago

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It’s back to the Oscars stage for Jon and Andy, to talk about this year’s nominees for Best Original Score, and it’s back to some age old questions: Do we want our music made out of notes or blobs? Does reading up about these scores get in the way of our curmudgeonly opinions? And, how much music should a musical’s music music? https://www.settlingthescorepodcast.com/68-2025-oscars-special/…

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ITMA — Pádraic Mac Mathúna’s Monthly Picks | February 2025

10 weeks ago

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To start 2025, we’ve chosen another selection from Tony MacMahon’s and Tom Davis collections, featuring among others sessions from the 1973 Fleadh Ceoil in Listowel. In 1973, Tom was in Listowel and managed to record a variety of well-known musicians, including Joe Burke (1939-2021, this time on tin whistle) playing a haunting air An Droighnean Donn. A young Paddy Glackin teamed up with brothers Paddy and Michael Gavin for two lively reels. Likewise, a young John Regan was in great form playing a couple of classic tunes on the box. We are fortunate also that Tom was on hand to record the distinctive voice of Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh (of Altan fame), only a teenager at the time. https://www.itma.ie/playlists/padraics-picks-february2025/…

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Benjamin Bratton - Long Now

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A Philosophy of Planetary Computation: From Antikythera to Synthetic Intelligence https://longnow.org/ideas/a-philosophy-of-planetary-computation/

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Medieval Irish Folklore (Live)

13 weeks ago

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In this special live episode, recorded at the Hay Festival, Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Gillian Kenny and comedian Seán Burke to learn about medieval Irish folklore. We’re focusing on the lore and stories from Gaelic Irish culture. Gaelic culture remained the dominant set of cultural and societal beliefs on the island of Ireland well into the 17th century until it was destroyed by a succession of English invasions. But what were these beliefs and how did the Christianisation of Ireland from the 5th century onwards amalgamate pre-Christian stories into it? From fairy darts to banshees, through some unusual ways of warding off the evil eye, this is a jovial jaunt across some ancient myths and legends. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0frndnq…

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Printing in England

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In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in 15th-Century England by Dr Lydia Zeldenrust and comedian Robin Ince to learn all about the early history of book printing. 2024 marks the 550th anniversary of the first book printed in English: a history of Troy, produced in 1474 by William Caxton. In the decades that followed, numerous printing shops would be set up across the country, and a huge variety of texts printed, including those that carried potentially dangerous ideas. Starting with the origins of printing in East Asia, this episode explores the first century of printing in England, looking at how books were produced and by whom, what sorts of texts were being printed, who was reading them, and how the state reacted to this new industry. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020xhm…

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Legends of King Arthur: from medieval literature to modern myth

13 weeks ago

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Greg Jenner is joined in medieval Europe by Dr Mary Bateman and comedian Mike Wozniak to learn all about the legends of King Arthur. Most of us have heard of Arthur, Guinevere, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table. But where do these legends come from? Arthur first appears in the writings of a 9th-Century monk, but he’s not the king we know today: no Merlin or Lancelot, no Excalibur, and no Camelot. These elements were added later, as the legends were retold and rewritten across Europe. This episode traces the stories of Arthur and his knights from their early medieval origins, exploring the changes made as they were adapted over the centuries by everyone from French romance authors to Victorian poets, and taking in some famous medieval texts, including the Welsh Mabinogion and Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, as well as some lesser-known tales. Along the way, we also look at the places in modern Britain that still bear Arthurian names and the wacky artefacts that have been associated with the legendary king, and ask the crucial question: did King Arthur really exist? If you’re a fan of heroic quests, knights in shining armour and fantastical medieval stories, you’ll love our episode on the legends of King Arthur. If you want more from Mike Wozniak, check out our episode on Charles Dickens at Christmas. And for more lovely legends, listen to our episodes on Atlantis and Norse Literature. You’re Dead To Me is the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Every episode, Greg Jenner brings together the best names in history and comedy to learn and laugh about the past. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027sx8…

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Julian Gough — The Egg and The Rock (EP.249)

15 weeks ago

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Julian Gough sums up his career as follows: “I just sit in my room and write.” Well, I think being an acclaimed children’s author, novelist, stage playwright, poet and top-ten Irish musician is a little more impressive than he’s letting on…... https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/julian-gough-the-egg-and-the-rock-ep249/…

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#153 | Ghosts and Dark Flames: Doireann Ní Ghríofa

15 weeks ago

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She's the woman of the moment: after a sequence of acclaimed and award-winning poetry collections in both Irish and English, Clare poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa has delivered a sensational non-fiction book, "A Ghost In The Throat", nominated in two categories in the Irish Book Awards. In today's episode, Doireann joins Darach and Peadar to talk about her career. She chats about her first poems and the writers who inspire her, including her collaboration with Choctaw poet LeAnne Howe. She tells of the journey to publication and the delicate business of translation. And she talks about her love of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire which led to the book which has readers enthralled. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1605830400…

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#164 | May The Forts Be With You - Sinéad Mercier on Ringforts & Fairy Forts

15 weeks ago

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We've spoken about fairy forts before. However, in the context of our recent discussion of placenames and bearing in mind the widespread incidences of Ráth and Lios in towns across Ireland, we decided to bring an expert in. Sinéad Mercier, co-author of "The Men Who Eat Ringforts", drops in to tell Darach and Peadar all about these structures which link Ireland to its past. Is the word "fort" unnecessarily militaristic? If the deference for "fairies" has contributed positively to the preservation of archaeological and ecological phenomena, then why can't we just say "because fairies" in a planning permission objection? https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1613088000…

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Just a moment...

