The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.
LLMs for software development can go way beyond Github Copilot. In this episode, we talk about how these models could change the workflow for existing developers, but more importantly how they could change the very idea of what software is.Links/Resources:https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/https://github.com/RootbeerComputer/backend-GPThttps://lukebechtel.com/blog/gpt4-generating-code===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Dependent types are a more expressive type system in programming languages used to catch a larger class of errors at compile time. What are would be typically assertions at runtime can now be caught at compile time.Show notes:Proposition as TypesParse, Don't Validation“Scala vs Idris: Dependent types, now and in the future”Resources:http://www.e-pig.org/downloads/ydtm.pdfhttps://gist.github.com/Hirrolot/27e6b02a051df333811a23b97c375196Proof Theory Impressionism: Blurring the Curry-Howard LineType Systems - The Good, Bad and UglyDependent types for practical useIdris: Practical Dependent Types with Practical ExamplesMaking Illegal States unrepresentableCan types replace validationhttps://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/WG2.8/26/slides/xavier.pdf
Activity Pub is a decentralized social networking protocol. It allows different web applications to interact so that their users can share information, even if the websites or applications are running different software. 00:00 S04E07 Activitypub02:13 What is Activity Pub?15:02 Interoperability33:00 A New Kind of Social43:53 Providing Distribution53:03 The Use Cases01:07:41 Ideology01:14:25 The Wild West01:24:07 Deconstructed Content01:34:52 Taking a Position===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545Links/Resources:https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/ActivityPub-as-it-has-been-understoodhttps://web.archive.org/web/20201124231343/https://cjslep.com/c/blog/an-activitypub-philosophyhttps://overengineer.dev/blog/2018/02/01/activitypub-one-protocol-to-rule-them-all.htmlhttps://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.htmlhttps://www.jeremydormitzer.com/blog/what-is-activitypub.htmlhttps://tinysubversions.com/notes/decentralized-social-networks/https://kyefox.com/post/707900440336039936/activitypub-could-be-the-futurehttps://ariadne.space/2019/01/07/activitypub-the-worse-is-better-approach-to-federated-social-networking/https://activitypub.rocks/https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.htmlhttps://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/introduction-to-activitypub/508https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodonhttps://victoria.dev/blog/why-pixelfed-wont-save-us-from-instagram/https://web.archive.org/web/20190713233100/https://blog.dereferenced.org/federation-what-flows-where-and-whyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20190108060531/https://blog.dereferenced.org/activitypub-the-worse-is-better-approach-to-federated-social-networkinghttps://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/9/29/and-you-will-know-us-by-the-company-we-keephttps://twitter.com/AIMindFlow
APL is an array based programming language developed by Kenneth Iverson in the 1960s. Its central data type is the multi-dimensional array and hence it's very useful for workloads involving a lot of matrix math. APL predominantly uses symbols and it leverages consistent composability and execution rules to enable it as a notation as a tool for thought. Links/Resources:* https://mathspp.com/blog/why-apl-is-a-language-worth-knowing* https://www.quora.com/What-made-APL-programming-so-revolutionary?share=1* https://tryapl.org/* A Personal View of APL* Notation as a Tool for Thought* Heaviside Operator Calculus* Conway's Game of Life in APL* Maxwell's Equations: From 20 to 4* Alan Kay's answer to “What made APL so revolutionary?”* Testimonies * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27463149 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27464005 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27465512* https://github.com/razetime/ngn-k-tutorial/blob/main/01-intro.md00 - Objectives and Prerequisites | "Learn APL with Neural Networks"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3315454.3329960Chapters:[00:00:00] Intros[00:03:36] What is APL?[00:05:42] Yes, it uses weird symbols[00:06:51] A language should change your thinking[00:13:08] Notation as a tool of thought[00:20:33] Connections to functional programming[00:28:23] What it feels like to program in APL[00:33:10] APL and IBM = big bucks[00:35:20] The echos of APL in modern data science tools[00:43:52] APL for big data pipelines[00:48:56] APL for Machine learning[00:54:59] APL for JSON manipulation[01:03:18] APL as a spreadsheet language[01:16:11] Superhuman programming: APL and LLMs[01:26:59] Making APL more explainable[01:38:18] Outro===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
io_uring is a new asynchronous, API to enable fast and efficient system calls in the Linux kernel. It promises faster user-land programs that heavily use file system IO on Linux, for all applications, not just databases. 00:00 S04 E05 io_uring02:55 What is io_uring?05:59 What's wrong with existing async interfaces?17:25 Copying is slow19:05 Two ring buffers28:07 What would the effect for the end user be?34:50 Different operating modes37:27 C10K for Filesystem IO43:04 Speed is simplicity47:07 Deconstructed databases01:02:12 Effect systems01:06:26 System functionality in programming language01:10:55 OS as Actor Model01:16:08 The Kernel is Userland===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: [https://technium.transistor.fm/](https://technium.transistor.fm/)SPOTIFY: [https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7](https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7)APPLE PODCASTS: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545)