15 weeks ago

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Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is a lecturer in TU Dublin and a well-travelled chef and TV presenter. He's the world's leading expert in Irish food history, so why he agreed to appear on our podcast, we'll never know. Gearóidín and Peadar chat with Máirtín about the history of Irish ingredients, ancient cooking methods, and an absolute heap of cheese. Why is Irish food not held in the same regard as French, Spanish or even Danish grub? What did we eat before the noble spud arrived on our shores? Why do we eat so little seafood for an island nation? Why does Darach hate coddle? Is it because he's weird? It is, isn't it? Find out all this and more, as Máirtín takes us on a culinary journey a thousand years or more in the making. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1550793900…

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#91 | Go Rabbi Maith Agat: Cecelia Beyer’s Irish Journey

15 weeks ago

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Some people out there wouldn’t see a rabbinical calling and a love of Irish dancing and sean-nós singing as a likely pairing. Those people have not met Darach’s guest this week. Saoirse Cecelia Beyer is a New Jersey-based rabbi with a passion for traditional Irish singing and dancing styles which has taken her to fleadhs all over. In this week’s episode, she tells Darach about being a “purveyor of joyful Judaism”, learning conversational Connacht Irish but Donegal Irish songs, PG-13 humour in religious education and the significance of the chosen name Saoirse. She also offers an informed interpretation of controversial passages of Genesis and Leviticus which might surprise you. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1562893605…

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#117 | The Blue, Blue Grass of Home: Irish in Appalachia with Rebecca Wells

15 weeks ago

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When we in Ireland think of Irish-America, our minds tend to rush towards rivers died green, New York cops and maybe even a Massachusetts political dynasty. But there’s a lot more to the story than that. In particular, the Appalachian region, crossing multiple states, has its own culture and identity distinct from its neighbours in the South and Midwest, of which Irish music and language have made a significant contribution. In this week’s episode, Darach and Peadar chat to Rebecca Wells, a singer in Nashville, Tennessee. She tells the lads about her Appalachian roots, the influence of Irish music on bluegrass and other musical traditions, the overlap between accents and dialects and the way what you call a can of carbonated drink is an indicator of where you are from. She also tells the story behind her Twitter handle @faoiltighearna and her favourite Irish word. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1578009600…

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#136 | The Taylor & Clancy: yarn yarns

15 weeks ago

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Taylor Swift broke the Irish Internet today when she wore a geansaí. It launched a thousand versions of the same joke - she looked a bit like one of the Clancy Brothers. In today's BONUS episode we look at the history of the Aran sweater, what knitters know that the others don't, diddly-eye erasure and much more. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1595627400…

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#58 | The Tribe of Dé Danann

15 weeks ago

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"Hamlet has been performed in Klingon" Aisling Carolan. For a poet, the fact that the Irish word tír (country) and the English word tear (a sad drop of water) sound the same is profoundly significant. For a linguist, however, this is a coincidence and a cursed one at that. How much weight should we attribute to similar sounding words with similar meanings in different languages? In this week's episode, we consider the theory, popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, that Hebrew and Gaelic languages are linked… and that the source of this link is that the Gaels were a lost tribe of Israel. Some of this is down to soundalikes, but do grammatical parallels prove a deeper link? Darach and Clodagh are assisted in their work by crafty classicist/linguist/artist Aisling Carolan, who is determined to prove a link between Pokemon and Púca. Today's episode is swear-free. https://podbay.fm/p/motherfocloir/e/1538733632…

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#67 – The Graduate – Settling the Score

15 weeks ago

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Are you here for an affair? Ah yes, an episode of Settling the Score, very good sir – this one’s about Simon and Garfunkel’s song score to Mike Nichol’s classic 1967 satire The Graduate. How was this movie pioneering in its use of music? Do these famous songs engender sympathy or skepticism for the characters, or both? And, it’s okay to ask: do these lyrics actually mean anything? https://www.settlingthescorepodcast.com/67-the-graduate/…

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

17 weeks ago

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t’s all been leading to this: Episode 200. We turned to our Top Men to celebrate the milestone, the showrunner of House of the Dragon Ryan Condal and the writer showrunner of Veep Dave Mandel! Their movie props collecting podcast The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of just wrapped S7, so they were ready to go DEEP into all the incredible props, artwork, and writing that made Raiders of the Lost Ark one of the greatest films ever made. WHAT A PICTURE! https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1717977600…