Xanadu was the first hypertext project founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. It aims to facilitate a type of media called hypermedia, which is non-sequential writing in which the reader can choose their own path through an electronic document.Links/Resources:http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/14.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanaduhttps://mimix.io/en/blog/xanaduhttps://sentido-labs.com/en/library/201904240732/Xanadu%20Hypertext%20Documents.htmlhttps://www.notion.so/blog/ted-nelsonhttps://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/https://xanadu.com.au/ararathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-5cGEU9S0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intachttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKbRcvIZT8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyzgoeeloJAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYwgJW7T8ohttps://jasoncrawford.org/the-lessons-of-xanaduhttps://blockprotocol.org/https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere/blob/main/design/explainer.mdhttps://maggieappleton.com/xanadu-patternshttps://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/05/01/spreading-threading/https://www.zombo.com/https://stratechery.com/concept/aggregation-theory/https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thoughthttps://cdixon.org/2015/01/31/come-for-the-tool-stay-for-the-networkChapters:[00:00:00] Intros[00:03:22] What is Xanadu?[00:15:49] Transclusion and Bidirectionality[00:26:32] Versioning[00:29:47] Vision divorced from implementation[00:35:13] Baked in Payments[00:46:15] Hypermedia as Envisioned[00:56:20] Tiktok as Hypermedia[01:01:52] Alternative business model for the web[01:16:19] Failure to Launch[01:26:15] Linearization as a forge[01:31:51] Success of Xanadu's Vision[01:37:04] Passing the torch===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
ChatGPT is a language model by OpenAI which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.00:00 S04E03 ChatGPT Part 2 02:30 Expanding Humanity's Limits 11:33 Tool-assisted speedrun of Science 16:18 As a Civic Moderator 24:32 Social Upheaval 28:40 Platform Risk 49:51 Billion Dollar Solo Founder 58:35 Running out of Data 01:03:22 In other industries 01:24:52 Limitations 01:31:50 Build something that gets better as AI gets betterLinks:https://chat.openai.com/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulator#Simulatorshttp://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.htmlhttps://xyproblem.info/https://yaofu.notion.site/How-does-GPT-Obtain-its-Ability-Tracing-Emergent-Abilities-of-Language-Models-to-their-Sources-b9a57ac0fcf74f30a1ab9e3e36fa1dc1===== About “The Technium” ===== The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials ===== WEBSITE:https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY:https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
ChatGPT is a language model by OpenAI which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.00:00 S04E03 ChatGPT Part 102:58 What is ChatGPT? 06:17 Lineage of ChatGPT 10:01 General Reasoning from Training on Code25:13 Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback29:37 Dumb compute, stacked high42:00 Talking to an Alien Intelligence45:14 What's it good at and bad at?56:05 The XY problem01:03:36 GPT in Education01:13:26 Eating High Status Jobs, Fulfilling Latent DemandLinks:- https://chat.openai.com/- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulator#Simulators- http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html- https://xyproblem.info/===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7 APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Nix is a functional package manager. It creates completely reproducible builds and package management, including support for multiple versions of packages side-by-size with no issues.Chapters:[00:00:00] Intro[00:02:41] What is Nix?[00:05:01] The Problem with Package Management[00:09:41] How Nix Works[00:15:08] Reproducible Environment = Less Bit Rot?[00:17:46] Nix vs. Docker[00:21:32] Adoption at Growing Startups[00:26:05] Use Case: Consistency Across Environments[00:28:04] Use Case: Provisioning New Dev Machines[00:32:24] Use Case: Portable Editor Configs[00:35:05] Why Hasn't This Taken Off?[00:40:27] Leaky Abstractions[00:44:17] Security and other enterprise value props[00:52:31] Improving the documentation[00:56:34] Nix for software archival/archaeology[01:02:21] Reducing DevOps/SRE burden[01:07:51] Integrating Nix directly into programming languages[01:09:57] Someone should build the Heroku for Nix[01:25:17] How to take a position on NixLinks/Resources:https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdfhttps://www.iohannes.us/en/commentary/nix-critique/https://nixos.org/guides/how-nix-works.htmlhttps://nix.dev/https://blog.replit.com/powered-by-nixhttps://blog.replit.com/nix-vs-dockerhttps://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/the-curse-of-nixoshttps://bicompact.space/blog/2020/06/20/nix-os-thoughts/https://shopify.engineering/what-is-nixhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28241661https://nixcloud.io/tourhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGI9KQ3_HP_OFRG6R-p4iFgMSK1t5BHs===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7 APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
'Visual Programming' refers a style of programming that allows the user to specify a programs in a two-(or more)-dimensional fashion. Visual programming environments represent the data, control flow, or program state in a graphical way, allowing them to be directly manipulated. It has been a hot area of research from the very beginning of personal computing, to today.This week we will cover a few major visual programming environments, why visual programming has remained compelling over the decades, and whether there is untapped potential for VP today.Chapters:[00:00:00] Intros[00:03:50] What is Visual Programming?