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

17 weeks ago

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TOMORROW is the season finale of Presumed Innocent. TODAY we have the director of FIVE of Presumed Innocent’s amazing episodes, Greg Yaitanes. Greg gives us behind the scenes details of working with Jake Gyllenhaal and the rest of the incredible cast, and then he joins the Escape Hatch Five Timers’ Club as we cover another entry in the Dad Movie Mt. Rushmore canon, Peter Weir’s 2003 nautical masterpiece, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World! Do not miss Greg’s insights as a director into this epic film. https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1721606400…

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1. Suits, Shells, and Survival

19 weeks ago

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In this episode, Dara and Isy are joined by the astronaut Helen Sharman to learn about how humans learned to survive in space - with some diverting conversations about glitter, cat statues, hibernation, and shell suits. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026mrk

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Inception (2010)

19 weeks ago

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BWWWWAAAAHHHH! It’s finally time to talk about Inception. M.G. Sieger returns for his 3rd Nolan on the pod. https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1710115200

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Civil War (2024)

19 weeks ago

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HEY! Did you watch Civil War? Wanna talk about it? We did, so we recorded a very special bonus episode on it. We invited our dear pal and media tech journalist Peter Kafka because he had thoughts! Plus, Jason completely takes over the pod for this ep, so don’t miss it! https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1713370797…

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

19 weeks ago

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This is the One. We tackle one of the all time greatest works of art and the cornerstone of a beloved holiday tradition, as we watch Peter Jackson’s unmatchable translation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. And joining us is the greatest genre podcaster in the game, and Maiar level Tolkien expert, the co-host of the House of R podcast, Joanna Robinson. We simply walk into the deep details of the production that make this film a true one of a kind.. https://podbay.fm/p/escape-hatch-formerly-dune-pod/e/1734310800…

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BBC Radio4: Thinking Allowed: Playgrounds

19 weeks ago

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Laurie Taylor hears how post war pioneers re-imagined the playground, moving beyond slides, swings and roundabouts and re-imagining our cities and communities.

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New View Transition Stuff - Off The Main Thread

20 weeks ago

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In this episode, Jake goes through some of the newer features of the View Transition API, along with some vaguer ideas that are planned for the future. https://offthemainthread.tech/episode/new-view-transition-stuff/

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From the archive: The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’ – podcast | Steve Albini | The Guardian

21 weeks ago

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This week, from 2023: Steve Albini was long synonymous with the indie underground, playing in revered bands and recording albums by the Pixies, PJ Harvey and Nirvana. He also often seemed determined to offend as many people as possible. What led him to reassess his past? By Jeremy Gordon https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/15/from-the-archive-the-evolution-of-steve-albini-if-the-dumbest-person-is-on-your-side-youre-on-the-wrong-side-podcast…

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From the archive: Cold comfort: how cold water swimming cured my broken heart – podcast | Swimming | The Guardian

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This week, from 2021: After a painful breakup and the death of her father, one writer retreated to the coast of Brittany in winter where she tested the powerful effects of a daily swim in the icy sea. By Wendell Steavenson https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/jan/08/from-the-archive-cold-comfort-how-cold-water-swimming-cured-my-broken-heart-podcast…

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Scriptnotes, Episode 622: The One with Christopher Nolan, Transcript

22 weeks ago

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John welcomes writer and director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception) to discuss experimentation, subjectivity and adaptation as they take an in-depth look at his screenplay, Oppenheimer. They explore Chris’ writing process, how to make non-linear structures work, finding the story in real-life events, being kinetic on the page, the importance of embracing editing, and why theme can be a tricky thing. In our bonus segment for premium members, Chris and John muse about the difficulties of dream sequences — and what makes them work. https://johnaugust.com/2024/scriptnotes-episode-622-the-one-with-christopher-nolan-transcript…

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< How do you create an internet archive of all human knowledge?