[00:05:42] Origins[00:14:34] Block-based Visual Programming[00:20:26] Wire and Dataflow-based Visual Programming[00:31:51] An Umbrella Term[00:36:31] Conceptual History[00:48:23] The Duality of Direct Manipulation[00:58:40] Direct Manipulation of Running State[01:11:25] Programming by Example[01:21:17] Fill in the Details for Me[01:28:49] Strengths of Visual Programming[01:43:36] Leveraging the Visual Cortex[01:50:58] Second Order EffectsLinks/Resources:SketchPad demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cq8S3jzJiQPygmilion Paper: http://worrydream.com/refs/Smith%20-%20Pygmalion.pdfDemo:: https://youtu.be/xNW8wUpbqQM?t=319GrailDemo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cq8S3jzJiQHypercardDemo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cq8S3jzJiQViewpoint https://scottkim.com/2020/06/07/viewpoint/Scratchhttps://www.bryanbraun.com/2022/07/16/scratch-is-a-big-deal/Labview (imperative control flow): https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/labview.htmlUnreal Engine Blueprint (functional)https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/blueprints-visual-scripting-in-unreal-engine/https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/Max/MSP for musicianshttps://cycling74.com/products/maxOthershttps://cables.gl/https://nodes.io/===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7 APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Lightning Network is a network of payment forwarders layered on top of Bitcoin to enable small, fast micropayments with low fees.Links/Resources:- https://lightning.network/- https://www.swanbitcoin.com/a-look-at-the-lightning-network/- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150301190111/http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf](https://web.archive.org/web/20150301190111/http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf)- [https://lightning.network/lightning-network-technical-summary.pdf](https://lightning.network/lightning-network-technical-summary.pdf)- [https://open.spotify.com/episode/1usKtNJonBszrq5lzad8eh?si=RvuAtKbjSqmyfT--FkNogg](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1usKtNJonBszrq5lzad8eh?si=RvuAtKbjSqmyfT--FkNogg) About routing- [https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/when-sending-money-is-instant-and-free](https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/when-sending-money-is-instant-and-free)- [https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/the-lightning-networks-next-big-use-case](https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/the-lightning-networks-next-big-use-case)- [https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/whitepaper_flare_an_approach_to_routing_in_lightning_network_7_7_2016.pdf](https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/whitepaper_flare_an_approach_to_routing_in_lightning_network_7_7_2016.pdf)- [https://1ml.com/](https://1ml.com/)- [https://explorer.acinq.co/](https://explorer.acinq.co/)- [https://github.com/davidshares/Lightning-Network](https://github.com/davidshares/Lightning-Network)- [https://docs.lightning.engineering/](https://docs.lightning.engineering/)- [https://twitter.com/kerooke](https://twitter.com/kerooke)- [https://blog.coinbase.com/is-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-for-real-26e47029687f](https://blog.coinbase.com/is-the-bitcoin-lightning-network-for-real-26e47029687f)- [https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html](https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html) (good summary on payment channels and how they compare to rollups, even though this is on ethereum network)- [https://www.impervious.ai/](https://www.impervious.ai/)- [https://diar.co/volume-2-issue-25/](https://diar.co/volume-2-issue-25/)- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUAyW4pdooA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUAyW4pdooA)- [https://github.com/bcongdon/awesome-lightning-network](https://github.com/bcongdon/awesome-lightning-network)Show notes- Patio11: https://twitter.com/patio11- Flare routing: https://bitfury.com/content/downloads/whitepaper_flare_an_approach_to_routing_in_lightning_network_7_7_2016.pdf- The nature of the firm https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.tb00002.xChapters:[00:02:21] What is Lightning Network?[00:08:53] How does it work?[00:18:51] Payments without Infrastructure[00:25:34] Routing the Network[00:36:00] Low value, High volume[00:39:42] Micropayments for API metering[00:43:09] Micropayments for Open Source[00:49:12] Idea Accrediation Network[01:01:20] Structuring Our Society [01:15:01] Micropayments Change Relationships of the Firm[01:21:36] Taking a position===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: [https://technium.transistor.fm/](https://technium.transistor.fm/)SPOTIFY: [https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7](https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7)APPLE PODCASTS: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545)
Hypercore is a set of building blocks to build distributed peer-to-peer applications. It provides a variety of data structures, as well as a discovery mechanism to share data between peers. It is a suite of tools that are the Lego blocks to build peer-to-peer apps.Chapters:[00:00:00] Intros[00:02:16] What is Hypercore?[00:12:58] HyperDrive: A P2P File System[00:17:45] IPFS vs Hypercore[00:21:01] Bitfinex is using HyperBee[00:23:20] A Web of Data vs. Web of Pages[00:27:19] P2P Data Structures: Better Than P2P Files[00:29:52] IOT: a perfect candidate for decentralization?[00:34:30] P2P Databases for Civic Good[00:39:41] P2P Databases for Scientific Good[00:55:08] Impediments to adoption[01:03:54] Is this too futuristic even for us?[01:12:59] OutrosResources:[How the Hypercore Protocol Works](https://hypercore-protocol.org/protocol/)[Hypercore Protocol](https://hypercore-protocol.org/)[Dat Ecosystem](https://dat-ecosystem.org/)[On Dat://](https://www.kickscondor.com/on-dat)[What are the differences between IPFS and hyperdrive?