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BREWSTER KAHLE: Boy, it's - everything digital is just completely ephemeral, whether it's formats that go out of date, like those floppies - just try to run it - or a CD. Find somebody that has a DVD player. I mean, it's just - it's starting to get such that things that are really recent are just going away. MANOUSH ZOMORODI, HOST: This is Brewster Kahle. KAHLE: The average life of a webpage before it's either changed or deleted is a hundred days. That's it. I think it was kind of a cruel joke to call webpages pages because you would think of them as lasting a long time, you know, Gutenberg Bibles and all of that kind of thing, and nope. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ZOMORODI: Brewster knew this was going to be a problem - disappearing websites, missing chapters of the internet. He knew this way back in 1996, and that is why he created the Internet Archive. As we heard, it's where Caper In The Castro can still be found, and over the years, the archives mission has expanded, saving old books and movies, TV shows and music. KAHLE: The idea is to try to build the library of everything - the Library of Alexandria for the digital age. We can make all the books, music, video, webpages, software, everything ever published by people available to anybody curious enough to want to have access to it. That was the dream of the internet, and the Internet Archive is a part of making that dream come true. ZOMORODI: Which is a lofty goal and a huge endeavor because, how does someone even begin to back up the internet? Brewster started by building something he called the Wayback Machine. KAHLE: Yes, the - probably the most used and important part of the Internet Archive right now is the Wayback Machine, where we have collected webpages by going and basically clicking every web link on every webpage every two months. So if you go to archive.org and type in a URL, we'll show you different versions of that URL over time. We collect about a billion URLs every day, and we're finding that it's really important to journalists that are trying to find what actually happened. Lawyers love it because they can use it to say, hey. You said this before, and now you're not saying that. It's the only record often. ZOMORODI: Yeah. And you can dig up information that someone's deleted. KAHLE: Yes. Take Donald Trump's tweets. A large part of the policy of the impact on our country while Donald Trump was president was through his Twitter feed, and then they turned it off. So it all just kind of disappeared. So we have a copy that we have made available through the Wayback Machine that makes it so we can see what it is. Or when a company goes under Geocities and just everybody's sites go away - there are endless of these sites that go away or make different business decisions, and so people say, gosh, I'm glad that I can get a hold of that. ZOMORODI: Right. KAHLE: But we run into things like locked files, databases you can't get through to. Some of those are - make things real challenges. We're working back and forth with the different websites to try to make things available. And the web also has parts that go obsolete so that the old websites - you can't replay them anymore. So there's challenges every day. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ZOMORODI: Do you ever worry about things being lost to the past? I mean, I can imagine that this would make you neurotic... KAHLE: Oh... ZOMORODI: ...Like, oh, we missed something. KAHLE: Oh, yes. We missed Napster. ZOMORODI: Oh, really? KAHLE: So Napster was maybe the best, biggest music library ever built by people, and it was shut down. We didn't get it. And if you just take the libraries in Ukraine that are being purposefully targeted, just the same way the Nazis targeted the library in Belgrade, it's a way of erasing a culture. You go after their libraries. So, yes, we're worried about this all the time. ZOMORODI: Right. So what do you do? Do you try to go back and fix things that you missed? Do you have an example, maybe? KAHLE: Well, on Wikipedia, we've tried to take all of the footnotes, all the citations and turn them blue - turn them into little links. So we went and worked to fix the broken links in Wikipedia. We've now fixed over 15 million broken links. We've prioritized the books that are referenced in Wikipedia and acquired those books - bought them or got them donated - and we digitize them and then put them back in such that if there's a page number, you can click and turn right to that right page. We did a big project on the Ukrainian Wikipedia to try to collect all of the books that are referenced and make those clickable. ZOMORODI: So how much harder is it to collect everything that's on the web now compared to, say, a decade ago or 15 years ago, simply because it is behind paywalls, or it's - you can't access it without a login? KAHLE: Yes. So we have robots that are going around and collecting a million URLs, and fortunately, there are over a hundred people that work for the Internet Archive that are trying to work on keeping it all alive. We don't collect every YouTube video. It's just too big. But we try to collect ones that are referenced a lot or that are linked to from Twitter pages, say. So we can't collect everything, but we collect a lot. And if we're not collecting the right things, go to archive.org. There's a save-page-now feature, and you can put in a URL, and people do this all the time. It's used at about 80 times a second. So even - anybody can go and participate in making things permanently available. I just did this for the obituary for my aunt. I went to the webpage, made sure that that obituary from that funeral home service was archived. So I did that this morning. So you, too, can go and participate in building the web archives. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ZOMORODI: In a minute, a new challenge that Brewster and the Internet Archive are facing - a legal battle between them and some of the biggest book publishers. At issue, whether archiving e-books is digital piracy or preserving the best of humanity for everyone to enjoy. I'm Manoush Zomorodi, and you're listening to the TED Radio Hour from NPR. Stay with us. It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Manoush Zomorodi. Today on the show, for all eternity. And we were talking to Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit that is trying to digitize everything that we humans create, from websites to music, old movies and, of course, books. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) KAHLE: The Library of Congress has about 28 million books. We've digitized maybe 6 or 7 million. We physically own, probably, on that order, so we still have a long way to go. ZOMORODI: And it's getting harder to proceed because e-books present very particular problems. For example, that e-book you downloaded, you don't actually own it. KAHLE: So it turns out the big publishers don't sell e-books. They license them. So your e-book that's on your Kindle or whatever, you don't actually have that, not in the same sense you had a physical book. You can't pass it down to your kid. And anytime they want to change it, they can change it at any time or make it go away. ZOMORODI: It's a licensing issue. And Brewster and the Internet Archive started trying to get around it by buying physical copies of books, scanning them and making their own e-books to lend out. KAHLE: So we started that in 2011. And in the beginning of the pandemic, four of the largest publishers decided to sue the Internet Archive to say that you aren't allowed to digitize and lend. ZOMORODI: What the archive calls equal access, those publishers say is digital piracy. KAHLE: And that suit is ongoing. We'll hear, probably next year, from the district court, and it'll probably be appealed, but we'll see. The big concept that I never really would've imagined would be at play is digital ownership. When you buy a digital file, do you own it in the same sense that you owned a physical thing? You can't just go and post it and give it to everybody. That's understood. Fine. But do you get to keep it? And what the big publishers are saying is, no, there's no such thing as digital ownership anymore, ever. So that's the absolute opposite of what we were doing with the internet in the earliest days when we're trying to democratize access, democratize creation. ZOMORODI: I actually went back into the TED archives and watched your talk from 2007, where you laid out your vision. And you knew then that there would be conflicts, even if you didn't know what they were. (SOUNDBITE OF TED TALK) KAHLE: There's a political and social question out of this is all of this - as we go digital, is it going to be public or private? There are some large companies that have seen this vision that are doing large-scale digitization, but they're locking up the public domain. The question is, is that the world that we really want to live in? What's the role of the public and versus the private, as things go forward? How do we go and have a world where we both have libraries and publishing in the future, just as we basically benefited as we were growing up? So universal access to all knowledge - I think it can be one of the greatest achievements of humankind, like the man on the Moon or the Gutenberg or the Library of Alexandria. It could be something that we're remembered for, for millennia for having achieved. I think people have no idea of the heroics that not only the staff of the Internet Archive but now a thousand other organizations we work with on the web collection, about 500 libraries, and the book collections of how much goes on to try to make it so that the web that we sort of take for granted works, that you can get to past versions, that you can get - a lot of the links that you link to, I guarantee, if you've never heard of the Internet Archive, you've used it because it's just woven into everything. ZOMORODI: That brings me to a final sort of existential question, Brewster. If everything digital eventually becomes obsolete, how do you archive the archive so it doesn't become obsolete, too? KAHLE: Boy, libraries are - you know, they're destroyed all the time, so - and the question is how? And it's often governments or large powerful entities like corporations that seek to destroy them. So you want more than one copy in more than one place. Then you also want to make it so that it's still used, so that it's cared for. Our collections are almost completely on spinning disk, so we have to replace those every 5 to 10 years or they will go away. So we need people to want it to stay around. Fortunately, there are many, many, many people and many younger people that are seeing this as a path forward. ZOMORODI: Not an easy path. KAHLE: No. ZOMORODI: (Laughter). KAHLE: Building a library of everything is a challenge, but it starts one webpage at a time, one book at a time. And if we see ourselves as preserving history collectively, we'll all make it come true. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) ZOMORODI: Brewster Kahle. He's the founder of the Internet Archive, and you can see his full talk at ted.com. Thanks so much also to C.M. Ralph, the artist and maker of the video game Caper In The Castro, and Adrienne Shaw, professor of media studies and production at Temple University.…