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44859200/what-are-the-differences-between-ipfs-and-hyperdrive)[why-hypercore/FAQ.md at master · tradle/why-hypercore](https://github.com/tradle/why-hypercore/blob/master/FAQ.md)[Dripline: Taking the Mauve Pill: Exploring Alternatives to the Centralized Web](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-1/)[Dripline: Finding friends and staying safe: comparing peer discoverability and security in p2p networks](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-3/)[Dripline: Data Fast and Slow: Exploring Data Models and Mutability](https://hypha.coop/dripline/p2p-primer-part-2/)[Thinking about Filesystems, Databases, and Hypercores](https://paulfrazee.medium.com/thinking-about-filesystems-databases-and-hypercores-85de9d52d5b0)[Productizing P2P](https://paulfrazee.medium.com/productizing-p2p-bff5aed95f6a)https://github.com/automerge/pushpinhttps://github.com/kickscondor/duxtape===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Datomic is an immutable database that borrows ideas from functional programming. We discuss how an immutable database changes the architectural possibilities of web apps. Links/Resources: - [Datomic with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYfcyvSpEQ) - [Database as Values with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DKjEbdYos) - [Intro To Datomic with Rich Hickey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcqYZZ9RDY) - [KotlinConf 2018 - Datomic: The Most Innovative DB You've Never Heard Of by August Lilleaas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hicQvxdKvnc) - [Love Letter To Clojure: And A Datomic Experience Report - Gene Kim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mbp3SEha38) - [Turning the database inside out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0) - [Datomic - a scalable, immutable database system by Marek Lipert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGrCsIiiTUs) - ["Real-World Datomic: An Experience Report" by Craig Andera (2013)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeFdAXZz30) - [https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/](https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/) - [https://www.infoq.com/articles/Architecture-Datomic/](https://www.infoq.com/articles/Architecture-Datomic/) - [https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic/](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Design-of-Datomic/) - [Talking about Datomic, Datalog, GraphQL, APIs](https://www.notion.so/Datomic-52000e1e65d345509cbcde4681d5522f) - [What Datomic does to REST](https://web.archive.org/web/20210421110723/http://dustingetzcom.hyperfiddle.com/:what-datomic-does-to-rest/) - [Unofficial guide to Datomic Internals](https://tonsky.me/blog/unofficial-guide-to-datomic-internals/) - [Datomic Documentation Overview](https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/overview/overview.html) - [The web after tomorrow](https://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/) - [APIs are about policy](https://acko.net/blog/apis-are-about-policy/) Chapters: 0:00 Intros [00:02:21] What is Datomic? [00:05:01] The Immutable Database [00:14:59] The N+1 Problem [00:20:59] Inference and Logical Programming [00:26:45] Database in the browser [00:39:24] Reducing the Impedence Mismatch [00:42:09] The Change in Perspective [00:51:14] Data as Social Artifact ===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7 APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Urbit is an operating system for a global networked computer with a global filesystem. It has its own virtual machine, programming language, OS kernel, and identity layer. It dubs itself as “A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century.”Links/Resources:- https://media.urbit.org/whitepaper.pdf- https://developers.urbit.org/overview- https://developers.urbit.org/guides/core/hoon-school- [https://vimeo.com/75312418- http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-programming-from.html- https://urbit.org/blog/precepts-discussion- COMMENTARY - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6438320 - https://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2013/12/a-brief-introduction-to-urbit.html - https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis - https://wejn.org/2021/02/urbit-good-bad-insane/#tldr - https://twitter.com/basileSportif/status/1544963208099909633 - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-betsChapters:[00:00:00] Intros[00:01:54] What is Urbit?[00:06:30] The Functional Kernel Avro[00:13:46] Application Network Ames[00:18:07] Code Update Mechanism[00:23:38] Hoon Lang and Nock VM[00:33:56] Personal Computing through Digital Sovereignty[00:38:53] A Personal Computing Experience You Own[00:43:46] Cypherpunk Values[00:45:32] A Computer as an Heirloom[00:51:48] Philosophical Origins and Its Influence on Design[01:01:09] Capitalism Softens Radical Ideas[01:05:40] A computer you can't break[01:12:48] A ghost in the shell for 100+ years[01:17:05] What if the internet had identity and payments built in from the beginning?[01:27:29] A Global ID[01:30:37] A Digital Extension of the Self[01:43:31] The Takeaway Despite the Roots===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Hyperfiddle is an app builder in Clojure/Clojurescript that uses a compiler to manage the network connections in the app for you. We discuss what makes code easy vs simple, arches for software, home-cooked apps, and the implications of a compiler for everything.Links/Resources:- [https://www.hyperfiddle.net/](https://www.hyperfiddle.net/)- [https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-need-a-web-framework-you-need-a-web-language-44b5bfa526be4af282863f34fa1cfffc](https://www.notion.so/Reactive-Clojure-You-don-t-need-a-web-framework-you-need-a-web-language-44b5bfa526be4af282863f34fa1cfffc)- [https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/uis-are-streaming-dags](https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/uis-are-streaming-dags) - [https://hyperfiddle.notion.site/UIs-are-streaming-DAGs-e181461681a8452bb9c7a9f10f507991](https://www.notion.so/UIs-are-streaming-DAGs-e181461681a8452bb9c7a9f10f507991)- How hyperfiddle changed over time - [https://web.archive.org/web/20180217034740/http://www.hyperfiddle.net/](https://web.archive.org/web/20180217034740/http://www.hyperfiddle.net/)- First video proof of Hyperfiddle's "distributed dataflow" architecture for server-streamed UI. "UI as an