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Song 172, Hickory Wind by the Byrds: Part 4, Hour of Darkness

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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the fourth and final part of a four-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock, this time mostly focused on what Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman did after leaving the band. https://500songs.com/podcast/song-172-hickory-wind-by-the-byrds-part-4-hour-of-darkness/…

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Song 172, Hickory Wind by the Byrds: Part 3, The Parsons Tale

26 weeks ago

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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the third part of a four-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock. https://500songs.com/podcast/song-172-hickory-wind-by-the-byrds-part-3-the-parsons-tale/…

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Song 172, “Hickory Wind” by the Byrds: Part Two, Of Submarines and Second Generations

26 weeks ago

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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a multi-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock. https://500songs.com/podcast/song-172-hickory-wind-by-the-byrds-part-two-of-submarines-and-second-generations/…

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Song 172, “Hickory Wind” by the Byrds: Part One, Ushering in a New Dimension

26 weeks ago

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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a multi-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock. https://500songs.com/podcast/song-172-hickory-wind-by-the-byrds-part-one-ushering-in-a-new-dimension/…

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Episode 147: “Hey Joe” by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

26 weeks ago

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Episode one hundred and forty-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Hey Joe” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and is the longest episode to date, at over two hours. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-147-hey-joe-by-the-jimi-hendrix-experience/#more-1124

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Episode 150: “All You Need is Love” by the Beatles

26 weeks ago

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This week’s episode looks at “All You Need is Love”, the Our World TV special, and the career of the Beatles from April 1966 through August 1967. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-150-all-you-need-is-love-by-the-beatles/

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Episode 155: “Waterloo Sunset” by the Kinks

26 weeks ago

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Episode one hundred and fifty-five of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Waterloo Sunset” by the Kinks, and the self-inflicted damage the group did to their career between 1965 and 1967. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also… https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-155-waterloo-sunset-by-the-kinks/…

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Song 173: “All Along the Watchtower” Part Two, The Hour is Getting Late

26 weeks ago

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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “All Along the Watchtower”. Part one was on the original version by Bob Dylan, while this part is on Jimi Hendrix’s cover version. https://500songs.com/podcast/song-173-all-along-the-watchtower-part-two-the-hour-is-getting-late/…

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Troika #53: Shoegazin' Part 5 - Black Artists - Hicks.design