Expression” [https://twitter.com/dustingetz/status/1474050461745528839](https://twitter.com/dustingetz/status/1474050461745528839)- [https://github.com/hyperfiddle/hyperfiddle-2020](https://github.com/hyperfiddle/hyperfiddle-2020)- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6888V9YsObM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6888V9YsObM)Show Notes:- Have you tried rubbing a database on it? https://www.hytradboi.com/- Self-adjusting Computations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6a5G5i4gQU- Sloth ecosystems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU9Tn_Qkjb8- Simple Made Easy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4- Apps can be home-cooked meals https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/- Bundling and Unbundling https://reallifemag.com/bundling-and-unbundling/- Alan Kays: STEPS http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf and the Niles Compiler https://github.com/damelang/nile https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/damelang/nile/socal.pdfChapters:0:00 Intros[00:02:05] What is Hyperfiddle?[00:08:53] Managed Network through a Compiler[00:15:49] Arches for Software[00:19:21] Beyond Low Code[00:26:39] Abstractions: Simple vs Easy[00:29:14] Core of what's hard about apps[00:33:16] The Eight Fallacies[00:34:54] Home-cooked apps[00:40:28] The Piped Piper Dream[00:45:57] Reports for everyone![00:51:35] A compiler to help manage state?[00:55:12] A Compiler for the Metaverse [01:01:44] Making Integration Smoother[01:04:38] OG "bare metal"[01:12:01] Hypertext as Application State[01:20:03] Compilers do hard things all the time===== About “The Technium” ===== The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: [https://technium.transistor.fm/](https://technium.transistor.fm/)SPOTIFY: [https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7](https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7)APPLE PODCASTS: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545)
Generative AI models are quickly reaching the point where their work is indistinguishable from that of humans. This include 3D models, voice, and other media types that were not previously possible to create without significant expertiseResources[Google's New AI: Flying Through Virtual Worlds!
Zig is a system programming language without the ugliness of C. We discuss its compile time features, its strive towards simplicity, and the potential for resource-efficient software.Links/Resources:• https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv2I7qTux7g• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak• https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/assorted-thoughts-on-zig-and-rust/• https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/• https://ziglearn.org/Chapters:0:00 Intros4:54 The Explicitness of Zig12:16 Compile Time Programming17:39 A Nice Build System that's Nice to You19:59 Zig's Integration with C is that it's a C compiler24:37 Compile time as Metaprogramming26:23 Compile time for String Interpolation28:33 Compile time for Queries31:12 Maybe We'd Get Faster Programs!33:55 Counter-forces to resource-efficient computing41:16 System programmers as far as the eye can see44:11 Zig as Pedagogy45:48 Cross-compilation and DSL it to the Blockchain!51:10 Proliferation of Zig Everywhere===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: [https://technium.transistor.fm/](https://technium.transistor.fm/)SPOTIFY: [https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7](https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7)APPLE PODCASTS: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545)
Multimodal and multitask models are machine learning models that can generalize. Multimodal models can generalize to understand different types of input, for example images and text. Multitask models can generalize their knowledge by applying what they've learned about one task to solve another task.Links/Resources: • MUM: https://blog.google/products/search/introducing-mum/ • Gato: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQJZHfAg18 • MIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9kA8nSJdYw • Flamingo: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/tackling-multiple-tasks-with-a-single-visual-language-model • Flamingo explaining a funny photo: https://twitter.com/MelMitchell1/status/1522642194741538817 • Is LaMDA Sentient?: https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917Chapters:0:00 Intros2:33 Multimodal and Multitasks Models6:50 Deepmind's Gato: The All-Rounder Athlete14:43 Google's MUM: The Search Assistant18:12 Deepmind's Multimodal Interactive Agent: The Domestic Helper22:31 Deepmind's Flamingo: Reasoning about Pictures26:45 Why are these mind-blowing?31:20 Machine Learning has come a looooong way35:21 Could Flamingo be the real JARVIS?38:56 Could MIA assist the elderly? 43:05 Multimodal AI for self driving cars51:15 Multitask = A Shared Brain That Learns Everything1:00:19 Could these models transcend human knowledge?1:08:50 Breaking news: AI models are sentient1:10:37 Is this just a local maximum or a path to AGI?1:11:50 Outros===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7 APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Plan 9 is distributed operating system and it is designed to make a network of disparate computers function as a single system no matter where they are.Links/Resources:https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/papers/Chapters:0:00 Intros2:49 What is Plan 9?6:15 Unique Features9:23 Everything is a File16:53 Assembling a Distributed Computer21:42 Powerful Abstractions Make Writing Powerful Programs Easy29:01 Was Plan 9 The Original Kubernetes?34:33 Can Principled Software Succeed in the Marketplace?40:14 Running WebAssembly on Plan 944:16 Running An Intranet on a Distributed OS45:38 Remote File Systems for Local-first Software51:27 How do we get this future?===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Matrix is a decentralized chat protocol that is end-to-end encrypted. It lets users communicate with each other using different clients and even run their own independent chat servers.Links/Resources:- https://matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction- https://salibra.com/p/the-death-of-jabber-8ea395e82f5b- http://jabbermania.