27 weeks ago

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Greetings peoples of the internets! And welcome to part five, the last part of this series looking at the history of Shoegaze. https://hicks.design/troika/troika-53-shoegazin-part-5-black-artists

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Troika #52: Shoegazin' Part 4 - 2020s - Hicks.design

27 weeks ago

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Greetings peoples of the internets! And welcome to part four of this series looking at the history of shoegaze. https://hicks.design/troika/troika-52-shoegazin-part-4-2020s

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Troika #51: Shoegazin' Part 3 - 2000s - Hicks.design

27 weeks ago

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Part 3: 2000s: Greetings peoples of the internets! And welcome to part three of this series looking at the history of Shoegaze. https://hicks.design/troika/troika-51-shoegazin-part-3-2000s

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Troika #50: Shoegazin' Part 2 - 1990s - Hicks.design

27 weeks ago

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Greetings peoples of the internets! And welcome to part two of this series looking at the history of Shoegaze. https://hicks.design/troika/troika-50-shoegazin-part-2-1990s

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Troika #49: Shoegazin' Part 1 - Origins - Hicks.design

27 weeks ago

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Shoegaze. Once a derisory term invented by music journalists to describe how the bands barely moved, staring at their vast array of effects pedals. Now the term is embraced positively, and thanks to platforms like TikTok, is more popular than ever before with a new younger audience. https://hicks.design/troika/troika-49-shoegazin-part-1-origins…

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Jupiter

29 weeks ago

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Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, and it’s hard to imagine a world more alien and different from Earth. It’s known as a Gas Giant, and its diameter is eleven times the size of Earth’s: our planet would fit inside it one thousand three hundred times. But its mass is only three hundred and twenty times greater, suggesting that although Jupiter is much bigger than Earth, the stuff it’s made of is much, much lighter. When you look at it through a powerful telescope you see a mass of colourful bands and stripes: these are the tops of ferocious weather systems that tear around the planet, including the great Red Spot, probably the longest-lasting storm in the solar system. Jupiter is so enormous that it’s thought to have played an essential role in the distribution of matter as the solar system formed – and it plays an important role in hoovering up astral debris that might otherwise rain down on Earth. It’s almost a mini solar system in its own right, with 95 moons orbiting around it. At least two of these are places life might possibly be found. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n8mv…

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Albert Einstein

29 weeks ago

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man who, in 1905, produced several papers that were to change the world of physics and whose name went on to become a byword for genius. This was Albert Einstein, then still a technical expert at a Swiss patent office, and that year of 1905 became known as his annus mirabilis ('miraculous year'). While Einstein came from outside the academic world, some such as Max Planck championed his theory of special relativity, his principle of mass-energy equivalence that followed, and his explanations of Brownian Motion and the photoelectric effect. Yet it was not until 1919, when a solar eclipse proved his theory that gravity would bend light, that Einstein became an international celebrity and developed into an almost mythical figure. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qdx1…

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Megaliths

29 weeks ago

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss megaliths - huge stones placed in the landscape, often visually striking and highly prominent. Such stone monuments in Britain and Ireland mostly date from the Neolithic period, and the most ancient are up to 6,000 years old. In recent decades, scientific advances have enabled archaeologists to learn a large amount about megalithic structures and the people who built them, but much about these stones remains unknown and mysterious. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jkzg…

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Paul Erdős

29 weeks ago

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Paul Erdős (1913 – 1996) is one of the most celebrated mathematicians of the 20th century. During his long career, he made a number of impressive advances in our understanding of maths and developed whole new fields in the subject. He was born into a Jewish family in Hungary just before the outbreak of World War I, and his life was shaped by the rise of fascism in Europe, anti-Semitism and the Cold War. His reputation for mathematical problem solving is unrivalled and he was extraordinarily prolific. He produced more than 1,500 papers and collaborated with around 500 other academics. He also had an unconventional lifestyle. Instead of having a long-term post at one university, he spent much of his life travelling around visiting other mathematicians, often staying for just a few days. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jc68…

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Nikola Tesla

29 weeks ago

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) and his role in the development of electrical systems towards the end of the nineteenth century. He made his name in New York in the contest over which current should flow into homes and factories in America. Some such as Edison backed direct current or DC while others such as Westinghouse backed alternating current or AC and Nikola Tesla’s invention of a motor that worked on AC swung it for the alternating system that went on to power the modern age. He ensured his reputation and ideas burnt brightly for the next decades, making him synonymous with the lone, genius inventor of the new science fiction. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xvhb…

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Mercury

29 weeks ago

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the planet which is closest to our Sun. We see it as an evening or a morning star, close to where the Sun has just set or is about to rise, and observations of Mercury helped Copernicus understand that Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun, so displacing Earth from the centre of our system. In the 20th century, further observations of Mercury helped Einstein prove his general theory of relativity. For the last 50 years we have been sending missions there to reveal something of Mercury's secrets and how those relate to the wider universe, and he latest, BepiColombo, is out there in space now. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yqp3…

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Wormholes

29 weeks ago

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the tantalising idea that there are shortcuts between distant galaxies, somewhere out there in the universe. The idea emerged in the context of Einstein's theories and the challenge has been not so much to prove their unlikely existence as to show why they ought to be impossible. The universe would have to folded back on itself in places, and there would have to be something to make the wormholes and then to keep them open. But is there anywhere in the vast universe like that? Could there be holes that we or more advanced civilisations might travel through, from one galaxy to another and, if not, why not? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00237yt…

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Origin Story: Artificial Intelligence – Part One – Deus ex machina

29 weeks ago

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This week we begin the story of Artificial Intelligence. Since the launch of Chat-GPT in late 2022, we have been more excited, and anxious, about AI than ever before. It’s become a daily obsession. But the key question we are grappling with is the same as ever: can machines really ever develop human-style intelligence or merely imitate it? And what is human intelligence anyway? In part two we’ll be exploring the possible ramifications of AI, from the utopian to the dystopian and all points in between. But first, we explain how humanity’s long, ambivalent fascination with artificial life has brought us here. We start with premonitions of AI, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, and Ada Lovelace, the original AI sceptic, to Alan Turing and his famous test. Artificial Intelligence itself — the term and the field of study — began in 1956, at a summer school at Dartmouth University. While most computer scientists were working on ways for machines to partner with human intelligence — the personal computer, the internet — AI researchers dreamt of replacing it. For decades, AI development was a cycle of boom and bust. Extravagant claims attracted funding, talent and media attention, then their failure to materialise caused all three to collapse. AI became tarnished by its broken promises. But in the 21st century, the availability of vast troves of data and powerful new processors finally solved such stubborn challenges as image recognition and automatic translation, leading to the current AI gold rush. Along the way, we meet gamechanging scientists like Marvin Minsky and Geoffrey Hinton as well as landmark machines like ELIZA, the first chatbot, Shakey the robot and AlexNet, deep learning’s great leap forward. Why does the prospect of machine intelligence enthral and unnerve us? Why has AI proved so much more difficult than its pioneers imagined? How have fictional AIs like HAL and Skynet shaped the mythology of AI? And are Large Language Models like Chat-GPT just glorified autocomplete or a historic turning point in our relationship with machines? https://pod.link/1624704966/episode/c7ca68b5cf4f76defa69d14520ccc646…

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Greek Myths

29 weeks ago

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek myths from Achilles to Zeus. Are you a touch narcissistic? Do you have the body of an Adonis? Are you willing to undertake Herculean tasks or Promethean ventures? Perhaps you have an Oedipus complex? If you answer to any or perhaps all of these you owe something to the Greek myths, a collection of weird and wonderful stories that, like Penelope’s shroud or the needlework of Arachne, were constantly woven and unpicked across centuries of Greek and Roman civilisation. The myths have a cast of thousands including mighty Zeus, Jason and the Argonauts, wily Odysseus, beautiful Aphrodite and Cerberus, the three-headed dog. They are funny, shocking, quirky and epic and have retained their power and their wisdom from the ancient world to the modern. With Nick Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London; Richard Buxton, Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol; Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0093z1k…

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Celts

29 weeks ago

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Celts. Around 400 BC a great swathe of Western Europe from Ireland to Southern Russia was dominated by one civilisation. Perched on the North Western fringe of this vast Iron Age culture were the British who shared many of the religious, artistic and social customs of their European neighbours. These customs were Celtic and this civilisation was the Celts.The Greek historians who studied and recorded the Celts' way of life deemed them to be one of the four great Barbarian peoples of the world. The Romans wrote vivid accounts of Celtic rituals including the practice of human sacrifice - presided over by Druids - and the tradition of decapitating their enemies and turning their heads into drinking vessels.But what were the Celts in Britain really like? Was their apparent lust for violence tempered by a love of poetry and beautiful art? How far should we trust the classical historians in their writings on the Celts? And what can we learn from the archaeological remains that have been discovered in this country? With Barry Cunliffe, Professor of European Archaeology at Oxford University; Alistair Moffat, Historian and author of The Sea Kingdoms - The Story of Celtic Britain and Ireland; Miranda Aldhouse Green, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Wales. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054894…

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The Iliad

29 weeks ago

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the epic poem on the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bh5x1y

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640: Navigating the Pros and Cons of Web Components – ShopTalk

30 weeks ago

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Riffing off a Dave Rupert blog post, Chris and Dave talk through the pros and cons of web components, when to use them, when it's a bad idea to use them, what would it take to make the Next.js of web components, and how long until we don't need anymore frameworks? https://shoptalkshow.com/640/

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Song 173: “All Along the Watchtower”, Part One: “He’s Not the Messiah” – A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

31 weeks ago

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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first of a two-episode look at the song "All Along the Watchtower". This one is on the original version by Bob Dylan, while part two will be on Jimi Hendrix's… https://500songs.com/podcast/song-173-all-along-the-watchtower-part-one-hes-not-the-messiah/…