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-google-pulled-plug-on-public-jabber.html- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850832- https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp- Beeper: https://www.beeper.com/- Moxie's post on decentralization: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.htmlChapters:0:00 Intros2:23 What is Matrix?3:58 A Brief History of Chat11:51 Origins of Matrix15:14 What attracted people to Matrix?22:35 Motivation for Beeper25:14 Bridges to other networks32:09 Separation between protocol and client38:42 Chat overload43:19 Network Fragmentation47:48 The Chat Future to Look Forward To52:14 A Future of Specialized Clients58:01 Chat bots and Chat tools1:02:57 How do we get this future?===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: [https://technium.transistor.fm/](https://technium.transistor.fm/)SPOTIFY: [https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7](https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7)APPLE PODCASTS: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545)
The semantic web was an effort to mark up webpages with facts about their content. The dream was to enable computers, to understand the world by reading these webpages. We discuss why the effort failed, how it relates to symbolic AI/knowledge graphs, and how the vision could still be realized today.Links/Resources:Introducing the Knowledge Graphhttps://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.htmlMetacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopiaWhatever happened to the Semantic Web? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16806657http://ai.stanford.edu/blog/introduction-to-knowledge-graphs/Aggregation Theory: https://stratechery.com/concept/aggregation-theory/Chapters:0:00 Intros2:12 What is the Semantic Web?3:59 The Early 2000's8:32 The Idealism of the Semantic Web11:30 How it worked18:19 Roots in Symbolic AI22:53 The OG Web 3.025:28 Why Did the Semantic Web Fail?35:46 A Misalignment with the Medium41:10 Crypto and Semantic Web Collide43:25 Deep Learning and the Semantic Web Collide47:09 Vestiges of the Semantic Web49:44 Path to Intelligent Agents55:03 Incentive structures1:02:49 Token Curated Registries and the Semantic Web===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7 APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
TLA+ is a language for formally modeling and verifying the correctness of programs, especially concurrent and distributed ones. We discuss how it could be used to improve the practice of software engineering and what it would take for formal methods to gain more popularity.Links/Resources:TLA+ Homepage https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.htmlhttps://learntla.com/introduction/https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.htmlhttps://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tutorial/contents.htmlhttps://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/industrial-use.htmlhttps://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184701-how-amazon-web-services-uses-formal-methods/fulltextChapters:0:00 Intros2:14 What is TLA+?5:10 Bugs in Concurrent and Distributed Programming12:58 What's it like to use?19:09 Global State Machine20:34 Testimonials of Industrial Use Cases24:56 Why is it not more popular?27:32 How do we currently design our programs?37:16 Everyone is a distributed systems programmer now41:29 Thick client app management49:47 Can haz use for Security?53:08 TLA+ is for the design, not implementation59:35 TLA+ all the things1:02:55 Formal methods in Crypto?1:08:19 Intrigued with Formal Methods===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7 APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Transformers are a building block of Machine Learning systems that have seen great success recently at subsuming all other techniques.We discuss at a high level, its attention mechanism and its multimodal properties, and the types of applications this can be put to use now and in the future.Links/Resources:Introductions to transformershttps://www.machinecurve.com/index.php/2020/12/28/introduction-to-transformers-in-machine-learning/https://deeplobe.ai/machine-learning-for-transformers-explained-with-language-translation/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGTUuEx3GkAAttention is All you Need https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdfAttention: https://distill.pub/2016/augmented-rnns/Transformers replacing CNNs https://becominghuman.ai/transformers-in-vision-e2e87b739febAI models consolidating https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1468370605229547522?ref_src=twsrc^tfwGTP implementation https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT/blob/master/mingpt/model.pyGoogle introduces new arch to reduce cost of transformers https://analyticsindiamag.com/google-introduces-new-architecture-to-reduce-cost-of-transformers/LaMDA by Google https://gpt3demo.com/apps/lamda-googleChapters:0:00 Intros1:57 What are Transformers?4:59 How does it work at a high level?9:27 Self Attention Mechanism14:03 Input structure agnostic16:59 Stack it high, pump it with data25:28 More MultiModal Learning27:22 The Narrow Waist34:34 Transformers for Compilation40:24 Specialized Hardware43:52 Multimodal Applications47:19 Generating Media as a Self-sustaining Entity52:42 The Jobs this Destroys58:02 Two machines need to talk to each other1:04:42 A Young Lady's Primer1:11:19 Try them out!===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
CORBA is an acronym that stands for common object request, broker architecture. It provides interoperability among distributed objects regardless of whether they're remote or local, regardless of whether they're written in different languages or in different locations of the network. We discuss its influence on distributed systems, and where we are today with these large scale systemsLinks/Resources:Chapters:0:37 Intros2:20 What is CORBA?4:08 90's Throwback7:25 The Idea of Distributed Objects9:55 How does it work?13:16 The Promise of Interoperability15:35 Influence on Computing Today18:52 Why did CORBA fail?24:39 Lots of People Missed the Web30:09 Distributed Computing36:06 The REST model of Distributed40:35 RPC lives on today47:13 Hard to get this right52:08 Negotiating Interfaces from Scratch===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Unison is a programming language for distributed systems by leveraging immutable and content addressable code. We discuss the many implications of a language whose code is content addressable, from fast rename, easy caching, to feature flagging.Links/Resources:- Unison Lang https://www.unisonweb.org/- Unison at StrangeLoop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWtkvDQ2ZI- Unison and its Scala-based Runtime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knqlWboqf_U- What color is your function? https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/- Python Environment XKCD https://xkcd.com/1987/ Chapters:0:48 Intros2:32 What is Unison?6:46 Advantages of Content Addressable Code15:39 Realizing the Scale before it's Too Late22:03 Controlled Refactoring Experience25:54 Abilities or Algebraic Effects31:08 Programming the Whole Network34:57 Facilitating the Culture around Coding50:37 A Library Ecosystem1:00:50 Reproducibility and Old Computers1:07:55 Hot Patch Your Server1:10:37 The Road to Popularity===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Smalltalk was one of the first object oriented programming languages and a software authoring environment that was highly influential in the history of computing.We discuss its designer Alan Kay, his vision of personal computing, and the lasting influence of Smalltalk despite its limited commercial adoption.Links/Resources:Actor Model - https://www.brianstorti.com/the-actor-model/https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6272Smalltalk Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknEhXyZgsgSmalltalk Build your own Debugger - https://youtu.be/NqKyHEJe9_w?t=355Early History of Smalltalk - http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/“A remarkable number of artists, scientists, philosophers are quite dull outside of their specialty (and one suspects within it as well). The first siren's song we need to be wary of is the one that promises a connection between an interesting pursuit and interesting thoughts. The music is not in the piano, and it is possible to graduate Juilliard without finding or feeling it.”Why was smalltalk not a commercial success? http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/05/bits-of-history-words-of-advice.htmlLively and Caffine https://lively-kernel.org/Chapters:0:00 Intros1:57 The Retro Future2:34 Origin and Motivation of Smalltalk7:20 Object Orientation is about message passing11:51 Meta-circular inspiration14:31 Smalltalk is an entire environment18:59 Designed with the GUI in mind24:35 The Music isn't in the Piano27:21 Taking a bet on the future31:42 Surprising things about Smalltalk34:27 Learning to Program By Reading "Literature”39:56 Did Smalltalk Achieve It's Goals?44:43 The Failure of Enterprise Smalltalk52:30 Even Good Ideas Have to Survive the Marketplace55:23 Big Ideas Meet Reality===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-technium/id1608747545
Dynamicland is a communal computer where the computer is the room. It's a new dynamic, medium to think about systems with other people. We discuss taking computation out of the realm of abstraction and putting it in the realm of the physical world, it, and how it breaks down barriers to entry.Chapters:0:00 Intros2:10 What is Dynamicland?11:17 The Communal Aspect of Computing18:30 Computing other than Symbol Manipulation31:29 The Concrete System38:43 Realtalk is Declarative43:39 Leverage the Real World for Compute46:21 Squint beyond the Art Project49:07 Having your thoughts out in the open53:55 The Libraries of the Future1:01:25 Interactive decision making 1:06:59 Throwaway Computing1:19:46 Dynamicland for Games1:23:08 A wish for the futureLinks/Resources:- Dynamicland website: https://dynamicland.org/- Research Agenda: http://worrydream.com/cdg/ResearchAgenda-v0.19-poster.pdf- Humane representation of thought: https://vimeo.com/115154289- Seeing Spaces: http://worrydream.com/SeeingSpaces/- Embodiment and Visualization: https://vimeo.com/114252897- Notes about the experience - https://dynamicland.org/research-notes/social-dynamics-of-programming-together/ - https://omar.website/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/ - http://vitor.io/on-dynamicland**](http://vitor.io/on-dynamicland) - https://tashian.com/articles/dynamicland/ - https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-next-big-thing-is-a-room/ - https://futureofcoding.org/notes/bret-victor/dynamicland.html===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are unique digital collectibles that are represented on a blockchain in the form of a token. NFTs make it possible to own digital media assets in the same way that you can own a digital currency asset, like Bitcoin.We discuss various applications of NFTs outside of art, and its potential as a building block for future applications.Links/Resources:Girl with House on Fire Meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/disaster-girlEthereum Name Service https://ens.domains/Party Bid to Fractionalize NFTs https://www.partybid.app/Flash Loans https://coincodecap.com/flash-loanAavegotchi https://aavegotchi.com/Uniswap https://uniswap.org/3LAU and NFTs https://decrypt.co/59788/musician-3lau-sells-album-in-nft-form-for-11-millionDemand Curves https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/economics/demand-curve/Davie Bowie on the relationship of media and the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg&t=636sSkeuomorph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkeuomorphERC-998 Composable standard https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-998.mdNeolastics https://neolastics.com/Latent Space https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/442352/what-is-a-latent-spaceJack Dorsey Tweet for $2.9 million https://v.cent.co/tweet/20Schelling Point https://medium.com/@willemvandenbergh_85885/on-schelling-points-network-effects-and-lindy-inherent-properties-of-communication-c4eb69b55c60Invoice