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Episode 171: “Hey Jude” by the Beatles – A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

31 weeks ago

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Episode 171 looks at "Hey Jude", the White Album, and the career of the Beatles from August 1967 through November 1968. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-171-hey-jude-by-the-beatles/

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Episode 164: “White Light/White Heat” by the Velvet Underground – A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

31 weeks ago

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Episode 164 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "White Light/White Heat" and the career of the Velvet Underground. This is a long one, lasting three hours and twenty minutes. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-164-white-light-white-heat-by-the-velvet-underground/…

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Episode 157: “See Emily Play” by The Pink Floyd – A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

31 weeks ago

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Episode one hundred and fifty-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “See Emily Play", the birth of the UK underground, and the career of Roger Barrett, known as Syd. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-157-see-emily-play-by-the-pink-floyd/…

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Episode 37: “I Walk The Line” by Johnny Cash – A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

31 weeks ago

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Episode thirty-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “I Walk The Line” by Johnny Cash, and is part two of a trilogy on the aftermath of Elvis leaving Sun, and the birth of rockabilly. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-37-i-walk-the-line-by-johnny-cash/…

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#66 – The Empire Strikes Back – Settling the Score

31 weeks ago

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“I love this score.” “I know.” Jon and Andy search their feelings about John Williams’ score for the 1980 hit sci-fi fantasy sequel The Empire Strikes Back. How important has this score been to our hosts? How does its mastery show itself on different scales? And, what are the odds of successfully navigating this show’s longest episode ever? https://www.settlingthescorepodcast.com/66-the-empire-strikes-back/…

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Marcus Chown - A Crack In Everything : How black holes came in from the cold – The Author Archive Podcast – Podcast – Podtail

32 weeks ago

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This glorious popular science books tells the story of how black holes that were thought to be too ridiculous to exist in 1916 had by 1971been proved to exist. Einstein thought they were impossible... – Listen to Marcus Chown - A Crack In Everything : How black holes came in from the cold https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-author-archive-podcast/marcus-chown-a-crack-in-everything-how-black-holes/…

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Episode 06 - Alan Reid (Banjo)

33 weeks ago

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Our guest on this episode of the Tunes From Doolin Podcast is Alan Reid, banjo player from Leitrim now based in North Clare and member of Goitse. Alan is a great multi-instrumentalist and composer and on this episode we talk about his formative years, his compositions, his project #TunebookTuesday, the band Goitse’s new album and much, much more. https://tunesfromdoolin.buzzsprout.com/1841055/episodes/11321074-episode-06-alan-reid-banjo…

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S8 | E1: Jason Yuan - Going beyond craft to design with soul - Dive Club 🤿 | Podcast on Spotify

33 weeks ago

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Listen to this episode from Dive Club 🤿 on Spotify. I remember the exact moment where I first explored MercuryOS. It was clear Jason Yuan was one of the most skilled design thinkers I'd ever encountered. No wonder he landed a role designing AI products at Apple shortly after.But the main reason I wanted to interview him was to learn more about his new product called Dot. It's by far my favorite personal AI and a beautifully designed experience. So this conversation is a behind-the-scenes of his latest journey and a fun glimpse at what the future might hold for software products. We go deep into:What it looks like to design with soulWhat makes Jason’s design process uniqueWhy Jason left Apple to build New ComputerHow Dot is the spiritual successor to MercuryOSHow more designers need to become AI engineersWhy Jason thinks dynamic interfaces are over-hypedHow to design a product based on one magical interactionWhat Jason learned about storytelling from his background in theatrea lot moreDownload Dot or check out the websiteJason's original MercuryOS projectThe original Dot website featuring Mei’s story (from the Wayback machine so give it a minute to load)Jason references Shigeru Miyamoto (the creator of Super Mario Bros) https://open.spotify.com/episode/4FoLmWDLJulAQQdY8vhq2f?si=7a0985030693476e&nd=1&dlsi=30a6d9c7f1384220…

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The Mandolins and Beer Podcast Episode #109 Eva Holbrook (SHEL, Lady Moon) – Mandolins and Beer Podcast

34 weeks ago

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My guest this week is Eva Holbrook. You may be familiar with her from her incredible band with her sisters called SHEL. You may also be familiar with her as her solo project Lady Moon. However you know her, you know she is an extremely talented musician! https://podcast.mandolinsandbeer.com/the-mandolins-and-beer-podcast-episode-109-eva-holbrook-shel-lady-moon/…

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The Mandolins and Beer Podcast Episode #142 Sean Keegan – Mandolins and Beer Podcast

34 weeks ago

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My guest this week on the podcast is Irish musician Sean Keegan. Seán was born in London; his parents emigrating from Longford and Leitrim in the late ’70s. A pupil of the renowned traditional music teacher Brendan Mulkere from a young age, Seán grew up within the vibrant Irish music scene in London. https://podcast.mandolinsandbeer.com/the-mandolins-and-beer-podcast-episode-142-sean-keegan/…

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