Refactoring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoring_(finance)Accruing Value in a Value Chain https://stratechery.com/2015/netflix-and-the-conservation-of-attractive-profits/The Technium NFT! https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a89cf0599974963/73071695664951725756103887812533794393262849524101052862455651661423314993153Chapters:0:14 Intros2:00 What are Non-fungible Tokens?7:21 Ethereum Name Service domains are NFTs20:05 "Non-fungible" only notable in the digital world22:54 NFTs are Digital Native Objects26:21 Fractionalizing NFTs31:46 NFTs as Collateral36:02 NFT as Social Proof42:15 NFT as meme-ified finance44:36 Permissionless Composability of NFTs51:15 NFTs for Community Building55:41 The Curator Economy1:00:29 Creator Feedback Loop with Fans1:07:15 Permissionless Remixing1:10:28 We're still making Skeuomorphs1:13:43 Content Agnostic and Responsive1:20:37 Owning the Latent Space1:24:09 Financialization of Memes1:30:50 NFTs as boring assets1:42:27 NFTs Scaled Up and Down1:49:50 Yet Another Building Block===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7
IPFS is a distributed storage network. The content is accessible through peers located anywhere in the world that might relay information store it or both, and IPFS finds data by its content address rather than its locations. We discuss the main principles behind IPFS, the current use cases, and how it changes the basic unit economics of some businesses, as well as its interplanetary future.Chapters:00:00 Intros02:25 What is IPFS?13:58 Three Principles of IPFS15:01 Content-addressable URIs18:44 Content Linking in a DAG21:27 Distributed Hash Table for Discovery22:48 Pinning Content30:58 Censorship-resistance36:38 Used for NFTs39:04 Used for Video and Music Streaming42:56 Use for Package Manager49:14 Use for Machine Learning54:38 Interplanetary Linked Data56:37 A Key Building Block59:22 As a Public Good01:06:36 Developers Tools on top of IPFS01:10:07 Shifting Operational Burden01:18:15 The Interplanetary FutureLinks/Resources:Content Addressing https://simpleaswater.com/ipfs-cids/Linked Data https://ontola.io/what-is-linked-data/Distributed Hash Tables https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/15-744/S07/lectures/16-dht.pdfNapster, Kaaza, Gnutella https://www.slideshare.net/uschmidt/peertopeer-systems/20-Comparison_Napster_Gnutella_KaZaAType_ofJuan Benet of IPFS https://research.protocol.ai/authors/juan-benet/ProtoSchool https://proto.school/Marc Andressen's Blog Archive https://pmarchive.com/Left Pad Debacle https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/NPM as a private company https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO8hZlgK5zc&t=46sTransfer Learning https://builtin.com/data-science/transfer-learningDeno Programming language https://deno.land/IPLD https://ipld.io/Jack Dorsey Regrets Shutting down API https://www.revyuh.com/news/software/developers/twitters-founder-admits-that-shutting-down-the-api-was-worst-thing-we-did-it-affected-users-and-developers/Datomic https://www.datomic.com/===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====WEBSITE: https://technium.transistor.fm/SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7
End-user programming is a vision of computing that allows people who are not professional software developers to program their own computers.We discuss some of our favorite end-user programming environments, the qualities that make an end-user programming environment successful and what the world would look like if everyone could program.Chapters:0:00: Intros3:15: What is end-user programming?6:28: Hypercard: An Early Pioneer15:22: Quality #1 : Embodiment17:52: Quality #2: Liveness19:51: Quality #3: In-Place Toolchain23:10: Elitism: Programmers vs. Script Kiddies26:37: Yahoo Pipes: A Web 2.0 Programming Environment32:25: What makes an environment successful?40:28: Twitter, Hashtags, and "Situated Software”47:36: Is programming just inherently hard?1:04:26: Modern EUP Environments1:10:39: The World If Everyone Could Program1:15:01: Programming in the MetaverseLinks/Resources:[0] https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming/][1] https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/[2] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/07/21/software-exoskeletons/[3] https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situatedsoftware.html===== About “The Technium” =====The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world. Follow us for new videos every week on web3, cryptocurrency, programming languages, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more!===== Socials =====[WEBSITE](https://technium.transistor.fm/)[SPOTIFY](https://open.spotify.com/show/1ljTFMgTeRQJ69KRWAkBy7)
This week, we mull on an obscure programming language called Datalog and its outsized impact on the world
In this episode, we muse about the creativity of machine learning models and what it means for the future of content creation/ownership
This week on The Technium, we talk about Zero Knowledge Proofs, a relatively new cryptographic primitive that lets people prove they know a secret without divulging it.
In this week's episode, we ruminate on Webassembly and the dream of writing once and running everywhere.
This week, we talk about the Decentralized Autonomous Organization. How could they bring a new flavor to collective action without a centralized authority?
This week on the Technium, we talk about functional programming invading mainstream programming languages
In this week's episode, we talk about the React Reconciler. What is it? How would it help with building cross-platform frontends? What else could it be applied to?
In this week's episode, we talk about "The Metaverse". What is it, and why it excites technologists about a possible vision of the future.
In this week's episode, we talk about Ink and Switch's manifesto on local-first software, a vision on building software that merges the best parts of both web apps and desktop apps.
In this week's episode, we talk about tools for thinking, note taking apps, and the retro vision for the web.
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